Category: Travel
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Daylight moon rising
The moon rising in the east before the sun sets in the west. Not as spectacular as the sun rising at Marcus Beach but quite strange to be walking the dog in the late afternoon and seeing a spherical light over the ocean.
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Cupid awake and asleep
Reflections from a window provide a modern take on Morris Burke Parkinson’s late Victorian photogravures of four-year-old Josephine Anderson, copyrighted by the photographer in 1897. Parkinson’s work is highly stylized and dramatic with something of a staged effect, typical of Pictorialism, a style of photography made popular by Henry Peach Robinson in the 1860’s. The…
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Take time to notice: Native Iris
You need to have an eye for detail and look up close to appreciate the beauty of Australian flora such as this little jewell, a native iris called Patersonia sericea. Had I photographed the vista at Emu Mountain, the irises would have been lost, mere dots. Emu Mountian – a hill really – where whale researchers…
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Suspended sphere
Sadly I don’t know the name of the artist who created this beautiful sphere suspended outside the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.