Weekly Photo Challenge – Wanderlust

This week’s WPC theme is Wanderlust, seems so fitting this last few weeks. Definition – a strong desire to travel. In the last month or so I have been doing quite a bit of travel. We drove from Melbourne up to Broken Hill and Silverton and back through Swan Hill……..magically Outback Australia, nothing like it.…

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Impressions of the Australian Outback

As I am sure you all know by now all about my Outback Adventure, I have finally posted all the journal notes, finished editing the photos, but I wanted to take it a step further; I am a digital artist after all. So I created several artworks, which are actually for sale. Contact me for…

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52 WEEKS PHOTO CHALLENGE:WEEK 31 – EMPTY SPACE

After a bit of a break we are back with the 52 Week Challenge by The Girl Who Dreams Awake, this week negative space. I have three images all so stark and so very different, but all using negative space to highlight and embrace the single object. Sometimes it’s good to have a break, life…

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Winter and Water

So Cee’s Fun Foto theme this week is Winter or Water.…..water I have plenty of, but I had to hunt down the few Winter photos (well that look like Winter). We don’t get much snow in these parts, just grey skies and drizzle mostly…….but last year we went to the snow regions of Victoria and…

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Meet Grant Alexander McDougall

I normally don’t do street photography, I rarely strike up conversations with complete strangers on the street either, but a recent trip into Fitzroy had me cross paths with Grant, a very cool dude with whom I chatted with for a while, introduced myself, asked if I could take his photo, I gave him my…

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Share Your World, 26th April, 2017

Wanting something to quench your thirst, what would you drink? Water, soft drink….it depends on how thirsty, how hot I am etc. My most go to drink is actually a coffee, but of late I will sometimes be found with a Pimms, Lemonade and Ginger Ale……I know, so old-fashioned aren’t I? Actually I was introduced to…

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Tuesday’s Textures…

After my Outback Adventure this is the first piece of art I created…..more abstract than my usual art. I have recently discovered an artist Marcela Bolivar, wonderful stuff go check her out. But I did manage to download some of her creative backgrounds from her Deviantart page, which I have been using. The tree image is…

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Monday’s Musings…

I am writing this from our hotel in Inverloch, grabbing a quick rest after a very long day. We were up at 5am to shoot sunrise back at Warratah Bay….paradise. We acually visited this spot 3 times in 4 days. We have been visting this little stretch of coastline for three days and still two…

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Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge – Something starting with O or P

I have not posted in the challenge for awhile……but back with this week’s fun letters, for Cee’s B&W Photography Challenge. I didn’t seem to have anything with letter ‘O’ from our recent trip, but how about a Paddle Steamer (PS GEM) and some large Paintings of People? So that is it for today, short and…

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Our Outback Adventure, Day 8

Swan Hill – Melbourne 337 kms 3.5 hours Our last day, so we treated ourselves to a small sleep in and rose late, visited the Pioneer Settlement again to see what was missed the day before. We ran into many of our friends who had not managed to visit the settlement, day before. We had…

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