This shot was from my last visit to Mt Solitary before the hazard burn – I am yet to see the effects of the burn with my own eyes, but the footage looked like the end of days…

Perched with journal at Elysian Rock

Jamison Valley twilight

Meet Onyx and Smoky, the newest editions to the Murphy-Davies clan household

Inquisitive kitten

It’s a fantastic open, bright, airy, copious space

This series was taken over several visits to Frank and fam’s place. The weather has just recently turned wintry and the fire in front of this ottoman is now being lit of an evening. The kittens think it’s the bees knees.

This one also contains a sleeping child

Western entrance to Porters Pass

I can’t seem to get enough of these Blue Mountains escarpments

I turned to Jay: “You wouldn’t want to have been walking here when those rocks fell.” Jay’s response, looking cliff-ward: “We come in peace.” Never a dull moment with that lad.

If you look closely, you’ll see a couple of climbers in this photo

Missing bits of handrail have been replaced with wire in parts, but the path is easily navigable

I had hoped to hike another pass right down into Centennial Glen, making a figure eight of our walk, but I couldn’t find a clear marker for the start of that trail

The walk we did was great, even without that additional pass, and it was just so lovely to be back out among it. This is the Walls Ledge path – see here evidence of the extensive track work that is currently being undertaken along this trail.

More outdoorsy folk taking advantage of the late Autumn sunshine

You can see why it’s a popular spot with climbers

This is where I work in the city – building not much to look at but the views from the top are pretty spectacular

George St – look up

The Boilerhouse at Parramatta Campus sits opposite the library where I am currently doing a shift a week as a Study Smart Advisor (read: assisting students with their grammar)

I also did a shift at the very new (read: empty) Liverpool City Campus Library a couple of weeks ago – this is their first semester of operation and they only have one faculty’s cohort in attendance at this early stage – but I felt a bit like I was setting up shop in an abandoned building…

Who knew that Sydney had a flatiron building?!! Discovered this yesterday afternoon. Very cool.

Tasman’s Map (shot from above and to one side – unfortunately you can’t get a shot from directly above) graces the tiled foyer floor of the State Library of NSW – it’s a beautiful thing to see

Inga and I went to the World Press Photo Exhibition after work last night. We’ve been attending the exhibition annually since 2010, though we missed the last couple of years due to various other travel commitments. It was a smaller selection this year, but the images were powerful as ever.