2015/365 February

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Rain late afternoon at Noosa Yacht Club. Then some blue sky appeared, creating these reflections. 42/365

Photo of the original negative taken with 60mm Canon lens. Colours inverted and then converted to sepia. First attempt at this, using a backlight through the light box which picked up the texture, so my process needs to be refined :-) Quite like the texture though. 43/365

Suitable weather :-) No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false. The Club grew and at some point apparently included five former U.S. presidents as honorary members. The men gathered for the first time on Friday, Jan. 13, 1881, and their exploits — described in newspapers of the time — included walking under ladders, breaking mirrors and dining as a group in room 13. livescience.com/46284-origins-unlucky-friday-the-13th.html 44/365

One of a host of eateries in the Café precinct at Coolum Beach in Queensland. Valentine's Day. We had a light lunch at Sorrentos, and then strolled through the other street Cafés. This sign appealed :-) 45/365

Jetty at Chaplin Park on the Noosa River. 46/465

Obi-Wan Gnomi has joined the household. 47/365

I have passed these statues many times, and today I stopped and took a few photos. Tom Offermann happened to be outside his offices and I asked him about the statues. He saw a statue in Melbourne ‘Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Lunch. Batman, Swanston & Hoddle’ and was so impressed with the artwork that he commissioned the artists to create ‘Cook and Banks’ who were Noosa Heads’ first privately funded civic art pieces. Tom said that the sculptures are his contribution to Noosa Civic Art. The names (courtesy of artists Paul Quinn and Alison Weaver) are a tribute to Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, who actually never set foot in Noosa. 1770: Captain Cook sailed past, admiring the rainbow hued sand cliffs of the Noosa North Shore. Cook (and Matthew Flinders in 1802) failed to detect the mouth of the Noosa River but noted that Laguna Bay was “an open sandy bay” and a “bight in the coast”…Noosa Library Timeline. The figures were moulded in clay, cast in plaster and finally in bronze. This is known as the ‘lost wax’ method of casting. The two pieces have an ‘other world’ feel to them, with long spindly limbs, bulging eyes and surprised expressions on their faces. There is a serious colonial edge with their black trousers, but a Noosa feel in the aqua coloured shirts the pair are wearing. 48/365

This flower has just appeared. Dichorisandra thrysiflora, Blue Ginger, is an exotic perennial from Brazil, with intense purple-blue flowers. Noosa Hinterland, Queensland. 60mm Canon 49/365