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While walking around Dove Lake, near Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, we came across this wombat. He wasn't too concerned about all the people crowding around with their cameras, but just slowly continued on his way.

wombat
wombat
Cradle Mountain, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 17-85mm IS @44mm, 1/125 sec, f/5, ISO200
When I saw the graffiti on this bamboo at the Perth Zoo, I had to stop and take a photo of it.

bamboo graffiti
bamboo graffiti
Perth Zoo, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 70-200mm f/4L @70mm, 1/25 sec, f/4, ISO200
If you ever visit Dove Lake and Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, it's worth doing the walk around the lake.

There is some fantastic scenery as the track makes its way around the lake, and in some places, it's a wooden walkway bolted to the rock cliff, as shown in the photo below (with Cradle Mountain in the background).

walkway around Dove Lake
walkway around Dove Lake
Cradle Mountain, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @10mm, 1/25 sec, f/8, ISO200

Other sections of the track will take you through a temperate rainforest called the Ballroom Forest.

The walk is 6km, and takes approximately 2 hours (depending on how fit you are, how fast you walk, how frequently you stop to take photos, etc). It's a relatively easy walk, and is mostly flat.
Here are some photos from Michael and Kathryn's wedding, shot in December. It was a very hot day, but we had a lot of fun, despite the heat, and the two flower girls performed very well all day!

While in Sydney recently, some colleagues took me for a lunchtime walk through the national park that is located right behind our office.
It's part of Lane Cove National Park, and we walked through an area called Fairyland Park, which used to be an amusement park of sorts that closed in the 1970s.

Here's a few photos taken during that lunchtime walk.

leaves
leaves
Fairyland Park, North Ryde, NSW
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @15mm, 1/30 sec, f/4, ISO200
Last night, I returned home after two weeks in Sydney. It was a work-related trip, but I was hoping to get out with my camera, as I have done on previous trips to Sydney.
However, it was pretty wet, with a lot of rain during the time I was in Sydney, including rain for most of the weekend I was there.

wet roads
wet roads ... and a bridge!
Sydney, NSW
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @22mm, 1/50 sec, f/6.3, ISO200

Despite the rain, I still spent some time wandering around the city on the weekend, and managed to get some photos.

The photo above shows a wet Sydney road, with the very recognisable structure of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the distance.
The old oil tanks at Albany's Whale World, which have been converted into mini movie theatres. Each of the movie theatres has a different short movie about the whaling station.

Whale World tanks
Whale World tanks
Whale World, Albany, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @10mm, 1/4000 sec, f/4, ISO250
Here's another one from a sunset shoot last week at North Beach.
The colours in this particular photo were not very inspiring, but a black and white conversion provides a more striking result.

receeding waters
receeding waters
North Beach, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 70-200mm f/4L @70mm, 1/13 sec, f/22, ISO100
Yesterday evening, I met up with some fellow photographers at North Beach, to shoot the sunset from the beach, using the rocks to provide some foreground interest.

Here's a long exposure, taken about 30 minutes after sunset (click the image to view a larger version).

dusk at North Beach
dusk at North Beach
North Beach, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @24mm, 20 sec, f/16, ISO100
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Molten metal is poured at an industrial plant in Tasmania. I could feel the heat, even though I was standing well back!

hot pour
hot pour
Bell Bay, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 17-85mm IS @41mm, 1/320 sec, f/5, ISO200
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