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Noosa, Queensland
June 09, 2023 -
Now I have managed to lose 11kg since 6 months ago. I felt so much better too. The daily walking on top of non-stop work...
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Serenity Falls at Buderim, Sunshine Coast
June 02, 2023 -
I recalled the rain was coming in quickly. The sky was already overcast by the time Joel and I went up north for the cap...
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City Daily Photo Theme Day - June Smile
May 31, 2023 -
This was a portrait when I used to work in a retail studio. I love her smile. This is linking to gallery City Da...
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Tangalooma Shipwreck at Moreton Island
May 17, 2023 -
Moreton Island is not far away from Brisbane. Just a day trip getting me to take so many fun photos. A good breakaway fr...
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Yana Waingi, Swan Hill
May 06, 2023 -
Since the return of Taiwan trip, dust has yet to settle for me. I picked up a last-minute locum work for a friend in Swa...
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HeHuan Mountain
April 22, 2023 -
This is a short post showcasing the views on the mountain hike. Not much here because the weather was rather severe. In...
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Taroko Gorge, Middle Taiwan
April 12, 2023 -
3 week break in March was great. At least, I get to unwind. The wonderful treats and gorgeous food in Taiwan did not hel...
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Avalon Airshow
March 05, 2023 -
I haven't been to a major show or event for a long time. Joel prompted me to join him for a weekend of aero plane photog...
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City Daily Photo for March Theme - Comfort Food
February 28, 2023 -
Now I am switched to Keto Diet. So a lot of comfort food is actually carbohydrates. So, they are no longer my go to for...
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Geelong Visit - Old Gaol, Geelong beach, Township
February 25, 2023 -
It has been a busy month. 2 weeks of a job dig in the remote Victoria. A ton of unfinished work to do. A series of land...
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St Kilda Pier Stroll
February 07, 2023 -
While working my keto diet and intermittent fasting, Joel and I have a nice Greek meal in Swan St, Richmond. The food is...
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City Daily Photo Theme Gallery - February Gallery – Virtue
January 30, 2023 -
For this theme, I will just post one shot. That is the activity for the community event. This was an image in Louvre...
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Bridgewater Bay Reverie, Blairgowrie, Mornington Peninsula
January 17, 2023 -
This location is a popular instagram spot for photographers. I used to visit this location every weekend. However, the d...
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London Bridge, Portsea, Mornington Peninsula
January 06, 2023 -
After working through Xmas and New Year, it was so good to be in holiday mode. I spoke to my friend Joel for ages. It wa...
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January Gallery – Photo Of The Year 2022 for City Daily Photo
December 31, 2022 -
There are many photos that I win competitions in Australia. It is really hard to pick one that stands out. However, this...
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Christmas night lights in Country Victoria, Australia
December 21, 2022 -
There have been so many unexpected series of events affecting my health and family over the last few weeks. Fortunately,...
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Pinnacles, Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island
December 15, 2022 -
This is a very iconic location for special rocks and rip waves in Phillip Island. Most people took the trail on the cli...
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Toledo, Spain
November 24, 2022 -
I took some time to process my previous travel shots in Toledo, Spain. It is such a wonderful city to visit. The history...
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Melbourne State library
November 14, 2022 -
Apology for infrequent posting here. Work got the best of me plus the unknown fatigue and insomnia destroyed me really....
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"Soft" Theme for November City Daily Photo
October 30, 2022 -
To interpret this theme "Soft", it does take a bit of thinking. I am a little Asperger so I will read it as it is litera...
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Alowyn Garden Wisteria Bloom, Melbourne, Australia
October 23, 2022 -
This month has been an eventful one this year. Floods and more floods. Suddenly I let for the next 4 months of work beca...
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Bendigo Bloom Festival of Tulips and Light Up in Green Room
October 12, 2022 -
It is the full moon. That would be the perfect explanation for an eventual week. First, water bomb floods many roads tha...
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OCTOBER THEME DAY – REST, SLEEP AND RELAXATION "Astrolandscape"
September 30, 2022 -
This is the fun event I participate in City Daily Photo feature blog -> City Daily Photo Theme Day For me, what relaxes...
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Luoyang, the old capital in Central China
September 25, 2022 -
Lately, I am revisiting my previous travel photos. One cannot believe how they can sit in the hard disc copies until the...
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Princess Pier, Melbourne, Australia
September 21, 2022 -
Quite a few weekends in a row in this prime location for Melbourne Photographers. Got a few shots of the pier underside.
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Rustic train station and nearby abandoned buildings in Melbourne, Australia
September 15, 2022 -
In continuation of the urban pursuit of the rustic and abandoned, my pal and I explored some western suburbs of Melbourn...
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Dinosaur Skeleton as a composition exercise among the crowd, Melbourne, Australia
September 08, 2022 -
Some of the skeletons are on display in Melbourne Museum since I was in the teens. Walking through this general section...
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Tyama Light Magic, Melbourne Museum, Part II
September 05, 2022 -
It is funny that sometimes I don't feel like doing anything. No gaming. No photographing. No reading. Then there are tim...
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Tyama Light Magic, Melbourne Museum, Australia Part I
August 29, 2022 -
It came to my attention that there was a light show at Melbourne Museum. The place has the light set up for photographer...
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Urban Stroll shooting buildings in South Melbourne
August 18, 2022 -
My enthusiasm shooting landscape has died down significantly since 2 months ago. Not sure why. The desire to shoot stre...
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Kawaguchiko lake looking onto Mount Fuji in Japan
August 10, 2022 -
Life is busy as usual. More work is coming in ironically in winter. A friend of mine is now busy searching for a dream i...
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Spencer Street Walk in Melbourne CBD
August 04, 2022 -
It has been a busy few weeks. Joel came down with a severe Covid infection. Thus my motivation to navigate the busy Melb...
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Driving through Corop, Goulburn Valley, Australia
July 27, 2022 -
Once a month, I drive through Corop to Shepparton for work. Corop is a small town with a population of 37. I am not even...
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Abandoned Paper Mill, Fairfield, Melbourne
July 20, 2022 -
Work is becoming busy since the beginning of the winter. As if we were meant to be slaved away in the cold snap of the w...
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Grantville Sunset in Evolution - Volcano sky
July 10, 2022 -
Honestly, Grantville was not meant to be the destination. After a disappointing shoot at Tenby Point, this view was not...
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Urban exploration in Travancore, Melbourne
June 30, 2022 -
Recently I have seen friends and colleagues taking the international trip either for conferences or personal holidays. I...
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La La waterfalls, Warburton
June 22, 2022 -
Thanks to my buddy's extreme enthusiasm on the weekend, we were supposed to head to redwood forest but detoured to do th...
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St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne
May 31, 2022 -
Weather certainly cooled down a lot. Since Premier Dan has this big build project going on, it is literally impossible t...
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The Dead Are More Alive Than The Living - Bendigo Art Gallery Art
May 19, 2022 -
It is something that I do not realise until the pandemic hit out at us. This piece of art installation arrived Bendigo i...
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Saint-Trophime Primatial Catholic Church - What a splendid place with unique design
May 12, 2022 -
The recent re-organising the previous travel allows me to discover Arles France again. Saint Trophime Priomatial Cathol...
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Autumn from Mount Macedon, Victoria, Australia
May 07, 2022 -
Mount Macedon requires an early morning visit to escape the crowd. It really takes an incentive to wake up that early to...
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Broadford Motorcycle Race Complex
May 04, 2022 -
I did something different last weekend. It was a unique opportunity to practice panning technique at this motorcycle com...
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LOUVRE MUSEUM, PARIS, FRANCE
April 27, 2022 -
This is linking to City Daily Photo Theme Gallery The year that I could finally afford a luxurious trip to France tak...
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Living Desert in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
April 15, 2022 -
Among all the contract works in various states of Australia, Broken Hill work is the most challenging. Not only the empl...
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Ballina Estuary Sunset - Coastal beauty in Nothern Rivers New South Wales Australia
April 08, 2022 -
Once upon a time I worked various contractual projects in various regional centres in Australia. As soon as I get an opp...
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Elvis came to Bendigo
April 01, 2022 -
For 9 years, I call Bendigo home. Frankly speaking, there is not much going on in town most of the time. Apart from usua...
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Moomba Night - a note on 50mm focal length
March 14, 2022 -
50mm focal length is closest to human vision perspective. What we see through this lens is easiest on the eyes as some b...
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HMAS Otama at Mornington Peninsula
February 18, 2022 -
Almost everyone in my circle is having therapies like flushing the toilets! The total amount of fees could afford them a...
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Swan Street Bridge Night Reflection
February 16, 2022 -
Last year, Joel and I visited this location with no lights at all. Probably the cost was too high on electricity. Thi...
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Milkyway through Inverloch Sea Cave
February 25, 2021 -
This is a shot I have dreamed of doing for quite some time. Finally one into my "pocket". It takes a good planning, p...
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Mornington Peninsula Coastal Rock Formation, Blairgowrie, Melbourne, Australia
January 13, 2021 -
This was a location that I tried out Laowa 12mm f2.8 The glare is controlled very well by the lens. The whole area was...
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Hoiser Lane Candid by Laowa 9mm f5.6
December 31, 2020 -
It is almost a year since I last visited Hoiser Lane. 2020 is now gone. This lane seems so be so covered by chilly senti...
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Sunrise with a farm house in Nyah West, Victoria, Australia
August 25, 2020 -
People in this town are tough. Most are farmers from my own impression. The nature of farming include everything from ca...
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Petrified Rain forest, Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia
August 23, 2020 -
This area is used to be thought of a result of advancing sand engulfing an ancient forest of coastal trees that once cov...
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London Bridge, Portsea, Australia
August 22, 2020 -
London Bridge does not look like a bridge at all. It looks like a large rock sitting by the beach - the "Back Beach" of...
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Water tranquility of Lake Eppalock, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
August 21, 2020 -
Lake Eppalock is contructed between 1960 and 1964 to supply water to Bendigo and Heathcote, Victoria. Life line of centr...
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Fog at Murtoa, Victoria, Australia
August 21, 2020 -
Murtoa is a wheat town located near Lake Marma on Wimmera Highway. I travel through this town monthly. The fog really ca...
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Sunrise at Nyah West, Victoria, Australia
August 19, 2020 -
Nyah is a town in country Victoria. It is 375 km northwest from Melbourne. The town was established when the railway was...
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Nearby Forrest Cave, Phillip Island, Australia
August 19, 2020 -
This is the nearby sandy beach area next to Forrest Cave. I particularly enjoy seeing that stark contrast of red rock vs...
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Sunset at Reed's Look out, Grampians National Park, Australia
August 17, 2020 -
Reed's look out is just a great location to view sunset. The light can vary so much giving a different vibe each time I...
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Sea Cave, Portsea, Australia
August 16, 2020 -
Portsea is a seaside town of metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. 95km soutwest of central business district. Portsea i...
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Sunset at Magic lands, Cape Woolamai Surf Beach, Phillip Island, Australia
August 15, 2020 -
I read it from the official website of local government description that Cape Woolamai is part of a tombolo system that...
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Sunset at Cape Woolamai Surf Beach, Phillip Island, Australia
August 14, 2020 -
Cape Woolamai is a photographer's haven. It has a beautiful beach with amazing rocks that make up "magic lands". There a...
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Marie Gabrielle shipwreck remains, Wreck Beach, Moonlight Heads, Great Ocean Road
August 13, 2020 -
The location was rather a popular photographer's spot for landscape photography. Marie Gabrielle was the French Shipwrec...
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Lake Boort, Victoria, Australia
August 12, 2020 -
As I learnt Boort in Victoria has a strong Aboriginal history, many photographs I took started to imbue a different sort...
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Sunset at Lake Boort, Victoria, Australia
August 11, 2020 -
After living and working in central Victoria for 8 years, it becomes clear to me that a place like Lake Boort is such a...
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Noosa, Queensland
Serenity Falls at Buderim, Sunshine Coast
City Daily Photo Theme Day - June Smile
Tangalooma Shipwreck at Moreton Island
Yana Waingi, Swan Hill
HeHuan Mountain
Taroko Gorge, Middle Taiwan
City Daily Photo for April Theme - My Favorite Toy
Avalon Airshow
City Daily Photo for March Theme - Comfort Food
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