Brisbane Railway Station

This view of Brisbane Railway Station istaken from across the tracks to the main entrance, as one enters Roma Parklands from the 'main' (car park) entrance.

Waterfall Background

I nearly discarded this photo of a waterfall as you leave the flower section of Brisbane's Roma Parklands because it is a bit blurry. But, it's a beautiful view, and actually makes a great desktop background.

Brisbane - Flower Girl

Again, from Roma Street Parkland.

Brisbane - Tiger Lillies

These two photos from Brisbane's Roma Parklands are macros of, I think, Tiger Lillies. The first is a nicer flower, but in the shade.

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This photo is better lit, but is a little more raggedy as a flower...

These three photos are also from Roma Parklands in Brisbane. This was an attempt to take a macro photo in a patch of overexposed poinsettias.

... Although not a great photo, I like the Kangaroo Tail type plants in the foreground...

These interleaved poles and Figs form a colonade in the centre of the parklands...

Brisbane - Street Sculpture

Just down the road from the corner restaraunt of the Carlton Crest was this sculpted vignette of an earlier time. They are cast in aluminium, and are one of the few survivors of the Brisbane Expo back in the eighties. They presently stand in front of the Department of Primary Industry building.

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Brisbane - Carlton Crest

Those of you who have been blogging me awhile will know that I went to Brisbane earlier this year and took a few photos. I have the feeling that I'll be posting a few more of them in the near future.

This is the Carlton Crest Hotel, where the Conference I attended was held. On the Thursday night we had tea in the restaraunt in the shaded corner to bottom left. This isn't a great photo, but gives you an idea of the cosmopolitan overpriced surroundings in which conferences are held the world over for the intelligentsia to congratulate themselves. Just kidding, I met lots of nice people.

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California Street Dawn

This was the view from our backyard at dawn, 28 July.

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Almost the same view, except the following picture is the result of 'stitching' together two photos, taken at roughly double the zoom of the first picture (which was between '1' and '2').

It was quite a light show!

For more backyard dawn photos, click here for a foggy view of the central tree in the above photo, here for the neighbor's jacaranda, and here for a rainbow on the morning after the Socceroo's worldcup loss to Italy. Click here and here for some shots from Gawler. Compare these with the most 'dawny' view I managed to snap at Brisbane in May by clicking here.

Galahs and Grass Parrots

When I took this photo I thought I'd caught two galahs (the pink and grey birds) and two grass parrots. When I looked closer, I realised that I'd caught two pairs of grass parrots. I knew galahs paired for life, it appears that grass parrots also do this. Since I took this photo, every bright male grass parrot I've seen has been accompanied by his (usually almost invisible) mate.

... I took this on a Sunday morning, near 'Luther Square' in Gawler.

Gawler - Luther Square

On a recent weekend visit to the nearby town of Gawler, I went for walk one morning through the Old quarter. Burried away is a square surrounded by old buildings, one of which is the Lutheran church you can see at the end of this street approaching what I called Luther Square.

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