A view of the Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm from a back road. It is part of the Portland Wind Energy Project which covers four sites in the Portland area – Yambuk, Cape Bridgewater, Cape Sir William Grant and Cape Nelson. According to the official site, the 58MW wind farm comprises 29, 2MW wind generators which produce enough electricity to abate an estimated 237,000 tonnes of greenhouse  gases each year.

Recently I’ve added a button to the site where you can vote for me in the 2011 Photoblog Awards. If you belong to CoolPhotoBlogs, please consider voting. I’m going to try really hard to post about two photos a week consistently this year. Two good photos a week is going to be difficult; consider this gem from Ansel Adams – ”Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop”.

The Obelisk in Robe, South Australia, is quite a tall structure – some 12m high, and therefore can be seen some distance away. Built in 1852, it was used to navigate the entrance of Guichen Bay. Back in those days Robe was quite an important port. For example, in the Victorian gold rush era of around 1857, over 16,000 Chinese people landed here to start their 320km walk to Ballarat and Bengido (the gold towns). This was because Victoria had introduced a landing tax of £10 per person (more than the cost of their voyage) to reduce the number of Chinese immigrant. Two more images are on Flickr – here and here, as well as some taken with Hipstamatic.

The Cape Bridgewater Lightkeepers’ Residence, now a five star bed and breakfast, as seen from the carpark. We didn’t stay there, but it looked like a good place to hide from the outside world.

Early morning at Port Fairy Lighthouse.

My personal favourite photo of the entire trip – mainly because it was so difficult to get (freezing cold!), and I rarely have the opportunity to take dawn photos.

Brighton Jetty at dusk.

Another abstract of the sails at Brighton Jetty.

Viewing platform for a fantastic view of the jetty. Such a pity I didn’t take my strobe along to light up the seating area.

ION Singapore. Don’t know whether it’s ION or Ion. Went into the IWC shop there and found a watch I really liked, then had the nerve to ask the price – ”US$120,000, Sir.”

”Err, maybe next time!”

Apartments in Singapore. Seen near Chinatown.

Taken at Chinatown, Singapore.

The ”PopArt” feature of the E-PL1 makes the photos unbearably dark and adds a lot of unsightly  colour noise to the photos. Currently I have to use jpeg, as the default software is not Mac compatible, and Aperture/Photoshop does not support RAW for this camera yet.