Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Hot or Cold

This week’s CFFC is Hot or Cold, I took a bit of a trip down memory lane, some of these shots were from New Zealand; where we saw snow and steaming thermal pools. But also days at the beach, days in the sun or snow and of course hot flaming steel wool. Oh I have…

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Autumn Outings – Tieve Tara Gardens, Mount Macedon

On a lovely sunny Autumn weekend, possibly the last for awhile,  we decided to head to up Mount Macedon. We had tried to visit here on our Outback Adventure, but random events meant driving on through, with a promise to return soon. The Gardens “Tieve Tara”, nestled in the Macedon Ranges truly is a jewel…

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52 Week Challenge – Week 36

This week’s challenge is the simple things, according to the Girl who Dreams Awake, it is the most simple things which are often the most beautiful and she is right. Fresh cake and berries, simple dried flowers and wildflowers and animals, family and pets. So often it is too easy to take these things for…

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Share Your World – 30th May, 2017

What is the most famous landmark or building you have ever seen? Tricky…how famous? I’ve been to Ayers Rock (Uluru) twice, I have seen the real Eiffel Tower, Coliseum, Pantheon, Leaning Tower of Pisa, London Bridge and heaps of stuff in UK and Europe (when I was a kid), I have seen Flinders Street Station…

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Tuesday’s Textures – Studies in Light and Form

I have a new gallery exhibit starting this week. If you are in Melbourne feel free to stop by for a look. Scugnizzo Ristorante in Little Bourke St, Melbourne until 9th July. I realise most of you cannot just stop by, so I thought I might show a few of the artwork on display, just…

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Monday’s Musings…

Isn’t funny how things that are planned can change in the blink of an eye, don’t panic nothing bad, just…….annoying. All week I had been looking forward to my two shoots on Saturday and then my Workshop on Sunday. Last week was a bit of a stressful one and I was so looking forward to…

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Date Night…

Well sort of I guess……Moth and I had not been out to the movies in quite some time, sure I saw Beauty and the Beast a month or so ago with Desley, but not with my poor Hubby. We are usually exhausted from our adventures to venture out at night. So last week two new…

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Evanescent

ev·a·nes·cent [evəˈnes(ə)nt] adjective 1. Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. This week’s WPC theme is evanescent.  So many things can be thought of as fleeting; even life if you think about it. But today I am using a seasonal sort of fleeting, the quickly fading colour of Autumn leaves as…

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Gardens

I really like Cee’s challenge this week for CFFC – Gardens, I have just visited a new garden on the weekend, one I have been wanting to visit for some time. The Gardens of Tieve Tara at Mount Macedon. I will only showcase a few for now and leave the rest for a post, once…

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Victorian Lighthouses – Cape Liptrap

In 2015 and 2016 I embarked on a voyage of learning and adventure by following the Victorian Coast looking for both Lighthouses and shipwrecks and have written many a post. We have been from Wonthaggi all the way to the South Australian border (and beyond). Victoria’s coastline is often rugged and exceptionally beautiful, the fertile…

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