The Pine Islet Lighthouse
The Pine islet Lighthouse, now relocated to Mackay was the last kerosene powered lighthouse in Australia.
Now restored and in full working order it is now the last fully functional kerosene lighthouse in the world.
Taken today at Mackay Harbour I thought it looked better in B/W more Dramatic this link is about this lovely lighthouse.
The 70 metre main dish on the right with the 34 metre dish from Honeysuckle Creek on the left, now at Tidbinbilla and famous for the Neil Armstrong transmissions.
The War Memorial in Canberra. Not local to my home, but I spend most of my time working in Canberra these days.........
350D, 18-55 kit lens, resized only.
This is an oldie from the archives just in case I don't get the opportunity to better it.
Its a panorama of 8 frames, E-510, 40mm, f/7.1, 1/250s, 100 ISO, greatly reduced in size for the web. The mountain in the background is Mt Cloudmaker (only bushwalkers would accuse me of cheating and using 2 local landmarks in the photo I'm sure).
Al.
Last edited by sheeny; 14-04-2010 at 07:45 AM.
Reason: typos
Hi All,
Nothing much here in Weipa, So here is the Ore Train. Two of these operate crossing the one lane bridge every 45mins. Each train pulls 32 bins at 100 tons per bin(i think)
Anyway snapped this with the little Samsung point and shoot while fishing the Mission River.
Cheers,
Duncan
With dense forests in its vicinity, is formed by the river of the same name, and plummets into free fall of 131 meters by basaltic rocks, forming a landscape of rare beauty.
The Northern Lights show – part of the 2010 Adelaide Festival – on the rear of the South Australian Parliament House, celebrating 50 years of the Festival.
I was inspired this week by the Anzac Day service so I decided to go back and photograph our local Cenotaph in Gosford which I think fits the theme this month very well.
Reading up on the Gosford Council website about details of the Cenotaph I found this very interesting:
"The Cenotaph memorial commemorating the fallen of both World Wars and subsequent engagements was first unveiled on Anzac Day 1924.
The cenotaph stands 17 feet high, and has a face aligned with each compass point.
It is built of Gosford freestone, and the cenotaph's edges, if continued into the air, will meet at a point. Here it is believed the souls of the fallen dwell."
I tried to capture an old time photo feel to the scene and so I used layering in Photoshop to achieve the effect I wanted. I didn't use any sort of plug-ins, just layering effects to give it the look of the era.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I feel privileged to present this to you.
this link is about this lovely lighthouse.
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