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The Changing Seasons – August

Regular readers will know that in August, my true love and I went on holiday – a rather long road trip to visit my mother who lives about 1,500 north of me.  In the place I live (Canberra), the winters are freezing, grey and dreary.  In the north where I went (as far as Gladstone), it is relatively tropical, although they have had some coolish mornings.  To escape the cold, many retired folk, known as Grey Nomads, regularly spend months travelling the roads of northern Australia.  We had a taste of that life for a few weeks.  I’ve tried to do a bit of a ‘compare and contrast’ photo essay to represent my August. Read more

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Which Way Home?

Dear Readers, I thought I would use the opportunity of participating in Cee’s Which Way Challenge, to present a few more of my holiday snaps.  I got a little carried away as I was having way too much fun putting them together to tell a little story.  I hope you like it. Read more

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Blue for You

This is my response to the Ragtag Daily Prompt — Blue.

My thanks go to Margaret of the Ragtag Daily Prompt for today’s wonderful prompt.  If you too need some inspiration, click on the link above.  Such prompts help me make short work of presenting my holiday happy snaps.  I had hit a road block so to speak, as it was all just too overwhelming to think how I might present the story of my travels in a way that might be slightly interesting.  I hope the photos do justice to the wonderful holiday I’ve just had. Read more

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Orange Zest

This is my response to the Ragtag Daily Prompt — Zest.

Orange is a very bossy colour, don’t you think, dear Reader?  It is bold and beautiful.  It says “look at me” and it says it loudly, sometimes quite literally. Read more

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The Changing Seasons – June in Canberra

Ah, June.  I can’t believe we are already half way through the year.  Winter is not a time that I particularly enjoy.  It’s cold.  It’s grey, and quite often miserable.  Just to prove that it does get cold in Australia, I headed out on a particularly frigid day to one of our city’s parks.  Rain had been threatening all day, but no sooner had I got out of my car and pulled out my camera, then the sun asserted itself in all its Winter glory. Read more

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The Distant Forest

This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge — Horizontal Lines.

I thought I would take the plunge and have a go at one of Cee’s photo challenges.  Thanks for the encouragement, Cee.  I enjoy writing.  It is good exercise for my brain, but it is a bit like hard work.  But how much fun is photography!     Read more