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I am David Gray, photographer and website designer from Melbourne, Australia. I love to capture and share the world around me.

29/05/2026

About a month ago my wife and I travelled to Sydney, and I got to witness the partial destruction of the Sydney Opera House (if you need context, google TISM Opera House Damage -- the group I went to see allegedly caused $18,000 AUD worth of damage to seats and other parts of the main chamber).

On one of our days there, we went to the Chinese Garden of Friendship and I stood in this pavillion and took a photo.

It's incredibly difficult to point directly upwards without a tripod or spirit level, so I had to do some rotating, cropping, perspective shifting and masking to get this shot.

20/05/2026

Another Mt. Pilatus shot. This time I decided a black and white shot would look better, as the blue haze in the distance made editing this nearly impossible.

We're coming up to the 1 year anniversary of our trip to the UK to see Oasis / do a European tour. I want to travel again, but this pesky thing called "money" keeps standing in the way, so if you'd like to donate to the "let David just roam the country / the earth for ages" fund, hit me up.

10/05/2026

Happy Mothers Day to everyone who celebrates it (me), and happy I just saw Venjent perform again day to those celebrate that too (also me).

(I swear I had posted this on Facebook, but for some reason it didn't post, so I'll try again)

I'm very glad to have a mum who looks out for me, and looks after me. She not only taught me how to be a mostly functional human being, but is also a volunteer for a few organizations in the local community, so her kindness is far reaching.

So again, happy Mothers Day to those who celebrate it. If for some reason you don't speak to your mum, I'll be your mum, and I'm proud of the person you've become, though I wish you'd stop smoking, it's bad for you.

(this photo was taken in Florence near Piazza di Santa Croce)

05/05/2026

We all know it, we all love it, many of us have seen it with our own eyes, some have been photographed with it, pretending to push it up, and some of us have been photographed with it, pretending it's their ge****ls, but here it is again, Le Tower d'Oblique del Pizza, or to use it's actual, non-I'm-just-bullsh*tting-you name, Torre Pendente di Pisa, or the Tower of Pisa.

I think I may have angled this shot so the lean is more pronounced (as it's only tilted by four degrees in reality), but it truly is impressive to see.

Also, I expected to drive through a tall, bustling city and see the tower in the middle of some plaza as if it was just another thing someone would walk past on their way to work (Rome felt exactly like that, with things that were centuries old being right next modern buildings), but it was the tallest thing in the city and getting there felt like I was going through the outermost suburbs of Melbourne, passing by lots of farmland and going down some (relatively) quiet roads to get there.

Anyway, it was a cloudless day, and my polarizing filter meant I could get some deep blue skies, which, when made black and white, gives this black background, making the tower really stand out

03/05/2026

Another shot from Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland. The hardest part of editing shots like this is the blue haze in the distance. The dehaze tool in Lightroom can only do so much before your picture gets a bit cooked.

Merging to a HDR can help a bit, which it seemed to here, but I left a lot of the haze in to contrast with the reddish rocks.

28/04/2026

Since August last year, I've posted 18 photos (including this one). That's the most photography I've posted since 2018.

Part of it has been having European photos to edit, as that whole region is just so photogenic, part of it has been having a new PC that can just edit photos without hesitation, and part of it is just a very slow easing up of the intense burnout I felt after doing the 365 challenge back in 2015. I'm still not 100% back, but hey, I've posted 18 photos since August, so I think I'm doing alright!

Anyway, this photo was taken in Florence. I was wandering down some side streets when I saw these two women walking off in the distance. The street might seem empty, but there I managed to catch a lucky break, as just a few seconds later, some people wandered past me, and came walking down the other end of the street.

I also just recently reinstalled Photomatix on my new computer. Lightroom's HDR is okay, sorta, but Photomatix has SO much more in terms of settings you can futz with. It's good to have it back!

25/04/2026

As you may have seen, a few weeks ago we went to Sydney. While we were there, we visited one of my favourite places, the Chinese Garden of Friendship, as it's just this amazing slice of quiet beauty in the middle of a bustling city.

While walking through the garden, we saw a few Eastern Water Dragons, big lizards that were just having an absolute blast in the sun.

I was able to get pretty close to this one and it stood still long enough to grab a few shots to make a HDR. I tweaked the brightness, and removed part of the stone seat it was perched on, and this is the result.

19/04/2026

This was taken in August last year during our UK / European trip, and was taken out the front of Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, which is Italian for "Some Cathedral in Florence" (I think. My Italian is rusty)

Looking back, I wish I had taken more photos in London with my camera, but overall I'm glad I took my Canon with me.

17/04/2026

Last week my wife and I took a road trip up to Sydney (to a concert at the Opera House) via Batemans Bay, and returning home via Canberra. I had an absolute blast, but it did require us to leave home at 6am for the 7 hour drive.

The upshot of that, is that we got to catch the sunrise, and this is the result.

Asides from cloning out some powerlines and a comms tower off in the distance, this is straight from the camera.

I've got some more photos to edit up, so keep an eye out for more.

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