Sydney Opera House, Australia, originally uploaded by blather.
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Looks a lot different up close!

The Sydney Opera House is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on June 28, 2007. Based on the competition winning entry by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the Sydney Opera House is one of the world's most distinctive 20th century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. It is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The building and its surroundings are one of the best known icons of Australia. (wikipedia)

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ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney, Australia,, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

ANZAC War Memorial, Sydney, Australia. Finished in 1934 after designs and art by C. Bruce Dellit and sculptor Rayner Hoff, it commemorates the Australian War dead of World War One.

Many of the original sculptures didn't make it in the memorial, thanks to censure by the Catholic church, and its bishop, Michael Sheehan.

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Emu, originally uploaded by blather. Get the high resolution version »

Largest bird in Australia, growing up to 2m tall! Photographed in captivity at Something Wild Animal Sanctuary, near Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia

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Tasmanian Echidna, originally uploaded by blather.

I kept spotting these little short beaked echidnas while driving in Tasmania, foraging around at the side of the road. I kept stopping to photograph them, but they either balled up like a hedgehog, or the light was bad, or the vanished into the bush. Finally, my efforts paid off...

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Short-tailed shearwaters - muttonbirds - circling the moon, originally uploaded by blather.
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Short-tailed shearwaters or muttonbirds circling the moon before crash-landing at their burrows amongst a little or fairy penguin colony at Bruny Neck on Bruny Island, Tasmania. They fly so low that their wings were brushing the watchers. Then there's a crash when the land in the bushes and you can just about see them vanishing into their burrows....

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My Bloody Valentine: Tasmanian Devils in mating frenzy on Valentines Day, originally uploaded by blather.
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Valentine's Day Massacre: Captive Tasmanian Devils undergoing pre-mating tussles at Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, near Taranna, Tasmania, Australia.

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Note: the lighting is natural.

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Common bottlenose Dolphin, leaping from the bow waves of the Esperanza, off the coast of Tasmania this evening, originally uploaded by blather.
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Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, near Adventure Bay, Tasmania. We had a pod of dolphins playing and leaping at the bow. Magic!

This was photo one of a sequence of four - all taken within 2 seconds!

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Photographed in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. These birds look like a mixture of a heron and one of HR Giger's Alien nightmares. They're ubiquitious in Australian urban spaces, but it takes a tourist to take notice...

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