November 2025
Barangaroo casts shadows in the fog
May 2022
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
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
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:
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:
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.
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.
Finally, it is honestly quite an honour to have this used in Wikipedia: Sydney Harbour Bridge, in both the English and Spanish articles:
Quite a few other photos of mine have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, although not used in articles. All of my Creative Commons licenced photography (around 4000 photographs) can be found via this Flickr search.
Autumn leaves and goose, Auburn Botanic Gardens
Dawn in Sydney
March 2025
366 days / 1775 days
I started uploading photos taken in 2020 to Flickr on February 27, 2020, including these:
Later in 2020 it became A Thing to count every day as part of March 2020 (ie, today is the 1773rd of March, 2020), In that spirit, today is the 1775th, and also the last, day of 2020 in terms of my photo processing.
Fittingly, today’s final upload features these “2020 SUCKS” cupcakes my kids decorated on December 31:
2020 retrospective
Fires
More (and, December 2019)
Rain
By the time I was uploading my mediocre videos of heavy rain from January and February of 2020 (this one was uploaded in January 2024), it was becoming a little hard to remember why I was so excited about it.
March/April COVID-19 lockdown
Autumn, Japanese maple edition
Autumn, there are in fact other varieties of tree edition
Autumn, Auburn Botanic Gardens edition
Autumn, morning walk after rain edition
Winter rains
Blue Mountains getaway
Bay Run at night
Spring rains
Boxing Day storm
Bay Run after sunset
July 2020
The last sport my son was willing to play other than cricket (always willing to play cricket) was a season of AFL. I used to cycle the Bay Run circuit in the dark while he trained under the brutal lights of the football oval.
These are phone photos, but don’t argue with #GloriousSydney.
