Tag: Photography
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Art room insomnia
I woke up at 3.30am in the morning after hearing that Donald Trump won the election the previous evening (Aussie time). I felt incredibly anxious. Unable to get back to sleep I made a cup of tea and went into my art room. It looked a mess, total chaos. I sat with the dog for…
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The things we do to trees
This is the most bizarre, extreme power line tree trim I have ever seen. Photographed on the Great Alpine Road in the Ovens Valley in North East Victoria, the tree forms part of the avenue leading into the pretty village of Harrietville. The image unsettles me in the same way a surrealist painting does. For…
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Seats on the sand
There is something irresistible about unexpected, improvised creature comforts on a deserted beach. These chairs invite you to stop and take in the view. Perhaps some thoughtful locals placed them on Queens Head North Shore Beach. Or was it surfers, who use the spot to survey the waves? From the stone breakwater at Port Macquarie…
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Tea garden
Tea and Treasure is the the name of a quaint cafe in an old weatherboard house with pretty verandas in Port Macquirie, New South Wales. The tiny ‘tea garden’ along the fence delighted me almost as much as the pet galah that the owner produced from the ‘birds nest’ under the counter.
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Wake me up to post…
… letters not blogs. I noticed this vibrant street art of an alert feline outside a cafe whilst lunching in Rabat. Little did I know that the artwork decorated an otherwise mundane, and purely functional element of the urban landscape.