Last night i headed out towards a well decorated house down the street, 26 Pindari st to be precise.

Out the front of a house near mine. It takes them ~3 months to set it all up (in their spare time)

The wonderful thing about christmas lights is the bokeh they create

I closed the 50mm up to 3.5 for that nice hexagon bokeh

This one is the same as the other photo except that I opened up the f stop to the full 1.8 which gave me the nice round bokeh.

Santa in the garden

Some times unfocused lights make a great photo

Deer in the garden

Again I couldn’t choose between the two photos, this time i changed the focus to the second deer.

A full wide of the garden

A lonely deer?

So it’s been a while since my last post, so basically in the last month I have sat my IB exams, finished school, gone to schoolies, gone to rainbow beach and the finally yeppoon.

Yeppoon

An aerial photo of yeppoon take from a light aircraft.

The Sunset reflected off the Plane.

A cloud/sunburst just over the runway at the Airfield

The plane slightly after landing

Rainbow Beach

Out on the ‘blow’ at rainbow beach

After a mamoth hike down the dunes I arrived here where I was greated by the ‘rainbow’ cliffs.

The other side of the cliffs

It may not seem that steep but it sure was especially with all my camera gear.

Gold Coast

Unfortuantly I couldn’t open this window to get the camera out, though to be fair I was 45 floors up, and hence the smudges and generally unsharp image.

Dusk again from the window, though this time it’s alot less noticable.

Q1 is the Highest Residental building on the Gold Coast, though it was nothing compared to Burj Dubai (~880m)

Sheraton Mirage

The Pool early one morning at the Sheraton mirage.

The bar in the evening at the Sheraton Mirage

The Walkway at night

The storm about to come in

The Main pool at the Sheraton Mirage.

The Walkway during the day.

A HDR Tilt shift taken from up on Mount Coo-tha of Brisbane. It was shown in my recent exhibition and was favoured by several people of significance to me. Unfortunately right now I am about to “Exam Block” and thus posting will most likely be delayed for a month. But after that however I will be free and may even go back to a daily blog, but I guess we’ll see about that. This photo looks way better larger so do it!

A shot from the outside of the The Abandoned Wacol Mental Asylum. The kangaroos around me seemed a little edgy, maybe they were jealous. Image is slightly crooked on purpose, see if you can work out why.

Took another trip to Wacol today… Balancing on in old doorway for 6 exposures sure was fun!

A Big thanks to Christolakis for the location of this amazing place. me and a friend were there for about 2 hours, it was a very hot day. Sure made me wish a had a wider lens. if you know of any similar places pm me on Flickr or leave a comment.

You really have to view this large or larger to get it in properly, unfortunately I lost some of the photo to cropping, but if I go back there I’ll be sure to try again.

I’ve fairly busy recently so here’s a mega post.

Soon to be demolished, Perhaps its last photo, we’ll never know.

A frame from one of my time lapses, I was standing there in the freezing wind for near an hour. That was fun, None the less I think it was worth it.

It’s smaller than I had originally expected, but it’s still a pretty amazing building. Unfortuantly the best bits were closed off to the public.

Playing around with some compositional elements here, trying to get two Australian Icons in one photo.

On the way to harbour, there is some pretty amazing stuff in the city (of Sydney) but really it’s all too urban for me.

WOW my widest photo ever at nearly 15,000 x 3,000 px. Stiched together using Hugin, not too sure what happened to the sun though. It’s too wide to put a higher res version on here. click on the image for a higher res version.

After spending 50 minutes looking for a way to get up here I finally got the shot I was looking for, was it worth it? Looks better in large

A cold morning, but still a beautifull day.