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August 24, 2025August 24, 2025

365 days / 1684 days

I started uploading photos taken in 2021 to Flickr on January 13, 2021, including these:

Today is the 1684th day of 2021’s photo processing, the last publicly accessible upload I made from 2021 was:

I might not seem to be accelerating that much (2020’s photos took 1775 days) but I have mostly complete uploads from 2024 and entirely complete for 2025, so I only have 2022, 2023, and part of 2024 to catch up.

The literally thousands of photos I took in a two week period in Europe in 2022 will be a journey though.

2021 retrospective

Culburra

This photo is something of a favourite of the algorithms that display my photo history to me, and I’ve stared at it so much in the last four and half years that I honestly have no idea now whether or not I like it:

More: Penguins Head, Tilbury Cove, Warrain Beach, more Warrain Beach. (Just this sequence, about a week in real time, took me two months to upload.)

Double Cross

July 2025

The Double Cross Trail, perhaps the longest walk I have ever done, a cold and windy day in mid-summer.

Crowds at the Painted Ladies, Alamo Square Park

All photos.

July 27, 2025July 27, 2025

Later COVID ephemera

July 2021 onwards

Too excited about the vaccine rollout for copyediting:

AstraZeneca, the workhorse of winter 2021 vaccination in NSW:

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine offered at Adore Pharmacy, Rozelle

Rapid Antigen Tests, which were not approved in Australia until November 2021, were the workhorse of the Omicron wave:

QR codes really had a moment, although when I took this photo they’d been rarely used for nearly three years:

COVID detritus: QR checkin code on Sydney bus

Earlier: 2020 lockdown

All photos.

July 9, 2025July 6, 2025

Autumn leaves, 2025

This entry is part 21 of 21 in the series Autumn

June 2025

All photos.

July 7, 2025July 6, 2025

Sydney in winter

June 2025

A work virtual walk-a-thon, combined with many many early morning meetings, was a chance to see Glorious Sydney in winter:

Early morning sun on palm fronts, Rozelle Parklands

All photos.

June 12, 2025June 9, 2025

Muir Woods

May 2025

This was my third visit to Muir Woods, but the first in my increasingly last-in-first-out photo processing queue. My longest Muir Woods walk by far, as we hiked up to Cardiac Hill via the Dipsea Trail and back down Stapelveldt and Ben Johnson (trail guide).

It is not, in reality, anything like as dark as this under the canopy of the redwoods on a bright May day, but I was wearing dark and red-tinted sunglasses and was keen to recreate the experience by underexposing my photos too.

It’s called Cardiac Hill, because, obviously. We shared it with people running the Stinson Beach marathon:

If you ascend Dipsea and then go down Stapelveldt / Ben Johnson as we did, you have to do the ascent mostly in the sun, but then you get to do the return in the shade:

All photos.

June 10, 2025June 8, 2025

My photography on Wikipedia

Originally posted on hachyderm.io, posted here with minor edits.

I release a lot of my photos under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. It’s fun to see which of them have popped up on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, although it doesn’t line up with my favourites among my own photographs.

Wikipedia: Crown Sydney and a few variants in other languages make heavy use of photographs I took of the Crown Sydney construction site, or at least of its surroundings. (Most of them are cropped down to the construction site by the editors.)

This photograph of the Eastern Suburbs viaduct is used in two articles related to it, Wikipedia: Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line and Wikipedia: Eastern Suburbs railway line:

Eastern suburbs rail line, from Sydney Tower

This, cropped and brightened by a Commons editor, is used on the Wikipedia: New South Wales Rural Fire Service article. Not discussed in the article: that truck is delivering Fire Santa, who visits kids at farm gates in the leadup to Christmas.

The next two are I think the only two I have inserted myself, and appear in Wikipedia: Raging Waters Sydney. At the time I took them, the only Commons photographs of Raging Waters (then Wet ‘n’ Wild) were during construction, so I took a camera there to photograph the completed rides for Wikipedia. The first of the two also appears in Wikipedia: 2013 in amusement parks.

Tower 1, Wet'n'Wild Sydney: Bomborra and Tantrum

This photograph is used on the Ukrainian language article about Bay Area Rapid Transit (Wikipedia: Метрополітен Затоки Сан-Франциско):

I extensively photographed the University of Sydney jacaranda a few years before it blew over, and this one appears on both the English and German articles about the tree (Wikipedia: Jacaranda, University of Sydney). It’s something of an exception to the “my faves don’t appear on Wikipedia” experience, I do like this series.

A cropped version of this photograph from a plane is used in both Wikipedia: Sierra Point (Brisbane) and Wikipedia: Dakin Building, neither of which I could have told you anything about when I saw them from a window seat in 2016.