Brisbane Is Home

I took some photos yesterday, and when I looked at this one from the Merivale rail bridge, I was amazed at how much detail the camera was able to pick up:

Anticlockwise from the bottom, I saw a bike path next to the river, an exit from the Riverside Expressway to Hale St with the Fourex Brewery in the background, the giant flagpole on Coronation Drive in Milton, and Oxley’s on the River restaurant.

Click here to see a Google Map showing where each part of the photo is. 

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I walked out of my flat this morning to go to work, and saw flashing emergency lights down the end of my street, on the corner of Montpelier Rd, Cowlishaw St and Cintra Rd in Bowen Hills. Looks like a big flat-bed tow truck had hit a motorbike.

Click here to see a Google Map of the exact location.

I checked with the Police Media unit (thanks to Tom for spending 10 minutes having a proper dig through all his records for me) and the Queensland Ambulance Service media unit - there were no injuries reported and no-one was transported to hospital.

This corner is insane. Cintra Rd has a stop sign on it, but it is constantly ignored and cars fly through the corner, turning left onto Montpelier Rd. If you are coming out of Cowlishaw St you can be in real danger - I have been, twice, a few metres away from a serious accident.

For more detail, click on the pictures and you’ll be taken to the Flickr set, where you can see much larger versions.

Frankly, Brisbane traffic is insane, and it isn’t geting any better or safer. 

We’ve just had an electrical storm over the south-east of Brisbane - the rain is coming through right now at 9.40pm. I took some photos of the lightning from my back balcony. Keep reading to see all 7.

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250 zombies lumbered into Brisbane’s Roma St Parklands‘ Amphitheatre today (click here to see the exact location) to start the annual Brisbane Zombiewalk.

I think I actually know what this guy with a $20 note stuck to his forehead might mean.

There’s 35 photos of the start of the Zombiewalk over at flickr - the ones you see here and about 20 more. If you use flickr, you can see the photos in much larger sizes, download them for your own use and see them on a map or in a slideshow. 

There’s also Brisbane ZombieWalk 2007 photos on Flickr by yinyang, shanrosen, d70dug, G205, and lifemusicmedia.

UPDATE: Tuesday morning.

Plenty more links to photos posted on the brisneyland livejournal community:

by cheesecheese, who has 80 photos and 10 video clips at photobucket, including this one:

Also lime_red has 39 photos at the ::lime - diary of a fruit:: blog, and ozfuture has a livejournal post with 27 pictures.

There’s also a flickr group devoted especially to Brisbane ZombieWalk 2007, which has photos from imitation, cptkirkco, Maxyz, d70dug .steveT, eatnutmeg, Misteriddles, jnbrewster, Let’s Take Over, lifemusicmedia, yinyang, Felix42, G205, OzFuture, VikingCarrot, witchdoktor, and Louise and a story at Brisbane blog Larvatus Prodeo.

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Apologies for the lack of posts this week, I’ve not been well.

But my photos from last Saturday’s St Patrick’s Day Parade are on flickr. Click here to see all 50 photos.

As usual, you can see them in large sizes, watch a slideshow of the photos or download them for your own use.

Because Brisbane is built on hills, there are some steep slopes right in the middle of town. In particular, it is a very steep climb from Adelaide St to Ann St. This means that the back of St John’s Anglican Cathedral looks down onto Adelaide St from on top of a 5-metre high cliff. You wouldn’t even notice it unless you bothered to look up all the time. Click here to see the exact location of the cathedral.

[BTW, Anglican = Episcopalian, if you’re from the USA].

Keep reading to see 19 more photos of the outside of the Cathedral.

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On Saturday 24th February, I went to Davies Park in West End, an inner suburb of Brisbane (click here to see the exact location), to catch the trial match between National Rugby League side Wests Tigers (from Sydney) and the Queensland Cup team Souths Logan Magpies.

There were three games on Saturday - a colts game (young, up and coming players) and a FOGS (A-grade citywide) match, both between the Magpies and local team Easts Tigers. Then there was the main game between Souths and Wests.

I couldn’t get many good pictures of the main game, because my camera isn’t too good in the dark. (I’m saving up for a new one, let me know if you want to help me buy one that costs about $A 450).

 But here’s 30-odd pictures including some of the early games, and a short video including some of the later game. Just keep reading…

By the way, this article would never have happened if not for Shaun at sidelined, the Australian sports blog.

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It’s Chinese New Year! I went down to Chinatown in the Valley on Saturday February 17th to take some photos for you, so here we go:

Keep reading to see 50 photos and two videos of Chinese New Year in Brisbane.

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Fantasy author Terry Pratchett, who is most famous for writing the Discworld series of humourous fantasy books, talked to about 150 fans and signed copies of his books at the Great Hall in Brisbane Grammar School, Spring Hill (click here to see the exact location) last Wednesday, February 14th.

DISCLAIMER - some of the links and ads in this article (including this next one) take you to Amazon.com, where you can buy copies of Terry Pratchett’s books.. If you do, I will make a commission which I will share with the publisher of Brisbane Is Home.

If you are in Brisbane, you should consider instead buying your Terry Pratchett books from Riverbend Books, who sponsored the speech. They are at 193 Oxford St, Bulimba, (click here to see a map of the exact location) and you can call them on 07 3899 8555 (+617 3899 8555). You can buy online or visit their store.

All these pictures from the speech are stored at flickr, the photosharing website. Click here to see the photos - you can see larger sizes, watch a slideshow, see the photos on a map, and download the photos for your own use.

Continue reading to see more than 50 photos, plus my report of Pratchett’s speech.

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Recently, I started a group for photos of Fortitude Valley, New Farm, Newstead and Teneriffe at flickr, the photo-sharing website.

I want the group to become the first place people look for photos of that part of town, and that means I’ll have to take a lot of photos to get people noticing it.

So last Friday I went down to New Farm Park and the Powerhouse Arts Centre to take some photos.

You can read more about New Farm Park here.

You can click on that link to see Friday’s photos on a map, to see a slideshow of them, to see different sizes and to download them for yourself. You can also clickon each photo to go to its page on flickr. Or you can just keep reading here to see over 60 photos.

You can also click here to see the path I took walking through the park, starting from the New Farm ferry terminal.

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