March 2022
Dawn in San Francisco
Culburra Beach
Jervis Bay
The aesthetics of spring
Lucknow, NSW, September 2025
It was still, nearly, freezing cold!
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.)
Newcastle
More: Hang gliders, clifftop views
Auburn Botanic Gardens
COVID ephemera
Milk Beach
Lockdown sunsets
First dawn (after travel limits lifted)
Christmas storms
More: storms, last light
Golden last afternoon
Double Cross
July 2025
The Double Cross Trail, perhaps the longest walk I have ever done, a cold and windy day in mid-summer.
Later COVID ephemera
July 2021 onwards
Too excited about the vaccine rollout for copyediting:
AstraZeneca, the workhorse of winter 2021 vaccination in NSW:
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:
Earlier: 2020 lockdown
Autumn leaves, 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:
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:
