Monochrome Weekend

For more monochrome madness, visit Dragonstar's Weekend in Black and White. 

Weekend Reflections

For more reflections visit James' Weekend Reflections.

Sky Watch Friday

Another shot of the smoke haze from hazard reduction burning, hanging over the Harbour.

For more Sky Watch from around the world, drop in to the home of Sky Watch Friday.

Atget at the Gallery

Finally got to see Old Paris, the wonderful Eugene Atget exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. Here are a few of my favourites, together with a portrait of Atget by Berenice Abbott, made shortly before he died.

Kung Fu Panda

I keep wondering whether they are going to regret this later in life.

Taphophile Tragics

Ambush at Slingersfontein

George Allman Griffen, who was the first man to volunteer for the Light Horse was the first of the NSW Contingent to die in South Africa on 16 January 1900 during a Boer ambush at Slingersfontein. His death had such an impact in Australia at a time when the country was celebrating its new found Federation, a committee of his friends and supporters commissioned Achille Simonetti to create a marble tablet in his memory. Simonetti was the most fashionable sculptor in Sydney at the time, having modelled busts and statues of many Sydney luminaries. Simonetti, who died before the tablet was completed, arranged for sculptor James White, the first sculptor to win Sydney's prestigious Wynne Prize, to complete the work. The tablet, inscribed incorrectly to George Griffin, was erected in the Vestibule in Sydney Town Hall, where it can be seen today.

This is an entry in Julie's Taphophile Tragics meme.

Theme Day - Silhouetttes

You can get some interesting effects when you get your camera wet and the lens keeps fogging up. Thankfully it was the little one, not the SLR.