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Australia Day- Waving the Flag

I am really pleased with the way this page worked out, I wanted to do something different with this photo so I decided to first extract the flag part of the photo and then blend the rest of the photo into the background paper. It is not perfect but I am getting better at doing [...]

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Australia Day 2009

This is a page I have been meaning to do for a long time now, as you can see since Australia Day 2009. I have so many photo’s from this day of the parade in the main St of Camden as well as the festival after the parade. There are so many of these photo’s [...]

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Garden Project

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The Seed Shop

Here in the quiet and dusty room they lie Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shriveled, scentless dry – Meadows and gardens running through my hand. In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams; A cedar in the narrow cell is thrust, That will drink deeply of a century’s streams; [...]

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Saying for Today

Don’t ask yourself what the World needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then go and do that. Because what the World needs is people who are alive, not simply living.

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Soul’s Estate

I had someone comment about my blog saying quote ‘You need to pick a Target Audience and stick to them. You wouldn’t write to an audience of 14yr olds the same way you would write to an audience of 60yr olds.’ unquote. I can see where this person is coming from and what they say [...]

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Guitar Greats: Cat Stevens

Four of my favourites although it is so very hard to pick out four favourites from all the songs he wrote and sang as they are all favourites of mine in one way or another. There are more of his songs on Guitar Greats page.

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Kangaroos at Depot Beach

I did this photo in photoshop using three different photos. The first photo is of the Kangaroos nibbling on the grass in the background, then I layered another photo to get the pavement in the foreground and matched up the colour and blended and blurred them together. I then extracted a Kangaroo lying down out [...]

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James Taylor Favourites

I have not added much music lately I have been busy doing lots of other things, but this afternoon I decided to have a musical afternoon and listen to some of my favourite songs and I thought that I would add a few of them to my Guitar Greats page for you to listen to [...]

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Rainbow Lorikeet Hopping

Here is a recent photo I took that is quite a favourite as I managed to snap him in mid hop as he was hopping along the railing of our veranda at Depot Beach. I have uploaded this photo to Digital Photography School’s Challenge ‘Spring/Fall’ Assignment. There are some fabulous photos in these forum challenges, [...]

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