I think this was the third year for Enlighten and it has now firmly established itself on the Canberra event's calendar. What was a few buildings lit up by huge projectors has now added all kinds of visual an performance art. This is a giant snake game projected on the side of the National Portrait Gallery. It must have been among the simplest of the exhibits, needing only an iPad and a reasonably good projector .The "anglerfish bicycles", on the other hand, probably took ages to design and construct. - D•RIFTWOOD

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There aren't too many geologic oddities in the National Capital region, so London Bridge seemed worth a look. It's a natural limestone arch created by Burra Creek, which flows underneath and probably most interesting for its very regular shape. This is particularly evident given the chaos around it. It's surrounded by rough, muddy ground full of wombat burrows making it nearly impossible to get close. I should have just waded in for a look... given how wet I was about to get in the gathering storm.

I think this was the third year for Enlighten and it has now firmly established itself on the Canberra event's calendar. What was a few buildings lit up by huge projectors has now added all kinds of visual an performance art. This is a giant snake game projected on the side of the National Portrait Gallery. It must have been among the simplest of the exhibits, needing only an iPad and a reasonably good projector .The "anglerfish bicycles", on the other hand, probably took ages to design and construct.

Of course, Enlighten still features the building of the Parliamentary Triangle lit up by powerful projectors. This is Old Parliament House, lit up by one of the technicolor projections.

Today was Canberra Day; a time to celebrate Australia's constructed capital. It was celebrated with an odd assortment of events throughout the parliamentary triangle area. The day was capped off with a fireworks show. Like Canberra, the show took longer than anyone expected to get going, but after what felt like 100 years the show was pretty good.

Australia is crazy for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the redefinition of the seasons. Sure, it's the underside of the Earth so the seasons are opposite, right? Wrong! Australia was my first experience with seasons that start on the first of the month, rather than the equinox or solstice. Interestingly their isn't much formal agreement on the matter anywhere in the world. Presumably the meteorologists and astronomers couldn't believe the stupidity of each others' point of view and we've agreed to disagree ever since!

Canberra had a second weekend of fireworks, with the annual SkyFire event happening just 5 days after Canberra Day this year. I decided to get a few shots of these fireworks from the same vantage point as Monday night. The fireworks were great, but as we waited for nightfall the sky put on some natural fire of its own.

I think this was the third year for Enlighten and it has now firmly established itself on the Canberra event's calendar. What was a few buildings lit up by huge projectors has now added all kinds of visual an performance art. This is a giant snake game projected on the side of the National Portrait Gallery. It must have been among the simplest of the exhibits, needing only an iPad and a reasonably good projector .The "anglerfish bicycles", on the other hand, probably took ages to design and construct.

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