Out and about with the little bloke yesterday and stopped by Tuggers Town Park.
Took this picture.
A gloriously sunny afternoon, peace and quiet, autumn colours, and a friendly swan – couldn’t ask for more.
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In a more novel sort of charity run we’re lead to believe a world first half marathon has been run this morning on a treadmill in a hot air balloon high over the city.
It’s part of local runner Rob Ginnivan’s Run For Your Heart project to raise money for the Heart Foundation.

Inspired by Ben Dover’s Mt Taylor photography yesterday Mossrocket has upped the ante:
Here’s some more photos from the top of Mt Taylor. I skipped work on Thursday and decided that hiking and photographing would be a better use of my time.
I didn’t realise you could climb up a walking track on the east side of [...]

Martyo has sent in this shot of Woden at sunset a week ago.
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Ben Dover has sent in this picture taken yesterday evening at Sunset on Mt Taylor.
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(Panorama from Red Hill c1920s, Kingston Power Station in the middle.)
Dug this image up from the Mildenhall Collection, the best known collection of early Canberra.
The problem is with many Govt agencies are that they want property rights over their images in their archives. Good to see that NAA & MOADOPH have put this online.
Even the [...]

Deborah sent this in with the following note:
Thought I would share this one with you – parked in Woden on 11 May.
This vehicle sounds like a Mac truck (what the) when its rolling but the, ahh, angle parking really surprised me.
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Some nights the view from the Garema Place Goonbag is more spectacular than others.
Orangedrummerboy has posted this spectacular effort. [CC BY 2.0]
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Into the growing mess of Marcus Clarke Street we have a solution to cars queuing to get into the new car parking near Barry Drive.
Just lean a No Right Turn sign on the speed limit pole!
Fixed!
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Archy has sent in some beautiful pictures of the sunrise over Queanbeyan this morning.
– #1 looking due east
– #2 looking northeast over Oakes Estate and the fog in the gullys with the Molongolo and Queanbeyan Rivers
– #3 Due east again avec contrail

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[ 12 May, 2012 to 13 May, 2012. ]

Territory and Municipal Services want you to get out and about and enjoy just how good their street trees are looking at this time of year as the leaves come down:

With autumn now in full swing, people are encouraged to visit some of the streets and local parks in inner Canberra to see our trees [...]

It seems the fogs and frosts are upon us even before the leaves have finished their turn.
Above is Geekette’s morning shot of Lake Burley Griffin.
Overheard has been snapping similar scenes:

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Last year Andrew Luton impressed us with his hang gliding release from a hot air balloon.
Today he’s sent in a cracking shot with this note:
Here is a picture from a flight of mine yesterday (6 May) out at Spring Range, 10km’s north of Hall.
This is one of the main Hang Gliding and Para [...]

in_the_taratory has sent in this work of awesome with this note:
i have a telstrayama for you – the full moon tonight appeared to rise and sit directly above the telstra tower peak. this is captured from mt painter (a gorgeous afternoon and sunset aided me).

Oh OK … it’s Autumn and all the leaves are coloured and the air’s turning crisp and photographers are out taking pictures – as they do. I thought I’d share this one because the way the light has literally ‘infused’ the leaves and brought out some spectacluar colours. Canberra expresses it’s seasons so emphatically. I [...]

Rob has sent in the view from Kingston, which we have to say is rather fetching.
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joeyjojojuniorshabadoo has sent in this picture of the under construction Nishi apartments with this note:
Here’s a shot from my phone of the Nishi construction site, shrouded in fog at 730am yesterday morning.
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I left home in the dark for a pre-dawn ride around Lake Burley Griffin on the way to work.
I stopped to admire and took a photo at about 7am.
You can’t see it in the photo, but my toes are numb.
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Last night’s spectacular sunset (possibly enhanced by the controlled burns) inspired Gungahlin Al to send in this picture of Telstrayama and sunset.
Not to be outdone Kevin also had a gorgeous contribution:

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So, the Lyneham servo finally closed it’s doors on the weekend.
The bike shop left months ago.
Soon the place will dug up and (presumably) the ground detoxed to make way for some more units … can’t be too many of these suburban servos left.
I remember the ones in Watson, Ainslie (& the mad [...]

Tiffany Smith has sent in some pictures of the artwork Woden’s still buzzing about.
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In a new initiative we’ve whacked our April12 images folder through a collage tool and voila!
That’s the month just gone.
For those who want a bigger version enjoy.

On Saturday evening I went along with the family to a special members event at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). The rainforest gully walk has been kitted out with low wattage LED lighting funded by the ‘Friends of the Botanic Gardens’ and Saturday night was the first time they were showing it off. There [...]

Rangi’s sent in these pictures of the signage at the Calwell Caltex.
I guess when communicating with a petrol thieving clientelle there’s not much point to proofing the signs.
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Basketcase has sent in this striking pair of images from Holt with an observation:
Found this car in Starke St, Holt. Not a soul in sight, had to wonder how it ended up there.. The air bags had been activated.
It has now been moved but looking at the tree, I was surprised at how little damage [...]

Geoff from Lushpup has taken photographic fiddling to new dizzy heights with this beautiful shot which he explains thusly:
This is what happens when you put your fisheye on the ground looking up and carefully balance a polarising filter (that’s too small for the lens) on top.
Taken in the ANU down near Sullivan’s Creek. [...]

What looked like 100m dash turned out to be a solid hike in muddy water.
Arrived at the edge of the lake at 6:20am – just in time for me to find a gigantic birds nest (not sure what type) and a spectacular sunrise with very fast moving clouds and light
Nikon with Sigma 10-20mm [...]

Brian has sent in this lovely picture of his daughter at the War Memorial.
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Actew’s industrious movie makers have given us 11 minutes of hard yakka at the Cotter Dam Expansion construction site as they clean up after the floods.
ACTEW’s Project Manager on the Enlarged Cotter Dam, Ray Hezkial, takes us on site for a detailed look at the cleanup underway following the flood of early March 2012. Ray’s [...]

In the 1960s on ANZAC Day veterans would march from the Narrabundah Shops to the Kingston Narrabundah RSL on Kootara Cresc.
When the club folded in 1984 and taken over by the Australian Hungarian Club the Kokoda Statue was moved to the Canberra Services Club in Manuka.
In 2003, with development imminent, the Lest We [...]

Captured on my morning walk- destruction or just deconstruction?
Nothing unrepairable but the mortar.
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Lake G + X100 + Motion Panorama + Topaz Adjust5 = teh prettys.
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