AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Monday, May 30, 2016

an entrance...


one entrance to the Dromana Hub Shopping Centre carpark...
The main road is just beyond the arch, and, beyond that, is Port Phillip Bay...


small pillared arch
slows traffic
to a crawl


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Sunday, May 29, 2016

wintry peace...


soft wintry shadows round a small entrance to Point Leo beach...


soft wintry light
quietens the crowded
spirit


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Friday, May 27, 2016

Thursday, May 26, 2016

wordless...


sign for a boat ramp at Rosebud...


wordless message
just the tilt of a boat
on wheels


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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

grasses and water...


a view of wetlands at Hillview Community Reserve, Dromana...


wetland grasses
stroke the waters with
autumn tones


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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

intrigue...


a student's response to studies of Shakespeare's Macbeth...


intrigue
timeless dealing with
darkness


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Sunday, May 22, 2016

it was a table...


this was a table on my verandah...until strong winds decided to shatter the glass top...


wind power
unseen force of nature
makes and breaks


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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Friday, May 20, 2016

a slice of sky...


view of autumn skies glimpsed between buildings near the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne...


a slice of sky
a piece of Nature's
beauty



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Thursday, May 19, 2016

lined up...


a collection of signs on the walking trail at Devilbend Reservoir, Tuerong...
The reservoir reserve covers 1005 hectares with almost 250 hectares of water area...
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a fishing mecca
etched with scenic
walking trails



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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

a fun run...


people lining up at Rosebud for the Arthurs Seat Challenge held late last year...
This is an annnual fun run...
The course is from Rosebud shopping centre,
up Arthurs Seat (mountain - small) and a courtesy bus brings them back...


a fun run
exercise to challenge
the inner spirit


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Monday, May 16, 2016

some cute yellows...


one of many character entries in the 2013 Westernport Festival parade at Hastings...


in yellow caps
bright young ones
on a mission


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Sunday, May 15, 2016

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

cabaret...


shipping containers artistically covered provided an entertainment venue on the Rosebud foreshore during the summer holidays earlier this year...


lively cabaret
exciting stage of
music and dance



street view of the side of the venue...

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

shapely...


a view of the water feature at Cranbourne Botanical Gardens, Cranbourne...


shapely water
highlighting the beauty of
sun-bathed gardens


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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

drip dry...


T-shirt drying on a pole at Dromana beach...


wet clothes
need some drying
space and time


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Monday, May 9, 2016

panel of light...


panel of late afternoon autumn sunlight near my CD tower...


tiers of shadows
welcome the last rays of
an autumn day


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Sunday, May 8, 2016

invader?...


tiny beach box on Dromana beach...
I like how the shadow cast by the nearby beach box seems to invade this one...


protruding
shadow on a mission
silent invasion


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Saturday, May 7, 2016

thunder...


one of two sculptures ... complementing each other... on display at Montalto vineyards, Red Hill...
The dual art was called 'Thunder and Lightning'...
It is by Brendan Hackett and was a finalist in the 2016 Montalto Sculpture Competition......


thunder
 a wild kind of art selling
warning symbols


Somehow, I felt that these two elements were displayed a little too close together for ideal appeal...


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Friday, May 6, 2016

autumn sky glows...


autumn late afternoon skies over the Dromana Hills...


soft brightness
autumn shines on
the close of day


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Thursday, May 5, 2016

sign and a plant...


This sign seems a little odd...or at least oddly placed...
It is obscured by the plant significantly...
The sign is on a wall of The Nepean
- a new block of units in Dromana overlooking Port Phillip Bay...


a shy, obscured sign
perhaps inviting
a closer look


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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

some sand whimsy...


a view of some sand creations at Dromana beach...


some sand whimsy
a new landscape
of the mind


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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

remembering summer days...


it seems but a short time again, these were the sunny days tempting some time at Dromana beach...
Now there are endless winds, rain and cold...


was it yesterday
when beach worlds seemed
so inviting


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Monday, May 2, 2016

Sunday, May 1, 2016

perceptions...


my neighbour's washing and shadows...
I thought the middle shadow looked a little like a drooping flag on flag pole...


shadows
oddly reinvent
perceived shapes


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  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

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