A gallery of photos which were shot at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The memorial is a bear to shoot inside with very low light conditions and (obviously) an inability to use tripods, so I don't have vast numbers of images from in there.

The memorial was originally planned after World War I, but in a somewhat cruel twist of timing it was opened on Armistice Day (11 November) 1941, when the (second) war was at a rather low ebb for the Allies.

Obviously at that time the Memorial's focus was on World War I since WW II had yet to pass into history and was still "Current Affairs". One of the ways that it sought to convey what the experience was like (in the pre-multi-media extravaganza days) was via the use of dioramas; models of soldiers and equipment in settings depicting a moment of life in that place, at that time. The Memorial has some incredibly detailed ones, some of which I obtained half way decent shots of during my March 2010 visit despite hand held exposure times of 1/20th of a second or slower (despite an ISO into 4 digits and a wide open aperture). If you have any doubts about whether IS (VR for you Nikon types) can be useful, this may dispel them.

For previous visitors I'm putting the newest shots at the top of the gallery. After that I generally arrange them in some sort of related order. (Or will, when I get around to organising my galleries better.)