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This year's Christmas Spectacular was the Grinch! It was a bit lower budget than previous years but it went down really well and was a whole lot of fun. The festival was great too with free rides for everyone. The weather was a bit of a scorcher but the umbrella's out on the grass really helped. Val's birthday celebration at the Outback Steakhouse was fun too. Everyone had a great afternoon and evening. The christmas season is a great season.

A few photo's here, more after the jump and even more in the gallery.

To be honest I'd never really been to St Mary's Cathedral before. Sure I've passed by times but I've never really taken notice of it or thought of going inside to have a peek. Well Isaac and I went down one Sunday awhile ago to check it out and take some photos.

 As you may expect the interior is quite fantastic. It's probably not much compared to the cathedral's in and around europe but the stained glass, high ceiling and stone arches are still amazing. During our time there people passed in and out constantly. Some came to pray and meditate while others came for photographs or just to have a look/browse around.

We managed to grab a few good photos. The low-light conditions were difficult to work in but there was sufficient light for some nice ambient shots. The ornaments and architecture are very detailed pieces of work and the dim lighting gives the whole interior an almost surreal kind of effect. Being situated in the middle of the city it feels like you step into an entirely new world. Unfortunately the crypt is closed on weekends and we were not able to check it out.

Head over to the gallery to check out more pics!

     

Seriously a massive thanks to everyone who made my birthday this year a special and memorable one! It was my first birthday at Westpac bank which was really quite fun. They had a cake and everything and it was great! Of course mum baked me a cake too which was no doubt the best. She baked what we like to call 'Uncle Victor's' cake, named after the uncle who invented the recipe of course. It's a cake that looks ugly but tastes amazing.

Well it's been awhile since I updated this site. I had a few problems with JoomGallery in that I could not delete any photos after uploading! Turns out when JoomGallery uploads files it sets strange permissions effectively disallowing anyone to alter the files except the host! Well I've been testing out Expose gallery and I have to say the flash interface is quite nice. I'll have to creatively break down the galleries into sub-headings as the browser only allows a linear scroll showing a single line of thumbnails. But at least I can manage the photo's as I want.

There are quite a few updates I want to put on the site so keep checking back! I'll be re-uploading all my galleries over time which for many means I may have to re-edit them as well. Hopefully Expose will last me awhile and I won't have to be switching gallery plugin's any time soon.

I will have a ton of updates real soon so please keep checking back! Check out the new gallery in the meantime. Remember you can email me at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it