Sunday Challenge

Selection from my original photos taken in 2023, in our garden, and neighbourhood, New South Wales, Australia. Sunday challenge 41 - Collage

Sunday challenge - best of the best. Rainbow Lorikeet feasting on the Callistemon in our backyard, New South Wales, Australia. The native birds love the bottlebrush flowers. Another photo from later in the day, in PiP

Sunday challenge - the Animal World ... beautiful, haunting, flute-like song which may be given throughout the day and sometimes well into moonlit nights. Once heard, the song is difficult to forget, and it has been described as ‘one of the finest in the world’. birdlife.org.au New South Wales, Australia This bird was over in the trees, then popped on to our deck, not staying long after it spotted our cat...

at One Mile Beach, Forster, New South Wales, Australia Sunday challenge 44 - Architecture Prime position, right opposite the Cape Hawke Surf Life Saving Club on the beautiful One Mile Beach. These properties don't change hands very often.

original in PiP Sunday Challenge 45

Sunday Challenge 46 - leading lines B&W Nobbys Lighthouse is an active lighthouse established on Nobbys Head in Newcastle in 1854 to guide vessels into the Hunter River. Port of Newcastle New South Wales, Australia Nobbys Beach

Sunday Challenge 47 Relationship between man and animal Bella, our Jack Highland Terrier, thinks she owns us :-) Only our cat Dora has higher ranking, as Queen of the household. Bella adores Dora, and also loves Angus, our West Highland White Terrier. Angus Bella

Sunday Challenge 48 - Shadow Rainbow Beach, New South Wales, Australia

Original Build 1891 The building was originally known as 'The Stables' in 1891 and was owned by George Perkins. According to the Kendall Heritage Society, the hotel provided a vital changeover place for horses drawing coaches from Taree to Port Macquarie during the 1800s. The last coach service left Taree northbound on February 31, 1913. The first beer was served at the hotel in October 1894 after a liquor licence was granted in the same year. … The hotel was rebuilt in 1926, after a fire. Two local families (Comans & Bakers) formed an ownership group in 2018 and purchased the hotel. The aim was to restore the hotel to its former glory. royalhotelkew.com.au Now in June 2023 the street scape is being improved with a stone wall. (I didn't know this when I set out to take this as my history photo ...) Kew's other claims to fame are as the early home of pioneering aviator Nancy Bird Walton (see comments), and the Big Axe, built to commemorate the ‘timber getters’ who traded timber in the region between the mid 18th and early 19th century. New South Wales, Australia Sunday Challenge SC50 - History

Sunday Challenge 51 - A picture is worth a thousand words.

We have always had Westies (West Highland White Terriers) in our family since 1983. Sunday Challenge 53 - Three of the same Collectables above - the left was Mum's, and the pair on the right were a gift. The photos below are from 2006, of Rosie, centre, and her two offspring, Jock, left, and Lizzie (Mum's dog), right.

Sunday Challenge 54 - lines and planes New South Wales, Australia

Sunday Challenge 55 - Quotes There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. Claude Debussy

Sunday challenge 56 - Text, number or characters Forster, New South Wales, Australia

2023 SC57 Street photography. Archive entry. Still recovering from flu. Taken 2022 July 15 Enjoyed a pleasant interlude in Nelson Bay and Shoal Bay, Port Stephens, en route to our visit to the Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. Shoal Bay Country Club, established 1935. With an area of approximately 119 square kilometres Port Stephens is larger than Sydney Harbour. It extends approximately 24 km inland from the Tasman Sea and at its widest point, it is 6.5 km across. bluewatersailing.com.au/#!Port Stephens

Sunday challenge 58 red, more than one subject. Archive shot taken 2016

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.

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