Across the Bridge: Silent Sunday

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Lost In Details: Thursday’s Special

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I was really taken by this set of five granite etchings. They were strategically placed on the Kokoda Track Memorial Walk at Rhodes in Sydney.  The track mimics (in a minimal way) the vegetation found in the Papua New Guinea Highlands and this is reflected off the granite. It may be lost in the detail of the etching but its very presence adds a realism that adds to the overall effect.

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Did you see something else lost in the detail?

In response to Paula’s prompt Lost in Details

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Habit: Weekly Photo Challenge

I ended my post in November 2013 with “Would I want to change my habits: no way.” It is interesting revisiting with my habits almost 5 years later. Have they changed? Yes they have just slightly. We no longer drink coffee as soon as we wake. Having an upstairs downstairs changed that in the first winter we lived here. We could not come to an agreement as to who would rise to get the drink.  I no longer eat muesili but eat seeds in its place but I still have the yoghurt and read whilst eating it. Of course, we still walk the dog – only the name has changed as now it is only Muffin we walk.

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I have developed a new ?habit or is it rather a hobby. Bird photography. I am trying to capture birds as close up as possible in their natural environment. Whenever I see a bird – out comes the camera. That, I guess, is a habit. My success, however, has not yet become habitual.

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Feel free to link to me if you want to revisit and redo the weekly photo challenges. I started in 2013 and each week I will post the challenge that was that can be relived, redone or both.

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Skywatch Friday: 29th June 2018 Noosaville

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In response to Skywatch Friday where skies from round the world can be seen.

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Travelling over the Anzac Bridge Sydney: Diagonal Lines: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

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Barely seen in this first photo is a bridge I think has incredible beauty and diagonal lines. The Dartford bridge in the UK fills me with the same feeling as I get when driving over the Anzac Bridge.

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In response to Cee’s Fun Foto challenge prompt – Diagonal Lines

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Kokoda Track Memorial Track: Wordless Wednesday

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Tourist: Sunday Stills

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Worldwide

Tourists look

at scenes of beauty

snapping

saving the moment

to relive when back in their normal humdrum existence

Their pennies helping the local economy

While the tourist  works and saves new pennies

There is yet somewhere they have not yet travelled.

In response to Sunday Stills prompt Tourist

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Shedding its skin: Tuesday’s of Texture

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Rhodes: Silent Sunday

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Blue Hour: Thursdays Special

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In Australia we don’t get these blue hours (or if we do I am unaware of them). I think it must be something to do with the light in Europe. I have never seen in Europe the sharpness of the light we get here. All these blue hour photos were taken in Switzerland around Lac Leman (Lake Geneva).

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In response to Paula’s prompt – Blue Hour

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