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<headline>Michael’s trying to snap the tower from every suburb</headline>
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<div class="tiled-gallery-caption" itemprop="caption description"> Black Mountain Tower from Banks. Photo: Michael Bennett </div>
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<div class="tiled-gallery-caption" itemprop="caption description"> Black Mountain Tower from Aranda. Photo: Michael Bennett </div>
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<div class="tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <a href="https://citynews.com.au/kenny-2-resized/" border="0" itemprop="url"> <meta itemprop="width" content="300"> <meta itemprop="height" content="225"> <img class="" data-attachment-id="338311" data-orig-file="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized.jpg" data-orig-size="900,675" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"","camera":"TG-6","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1727521342","copyright":"","focal_length":"18","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="kenny-2-resized" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized-600x400.jpg" data-large-file="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized.jpg" src="https://i0.wp.com/citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized.jpg?w=300&h=225&ssl=1" srcset="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized.jpg 900w, https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized-800x600.jpg 800w, https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/kenny-2-resized-600x450.jpg 600w" width="300" height="225" loading="lazy" data-original-width="300" data-original-height="225" itemprop="http://schema.org/image" title="kenny-2-resized" alt="Black Mountain Tower from Kenny. Photo: Michael Bennett" style="width: 300px; height: 225px;" /> </a> </p>
<div class="tiled-gallery-caption" itemprop="caption description"> Black Mountain Tower from Kenny. Photo: Michael Bennett </div>
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<div class="tiled-gallery-caption" itemprop="caption description"> Black Mountain Tower from Yarralumla. Photo: Michael Bennett </div>
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<div class="tiled-gallery-caption" itemprop="caption description"> Black Mountain Tower from Denman Prospect. Photo: Michael Bennett </div>
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<p><b>Michael Bennett reckons he's discovered the focal point and connecting image of the bush capital – Telstra Tower atop Black Mountain. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I slowly figured out that I was seeing [the Telstra Tower] over and over again, especially from Banks,†says Michael. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That amazed me so much that I thought, ‘if I can see it from Banks, I can see it from just about anywhere’, and so I started taking photos of the tower.â€</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael’s curiosity stemmed from a map of Canberra. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite living here since the age of two, he realised there were many suburbs that he just hadn’t seen. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’d lived in a few, done some learning in a few, gone to church services and bible studies, and had friends in several,†he says. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And that's where Michael's Black Mountain project began.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over six months, he has photographed the Telstra Tower from 115 suburbs and has his sights set on four more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think for a lot of us, when we’re coming home from the coast, the tower is how we know we are back home,†says Michael. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“[This project] has definitely made me look at what I’m seeing in a new light,†says Michael. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Everywhere I go, I look for [the tower] and think to myself, I’ve gone there and I’ve taken a photo from there.â€</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming towards the end of this venture, Michael now hopes that his website can serve as a guide around Canberra. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think there are distinctive things around that are worth looking at in Canberra and surrounds,†he says. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the six months Michael has been out and about, he’s spotted no less than four Tardises, almost stepped on an Eastern Brown snake on a hill and has seen countless pieces of "incredible artwork" scattered around the city. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What had initially started as a personal project has taken off online with many Canberrans recommending spots for him to see the tower from. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael is left with Chisholm, Gowrie, Oxley and Greenway to photograph and is now looking to the public for help to capture a shot of the tower. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael’s progress can be followed on his website at 124viewsofblackmountain.wordpress.com.</span></i></p>
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