This is the final shot from Chamonix – this is from Le Tour right at the top of the Valley. It’s a nice spot – there’s a nice long Blue down through the trees to Valorcine and lots of nice Reds. My favourite has to be a nice long run off-piste through the powder, finishing back on a Mogul field.

Taken from the top of the cable car at Brevent (Alt. 2525m) around 1500m above Chamonix below. I love this place – in all the years our family has been coming here, I’ve never tired of it. This peak (Brevent) is usually fairly peaceful as there are only two black runs back down to Plan Praz (525m below), so it doesn’t have the same amount of traffic as the lower slopes.

We hope to get back to Chamonix next year – although with the impending doom, I mean wedding (sorry Síofra!!!), it may not happen.

A little shed in the Flegere ski area in Chamonix, France. Had a great week, but didn’t have the camera out as often as I would have liked. The few times I did take it out, I massively over exposed everything (with exposure comp.). The main problem was that I couldn’t see the back of the camera due to glare from the sun to see if it was over or under exposed. Ah well, the snow was great – you can’t have it all!

Apr 15.

This group were playing in and around Darling Harbour as part of the Hoopla Festival. The shorter of the three was on a set of wheels. They do the best version of “The lion sleeps tonight” I’ve ever heard.

Apr 14.

The entrance Luna Park in Sydney. I had to boost the saturation in this one I’m afraid – the colours were all a little flat. I wish I had a shot of this at night – it looks far more impressive when you can’t see the apartment blocks behind it.

Apr 13.

Having just arrived back in Sydney with another Rugby related hangover (‘Cmon Munster), we were greeted with a rather unusual sight (considering it is in the middle of a city)!

Apr 12.

A quick shot out the side of the van (Nicknamed Rufus Unraintight) captures the Bush in all it’s glory.

Apr 11.

A shot of the inside of the Hot Air Balloon we flew in from one side of Mareeba to the other side. We eventually landed in a Mango farm, on a Mango tree! Great fun. Definitely my favourite way to fly.

Apr 10.

Ellinjaa falls is part of the waterfall circuit outside Milla milla Queensland.

Apr 9.

Judging by most of my photos from Australia so far, you’re probably thinking that we had some terrible weather. Well, we did and we didn’t. With the exception of Noosa, any time we came across rain, we just drove North. I’d say 70% of the trip was sunny! A hell of a lot better than Ireland in any case.

Apr 8.

Our last day onboard the Alexander Stewart Tallship – I must say, even though I had done all of this before (on another boat), I really enjoyed it.

Apr 7.

The obligatory Whitehaven Beach photo… probably the most photographed beach in the world… after Tramore beach that is. 😉