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Labassa Mansion
My latest photo adventure started in the usual way — by poking around on Google Maps. At one point my eye caught a little camera icon. The place was called Labassa Mansion, and it was in Caulfield North. Caulfield North… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Street
I’d like to share another wander around central Melbourne. The CBD’s actually pretty small — about one and a half by two kilometres. I headed out to test some new lenses for my Panasonic, including a fisheye. The fisheye really… Continue reading
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The Garden and The City
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского Just east of Melbourne, pretty much on the edge of the city, there’s a small mountain range called the Dandenong Ranges (don’t confuse it with the suburb of Dandenong — that’s somewhere… Continue reading
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Mildura Holiday – the Gaol and the Cruise
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского This is it — finally the last post about our Mildura trip. I’ve been writing about this trip for a whole month now, and this is post number seven. You’d think we… Continue reading
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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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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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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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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
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Chapel Street
Текст на русском находится внизу страницы, после английского Chapel Street is a pretty common street name in the English-speaking world. Back in the day if a new church went up on a fresh street, the road almost automatically got called… Continue reading
