australia

Hi all, I apologise for not being active for a while, I have been super busy with life duties! This is a composite containing my pics I shot of last week's Lunar Eclipse. I had to battle the clouds constantly and it took me all of yesterday to get it to where it is now; I am very proud with...

I think a sleepy koala looks pretty calm...

The piece of land on which this church sits was donated by a local family in 1865, and a timber structure was then built for the district's worshippers, opening in 1866. The building was used as a school for 40 local children through the week and for worship services for up to 80 Christians on...

Our solar system’s most massive planet, Jupiter, was slipping towards the western horizon when I captured this scene at around 12:30 am on July 14 of this year. There was a stiff breeze blowing across the top of this man-made pond, causing the water to be anything but smooth, and so diffusing...

The farmer who owns this property, located in the hills southwest of the rural town of Nowra, Australia, happened to come home as I was setting up my camera and tripod. Seeing him move toward the gate, right near where I was lurking in the dark, I uttered “hi there”, but it went unanswered...

Yalwal Camping Area, New South Wales, Australia. Despite having planned to get to this spot when Venus was higher in the sky, I ended up arriving just as the “evening star” was close to the horizon. By the time I lined up my camera and tripod to shoot this vertical panorama, the trees on the...

These were taken in the Oakvale Wildlife Park near Port Stephens, Australia. This is about a 3 hour drive north of Sydney. Some of the indigenous animals (like kangaroos, wallabies, and emus) are free to roam the park while others (like the koalas) are in a more protected environment. The animal...

Here's a view looking south from Tomaree headlands in Shoal Bay, Australia. Shoal Bay is about a 3 hour drive North of Sydney and was a really nice area to just hang around the beach. I hiked up the trail to this peak well before sunrise, hoping to capture some stars. The skies were cloudier...

I made my trip to New Zealand and Australia in early March, but I had so many pictures I ran out of steam processing them. I finally got to these shots I took at the Tilligerry Habitat where we were looking for wild Koalas. We didn't find any Koalas, but we did find swarms of these soldier crabs...

These are some of my favorites from my trip to the Taronga Zoo in Sydney. As an experiment, I used my Canon M6 camera with the 100-400L lens for these (I didn't want to carry my full size SLR all day and after the zoo I put the big lens back into my day pack). Although we went to some likely...

I had two sunsets in Sydney, including one with some clouds in the sky so I picked Mrs Maquarie's Chair as my cityscape location of choice. Any thoughts are welcome.

I climbed to the top of Tomaree Head at 4am on the east coast of Australia with a forecast of clear skies and a goal of capturing the Milky Way. I arrived to clouds obscuring the sky so I sat and waited. A little before the sky lightened, the clouds began to break up and I had a great time...