Springwood, Faulconbridge & Valley Heights NSW
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I am going to do Tracey Clark's Picture the Holidays again this year. This year it's through Paper Coterie rather than Big Picture Classes.
Today's prompt is "Holding on to Gratitude."
Today I am grateful for the winter sun. The days may be shorter, the trees may be bare, and the colors are all turning to shades of brown, but to me the winter sun makes up for it all. It comes up late enough that I can easily be out for the sunrise. It stays low in the sky all day so even photos at noon are beautifully illuminated. It goes back down early enough that I can catch the sunset before I am busy with the evening rush of dinner and other family obligations. It fills my home with surprising beauty and paints the world in astonishing colors.
Picture the Holidays 2011: Day 1
Notes: A Miners' Hut, Lithgow Valley NSW, c.1880 The Vale of Clwydd Colliery was separated from the rest of Lithgow by a mountain spur, and operated at the edge of a secluded swampy gully. One of its tunnels extended under the swamp, making working conditions extremely unsafe. Living conditions were scarcely more pleasant in spite of the romantic view that this official photograph and a Sydney Mail account suggest :
"The miners' homes are scattered about, some of them in the forest... These habitations are of the rudest description being in many instances composed of logs of wood cemented together with tenacious mud and covered either with canvas or bark. Yet inside these I was astonished to find a snugness which contrasts greatly with the exterior and people seemed quite happy in these rude houses."
Sydney Mail 20.8.1878:88
The object on the right appears to be an earth oven.
Format: B&W photograph from a glass plate negative
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 1003
Provenance: Govt Printer, Macleay Museum
Notes: Arthur James White was born in Newcastle in 1889 and died in Balmain in 1958. The photographer, George Druce, married Arthur's sister in 1920.
Format: B & W print
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 1911
Provenance: Mrs Kirk
Photographer: G A Druce
Notes: family group portrait on a cabinet card, Scotland
Format: albumen photoprint on Cabinet Card mount, verso included, 166mm x 112mm - 6 1/2" x 4 1/4"
Licencing: attribution, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: Donation
Dynasty Jumbo B-18709 crashing the photo shoot!!
an interesting tidbit (from planespotters): “Incident 7 Feb 2002 at TPE when nose wheel collapsed during maintenance. Aircraft fell on tail when airbag used to raise nose.”
Does not surprise me at all (not the nose wheel collapse)!!!
Notes: Catalina PBY and speed boat
Format: silver gelatin print 17cm x 12cm
Date Range: c1952; the pool and fun fair opened and the Catalina PBY was installed 1948 - later removed 1954, BMCC acquired the land 1952 after the fun fair had closed, the racetrack was opened 1961
Location: Katoomba
Licensing: attribution, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: PF 2465-2
Terms of use: please credit - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection
Provenance: BMCC
Links: CATALINA PARK, KATOOMBA AND THE PBY FLYING BOAT - bluemlocalstudies.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/catalina-park-...
Swimming Pool For Flying Boat (1948, July 17). Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 1 (DAILY). Retrieved August 7, 2025, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117106219
Notes: the pool in its heyday with the diving tower and crowds, the Catalina PBY has been removed, BMCC CATALINA lettering on the life buoy ring on the diving tower
Format: silver gelatin print 9cm x 6cm
Date Range: c1956-58; the pool and fun fair opened and the Catalina PBY was installed 1948 - later removed 1954, BMCC acquired the land 1952 after the fun fair had closed, the racetrack was opened 1961
Location: Katoomba
Licensing: attribution, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: PF 2465-3
Terms of use: please credit - Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies Collection
Provenance: BMCC
Links: CATALINA PARK, KATOOMBA AND THE PBY FLYING BOAT - bluemlocalstudies.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/catalina-park-...
Swimming Pool For Flying Boat (1948, July 17). Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 1 (DAILY). Retrieved August 7, 2025, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117106219
This is my entry into the Blue Mountains Portraits 2021 exhibition, currently on show at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in Katoomba.
"In this image of Becky, I wanted to capture and combine two key aspects of Becky’s life, her work with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and as a long-time senior performer with Wagana Aboriginal Dancers. Both of these life paths enable Becky to honour and to be on Country, which as a Kamilaroi woman, is very important to her".
Subject- Becky Chatfield
Photographer: Ben Pearse
Medium: Photographic print, AO size.
Special Note: This image has gone on to win the peoples choice award at the Blue Mountains portrait prize in 2021.
Sometimes all it takes is a few special people to remind us that life is good.
My cousin and his wife visited this weekend. We spent Sunday enjoying the summer -- swimming in the nearby creek, sampling the local ice cream, and then lazing around the picnic table with some watermelon and Vino Verde.
Having guests reminded us to slow down and enjoy our home and the the pleasures this area offers us, and Ed and Kriss are particularly wonderful guests.
Happy Tipsy Tuesday!
A still from the Black Magic Cinema Camera's video output with a Hoya 720nm filter and Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens.
Video: vimeo.com/166589823
I don't often show my commercial work on here, so I though i'd show this image of the recently built "Springwood Community Theatre & Hub" building which I photographed for Blue Mountains City Council earlier in the year. I shoot more and more work like this now and love finding unique angles that come with architectural/commercial style photography. You can see more commercial images here.
D800e | 14-24mm f2.8 | F10 | iso 50 | 14mm
The cloud cover this week has been good for photography. It was a bit chilly and windy last night, so that's a sign of things to come.
More photos of the World Trade Center are in my set
More photos like this one are in my set
Notes: Tā moko is the permanent body and face marking by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. Traditionally it is distinct from tattoo and tatau, in that the skin was carved by uhi (chisels) rather than punctured. This left the skin with grooves, rather than a smooth surface.
Captain James Cook wrote in 1769:
The marks in general are spirals drawn with great nicety and even elegance. One side corresponds with the other. The marks on the body resemble foliage in old chased ornaments, convolutions of filigree work, but in these they have such a luxury of forms that of a hundred which at first appeared exactly the same no two were formed alike on close examination.
The Tohunga tā moko (or tattooists) were considered tapu, or exceptionally inviolable and sacred.
Format: albumen photoprint, 125 mm x 200 mm
Date Range: 1880s
Location: somewhere in New Zealand
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: the McBroom album
Links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81_moko
australianmuseum.net.au/the-meaning-of-ta-moko-maori-tatt...
Fiterman Hall NYC
Borough of Manhattan Community College • CUNY
Designed by the architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, and built by Hunter Roberts Construction Group
Friday, May 16, 2008 - 137/366
It was a rainy cold damp night in the city...but that always makes for the best moody pics! My sister and I went to the BMCC (this is a shot from the entrance doors looking out into the plaza) to watch a live jazz performance which was very cool. They were so enraptured and into their music and they were all quite talented!!
Notes : Wattle Cafe, Milk Bar, Hamburgers, Fish & Chips, Bar-B-Q Chicken, Field's bakery
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: GWH Blackheath
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes : Motel at rear
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Mount Victoria
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes :
Format: Colour negative film scan
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - BMCC signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Date Range: 1983
Notes :
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Katoomba
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes :
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Mount Victoria
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes : Macarthurs Home Wares
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Katoomba Street
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes: map showing existing and abandoned railway lines, buildings, tunnels and roadways including Cox's Old Road
Format: printed map 42 cm x 29 cm, CC Singleton cartographer
Date Range: 1957
Location: Lapstone - Glenbrook
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of: Local Studies Collection - Maps
Provenance: BMCC
Links:
Notes : Leura Pharmacy, Health Foods, Sproule & Pearce Real Estate, Groceries,
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Leura Mall west side
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes :
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Great Western Highway Faulconbridge
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
British Balloon Museum & Library BBM&L 16th Inflation Day @ Pidley, Cambridgeshire UK. 23/04/2022
Great effort by everyone involved considering the strong winds.
Notes : Take Away Foods, Milk Bar
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Mount Victoria
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes :
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location:
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC
Notes : replaced by a Bunnings store about 2003
Format: Colour negative film scan
Location: Valley Heights
Date range: 1983
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library - library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images PF2342 council signage survey
Provenance: BMCC