December 2025
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Mildura
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского The trip to Mildura left me with a stack of impressions. I’ve already written about the roads, the dried-up lakes, the dunes, and even the town of Castlemaine. What I haven’t written… Continue reading
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Christmas lights at Southbank
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского City lights at night — pretty much exactly how I pictured the scene I wanted to shoot on video with an anamorphic lens. Ideas are meant to be turned into reality, so… Continue reading
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Walls of China
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского In Australian English there’s a word ‘mallee’. It refers both to a type of landscape and to the vegetation. Basically, mallee means low-growing eucalyptus trees that cover vast semi-arid plains, along with… Continue reading
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Mildura holiday – Castlemaine
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского On the way to Mildura, we made several long stops. The first of them was the town of Castlemaine. By the way, I’ve already written about Castlemaine before — not about the… Continue reading
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Mildura holiday – Lake Tyrrell
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского A very long time ago, right in the middle of Australia, there was a massive lake that covered parts of what are now Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. If you… Continue reading
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Mildura holiday – the road there and back
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского And so that wonderful moment finally arrived when we headed off on our family holiday. We try to do this every year, usually heading somewhere wild and exotic – places like Tasmania,… Continue reading
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Nicholas Building
Stories have a habit of weaving themselves together. Sometimes you learn something new — an interesting little piece of information or history. Then you come across another one that doesn’t seem related at all. And then a third one appears,… Continue reading
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The Rainforest and the Hills
Here are some photo reports from two decent little outings. They weren’t full day trips — just times when I happened to have a few free hours and headed out into nature for some fresh air. And I always take… Continue reading
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West Gate Tunnel
Remember how the Fellowship of the Ring travelled through the mines of Moria in the first book of Tolkien’s famous trilogy? Well, I also got to wander through some massive underground caverns — Melbourne-style this time — though my adventure… Continue reading
