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1984
The spectacular Roman Pont du Gard in southern France, with braver people than me standing on the top.
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GaudÃ's (unfinished) basilica "La Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona. Incredibly ornate and "organic".
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Monaco - Monte Carlo.
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A justly famed beauty spot - the "Ring of Kerry" off the south coast of Ireland.
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Tintern Abbey in England.
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Mad King Ludwig's castle "Neuschwanstein" in Bavaria - inspiration for Disney's Fantasyland.
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The ruins of the Coliseum in Rome.
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Cast of the body of a man buried by the eruption of Vesuvius at Pompeii.
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On the Jungfrau, more than 4000m above sea level, where I had my first taste of skiing - in the middle of summer.
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The interior of my van from the side door, showing the shower, oven, stove and fridge.
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Another fjord in Norway and my trusty campervan.
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A fjord in Norway.
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The ancient Forum in Rome.
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Stonehenge. In those days you could get closer to it than is now allowed.
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A spectacular view of Firenze.
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My brother Ian with Su Shepherd at Hayward's Heath.
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1981
In a sailor suit and clown makeup, as worn for the "The Jack and Jill Story", a play for which I provided incidental music.
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The cruise ship - the "Fairstar".
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Apia, Samoa - old open-sided parliament building, recently replaced with a modern building.
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More coral in an aquarium. We saw real coral like this snorkelling on the barrier reef in 1996, but I couldn't photograph it.
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Living coral in an aquarium in Noumea. It's slightly blurred because it was a long handheld exposure.
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A magic moment - sailing into Sydney harbour at sunrise at the end of a 17-day cruise around the South Pacific.
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Gippsland - Omega coil building
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Flying around the 432m Omega VLF navigation beacon in a helicopter to calibrate it.
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My new motorbike, complete with "L" plates. I hurt myself only once, when a pedestrian ran into me and knocked me over as I waited, stationary, at a level crossing.
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A rock formation known as "London Bridge" along the Great Ocean Road near Port Campbell on the south coast of Victoria.
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Again in 1999, some time after part of it collapsed, stranding some tourists who had to be rescued by helicopter.
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Taken by my friend Peter Kennedy at a dinner party at which I provided some incidental music.
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A pelican at Healesville Sanctuary, east of Melbourne.
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1975
Monash University from Howitt Hall, where I lived for three years. The engineering buildings are at the far right. Huge ants with a mean bite used to fly in our windows from the reserve at the lower left.
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The twin-screen drive-in I could see from my room at Howitt Hall. If only we could have worked out a way to hear the sound...
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A picnic at Hanging Rock, north of Melbourne.
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My uncle riding a contraption we christened the "Road Ruiner". I made it from a motorised lawn mower, wood, pram wheels and the steering wheel he donated from an old "Essex" car.
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An unusual sign near Bairnsdale, on the coastal road from Melbourne to Sydney.
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Mum holding three huge hailstones that fell that year, doing considerable damage to cars.
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1972
A "street" market in Bangkok.
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The "Bamboo Curtain" (the border between Hong Kong and mainland China).
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A similar picture taken 12 years later - notice the difference!
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Archive
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