Any serious travel is looking like it’s some time away at the moment – I’m thinking of New York (and looking through old photos) and wishing I was over there.
This is a remarkable building which still holds its own in a city full of amazing skyscrapers.

Studying in Melbourne this week.

Near Kapunda, South Australia.

Sorry for the lack of posts of late.  Meanwhile here’s a photo of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

Shamefully, I have never read this before.
Needless to say, it’s a fascinating insight into a strange American era.  The book is filled with tension between the sudden possibilities of life in the postwar United States – the trajectory hinted at in the Great Gatsby followed through to its logical conclusion where cars, sex, alcohol, divorce, [...]

We were stuck in traffic going through the Hoover Dam for nearly two hours – the Nevada police were operating some sort of mysterious checkpoint on the way into the state which slowed traffic to a crawl. Behind us Arizona was covered with scattered thunderstorms. As the sun set the stationary traffic was [...]

My new toy is one of these.  With virtually no zoom, a decent wide angle, a very fast lens for a compact and some great in-camera ‘film’ modes its a perfect camera for not f*cking about, just taking the damn picture.  I am very much looking forward to travelling with it, and to the challenge [...]

I came across this amazing photo of a dust storm hitting a town in Texas during the Dust Bowl, the cataclysmic climate event which caused a huge migration of people out of farming areas of the U.S. and Canada in the 1930s:

Poor farming practices, drought and wind combined to strip the land of its topsoil [...]

This picture is incredible – I haven’t done the maths to work out if it’s actually the claimed “1474 megapixels”, but it’s a highly detailed panoramic photo of the Obama inauguration. You can zoom from the whole scene in close enough to clearly see what each member of the crowd is doing, and guess [...]

Following a link from this post at Skepticlawyer, via TIME to the photographer’s website, I came across these excellent galleries of urban decay: Detroit in decline; East-German industrial wastelands; and abandoned theatres.  It’s certainly interesting to reflect on how our civilization would look as interpreted through its ruins.

Unlike, say, the Romans, many of our large [...]

I came across this very informative summary of the current (purported) rights that various on-line communities claim over the content you, the user, uploads.  For example, Facebook’s terms of service are completely horrendous, whereas Flickr is relatively respectful of your rights.  I say “purported” because whether some of the stuff in these agreements would stand [...]

Pictures like these seem like a good enough reason to continue exploring space – it’s an excellent tool for reflecting the utter triviality of the apparently significant matters with which we fill our days.
Now if only we could find one of those obelisks…

I was lucky enough to see Neil Young at the Adelaide Big Day Out.  Erin and I photographed the day for Rhum.
Some of my Neil Young shots (click for bigger versions):

So, Leonard Cohen.  What can I say?  It was incredible.  I was not ready for how amazing his voice is live.  Despite playing to a crowd of strangers in a far off place on a scorching hot day, his warmth and genuine humanity shone through everything he sang and said.
He appeared to be genuinely happy [...]