Category Archives: Daily Post

Apr 27 2013
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Daily Post, Friend, Portrait

Taija

Saturday 27th April 2013, 10.45am (day 611)

Taija, 27/4/13

Taija (pronounce it to more-or-less rhyme with ‘higher’) is from Oakland, California, and has been staying at the Kookaburra Inn these last few days. I took this while we hung out this morning, with her on her way to the airport and eventually somewhere else in this, the sixth-largest country in the world. Like a lot of people I have met on this trip, we were only acquainted a short time, but I think this shot captures her quite well – or more accurately, my image of her.

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Apr 26 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Little shrunken church, Brisbane

Friday 26th April 2013, 9.45am (day 610)

St Stephens chapel, 26/4/13

This is St. Stephen’s Chapel, part of a complex of buildings that comprises the centre of Catholic worship in Brisbane. The main church is to the right, just visible at the edge of this photograph. I like the way this looks like a little baby church, or a kind of shrunken one, too small for the lawn it’s on and the city around it.

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Apr 25 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

A spot to work

Thursday 25th April 2013, 10.15am (day 609)

Back of Kookaburra, 25/4/13

Well, I do work now and again you know. Spent most of the day sat right here, hiding away in a spot with no wi-fi to distract me.

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Apr 24 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Block ‘Y’ fire escape

Wednesday 24th April 2013, 4.45pm (day 608)

Block P fire escape, 24/4/13

The weather has been very pleasant indeed for the last 10 days or so. The mugg and rumble of summer is gone, to be replaced by a lovely balmy, Mediterranean vibe. It’ll do me, anyway. Took a lot of photos round the QUT campus and riverfront today on my walks to and from work, and chose this one because it’s such a mundane spot, but looks beautiful in this light.

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Apr 23 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Macquarie University, Sydney

Tuesday 23rd April 2013, 11.00am (day 607)

Macquarie University, 23/4/13

A flying visit here today for a meeting, so it can become the fourth Antipodean campus to make it onto the blog after QUT, CSU and (for non-work purposes) Otago, in Dunedin. Something about this shot brings to mind those artificial photos used by architects to show us how these wonderful but as-yet-unbuilt new complexes are going to look if only they could be given the money and the planning permission to create their masterpieces: although those won’t have ‘Graduation’ signs hanging up, presumably, and I feel the walkway to the left intrudes a little.

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Apr 22 2013
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Breakfast at the Byronian

Monday 22nd April 2013, 10.05am (day 606)

Breakfast at the Byronian, 22/4/13

Last morning in Byron Bay. To prove that it isn’t just a beach and a cool sunset, here’s a shot to show it has cafés too. Lots and lots of them in fact. I passed the time in this one while waiting for my bus.

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Apr 21 2013
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Daily Post, Landscape

Sunset surfing

Sunday 21st April 2013, 5.05pm (day 605)

Sunset surfer, 21/4/13

I know I did this theme a couple of days ago but the beach was so photogenic this evening that I had little choice but to hit it again. Sorry…

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Apr 20 2013
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The sculptress’s hands, Nimbin

Saturday 20th April 2013, 4.00pm (day 604)

Sculptress' hands, 20/4/13

Nimbin is what the tourist guides will call a ‘countercultural centre’, which has been the case since the Aquarius festival there in 1973. This lady was one of a group who were carving sandstone lumps into great sculptures and then just leaving them in the patch of ground where they lay. That’s Nimbin for ya. I liked it.

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Apr 20 2013
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Sunset, Byron Bay and Mount Warning

Friday 19th April 2013, 5.40pm (day 603)

Byron Bay, 19/4/13

Haven’t decided, in full, what I think of Byron Bay yet – ask me on Monday. However, it cannot be denied that it is a very photogenic place. The peak in the background is Mount Warning, which because of its elevation, is the first place in Australia at which the sun’s rays hit the ground on each equinox: that is, we are basically as far east in Australia as one can go.

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Apr 18 2013
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Busking for 40 years

Thursday 18th April 2013, 2.00pm (day 602)

Busker, 18/4/13

So his sign said. I’m not sure whether that makes one more likely to give him any money or not, however.

Anyway – enough of Brisbane! Nice as it is, I’m a bit bored of the place. I’m off to Byron Bay for the weekend.

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