Share Your World – Jan 30th 2017

What is the most incredible natural venue that you’ve ever seen in person? Are you kidding? Oh My where to start, sun rises over Uluru and Kata Juta, sun rising over The Remarkables (NZ) with fresh snow, Milford Sound (NZ), helicopter flight over Kings Canyon (NT) New Zealand (take your pick too many spot to…

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Tuesday’s Textures…

The Month 5 challenge for my Kaizen Group was Juxtaposition jux·ta·po·si·tion [juhk-st uh-p uh– zish– uhn] NOUN 1. an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. 2. the state of being close together or side by side. I always thought it meant putting two things together that…

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Pomegranates…

When was the last time you looked at a Pomegranate? Or ate one? Me………..I honestly cannot remember the last time I had one, but they bring back fond memories of days in the sun in the Mediterranean. I actually cannot remember where, possibly Greece, I have the fondest memories of Greece, or it could have…

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Another 52 Week Challenge – Week

This week’s challenge by the girl that dreams awake is Texture, as a digital artist, texture is something I love, rough, smooth, soft, hard, cold, warm, natural or man-made, I love them all. I hope you all have an amazing week………. ~Julz

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Monday’s Musings…

We had a four day weekend starting with Australia Day on Thursday…….we celebrated by getting up at 3:30am to shoot sunrise at Flinders (an hour away), sunrise was sadly a no go, but I did get a few lovely photos, pre dawn. We walked along the beach, and took some photos and just existed, something…

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Water Lilly…

I woke on Saturday morning to a wonderful surprise in the front pond………..my water Lilly is in flower………just one little one, but oh it is glorious! Hopefully I will get a few more before the season is over. ~ Julz

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Repurpose

For this week’s WPC the theme is re-purpose, and I suppose as a Still Life photography (amongst numerous other things) I re-purpose a LOT. Jam and pickle jars, old cooking pans and utensils, old crates, vases, tea cups and saucers people throw away; I spend hours at thrift stores re-purposing things all the time. As…

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Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge -Construction

Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge this week is on construction……personally I’m not big on standard type construction, either road or buildings, so I thought I would do some else……the stone stacks or Cairns are cool and this was quite the construction site, on Victorian Great Ocean Road, there are 100’s  if not 1000’s of them. The…

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Brooke Shaden 20 Day Portfolio Challenge….Week 3

So continuing on from Week 2 in Brooke Shaden’s 20 Day Portfolio challenge. Day # 11 Recreating an Image, Wow this is some hard soul searching stuff……..I have been going through my Flickr account for the last few years and yikes, some pretty awful stuff. However it does show just HOW MUCH I have grown artistically. The Wolf…

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Vanguard Alta Pro Tripod – Review

Another item on my christmas list was a new tripod my old Velbon was having issues, we still have the Manfrotto, but it is also having wonky leg issues and it is way too heavy. So a friend showed me a link for the new Vanguard Alta Pro 263AB Tripod with SBH100 Ballhead (V230269) [this is…

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