The Bush Capital
Australia’s capital, Canberra, is known as the Bush Capital. An inland capital in a land famously girt by sea, Canberra is surrounded by rugged bushland, weaving in from the fringes to the city centre.
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Finished reading: The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham 📚
I loved this gripping first part of a sci-fi trilogy by John Birmingham
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Finished reading: Collins Night Sky by Storm Dunlop 📚
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Finished reading: The End of Night by Paul Bogard 📚
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Road to Burra
This oft-photographed tree lies on the southern outskirts of Canberra. With the city lights behind you, and a clear view to the south, this can be a great spot for shooting the Milky Way, star trails and perhaps aurora australis.
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Finished reading: The Secret by Lee Child 📚
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Finished reading: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series) by Neil de Grasse Tyson 📚
A very approachable read of some real deep matter
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A very useful overview of the techniques, equipment and mindset required for night sky photography.
Finished reading: The Beginner’s Guide to Astrophotography by Mike Shaw 📚
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An amazing read about a real issue facing the world — the loss of darkness. As a nightscape photographer i have to work hard to find dark skies.
How long has it been since you’ve taken in the Milky Way? Many have never seen it.
Finished reading: The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf 📚
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Gibraltar Falls is a beautiful waterfall near Canberra in the Namadgi National Park. Namadgi makes up almost half of the total land of the ACT, and is a great national park with many great hikes, stunning scenery and some great dark skies for nightscapes.
View on DesParoz.com
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Clouds on a Cloudless Night
On a relatively cloudless night on the southern side of #Canberra, the Large Magellanic Cloud & Small Magellanic Cloud were prominent in the night sky. With the double star Canopus clearly visible, these celestial wonders were features in the south.
View on DesParoz.com
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An absolutely wonderful read about the importance of darkness — in our skies and gaining respite from artificial light.
Finished reading: The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf 📚
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Finished reading: Dusk to Dawn by Glenn Randall 📚
A wonderfully written guide to photography at night
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Finished reading: Dusk to Dawn by Glenn Randall 📚
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Finished reading: Tom Clancy Weapons Grade by Don Bentley 📚
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Winton is the birthplace of Qantas. In 1920, Winton was then, as it is today, a frontier town in outback Queensland & the birth of air travel connected it to the world. Winton is also home of the Jump Up, Australia’s first International Dark Sky Sanctuary.
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Mt Wheatley is a snowshoeing & backcountry location in the NSW ski fields, starting from Perisher Village. Snowshoe enthusiasts can get away from Australia’s busiest ski resort in minutes, and can take in amazing terrain.
#Alpine #Landscape #snowshoe
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Budapest’s St. Stevens Basilica is a World Heritage Site that can be quite hard to shoot with the ever-present crowds. We got up early to beat the crowds and found a great vantage point of the Basilica down a city street.
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Seydisfjordur was a unique stop on our 2019 visit to Iceland. A detour off the ring road, Seydisfjordur is a really scenic town in the eastern fjord-lands.
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One of the great things about living in Canberra is the ready access to beautiful night sky locations away from the city lights. This image of the Milky Way, clearly showing the [Emu in the Sky], was created by the side of Naas Road in southern the ACT.
View on DesParoz.com
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Finished reading: Zero Day Code: A novel of the End of Days: a cyberwar apocalypse by John Birmingham 📚
A confronting but entertaining fiction about a cyber attack might bring down the world order.
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A 6.5km hike from Perisher Valley on a wet, windy and overcast day, to Porcupine Rocks, resulted in wonderful views of the Thredbo River Valley and a stunning rainbow.
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London Arch is a spectacular rock formation offshore of the Great Ocean Road, near Port Campbell in Victoria. The single arch pictured in this image was originally connected to the mainland by an additional arch that washed away in 1990.
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#gotilies
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Posted at 1915 AEST a new post with an image to Micro.Blog, using the web editor. Be interesting to see when it shows. @manton @help