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Raindrops on flowers and
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whiskers on canines
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Bright peacock tails and
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great Aussie coastline
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Black tailed birds with beautiful wings
These are a few of my favourite things.
In response to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
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(4 photographs) I make two major mistakes or should I say I commonly make two errors with my photography. This first one isn’t one of these. This is a rare occurrence and I didn’t know what it was but looking at Ed’s example it is possibly lens flare.
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These next two are common. There used to be a third where the picture would be obscured with a fat pink finger having been placed across the lens but for some reason this no longer seems to happen. Instead my second habitual error is to take a photo when I don’t know that I am taking it, as above. This is usually of the ground. My most common error, however, is moving the camera and getting blurring. Now I am saying this I don’t know that below is an example of that but rather of the wrong exposure time for the situation. I’ve no idea. I just aim and shoot – sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.
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This one is camera movement.
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I’d seen a go-pro camera with its underwater casing and I deeply craved to have one of my own. Not to be. Instead Aldi came to the rescue with their own $49 version and these are some of my first photos taken with it. I loved the oily sheen the river gets when taken at this angle.
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I don’t understand why my horizon is curved. To my knowledge it is not a fish eye lens. Perhaps it is some type of adjustment it makes to compensate for photos taken under the water. As it is it just looks odd ball.
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Zac really enjoyed having his humans in the river with him and it was nice to look back and see what he normally sees.
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Looking down was not such a pretty sight. Some strange grotesque bottom dweller.
Compiled for Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge.
Dismayed, they looked up. They’d need both hands to climb. Carefully he put the box in his pocket. He’d need that later. She removed her shoes. She’d need what toehold she could get. Almost on their stomachs they crawled upward, their white clothing blackening as the vestiges of time adhered to them. At the top they saw the next flight; Twenty four steeper vertical steps. The number of love and Karmic rewards. They climbed, belly against step. Total subjugation. Puffed, blackened and humbled they arrived at the top of the temple. The music started. “Dearly beloved” began the priest.
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in response to Charli’s 99 word flash fiction challenge: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about steps, stairs or a staircase. Where do they lead? Who is walking or avoiding them? Are they clearly defined or ancient? Why are theses steps important? Lead us on a 99 word discovery!
Respond by January 6, 2015 to be included in the weekly compilation.
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We always visited England at Christmas when my husband’s father was alive. It was always cold but I loved it. I had previously only been in summer when all the hedges were in full leaf and I felt as though I was in a tunnel with limited vision. Claustrophobic. I didn’t feel this in winter as we tramped the trails in the Downs. At this stile the paddocks were icy and we laughed as we both at different times slid and fell. This day we walked from Patcham (Brighton) to Lewes where I saw tiger nuts for the first time.
In response to Shadow Shot Sunday 2
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5 photographs
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New
Sleeping
Tottering
Mother’s love
Need to protect
mother’s care
babies
new
In response to weekly photo challenge
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After a stimulating talk at our garden club in Gloucester we headed westward following the Curricabark Creek on a narrow dirt road in convoy. The first car was the lucky one – the rest of us ate the dust of the cars in front for the hour or so that it took us to arrive at our destination – the day lily mail order nursery.
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We were deep in cattle country so it came as both a shock and a delight, after driving along the rough track from the front gate up the hill to the house, to see a vista of day lilies open out in front of us. Acres of them set among the gums on what looked to be totally inhospitable soil.
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That of course is the beauty of the day lily. They will grow anywhere. Their roots are designed to store water and nutrients so they can survive the very hot, the very cold and drought. They also don’t require much in the way of good soil. With literally thousands of varieties (a couple of hundred plants varieties on the paper price list we were supplied) the choice of colour, double or single, frilly edge or plain edge is endless.
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We wandered, posed for photos, delighted in the plants, sweltered in the heat and made our choices. Day lily, as the name intimates, has blooms which only last a day. However, as the clump enlarges the number of blooms per plant is massive and day after day, a new bud will open, each bringing joy to the garden rambler.
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I returned home having placed an order for twenty-five plants, plans to save up and buy more, and day lily my favourite plant for the next few years.
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