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Photo copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: 142-8714 It’s really fitting that the base of this Kylie Minogue statue is a star, because the...

Photo copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: 124-5919 Time to put your thinking caps on. Can you work out what on earth I've shot here? A...

Photo copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID:135-2148 My new wedding photography site has been launched. It is here and if you have the time,...

Photo copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: CanberraJuly2011-7997 It might look like a fearsome carnivore, but it’s completely harmless – an...

P hoto copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: 139-7018 These stage lights had me mesmerised at a recent function. They went through various c...

  Image copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: 139-6914 One day Elvis was in the shop window - then he was gone. There's this beautiful w...

Photo copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: 137-5090 A couple of months ago, the Authorbloglets and I were in the bayside suburb of St Kilda...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON. Image ID: 139-6680   She was only three when the Steve Martin version of the film 'Father of the ...

Close-up of a building facade, Whitehorse, Yukon. IMAGE COPYRIGHT: DAVID McMAHON Some of my blog friends would remember this unusual image...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 120-1234) No, I wasn't using a fisheye lens - but by concentrating on this bauble, high...

Mrs McClusky had a pet husky That could play the piano while using a bus key But as we discovered, on grand concert night Its Bach was defin...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: USA2010-30June-9305) As most of you would know, my continual quest is to find fresh, unusua...

I have this friend called Malcolm Who has blind faith in talcum Instead of tucking in to chowder He's out buyin' stocks in powder

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 131-6568) Judging by the state of these window boxes in the bright sunlight, the first-floo...

If all your cables Have "Top Secret" labels Just wait for the geeks To read WikiLeaks

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: Malaysia2010-4249) Sometimes the most minor factors can lead you to an unusual composition....

So complex was the nature of the ecclesiastical riddle That it completely flummoxed old Archbishop Siddle He consulted the scripts and stake...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 132-8790) It was the last day of spring, and the post-sunset sky show was brief but memorab...

A would-be accountant named Jonathan Ryan Failed every exam (but he had fun tryin’) He told us all he was useless at addition But next thing...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: Malaysia2010-3527) This was a tough shot to take, despite the fact that it looks easy when ...

Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after The lawyer’s face revealed a frown As he sued for a broken rafter

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: Sydney2010-7235) It's not your normal view of a retired naval cruiser, but who wants a ...

The master builder taught his daughter How to lay bricks and prepare the mortar Her skills and talents could not be finer Now she's clo...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 7323) OK, so it's not the most common viewpoint. That's because I stood with my bac...

The new lighthouse keeper Is such a heavy sleeper That he sets eight alarms to rise every morning And take on his duties even while he's...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 122-3368) I love a decent abstract as much as the next photographer, so I found this simple...

William Spode bought "Abbey Road" But his credit card began to implode Downloading the Beatles brought him so much delight That he...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: USA2010-8530) It's not often you get to photograph dusk over your own country and then,...

It was terribly sad to see Angus McCracken Get his new grey trousers ripped by the bracken So he patched the holes and sold them for a shill...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID:USA2010-Long Island-8645) We were in a hurry, catching up with close friends for dinner in L...

Great-uncle Bryce was addicted to dice He'd gamble his wages without thinking twice He'd look for a contest when he went for his str...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 124-6129) This might look like a page out of the French Revolution or from Alice's Adve...

Henry Moloney was ever so bony So he ate fried mushrooms laced with baloney He began to work out, now he's sinew and muscles And the wom...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: USA2010-LongIsland-8590) So there we were, the entire Authorblog clan, dining out with clos...

Alas, the frustrations of Scientist Jones His experiments failed to produce any clones But all he could say was "By gosh and by golly...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: USA2010-Long Island-8626) This was shot at a large shopping mall in Long Island in June thi...

Miss Harlequin Bunning Looked ever so stunning In a gown of laced pearls Before emp'rors and earls

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 124-6111) Shooting images during street parades can be really difficult. On the plus side, ...

``Whatever,'' mused the oracle, ``would rhyme with `tumbler'?'' ``I know,'' said his pupil, ``why don't yo...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID:122-4401) With these strong colours, you might think this was shot on Caribbean soil, but it...

If you love to pose With a freshly cut rose Then nuthin' will thrill yer Like a purple grevillea

Photograph copyright: DAVID MCMAHON (Image ID: USA2010-NYC02July-1050) There aren't many shots I take with a focal length of only 18mm...

There once was a bloke called Wilberforce Schneider Who slid down ALL banisters (and was nicknamed The Slider) He did blackflips and star ju...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: USA2010-Long Island-8563) I'd never seen anything so unique - or colourful. On our firs...

Lord Balfour was ill (so terribly stricken) When he ate his enemy's poisoned chicken His lips turned blue, his hips wouldn't move Bu...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 131-6646) It's not a honeycomb. It's not an advertising hoarding. It's not a co...

Because her brain was affected (by weevil) Lady Macbeth never thought she was evil She thought it her duty, as a nobleman's wife To know...

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: 132-8552) Let me start by saying the cutting remark was not made by me. It was made by one ...

Nuthin's colder or windier Than the far north of India Where my first cousin Betty Rode to school on a yeti

Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON (Image ID: Malaysia2010-3816) Perhaps this was once the main entrance to a pagoda. There was no one ar...