Category Archives: Daily Post

Apr 07 2013
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Daily Post, Interior

Water feature, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart

Sunday 7th April 2013, 6.15pm (day 591)

MONA water feature, 7/4/13

As my mother has been known to say, I ‘do get about’. This week I have come to Hobart, Tasmania, for a conference. Tonight’s reception was held in MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art: one of the world’s largest totally privately funded museums.

This water feature was an interesting element – I don’t know if it’s ‘art’, but in a purely technical sense I have never seen anything like it before – the precision needed to create clear lettering (in Helvetica font, or something similar) from dropping curtains of water is quite impressive. The words have been picked at random from today’s headlines, apparently – but I don’t know what the Philippines have done to be worth recording in raindrops today.

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Apr 07 2013
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

In the crowd at The Gabba

Saturday 6th April 2013, 4.45pm (day 590)

The Gabba, 6/4/13

One of the world’s more well-known cricket grounds, but Joe and I were not there to see cricket – the Lions are Brisbane’s local AFL team (Australian Rules Football) and we were both making our debuts there as they hosted the Adelaide Crows. AFL – yeah, an interesting sport, better than rugby, more flowing, but still gives you the opportunity to see large Antipodean men climbing on and hitting each other. I did get a couple of reasonable pictures of the action, but I like this shot: the kid seems to be wondering why his hand isn’t like the big red one to his right. It also encapsulates the fact that there were many family groups there, far more than you’d see at a football match in England.

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Apr 05 2013
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Daily Post, Landscape

Mangrove tree, Redland Bay

Friday 5th April 2013, 9.55am (day 589)

Mangrove, 5/4/13

Pictured as we returned to the mainland from Stradbroke Island: that’s it on the horizon. I like this shot for the way the sea evokes a snowy moor in Yorkshire in January, or possibly silver foil?

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Apr 04 2013
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Daily Post, Landscape

Point Lookout

Thursday 4th April 2013, 2.45pm (day 588)

Point Lookout, 4/4/13

This headland sits at the north-eastern corner of Stradbroke Island and lives up to its name, at least, if the sea is what you want to look at. So named by Captain James Cook on 17th May 1770, who presumably did need to see what was going on out there now and again. Clare follows his example, nearly 243 years later.

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Apr 03 2013
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Daily Post, Landscape

Storm over Stradbroke Island

Wednesday 3rd April 2013, 11.10am (day 587)

Storm, Stradbroke Island, 3/4/13

This particular one didn’t hit Point Lookout (where we reside) although one did come along later in the evening.

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Apr 03 2013
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Footprints

Tuesday 2nd April 2013, 4.25pm (day 586)

Footprints, 2/4/13

Clare’s, to be exact: imprinted on the sand of Home Beach, North Stradbroke Island.

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Apr 03 2013
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Behind the breakwater, Ballina

Monday 1st April 2013, 2.00pm (day 585)

Ballina beach, 1/4/13

Being as this is one of the world’s great beach countries it is perhaps a reflection of my own tastes in activity that a beach has not featured on here since February 28th: but let’s bookend the beachless month of March with a return to that environment for a few days, here at Ballina. This girl is collecting shells off the breakwater. I like the strange pose that she’s been caught in, a sort of sense of discovery about it.

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Mar 31 2013
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Daily Post, Transport

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sunday 31st March 2013, 4.25pm (day 584)

Sydney Harbour Bridge, 31/3/13

I know I did the ‘crossing a bridge’ thing a few days ago, but no offense to Brisbane, this is one of the world’s truly great bridges so needed to be shown on here (and I like the various lattices on the shot). And it is a very impressive piece of engineering. Eighty years old now but I am sure it will still be looking as good into the next century (though by then, who knows, it might be called the Hancock Westpac News International Bridge or something like that).

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Mar 30 2013
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Joe at Opera Quay

Saturday 30th March 2013, 5.10pm (day 583)

Joe, Opera Quay, 30/3/13

Joe, doing his cool dude act, as we have a drink after seeing a show at the Opera House (Frankenstein: a brilliant version). Mind you, whoever thought that the bland apartment blocks of Opera Quays would benefit the classic view of Sydney harbour from this point is an idiotic philistine of gargantuan proportions. Doubtless that gives him a role to play in the urban planning department of many a municipality around the world.

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Mar 29 2013
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Sydney again

Friday 29th March 2013, 5.55pm (day 582)

Sydney, 29/3/13

A bit cliched to take this view of one of the world’s great cityscapes as one flies into it for the weekend: but I like the way the sun has caught the CBD, particularly those few buildings just past Darling Harbor.

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