Based in Canberra, Australia’s national capital, David Bruce is a photographer and writer. He does other things as well, like have a day job as a social researcher and play golf and build decks, but that is not what this website is about.
Suddenly it is mid-2025 again. Time flies. Feel free to check out the Words and the Pictures. For me, it is time to try to remember how to do a travel blog…
Check out the 25th anniversary trip blog here.
The Words is all about writing, and there are a few projects coming to life here.
For some observations on how life works, and how we can take some control and positively shape it, try The Tuesday Thursday Paradox. It’s a series of short pieces I’ve written over the years and am slowly converting to online. About half the chapters are online now, with more to come. Each one is an idea that started as a scratchy “note to self”, but that seemed meaningful and useful enough to me to elaborate on. Together, they seem to make up something like the instructions for a game, but each one stands on its own and is just a 2-5 minute read. I find them useful, and hopefully most people might find something of interest in at least one of them.
The Great Biscotti Standoff is my first full length novel. Technically in the ‘urban fantasy’ genre it’s a bit sci-fi, a bit of an action mystery, and hopefully a little quirky and funny at the same time. If you like authors like Douglas Adams and Jasper Fforde, then I’d like to think you might find this book your type of thing. After years of writing, editing, rewriting and so on, it has finally reached the Beta Reader stage, with a few hard copies (with cover art from my sister Diana) being shown to select audiences for feedback. I’ve started sending it to publishers / agents – but as we all know, that is a drawn out process with no guaranteed outcome or timeline, so watch this space!
You can also jump over to see some of my travel blogs from our major trips since 2008, including the current 25th Anniversary European Sojourn. They read in reverse order now – so unless you want to hear a strange story of how I went from sitting tiredly around the house reminiscing to sitting around the house getting excited simply by visiting a few great places, you might have to work out how to read them in reverse order! The blogs cover places like the UK, Norway, Portugal, Morocco, Italy and France – plus the long hauls there and back from Australia.
David was a regular contributor to The Footy Almanac from 2008-2018, a collection of reviews of every AFL game through the eyes of diverse fans and tragics. You can also search for some of his work on the Almanac website, where he also writes as westcoastdave.
The Pictures is where you can see my art – mostly photography, but a few other pieces as well. I used to be a mostly landscape photographer, but over the years my work has become more impressionistic and flexible.
Here you’ll find my catalogue of landscape, travel and street photography, but I also do art photography (“fine art” if you like it, just “art” if you don’t I guess!). On the tapestries page you’ll find not needlework, but multi-layered almost textural images I enjoy creating. They are each one-off images, and can be created to request in whatever colour palette you might want – perfect for matching a room, or for a unique gift.
I’m a big believer in images being out there and enjoyed or used, and not stuck away in computer archives and storerooms – so if you have any ideas that you’d like to discuss, drop me a line any time! Everything you can see – including anything in the travel blogs – is available both as limited edition prints and digital images (including for commercial use).
You can also follow this link to my other photography website, but with luck and some spare time I’ll move a lot of the images here soon.
The galleries include:
⇒ Australian coastlines and inland areas
⇒ The world
⇒ Vices, Urban Life and Still Life
⇒ Tapestries
There are also pages for the First Impressions exhibition I held when I first moved to Canberra, and of photos taken in and for the Beyond Q bookshop.
Everything in one place 