Tag: Australia
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Love Wins
I took this photo last month in Broadmeadow while on my way to catch the train for a trip to Sydney. It was complete happenstance that I came across it but I had to stop and take a quick shot. I thought I’d post it today as I think it sums up how so many…
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Nobbys Lighthouse at Night
I watch the stars shineOver the oceanWhile waves crashAnd the wind roars I took this photo a couple of weeks ago while on a photowalk in Newcastle. I’d started to pack up my gear after getting a few shots of the sunset over the Newcastle ocean baths and with night setting in, there didn’t seem…
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On Newcastle Beach
Coarse sand, crashing wavesThe smell of salt in the air ~The ocean is home I went on a group photowalk yesterday afternoon. There were about eight of us and we wandered around Newcastle Beach and the ocean baths for about an hour or so around sunset, taking photos and talking photography. It was absolutely freezing…
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Q&A #2 – Writing, Zombies, Creationism and Batman
I had planned an interesting post for today but it’s been stinking hot in Newcastle – it passed 39’C where I am – and my brain has kind of shut down. I tried waking it up but it just went “nope stupid human, not gonna happen, come back tomorrow” and went back to being lazy.…
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Sydney Tower in Black & White
Oh! To stand as tall As a skyscraper And weather The winds of time I took this a couple of months ago when I was in Sydney for a few days. It was a lovely day and I liked the contrast between the clouds and sky and Sydney Tower juxtaposed against them. I thought it…
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Santa Matey (an Aussie Christmas song)
I didn’t get a chance to do an Aussie Christmas song last year but I thought I’d do it again this year. I wanted to do a fun song and Santa Baby was one of the first songs that came to mind. It’s just such a fun, cheeky song and I could immediately see how…
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Coogee Memorial
Blue ocean Holds my heart and tears Reminds me of you So far away Today is the ninth anniversary of the 2002 Bali Bombings. The bombings killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, and Bali is often considered our version of September 11, the moment when our part of the world changed forever. Many of those…
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10 Things I’ve Learnt This Month
Image: A Writer’s Best Friend ~ © CJ Levinson 2011 Been busy writing the last few weeks, so haven’t had much time for an update until now. The novel’s coming along quite well; I’ve had to rethink how to approach it a bit as some of it wasn’t working but on the whole I’m happy…
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Lest We Forget
Yesterday was ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the Gallipoli landing on April 25, 1915. Of the more than 44,000 Allied deaths at Gallipoli almost 11,000 were ANZACs; over 130,000 soldiers died on both sides… [Read more…]
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Historic Sydney
This is my first post in a while. I haven’t been feeling well and to make things worse I’ve been having computer problems as well. I can barely use my computer at the moment; it makes a constant grinding noise and just crashes without warning. I even lost some of my work yesterday when it…