Gillian Everett's photos

324. - 23.09.2023 - Something that makes a sound. The sounds should be typical and known by everyone.

Light rail, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Construction started September 2017 and the line was opened on 17 February 2019. newcastletransport.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MAP-SIMPLE-Newcastle-Light-Rail.pdf

Light rail, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Construction started September 2017 and the line was opened on 17 February 2019. newcastletransport.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MAP-SIMPLE-Newcastle-Light-Rail.pdf

SC63 - Red and yellow He was my Mum's, so has been in the family a long time.

Saturday challenge - 323 - 09/16/2023 - Sustainability - Although this book was written in 1979, and set in 1985, it deals with current issues, i.e. the constant focus on oil resources, and the threat of nuclear warfare, which would make life on earth unsustainable. I have just read this 1979 book again, and it is literally falling apart ... as is the world, in this story of dwindling resources on the planet, and ensuing chaos from the ultimate nuclear war. David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea (1979) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wikipedia

Wonky = not straight; crooked or askew Sunday challenge 62 - Square within a square

Scavenger Hunt 45 Diamonds ♦ is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It is the only French suit to not have been adapted from the German deck, taking the place of the suit of Bells . The original French name of the suit is Carreau; in German and Polish it is known as Karo. In older German-language accounts of card games, Diamonds are frequently referred to as Eckstein ("cornerstone"). In Switzerland, the suit is still called Egge (=Ecke i.e. "corner") today. The term "Karo" went into the German language in the 18th century from the French carreau, which goes back to the Latin word, quadrum, meaning "square" or "rectangle". The diamond typically has a lozenge shape, a parallelogram with four equal sides, placed on one of its points. The sides are sometimes slightly rounded and the four vertices placed in a square, making the sign look like an astroid. Wikipedia

Saturday challenge 322 - 09.09.2023 - Clothes pegs

At the Big Pineapple in 2013. It has a long history as a tourist attraction, and now is the host to Saturday Markets. A music festival is happening there in April. It is 16 metres high and was originally opened on the 15 August 1971. It is situated on a 165 hectare site. The Big Pineapple features two rides: One on a Nut Mobile, the other on a small train that takes passengers on a tour of the plantation and lets them optionally disembark at a small zoo situated on the property. The rides take visitors around the plantation while the driver broadcasts information about the plants at the plantation, along with a history. The plantation also features a small animal farm where visitors may feed the animals. Such animals include: dingoes, a deer, a donkey, alpacas, pigs, chickens, ducks and various birds. The plantation once housed a Macadamia Nut factory. They still grow macadamia nut. In 1971, Mr & Mrs Bill Taylor purchased a modest pineapple farm of 23 hectares on the coast side of the Bruce Highway. The Big Pineapple was opened by the Minister for Labour and Tourism, the late John Herbert on 15 August 1971. In 1972, the attraction was the recipient of the first award presented by the Australian National Travel Association for a tourist development in Queensland. Wikipedia

2022 On our way home from Queensland, we stayed overnight in Ballina, the home of the Big Prawn. The Big Prawn's story began in 1989 when it was built without a tail. Its first home was on top of a service station. Brothers Attila and Louis Mokany, from Hungary, developed service stations around NSW and decided to build big things to help attract road trippers to their business. The sculptures they built were a tribute to the main industries in each town. Goulburn got a big Merino ram, Taree a big oyster and Ballina got a big prawn. South Australian sculptor James Martin was the man behind the crustacean's design. 2017 article www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-01/big-prawn-still-celebrates...

Shakespeare's Love's Labour Lost Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues (Princess of France, Act 2 Scene 1) Love's Labour's Lost For SC61 - Inspired by Shakespeare

Sunday challenge 61 - Inspired by Shakespeare. Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues (Princess of France, Act 2 Scene 1) Love's Labour's Lost

321 - 02.09.2023 - View through a window, from inside. The left window has an exterior flyscreen, and a winding handle to open it.

Sunday challenge 60 - Something is not right here. Cognitive dissonance. Processed in GIMP. This dissonance is the tension caused in the viewer when what they expect to see is broken by something they actually see. photofocus.com

Saturday challenge 320 - Texture or structure

Sunday challenge 59 - Transparency, easy to see through. Individually hand crafted from recycled metal drums and hand painted by the talented artisans from Haiti, each Gecko has it’s own personality.

New South Wales, Australia. World Photography Day - 19th August, 2023. Thinking of our dear ip friends Andy Rodker, and Jenny McIntyre.

“There is a kind of character in thy life That to th’observer doth thy history Fully unfold.” William Shakespeare Example for Sunday challenge 61 Inspired by Shakespeare, "widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist." Wikipedia www.ipernity.com/group/daysincolour365/discuss/198604