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Hi all

You'll now find my photos mainly at

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This one really is dawn....

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Actually the last posting was just before dawn! Here we are on Denham's Beach again. One of the amazing things about the New South Wales south coast is it's beaches; lovely little sandy beaches punctuated with fascinating rock outcrops and forest that comes down to the sea.

Dawn at Denham's Beach

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Visiting the coast house of a friend who has just had a very sugnificant birthday! Got up before dawn to try out the 5d Mk II. Amazing; not that that will be visible in this web sized image!

Cliche

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Sometimes I can't resist a cliche. While waiting to meet friends for lunch at a place perched above the North Sydney Pool, I saw that this angle on the Syney Harbour Bridge was possible. So took it, while relaxing under a palm tree. Ah lie can easy at times.

Little River

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This photo is something that Australians will often have mixed feelings about. The trees are very attractive; this was one of our camp sites on the Six Foot Track walk. But they are all European trees, feral from some settlement that used to be here. To me, one moment they look lovely, next they are woody weeds.

On The Six Foot Track

SixFootTrack, originally uploaded by dbm705.

The six foot track runs from Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, a bit less than 50km to the Jenolan Caves. We walked it in three days, which would have been a doddle had we been fitter. But sadly we weren't. And on this image the mode dial of my LX3 had shifted, so I ended up with a JPEG. They really need a stiffer dial so it doesn't shift when you put the camera away! Makes no difference at this size, but the JPEGS from the LX3 sacrifice too much detail for noise reduction to my taste.

More revisiting to print

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This was almost a year ago, above Lake Pedder in Tasmania. It's five stiched exposures.

This Image Again

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This is a blog entry about printing really: I got myself an Epson 4880 printer and did some printing of various images, and in the process realised that the quick and dirty B&W conversion of this image I processed early wasn't up to much, and that I should re-process from scratch with B&W in mind. It makes a big difference; lots of the adjustments you do for colour are unnecessary at best, and lots of changes can be made for B&W that mess up the colour balance of a colour version.

The Cathedral Church of St Mary

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A friend had drinks on the roof of her building, which has one of the best views from the East of the Sydney skyline. Here you can see St Mary's (Catholic) cathedral in the foreground, towered over by Mamon in the form of the Sydney Tower.

Those towers again

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I didn't manage to photograph the towers when they were lit up last time; here they are again lit, and the sky was obliging. Happy New Year!