http://www.fractured-reality.com Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:51:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the final instalment of this series of photos from my trip last year. It's been interesting to look back over all the pictures, finding ones which I passed over at the time, and editing them to the point at which I am happy to show them to the ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/06/26/durian/ Technically, Wikipedia informs me that this should actually be entitled "Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay", also known as "The Durian" (more on that subject soon). The photo is of Singapore's centre for performing arts - twin buildings looking remarkably like the eyes of a particularly large and metallic fly. http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/06/21/the-esplanade/ A picture from Singapore! None of the 106 I took there have seen the light of day before now, for the simple reason that they are, oh the whole, a bit rubbish. I bought a new lens - 50mm f/1.8 - in the electronics heaven that is Sim Lim Square, ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/06/19/the-fruit-seller/ This was taken in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market - a wonderfully raucous place, full of fresh produce and the cries of those selling it. This borek stall - one of numerous competing lunch vendors - was surrounded by a constant swarm of patrons, and the women in this photo served ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/06/06/lunchtime-rush/ Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. At 1840 km² it was impossible to thoroughly explore during the two days we spent there, and as the tourist industry there has a totally captive audience, the charges for a tour bus trip around the island were rather steep. ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/05/25/fraser-island/ This was taken on the first night of three aboard a sailing boat among the Whitsunday Islands. With brilliant white sand (over 90% pure silica), blue-green seas, fringing coral reefs and gorgeous sunsets, it's easy to see how this chain of 74 islands just off Australia's east coast is considered ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/05/21/sailing/ I took a whole set of these to show the remarkable change in colour of the rock as the sun went down. This shot was not among that original set, and has indeed been highly bastardized during the editing process, but I like the final effect all the same. http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/05/12/sunset-at-uluru/ The scenery on the drive from Dunedin to Tekapo is stunning. Taken in the context of New Zealand as a whole, this is perhaps not saying quite as much - it seems that everywhere in that country is at least stunning - but this road runs passed some of South ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/05/08/lake-pukaki/ I don't usually lie edit this extravagantly, but the results this time turned out rather pleasingly. As you can see from the original, it was neither dusk, nor dawn, but rather Photomatix which produced these colours. I wrote at the time that a day trip to Milford Sound was a frustrating ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/05/05/milford-lies/ Mount Ruapehu one of three volcanoes in the Tongariro National Park. The other two, Tongariro and Ngauruhoe (Mount Doom) are scaled as part of New Zealand's most famous one day walk - the Tongariro Crossing - which I desperately wanted to undertake. Sadly, my only day in the region coincided ... http://www.fractured-reality.com/2009/04/28/mount-ruapehu/