Blue Mountains, Australia [Photo Gallery]

The Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia (near Sydney) is a large plateau surrounded by ridges. The reason for the name is due to light being scattered by the terpenoids the eucalyptus trees emit into the atmosphere. A blue haze engulfs the entire area because of it. The eroding sandstone resulted in some rather …

Sydney Opera House [Photo Gallery]

I really liked Sydney. The iconic opera house made it that much better. I never got taking photos of it—I think I took a couple hundred over the time I was there. In the evenings was the “Vivid” show that projected various scenes onto the opera house (and the museum building behind where I took …