The tranquility of Siloam

The pool of Siloam – the Blue mountains one, not the pool where you get your blindness cured, don’t mix the two up, you’ll probably get pink eye if you stick your eye in here, especially with all that rain and runoff.

See the little trickle of water on the left behind the raging waterfall.. thats how it normally looks 🙂

Soggy Sunday

Its a bit wet out there. On a positive note, places which are normally a trickle turn into nice cascades.

Big Tree

(with sheep)

Little Tree.

Kirribilli cliche.

Cloud Swap.

Contemplation…

Somehow I had to haul my arse down this hill around the foggy valley and back up the other side..

nice view tho, prolly made it all worthwhile.

Hyperfocal

Missed it by that much – only barely noticeable but the city line is just a touch out of focus, the key here would have been to focus on a point in the ocean and make sure the whole scene was sharper, rather than on the rock pier.

and no I did not come here to shoot the reflection, i came to this little pier ’cause no one else was there 🙂 then all the people turned up and wanted to shoot from here 🙂

Kirribilli

Sunset. This place never gets old… just gets more buildings.

Mount Solitary Camp.

It was a pretty nice sunset, I could not find a clear spot between the trees to get a sunset shot and my legs saying ‘hell no’ to walking any further, especially anything that involved steps. Hence, the obligatory tent shot with some sunset included was gonna have to do.

This is on the western side of Mount Solitary, basically the very tip, the left side is off towards Wentworth falls and to the right down into the valleys and eventually the headwaters of Warragamba Dam. Its pretty cool camp spot.

Trying out the new Durston X-Dome tent which did pretty good, kept me dry in the storm and kept the bugs out 🙂

Its a 8 frame panorama with each shot bracketed, the light dynamic range is pretty large here with the campsite in fairly deep shadow and the bright sunset outside the circle of trees.

Sydney Fireworks NYE 2026

My inspiration comes and goes… mostly comes when I inhale

onto the pictures I suppose.

Several from both the 9pm and 12 midnight Fireworks – taken from over in Vaucluse with the other 15 billion people who drove over there – as PSA never trust google to find you a route anywhere on NYE, it literally had people driving in circles 🙂

#newyear2026
#SydneyNYE

2025.

Well thankyou 2025, you can now well and truly f-off. 2026 I’m probably not ready for you yet either, but until I find a time worm hole, lets go.

#SydneyNYE #newyear2026

Jetty

What do you call it when you don’t know which jetty to dock at?

Pier pressure….

The lights you can see reflecting in the water on the right are actually the ski slope lights. I included a close up shot of the ski field..with barely any snow…. Cradle Mountain in Tassie has more snow right now than NZ 😉

Lake Hayes NZ.