Best shots of 2023
10 photos
The ones I think were special.
Queensland Road Trip 2023
526 photos
Our ten-week winter 2023 road trip to northern Queensland and the Gulf Country in 'Maxi' our motorhome,
Australian Campsites
6 photos
The Australian Campsites we visit on our trips
Kangaroo Island, (KI) South Australia.
65 photos
An 8 day visit to Kangaroo Island in 2023.
South Australian Road Trip 2023
321 photos
Photos from our motorhome trip in March-April 2023. We crossed western Victoria and toured the Southern part of SA with a week on Kangaroo Island.
Sculptures on the street
9 photos
A public sculpture on the streetscape
New Zealand Murals & Wall Art
2 photos
New Zealand Cruise 2023
67 photos, 1 video
In January 2023, after two canceled attempts due to Covid restrictions, we finally Boarded our ship in Melbourne to cruise to, and around, NZ.
NZ Cruise - Jan 2023
46 photos
Circumnavigating New Zealand aboard Grand Princess
Caves around Australia
8 photos
There are many cave sites across Australia which are now open to the public (at a cost). We have visited a few of them..
Australian Memorials
6 photos
Australian Museums
8 photos
Tasmanian Road Trip 2022
414 photos
October 2022 saw us depart Melbourne for six weeks in Tasmania. We travelled in 'Maxi', our Motorhome, and circumnavigated the Island State in an anti-clockwise direction.
My website Tasmanian Road...
Australian Toilet Wall Art (Proper Art)
15 photos
This is not about graffiti but 'real' art officially painted on toilet blocks around Australia.
Australian Sunrise
50 photos
I'm not keen to get up early in the morning these days, but now and then I manage it and it really can be very rewarding.
Sadly it can also be rather frustrating if you do make the effort to get up...
Old Australian Farm Machinery
14 photos
Seen in Australia but not necessarily Aussie Made There is an amazing amount of old machinery sitting around the countryside in Australia. Collectors and museums are gradually pulling it out of the...
Town/Place Welcome Signs - Australia
16 photos
Old Australian Court Houses & Police Stations
8 photos
Old Australian Theatres & Cinemas
4 photos
Old Australian Hotels & Pubs
87 photos
Old Australian Bank Buildings
17 photos
Old Australian Town Halls
5 photos
Old Australian Railway Stations
36 photos
Old Australian Buildings
221 photos
Australian Heritage buildings, country towns, and just plain old Australian buildings
Australian Post offices
40 photos
Australian Post offices old & New
Australian Agricultural Museums
8 photos
There are an amazing number of agricultural museum in Australian country towns.
Australian Churches
33 photos
Australian Church, old, used, sadly unused, and some repurposed .
Australian Natives
18 photos
Unique Australian flowers, bushes and trees.
Australian Letterboxes - The Unusual & Quirky
125 photos
People in Australia have a lot of fun creating unusual letterboxes, here is just a small, but growing, sample.
Australian Lighthouses
114 photos
Australian Night Photography
102 photos
Long Exposure photos - street scenes, playing with light, and the night sky. See also 'Night Photography around the world' and 'Playing with light'
Australian Sunsets
164 photos
See also 'Sunsets Around The World'
Australian Botanical Gardens
43 photos
Australian Rivers
13 photos
Australia Seascapes
77 photos
Sea also 'Seascapes around the world'
Australian Silo-Art
107 photos
Silos are huge, so is the art that now covers a growing number of them. Photos hardly do them justice. I have enormous admiration for these artists who work from their original drawings and replicate...
Australian Water Tower & Water Tank Art
49 photos
While Silo-Art gets the headlines, there are a growing number of Water Towers and Tanks that are being refreshed with incredible works of art too.
NSW Road Trip 2022 (in Maxi)
423 photos
Heading north out of Victoria we turned off the main rd at Jugiong and stayed inland until Newcastle. Drove up to Port Macquarie, stayed for a week and then headed west to Lightning Ridge, Bourke and...
Australian Beach Photography
108 photos
Beaches around Australia
Australian Waterfalls
255 photos
The beauty of cascading water
Australian Murals and Wall Art
274 photos
Art on walls, fences,and buildings, is increasing exponentially across Australia.
Gradually, I hope to photograph more of this amazing, and giant, art work, and
add it to this album.
See also my...
Australiana
33 photos
Quirky, unusual, but distinctly Australian.
After the sun sets
6 photos
Blue hour (gloaming)
Free RV Camping in Australia
6 photos
Free, or 'by donation', RV camping places discovered on our road trip around Australia since late 2021.
Panoramas - Qld, WA, Tas, SA
77 photos
Panoramas of Victoria
79 photos
Most of these are multiple shots knitted together and edited in Lightroom and photoshop
Wood Sculptures - Australia
28 photos
Carved wooden sculptures around Australia.
Metal Art
29 photos
Collages
143 photos
Multiple photo collages produced using Lightroom Print mode.
Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement
48 photos
An amazing recreation of an old Murray River settlement at Swan Hill in northern Victoria
Chambers of the Black Hand Lightning Ridge NSW
15 photos
The Chambers of the Black Hand Gallery is at the Black Hand Opal Mine in Lightning Ridge NSW
Ron Canlin started the Carvings in 1996 and has only just retired (sort of) The Chambers of the Black...
Panoramas NSW
132 photos
Extra wide landscape photos, created by stitching multiple photos together.
I do not use the 'Auto panorama' on my Sony a7ll .
Sony FE 12-24 F2.8 GM
53 photos
Photos taken with my Sony ultra wide angle lens.
Western Victoria Road Trip.
249 photos
Silos, wall art, museums and country towns of central west Victoria.
SteamRail Weekend March 2022
6 photos
'Maxi' out and about
37 photos
Photos of our motorhome on location around Australia.
Purchased Nov 2021 to escape without booking following so many cancelled hotel/holiday bookings through 2020/21.
Victoria Inland
19 photos
Around Victorian Countryside
Otways Road Trip - Feb 2022
132 photos
This was our second short road trip in our mobile home and we headed west to the Otway Ranges National Park. We visited 5 Otways waterfalls and many small country communities along the way.
It is...
Victoria Road Trip - Nov 21
78 photos
Mansfield-Mt Buller-2021
21 photos
Fountains
4 photos
Fountains around the world
New Zealand-2013
6 photos
Flight over Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
10 photos
New Zealand's oldest national park and World Heritage Site. Within the National Park are three mountains which make up the largest active volcano in New Zealand.
Mt. Ruapehu is the highest at 2,797...
Breisach & Black Forest
25 photos
A very picturesque part of Germany
Strasbourg, France
20 photos
Photos from our Rhine Cruise in 2017
Heidelberg, Germany
18 photos
Continuing our journey along the Rhine, we took a coach journey to Heidelberg and visited the castle and old town.
Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
13 photos
Mainly Siegfried's Mechanical Music Museum
Rhine Gorge Castles
17 photos
The Rhine Gorge, otherwise known as the Middle Rhine, runs between Koblenz and Rüdesheim am Rhein. The river narrows and once had rapids that often made travel difficult, depending on the height of...
Koblenz, Germany
17 photos
From our visit in 2017, We stopped for a few hours while on our cruise along the Rhine to Basel
Rhododendron and Azaleas
28 photos
Azaleas are in the rhododendron family 'Ericaceae' so I have put them together.
Trees
68 photos
Trees from anywhere on this wonderful planet.
Dahlia flowers
17 photos
Begonias
17 photos
Mostly from Ballarat Begonia Festival 2021
Princes Pier Melbourne
16 photos
Prices pier was one of two piers serving Melbourne's huge shipping trade 100 years ago. Constructed between 1912 and 1915 by the Melbourne Harbour Trust and was 580 metre long. The pier was linked by...
Riding the Indian Pacific - Perth to Sydney
43 photos
Some photos of our journey on this iconic train.
Grampians, Victoria
51 photos
Scenery & Waterfalls
Lest We Forget
36 photos
War memorials around Australia. Installations that remember those who have served our nation in times of conflict..
Castles around the world
48 photos
Locomotion Railway Museum, Shildon, UK
13 photos
Photos taken in June 2019
Braidwood, NSW
12 photos
Modern Buildings & Architecture
27 photos
Modern (1960s+) architecture from around the world..
Railways of Europe
9 photos
Railways in India
8 photos
A few shots from a day in Mumbai, India
Mt Rigi, Switzerland
15 photos
Dandenong Ranges Storm Damage - June 2021
11 photos
Ballarat Begonia Festival 2021
23 photos
Ballarat, Victoria
37 photos
Ballarat, became world famous for the discovery of Gold in 1851. It was one of the first places gold was discovered in Australia.
Ballarat was considered the world's richest alluvial goldfield...
Flora general - See also my galleries of specific...
226 photos
A wonderful variety of colour and shape, created by God for us to enjoy, if only we take the time to stop and look.
Great Ocean Road, Victoria
196 photos
Point Lonsdale to the SA Border at Nelson.
Queenscliff, Victoria
14 photos
Seen Better Days - Old, Rusty, and Crusty
108 photos
Old relics, buildings, anything rusty, etc, etc.
Settle - Carlisle Line and Ribblehead
31 photos
The historic Settle - Carlisle railway Line, and the engineering masterpiece that is the Ribblehead Viaduct, the biggest, just one of many on the Line through the North Yorkshire Dales.
Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden - Rhododendron...
9 photos
Tugs and Pilot Boats
25 photos, 1 video
Tugs and pilot boats from around the world
Ferry Boats
23 photos
Ferry Boats around the world
Navy Vessels
11 photos
Navy Vessels around the world
Large Cargo Vessels
43 photos
Large Cargo Vessels seen around the world
Cruise Ships
15 photos
Cruise Ships from around the world
Beaufort, Victoria
12 photos
Beaufort is a small town in Central Victoria
Picola, Victoria
10 photos
Old buildings and Silo-Art
Bellingen, NSW, Australia
10 photos
A town on the Waterfall Way, 15 km inland from the NSW mid north coast.
NZ Waterfalls
12 photos
Batemans Bay 2017
6 photos
Part of a holiday on the NSW south coast.
insects
5 photos
Happy Telegraph Tuesday
50 photos
Uploaded for the group Happy Telegraph Tuesday
Forster-Tuncurry, & Wallis Lake, NSW
18 photos
Tamworth and Armidale, NSW
22 photos
Port Macquarie-2020
48 photos
June 2020 - celebrating breaking out of lockdown with a trip to NSW.
Relieved we can travel, as we planed this trip 6 months ago.
Stitched Images
55 photos
Multiple photos stitched together vertically or horizontally in Lightroom 8
Exercising/exploring in the local neibourhood-#5
10 photos
Excercising during Covid 19 'lockdown' - Yes, we are allowed out for 'exercise'
San Remo, Victoria 2020
13 photos
A week away in San Remo, Victoria
Sunrise Around the world
34 photos
I'm not keen to get up early in the morning these days, but now and then I manage it and it really can be very rewarding.
Sadly it can also be rather frustrating if you do make the effort to get up...
Sunset Around The World
62 photos
See also 'Australian Sunsets' - The beauty is never ending, as every sunset is different, not just from day to day, but often from minute to minute.
Trains & Boats along the rhine River
9 photos
Photos from my 2017 Rhine Cruise.
City of York, England
32 photos
Our last stop before heading back to Australia.
A Beautiful City with many old buildings and the magnificent 'York Minster'.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
27 photos
Inverness and Loch Ness
41 photos
After a bus trip from Portree we had time to wander around Klye before catching the train to Inverness where we spent two nights and did a boat/coach trip on Loch Ness before wandering around...
Isle Of Skye, Scotland
40 photos
We went 'over the sea to Skye', literally, because now there is a bridge to Sky.
We did a fantastic day tour with 'SkyeBus Tours' (thoughroly recomend them).
Only putting a few shots up here, so head...
Eilean Donan Castle
16 photos
Just a few shots from Dornie. To see more go to www.peterstokesphotography.com/Scotland-2019/Eilean-Donan...
The Jacobite Steam Train
32 photos
Running from Fort William to Mallaig, we travel through the beautiful western Highlands of Scotland to Mallaig.
Australian Railways
165 photos, 3 videos
See seperate Albums for Puffing Billy Railway photos and overseas railway photos
Australian Forests
42 photos
Animal photos taken in Australia
109 photos, 1 video
Just animal.
Australian Flying Foxes
4 photos
The grey-headed flying fox is a megabat native to Australia. They live in Eastern Australia.
They tend to gather in large 'camps', and fly off to forage for food at dusk returning at dawn.
Harbours, jetties, wharfs & Piers
70 photos
anything used to tie a ship or boat to.
Australian Pelicans
60 photos
The jumbo jets of the bird world - without all the noise!
God's amazing creativity is clearly seen when these giant birds lift off and glide through the air.
Melbourne
40 photos
Day & Night in and around Melbourne and it's suburbs
Lisbon, Portugal. 2019
27 photos
Casablanca, Morocco 2019
15 photos
Our penultmate stop after 38 days and 20 stops, sailing from Singapore to London
Gibraltar 2019
32 photos
Almost England, but not quite, although many say Gibraltar is more English than England today, and I tend to agree with them.
Barcelona, Spain 2019
85 photos
Our next stop en route to London.
Only 3 stops to go.
Rome 2019
32 photos
Our next stop on our cruise to London.
A day in Rome is not long enough, but we got an overview by coach and then wandered the theoretical 'centre' where many of the old buildings/ruins are to be...
Naples & the ruins of Pompeii - 2019
23 photos
Stop 19 on our cruise from Singapore to London.
It was a very wet day.
We visited the ruins of Pompeii, which was destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79BC.
We then wandered around thhe city...
Messina and Mount Etna 2019
29 photos
This was a journey to a Vulcano, a still active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy,
Fort William
20 photos
Leaving Glasgow we traveled by train to Fort William where we also caught the Jacobite train to Mallaig & rt.
Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk, Scotland
24 photos
This rotating boat lift connects the 'Forth and Clyde Canal' with the Union Canal. It raises (and lowers) boats by 24 metres (79 ft), yet it only take the power of eight electric kettles to do so.
Glasgow, Scotland
22 photos
Lake District, England
48 photos
Part of our 2019 tour of the UK and Scotland.
Bay of Biscay to the River Thames
23 photos
Our final two days and nights at sea.
Malta 2019
64 photos
Malta was our 17th stop on our cruise to London.
Although we didn't see a great deal of the Island, it was one of our fevourite stops.
Port Piraeus & Athens 2019, Greece
34 photos
Another day, another Port, this time Port Piraeus, gateway to Athens, Greece.
Ferry traffic here is amazing, but with 270 inhabited islands to service, that is not surprising.
Santorini, Greece 2019
38 photos
Cruise 2019
Ashdod & Jerusalem 2019
35 photos
Ashdod, our first port after entering the Mediterranean, and where we boarded our coach for a day in Jerusalem
Suez Canal 2019
48 photos
Our journey through the Suez Canal in May 2019
Jordan & The Lost City Of Petra 2019
18 photos
Another stop on our cruise to London. We berthed at the port of Aqaba and took a coach to Petra, 2 hours north.
It was around 40c by the time we reached Petra for the 2 km walk into the lost city
Safaga and the Luxor Temple, Egypt 2019
25 photos
Another day, another stop. This time we are in Egypt to visit Luxor Temple and the Valley of the Kings.
It was hot, very hot (40c), dusty and there were crowds of people. I don't much like either.
Salalah, Oman 2019
31 photos
A stop on our 44 day cruise from Singapore to London. 2019
Mungo National Park World Heritage Area
12 photos
South West New South Wales
Mumbai, India 2019
43 photos
Stop 6 on our cruise to London and our third one day stop in India.
Goa, India 2019
39 photos
Stop 5 on our cruise to London. We only spent a day there but the drive to the Spice farm took us through a number of villages as well as countryside, giving an overview of the area.
Sailing from the Adriatic Sea to the Suez Canal...
17 photos
Via the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal
Cochin, India 2019
30 photos
Stop no. 4 on our cruise from Singapore to London
Langkawi, Malaysia 2019
8 photos
Cruise 2019
Phuket, Thailand 2019
27 photos
Penang, Malaysia 2019
37 photos
First stop on our 2019 cruise, after leaving Singapore
Small Cargo Boats
10 photos
Small Cargo Boats both sea and river
Birds In Flight
41 photos
Singapore 2019
86 photos
We had three days in Singapore before departing on our 44 day Cruise to London - Via the Suez Canal and the Mediteranian with 22 stops on the way.
(See...
Small Pleasure Boats
66 photos
All sorts of small pleasure boats from around the world, both private and tourist. River, lake, and ocean going Vessels
Industrial landscapes
10 photos
Building sites, Docks and industry
Cars and Motorcycles
82 photos
From around the world
Road Passenger Transport (Coaches & Buses)
64 photos
Having been a tour coach driver, I've always had an interest in passenger transport, especially tourist coaches and public buses.
Fishing Boats
26 photos
Fishing boats from around the world
Seascapes Around The World
74 photos
See also 'Seascapes around Australia'
Photos of Ugly....... :-)
19 photos
Ugly, unsightly, but fun. Have a laugh, it drives people crazy.
Spiders
2 photos
City Street Scenes
47 photos
Anywhere in the world
Roses
90 photos
Roses are Red (my love) and Yellow, White, Pink, Blue, Black..... And I love them all.
Tulips
10 photos
Succulents - Cactus and Aloe Flowers
24 photos
Most shots taken at Cactus Country, Strathmerton, VIC
National Rhododendron Gardens, Olinda, Victoria
43 photos
The Cheviot railway tunnel near Yea, Victoria
8 photos
201 mt long, 675,000 hand made bricks made from local clay, and completed in 2 years,
1877 - 1879
FISH & AQUATIC MAMMAL - big and small
4 photos
Cityscapes around the world
19 photos
Landscapes around the world
39 photos
Birds
270 photos
Australia has a huge array of bird life from the tiny Superb Fairy Wren to the very large Emu.
This album also has a few 'non' Australian species.
Dawlish Sea Wall, UK.
9 photos
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway. England
8 photos
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a 15 in gauge light railway on the south coast of England in Kent, It operates a superb fleet of one-third full scale steam and diesel locomotives.
Flying - Photos taken from above
19 photos
From a plane or balloon (I don't have a drone, yet!)
Blue Hour
18 photos
After the sunset.
Crepuscular Rays
Warrnambool by train-2018
14 photos
A weekend trip to Warrnambool on Victoria's South Coast, by V-Line train
Long exposure seascapes
22 photos
Tasmania, Australia
233 photos
Tasmania is across Bass Strait from Victoria on Australia's south coast.
It ia a beautiful island that has not been spoilt by commercia;ism or tourism.
Broken Hill, NSW
9 photos
In and around Broken Hill & Outback NSW
Orchids
27 photos
Panoramas from around the world
106 photos
Only long, mostly stitched, Panorama photos from NZ, UK & Europe at
the moment. Hoping to travel further afield next year!
Trucks, Trams, Light Rail & Funicular Rwy
52 photos
Also see my 'Road Passenger Tranport (Coaches & Buses) album. I also have a 'Cars and Motorcycles' album,
Railways of The UK
72 photos
See separate Railway albums for NRM (Shildon &York), Europe, India, Australia, Puffing Billy (Melb) Tasmania's West Coast Wilderness Railway,
Puffing Billy Railway
29 photos, 4 videos
Situated in the Dandenong Ranges, just to the East of Melbourne.
The Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge heritage railway.
It runs between Belgrave and Gembrook, via Emerald and...
Welsh Narrow Gauge Railways
33 photos
Talyllyn, Ffestiniog, Vale of Rheidol, Welsh Highland, Welsh Highland Heritage, Llanberis Lake, and Snowdon Mountain Railways
Churches around the world
64 photos
Artistic Licence
29 photos
Playing in post processing
England 2017
129 photos
Our Journey from the South East to the South West of England, the Peak District and London.
Amsterdam
59 photos
We spent three days in Amsterdam before taking a Rhine River Cruise to Basel. See other
albums for Keukenhof Gardens, Rhine River Cruise, Lucerne & Paris.
Ships & Boats on the Amstel River Amsterdam
30 photos
Photos from one Sunday afternoon sitting beside the Amstel River in Amsterdam.
Rhine River Cruise - sights along the way
33 photos
Amsterdam to Basel aboard Avalon Tranquillity II See separate Albums for towns along the way - Cologne, Mainz, Heidelberg,
Cologne, Germany
28 photos
Mainz, Germany
25 photos
Reflections
82 photos
Reflections on the water, in a window, or anywhere.
At Home
12 photos
In and around our house.
We are very lucky to live in the Dandenong Ranges where the bird life in our garden is great.
Basel, Switzerland
8 photos
Lucerne, Switzerland - 2017
68 photos
Following our River Cruise (See Rhine Cruise 2017) we spent 3 days in Lucerne. while there, we crossed Lake Lucerne and rode the Rigi Mountain Rack Railway up to the summit of Mt Rigi - in the snow.
Paris 2017
39 photos
2 Days on foot & Metro around Paris
Wales
83 photos
A journey through Wales in 2017
Waterfalls and Cascades in Wales & Scotland
24 photos
Taken during 2017 and 2019 tours
Tasmania's West Coast Wilderness Railway
76 photos
The ABT railway runs from Queenstown to Strahan through 35km of rainforest in south west Tasmania.
It climbs over the mountains in between the two towns using a dual cog, rack and pinion system for...
Night Photography Around the world
67 photos
See also 'Australian Night Photography' --- Long exposure photos
Dragonflies
25 photos
A dragonfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, infraorder Anisoptera.
Stained Glass Windows
39 photos
Windows from Cathedrals, churches, and other buildings
Signs
26 photos
Signs of all sorts, serious and funny
Dandenong Ranges & Yarra Valley. Victoria
54 photos
Gardens and waterfalls in the Dandenongs, east of Melbourne
Water Birds
138 photos
Ducks, Swans, Egrets, Darters, Herons, etc. See also separate pelican, birds in flight, & general birds albums
Playing with Light
15 photos
Lights, fireworks, fire, special effects at night
Landscapes - England, Wales, Scotland
79 photos
Lighthouses and Port control towers
64 photos
Lighthouses are still very important to shipping and also always in very picturesque locations making for great photo opportunities. There are also some fancy Port Control towers around the world...
Bridges - old & new
123 photos
River, railway, & road bridges
Butterflies
42 photos
Delicate, fragile, colourful, what more can one say.
Clouds
63 photos
LOOK UP they are beautiful - most of the time!
Animals
82 photos, 1 video
Animals of all sorts, from travels around the world
Keukenhof Gardens, Amsterdam
21 photos
April 2017
Old Australian Farm Buildings
19 photos
Anything old and Farm related. Houses, Sheds and Barns etc..
Australian Landscapes
286 photos
Displaying God's wonderful creation - See also Australian Panoramas
Old, Non-Australian Buildings & Architecture
159 photos
City, town, and village buildings around the world. New, old but still in use, derelict or historically significant ruins.
(See also 'Old Australian Buildings')
Mist & Rain
29 photos
Black & White
27 photos
The Beauty of Water
120 photos
Sea, River, Lake, no matter the subject matter, they all have a beauty and majesty of their own.
The waves catching the wind, or slowed down in a long exposure, a smooth lake with reflections of...
Surfing on Bells Beach and the Great Ocean Road
15 photos
I don't surf, but it is fun to watch when the crowds are not there.
Public Gardens
96 photos
Formal Gardens in Australia and beyond
Model Railways
11 photos, 3 videos
All gauges
In Explore
89 photos
Videos
1 video
letterboxes_BU
3 photos
Uploaded from Windows "C:\Users\peter\Pictures\JPG-Photos\letterboxes" on YOGA
Murals-Wall & Silo Art - BU
7 photos
Uploaded from Windows "C:\Users\peter\Pictures\JPG-Photos\Murals-Wall & Silo Art" on YOGA
Murals & Wall Art-BU
7 photos