April 2018

And time flies...

Early April. we spent a few days on the Murray River at Mathoura.  Accommodation was a shed, beautifully fitted out as  studio apartment.  It is surrounded by great River Red  Gums, visited by kangaroos and rabbits (to the dogs' delight and frustrations), screeching cockies and Yellow Rosellas as well as numerous smaller birds.

Subaru in front of our accommodation

Sun rising through the trees and the river flowing silently by.

Willows turning gold

Yellow Rosella

Canoe tree near Mathoura

Pelican cruising the reedbeds

MACK logging truck

Mathoura Reed Beds

Pepper burrowed into the grass for a snooze 

Sunrise from the drone over the river

 Back home I managed to get a few photos that I was happy with...

Rainbow over Belconnen

Great Egret foraging at the edge of Lake Ginninderra

Wattle Bird and birdbath

Drone over the yachts at Yarralumla

Lake Burley Griffin with Black Mountain tower

King Parrot 

Magpie bathing

Smoky sunset - hazard reduction burn in the mountains

Not DEAD - just a dust bath

Autumn has arrived

More Autumn

Bathing Currawong

Drone over Butters Bridge - Molonglo River

Butters Bridge

Black Mountain Tower

March 2018

March is done and dusted.  No travels outside Canberra, but my photographic challenge for this month was interior architecture.  Not having anything like that in my collection, I needed to go looking with the camera.

Old Parliament House -  House of Representatives Chamber

National Arboretum Visitors Centre

Parliament House - House of Representatives Chamber

Parliament House - Senate Chamber

Canberra Hyatt

Canberra Hyatt (1)

Court 1 - High Court of Australia

Canberra Airport Hotel

Hotel Hotel - Canberra

Hotel Hotel - Canberra (2)

 After much deliberation, (1) and (2) were my submissions.


Now for the remainder of the month......

Obligatory dog photos - they do make me laugh at times.

Esme & Pepper - morning dog walk

Esme looking for a game

Sunset over lake Ginninderra

Balloons rising at the Canberra Balloon Festival

Sunrise balloons

Canberra Balloon Festival

National Museum of Australia - memories of many years ago

Kookaburra on the morning dog walk

Wee weir on Ginninderra Creek

February 2018

Hi All - A quiet month (photographically speaking), but busy in other ways.  Dawn is getting later, and I now have my morning coffee before walking the dogs.

We had a few days at Batemans Bay at the beginning of the month, resulting in some fish and some photos.

Drone aerial of the Batemans Bay waterfront at dawn.

Dawn's light behind Snapper Island

Maloney's Beach before the crowds

Norfolk Pines along the beach

Batemans Bay bridge at dawn

Marina at Dawn

Lace on the beach

Back in Canberra, I tried a few sunrises - some were worth it, some not.

Lake Ginninderra dawn

Drone aerial of Belconnen CBD

Some of Des's Birthday flowers

Drone aerial straight down on myself and the dogs

Drone aerial of Ginninderra Creek after a flooding.

JANUARY 2018

Sorry - a bit late, but we were away for a week.

Had a return trip to the Boer War memorial.  They are really life like and well done.

Horsemen at the Boer War Memorial

 Jan 1 supermoon - that cloud-bank finally overtook the moon, and it did not reappear until quite late.

Super Moon rising over Lake Ginninderra

 Both dogs enjoy being out in the boat - Esme keeps a bone there :)

Esme with her bone on the front deck of the boat.

Passing cyclist - panning practise

Flowers on my morning walk

More flowers - these grow in marshy conditions

More panning - Esme at speed - everything is moving :)

Drone view of Belconnen

Edge of suburbia.  Ginninderra Creek flowing towards the Murrumbidgee River

Part of the Bicentennial Horse Trail

Belconnen - from John Knight Park

Ginninderra Drive over Lake Ginninderra

Backwater on the Lake

#33 Sunset

Storms over the Brindabellas

Sunset off William Hovell Drive

Waiting patiently for 'The Boss' - he'd gone fishing - Pepper with her poor paw

The Super Blue Blood moon of January 31 was a non-event for me.  Heavy cloud cover hid the moon until well after midnight.

Jan 31 Supermoon - it disappeared behind the clouds before the eclipse