This week is the fortieth anniversary of my first efforts with 35mm photography (the big anniversary of my photography is a few months away): Anthony Hordern’s store from outside Ashwood’s; and the AWA Tower from outside Red Eye, Sydney, 8 May 1986; street corner in Ermington, 7 May 1986

Found slide: Two Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force personnel passing statues and poppies on their way back to the underground RAAF operations room in a disused railway tunnel under the Botanic Gardens, Warrane Sydney, September 1943. Photo by US Army Sgt C E Stannard

Gotta love the way the iPhone struggles against its preprogrammed resistance to ever getting the moon in focus…

Kewpie doll display at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show, Wangal Country

Found slide: Looking from a garden bed outside the Parnell Rose Garden towards Waitematā Harbour, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

Thirty years ago I travelled from Sydney to Melbourne on a coach without a working toilet… unless the ISS can be quickly repurposed as Albury Viennaworld in space, I can see problems…

I remember a time, about thirty years ago, when I’d watch ‘Network’ every time it played on television… with each screening, the point at which the plot moved from relatable commentary into dystopian fantasy edged closer and closer to the final reel… until it became too uncomfortable to go on…

Found slides: For the 70th anniversary of Naarm Melbourne’s Harris Trains: Following a seven car Harris set, led by 504M, as it passes through the Jolimont rail yards into Flinders Street Station, June 1956. Photos, taken from the top of the SEC Building, by John W Smith

“If I told him once, I told him a thousand times, ‘Don’t go, Julie!’ I said, ‘It’s the Ides of March, beware already!’…” 2,060 years on, an appropriate day to see ‘Julius Caesar’ by Bell Shakespeare at the Sydney Opera House [additional dialogue in this post by Wayne and Shuster]

On 23 February 1976, AC/DC, the Rats of Tobruk Pipe band and an Australian Broadcasting Commission film crew set off down Swanston Street… we salute you… Found slide: Swanston Street, Naarm Melbourne, looking north from Collins Street, circa March 1976 (photographer unknown)

Found slide: St Kilda Road, Naarm Melbourne, looking south from from the Linlithgow Avenue intersection, January 1947. Photo by William F Herlikofer

Early morning reflections on a cloudy day, Cook + Phillip Park, Warrane Sydney

Looking back at my February 1996 visit to Naarm Melbourne and I just realised that these 1966-era posters I saw, outside Glenferrie Station on Valentine’s Day, were about the same age as my photo is now…

Table tennis table by Popp at UNSW Art & Design

February 2 is World wetlands Day. So, I'm posting this photo I took of a black swan at a local wetland area. (One of my all time favourite photos, btw.) #worldwetlandsday

… and here we are. The moment that the Bee Gees’ lyric “and we can try to understand the New York Times’ effect on man” went from being a space-filling rhyme which made it into the final cut to being a poignant comment on global politics

Early morning West Ryde vibes, Wallumedegal Country, Western Sydney, January 2026

A quiet moment during my last ever ride on the V sets in the Blue Mountains, Gundungurra and Dharug Country, a few weeks ago

Triple J Hottest 200 2025: 128: R Fields, 92 Purebred youtu.be/0iyNknj5LN4

Triple J Hottest 200 2025 158: Drifting Clouds, Bawuypawuy youtu.be/XeB6uUFDVyA

Triple J Hottest 100 2025: 2 Keli Holiday, ‘Dancing2’ youtu.be/HUdb0OecLqg

Triple J Hottest 100 2025: 10: Ball Park Music, ‘Please Don’t Move To Melbourne’ youtu.be/24tCRxpsTpg

Found slide: Hand operated paddle boats on the Nerang River, near Jubilee Bridge, Main Beach, Kombumerri Country, Gold Coast, 1955. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families

Happy 51st anniversary @triple_j ! Found slide: Looking towards the intersection of outside the Sydney Town Hall, Gadigal Country, circa September 1976. At lower right the radio 2 Double Jay (later Triple J) van is turning from George Street into Druitt Street [photographer unknown]

Found slide: 79 years ago: Two views of Martin Place, Warrane Sydney, 10 January 1947, looking westward towards the Cenotaph and Elizabeth Street respectively. Photos by a visiting American tourist

The last morning of 2025 as the clouds drift in, Wallumedegal Country

Boondah Angophora by the shores of Lake Parramatta, Burramattagal Country

Burnt out tree trunk, Kaarta Gar-up Kings Park, Boorloo Perth

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

The Crawley Boatshed, Boorloo Perth, seen from the nearby bus stop as I finished reloading my camera before taking the obligatory “Wes Anderson symmetry meme” photo… sometimes the test shot turns out to be The One…

Randomly reposting this for absolutely no reason…

Found slide: Pōhutukawa in bloom, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, December 1946 (photographer unknown)

I once ran into an old crush and mentioned that I was reworking some songs I’d written years ago… then the questions started… at first I was flattered by the interest but, suddenly, it struck me: “Carly Simon had this exact conversation in 1971, didn’t she?” Changed how I hear that song forever…

Fremantle Ports from Fremantle railway station, Walyalup Fremantle

Albino peacock at Reid Library, University of Western Australia, Boorloo Perth

Dead tree, Whiteman Park, Boorloo Perth

Telegraph pole, Walyalup North Fremantle

Found slide: A Midland bound ADX two car rail motor stopped at Maylands Railway Station, Boorloo Perth, slide developed September 1974 [photographer unknown]

Dedicating the posts from my recent visit to Boorloo Perth to the memory of Nick Pando (1951-2005). Memorial rose to Nicolas Pando, Serenity Gardens, Karrakatta Cemetery, Boorloo Perth

Last weeks for the “V-sets” to Gulumada Blue Mountains, passing through Summer Hill, Inner Western Sydney, Eora Country

Stairwell in the Queen Victoria Building, Warrane Sydney

Making bergamot custard from a homegrown bergamot orange…

And for all the early generation Whovians this week: “I bring you Sutekh’s gift of feeling very, very old”

Five pigeons, in search of a breakfast, and a telephone booth, Wallumedegal Country, Western Sydney, Australia

I don’t want to cast shade on British Rock and Roll… after all, The Quarrymen laid down that demo of “In spite of all the danger” and things really kicked off from there… but, on the other hand, I don’t think Iggy Pop ever covered a Tommy Steele song… youtu.be/def3ob2h-1s

Just revisited Virginia Gay’s impressively rollicking take on Calamity Jane at the Sydney Opera House

Found slide: El Dorado Motel, Surfers Paradise, Kombumerri Country, at the end of a school holiday road trip from Western Sydney to the Gold Coast, 28 August 1956 [photographer unknown]

Happy 60th anniversary to Roselands shopping centre, Dharug Country, Western Sydney. Here’s a photo of the famous ‘Raindrop Fountain’ that I took in 1987 as part of a photoessay project. The raindrops had already been turned off and the fountain was removed shortly afterwards

… I still feel that the opening titles gave a misleading expectation of projectile sausages in the narrative which followed…

C30T class locomotive 3001 waits at Sydney Central Station before leading an excursion train through the suburbs as part of the Transport Heritage Expo, October 2025