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Elvaston Castle
This is Elvaston Castle in Derbyshire, UK. The original image was a little underexposed in the shadow areas. I used Fill Light in Camera RAW to bring back some detail. Lens Correction was also used to...
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Belton Park
This is Belton Park in Lincolnshire, UK. It was the first chance to test out my new Canon 5D mark II. It’s nice to be using a camera without a schizophrenic auto focus for a change. The Mark II has...
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Belton Globes
These terrestrial and celestial globes where on display in Belton House. If anyone knows if this style of globe have some special name please leave a comment. Although photography was allowed in Belton...
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This Yellow Rose was taken at the end of the Garden in Grantham, UK. I used sRGB colour space instead of my normal Adobe RGB. Colour space determines the actual colour a specific RGB value corresponds...
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Belton Folly
This is the Belton Folly near Grantham in the UK. I wanted to get a bit more colour and detail in the sky. This is a situation where a graduated filter would help. Graduated filters are bits of glass...
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Daihatsu Charade
We have packed up our belongings and left our jobs. We only need to sell our cars before making the big move to Australia at the end of the month. I do not have any advertising on this site normally so...
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John Deere
This is a 1943 John Deere tractor which has been lovingly restored for classic farm shows. This may be the last post from the UK as we are in the final staged of moving to Australia. I will try to post...
View ArticlePerth Skyline
This shot of the Perth Skyline was taken at the end of our first day in Western Australia. The 30 hour journey to Australia via Singapore went fairly smoothly with the exception of Heathrow security...
View ArticleSwan Barracks
This is the Old Swan Barracks in Perth, Western Australia. It has been our home for the last two weeks while we look for a campervan to start our tour of Australia. As you can see from this image The...
View ArticleSnettisham Torc
This is the Snettisham Great Torc. Apparently the most famous object from Prehistoric Britain. We were surprised to find it in Perths Museum today. Even more surprised to find the British Museum had...
View ArticleToyota Hiace
This is the van we just bought. It is a 1987 Toyota Hiace which has been converted to a Camperven by a company called Sunliner in Victoria. It’s been around Australia a few times (150,000 miles) and we...
View ArticleStockton Lake
This is Stockton Lake near Collie which was our third camp site after stopping at Ironstone Gully Falls last night. Those of you who know Australia will realize the meandering route between sites. This...
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Bridgetown Blues
We have just had a wonderful weekend at the Maranup Ford Farm Stay. Which is a beautiful Caravan Park near Bridgetown. We chose this place as it was The weekend of the annual Bridgetown Blues Festival...
View ArticleGull Thief
I took this shot on Sunday afternoon at Busselton which has a 1.9km Pier which seems to be home to a large number of fisherman of the human and bird variety. This opportunist was eyeing up the catch of...
View ArticleTall Trees
Since we left Augusta we have travelled East into the heart of Western Australia‘s forests. It’s hard to believe we will soon be crossing the Nullarbor which is named after its lack of trees. The...
View ArticleBlue Wren
The unfamiliar bird life is a source of constant wonder when travelling. Everything looks exotic when compared the the legions of small brown sparrows you get in the UK And I quite like sparrows. This...
View ArticleRoo Sign
This was taken on the way to the Stirling Range. Since then we stopped at the micro town of Borden and met a very helpful fellow traveller called Alan and his pet chihuahua Kira in a very fine custom...
View ArticleSealion Sammy
This is Sammy the sealion, Local resident of Esperance who comes ashore around midday to look at the tourists on the pier. Other residents include the remnants of Skylab which crashed to earth here in...
View ArticleKalgoorlie Express
We have gone inland to the Goldfields of Western Australia. This train passed by our outback campsite last night pulling 135 cars full of ore from the Kalgoorlie mines. We celebrated Karen‘s birthday...
View ArticleBaby Truck
This is what miners in Kalgoorlie call the baby truck. This one took a break from its 24/7 duty in the super pit to take part in the annual parade. The only reason its big brother did not make an...
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