Thanks for the feedback!

Following a suggestion from my friend Becs in Lismore who is also a keen photographer, I made a new version of the Newcastle headland photo in Lightroom3, using a combination of sharp (the man and the sculpture) and misty (the sea and the railings) - and this is EXACTLY the effect I was looking for. Well done, Becs! Thanks so much for your insight - a collaboration always makes more than the sum of its parts!

Sculpture By the Sea - Newcastle NSW

Early morning walk around the headland of Newcastle Beach. Two versions... a misty one and a sharp one - which do you think works best?

Beach Ballet

Hunter River, Newcastle

A view of the mouth of the Hunter River, from the cycle-way at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, NSW.

Blue Collar Washing Day

Cycling down the back-streets of inner-city Newcastle, we couldn't resist this peek into classic Novocastrian domestic life: the Hills Hoist with a blooming crop of fereshly laundered blue work-shirts.

Palm Sunday

A palm tree on the banks of the Hunter River, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.