David Burnett

David Burnett

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Traveller and homebody from Melbourne/Naarm. All photos my own.

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This view from 2018 looks north from Mud-dadjug – Mt Abrupt towards Mirranatwa, currently under emergency evacuation due to #Bushfire. 😢 I spent my 20s getting to know every crevice of these ranges - a "Temperate Kakadu", and centre of civilisation for 10s of 1000s of years. #Grampians #Gariwerd

I've never seen anything like the sumptuous inlay in the famous Peacock courtyard at the City Palace in #Udaipur This is one of the best palace–museum experiences in India. #Travel #India #Photography

I just read a novel - The Bridge - that went like this [heartbreaking tragedy] oooh, I know that cafe! [tragedy, guilt. various funerals] I think I went to that park one time #TheBridge #WestGateBridge #Naarm #UnionProud

The #Ushuaia maritime & Antarctic museum is located in the old pentagonal prison, along with an art gallery. Several of the wings are just as the last prisoners left them. Who knew there is a world body for prison museums? #Travel #Photography #Incarceration

Sitting in the sun sipping champers, this highland squall sent us scurrying inside to coze by an open fire instead. I haven't spent nearly enough of my days in the #mountains. #Taungurung country / #Mansfield #travel #photography #rain #regret

As an aussie, leaving the country kinda requires flying, but I make it a rule to do all other #travel by land and sea. The world is littered with wonderful #train stations! Harried and just-on-time for the train to NYC, I was gobsmacked by #WashingtonDC Union Station

Back in the olden times when I had to be in an office in Docklands 5 days a week lol it was a great joy to have the odd few days living on the coast and commuting to the city each day by ferry across Port Phillip Bay, every time different from the last. #Melbourne #naarm #water #sky #photography

Back when I used to play in a band there were always lyrics I just couldn't remember on the night, no matter how familiar. Here I am good to go: ice water, beer and cheat-sheet on the back of my hand. Let's #rock 🤘 #photography #RockAndRoll

Short-term life planning has now hit January 2025 Soon we will gather in the dark at midnight to watch the launching of the customary ordinance, as is our way #NewYear #summer #iphonephotography #photography

Two-painting Tuesday! (Actually three) The first is perhaps my favorite #Monet, from the National Gallery in Washington DC, of his wife and child The second (two) are studies for the same, that I stumbled across in the Musee d’Orsay. I always love seeing these artist’s sketches! #art #painting

It took me a while not to feel deeply uncomfortable looking at the grotesqueries of Tucker and just mid-century Modernism generally really - so much trauma. My first serious girlfriend - an artist - showed me the beauty of trauma in #art and particularly in Tucker #AGNSW

Wandering around the Jantar Mantar in #Jaipur is a genuine Alice-in-Wonderland experience, in that it sits at the border between childhood play and psychedelic uneasiness. Are these giants' toys, or have you shrunk down to your playroom floor? And why is everything twiiiiiisted? #travel #India