An unique view of “Sydney Fom High” {D22-19} This photograph illustates “Sydney Heads & Harbour” looking south back to “Bondi Beach”. Note the line that runs from “Ben Buckler”, the northern headland of “Bondi Beach” to “Sydney Heads”. This relates to the sewage outlet @ “Nth Bondi”, commonly known as “The Murk”

This dramatic shot was @ “Maitland”, NSW, in 1955. {D16-19} It depicts the devestration that was inflicted not only on “Maitland” but the entire “Hunter Valley”. The floods took altogether the lives of 25 people. Some 2,000 cattle and many thousands of head of other livestock were drowned.

“Aerial Photography” was a speciality of my father as evident in the gallery below. A “Cessna 172" Skyhawk” was his preferred plane to accomplish these assignments. Many times I partnered dad on such missions. He would have the passanger side window removed before take off & would sit unrestrained in the back whilst I sat, buckeled up, in the front. Under instruction the pilot would bank up sharply with the sun behind him & then virtually free fall towards subject below. So excessive was this angle that occasionally the plane would stall when in this free fall maneuver.