Archive for January, 2012

Sydney Silhouette

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Benalla Outback

After moving (back) to Australia (having grown up in NZ, getting a BE at Auckland Uni, working in the RNZN), I had to find work.  I was looking at a few possibilities, but it is always hard getting a job when you don’t have one already. It took a couple of months, but finally I [ READ MORE ]

Bas Relief, Valley of the Nobles

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Eternal Flame at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne

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Peak Hour Cairo

Another day, another city, another traffic jam. This is not a normal city though – the drivers here are insane.  In one taxi ride (to Giza), the driver would deliberately swerve over 4 lanes to try to hit a jay-walking pedestrian.  If not on a pedestrian crossing they are not only fair game, but an [ READ MORE ]

Primeval Fire

An intense pain flashes through the entire body, finally focussing in the space directly behind the eyes. The transition from sleep to waking. The gentle, continuous hum and vibration of the ship slowly filters through the senses, getting stronger nearer to the engine and boiler rooms.  It has become instinctive to assess what the ship [ READ MORE ]

Firefighting at Sea

Firefighters are a brave lot – they stand alone in the community for their skill, endurance, sacrifice.  But (as we were informed during training, so this isn’t my specific knowledge), a ship fire causes them quite a degree of trepedation. Fighting fire from compartment to compartment (or metal coffin to metal coffin, given the walls, [ READ MORE ]

Smoke on the water

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Wayland’s Smithy

Wayland’s Smithy – one of the real ancient places in the world.  Unlike my tour of English stone circles in 1998, I visited Wayland’s Smithy in 1988 while chasing other circles, and chalk figures such as the Cerne Abbas Giant. Long before the recent Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies was even considered, this [ READ MORE ]

Sea Silhouette

As the sun set across Port Phillip Bay, south of Melbourne, I had managed to convince the XO to allow me to take a number of photos of the ship (HMNZS TE KAHA) as they conducted man overboard drills. It was a spectacularly successful day, with a number of them being part of my portfolio [ READ MORE ]

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