Albertdebruijn.com » Australia http://albertdebruijn.com/home Travel and Fine Art Photography Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:36:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Ghost Trees http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1112 http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1112#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:09:29 +0000 albert http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1112 Experimentation with Fractalius, a Photoshop Plugin. This application can create some amazing surreal images.

This image is of a eucalyptus forest in the Blue Mountains, Australia. The trees, affectionately referred to as "gum trees" have a white bark and can provide a ghostly appearance anyways (in fact, there is a tree called Ghost Gum). Using this plugin, that effect is accentuated.

Hope you like it.

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]]> http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1112/feed 0 Sydney Australia http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1068 http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1068#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 05:14:56 +0000 albert http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1068 One of my most favorite places in the whole world! I lived there for about 15 years, a beautiful and vibrant city.
This view is from Macquaries Chair looking over to the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Sydney Central Business District. You can see Sydney Tower (aka Centrepoint Tower) on the left.  There is a revolving restaurant at the top with, of course, magnificent views of the greater Sydney area.

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]]> http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/1068/feed 0 Cockatoo Island detail http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/674 http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/674#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:22:22 +0000 albert http://albertdebruijn.com/home/?p=674 Cockatoo Island lies in the middle of the beautiful Sydney harbor (the Aussies write harbour), Australia. The island used to be a shipyard and the first of its two dry docks was built by convicts and was completed in 1857.

The island’s maritime industrial activity ceased in 1992. In 2005, the island was opened to the public and you can now take a ferry ride and wonder around the island. The island offers some stunning views of the Sydney harbor.

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]]> http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/674/feed 0 Sofala http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/944 http://albertdebruijn.com/home/archives/944#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:40:52 +0000 albert http://albertdebruijn.com/home/?p=944 Sofala is the oldest surviving gold mine town in Australia and lies about 241 km north-west of Sydney. It lies along the Turon river and dates back to 1851 when gold was found at Summerhill Creek. There are still people living in Sofala, but not many and the town has a number of these houses and shacks that have almost fallen down. With a population of only 100, Sofala can easily be mistaken for a ghost town. I visited there with some good friends and we had a great lunch at the Solfala Gaol which is now also a B&B.

Here are two of the old buildings that still stand today (but only just).

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Not the sign above the door on this next picture “Welcome Stranger”. While appropriate for an inn, the “Welcome Stranger” is also the name given to the largest gold nugget in the world (look it up) which was found in Australia in 1869. It weighed 3523.5 troy ounces.

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