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at the Cooroy Mountain Spring festival, Queensland. TSC Scavenger challenge 21 Yellow Car

Saturday challenge - cut your image in half. Mary Street, Gympie, Queensland. One of these days, I will be there when the light is in the right place :-) A ¾ to life-sized bronze statue in Mary Street, Gympie, dipping her toe into the water — in recognition of the impact floods have had on Gympie. The Mary River has long served as a vital artery for the Gympie region and its industries. Known as Mooraboocoola, Moocooboola and Monoboola by the indigenous people of the region, the river was named Wide Bay River by early European explorers Andrew Petrie and Henry Stuart Russell on 10 May 1842. The Mary River was officially renamed on 7 September 1847 after Lady Mary Lennox Fitzroy, months before she was tragically killed in a carriage accident. Lady Mary Lennox was born 15 August 1790, the eldest daughter of Charles, the fourth Duke of Richmond and Charlotte, the daughter of the fourth Duke of Gordon. Lady Mary married Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy on 11 March 1820, and the couple came to Australia in 1846 when Charles became Governor of New South Wales (which included the Wide bay region then, prior to the formation of Queensland as a state). The town centre has been flooded on a number of occasions. The largest flood on record was in February 1893, which peaked at 25.45 metres and covered most of Mary Street (named after the river) with the waterline reaching the vicinity of where the Lady Mary Statue stands today. This statue was officially unveiled on 14 February 2017 by the Mayor of Gympie Regional Council, Mick Curran. Artists: Gillie and Marc

Rural Queensland Saturday challenge - post processing Contrast and exposure adjusted using Faststone Image Viewer Original here

Saturday challenge... bottles

Saturday challenge - Happiness B&W

Sunday challenge Bags Designed for all those plastic bags, which we are trying to phase out.

Saturday challenge - tilt shift. Tilt Shift Photography is a process that uses selective focus to produce an illusion of a scene to look like a miniature. Applied to original photo, PiP A collection of my cameras. I don't use the Kodak camera, but keep it for old times sake :-) see 130 year history in comments... Haven't used the small silver Canon Powershot A4000 for ages. Mostly use the Canon 550D SLR, two bodies, but have recently started using the Nikon D5100 SLR more, used to take this photo. Have not tried using the old Nikon D80 in this photo yet, said to a reliable older model. The lens shown belong to the Canon.

Angus, our Westie, after his summer haircut. Saturday challenge... high key

Sunday challenge... Distortion original in PiP

Saturday challenge - minimalism in Still Life

King White Protea in our garden, Queensland. Sunday challenge - different perspective Normal view in PiP

Sunday challenge Based on photos taken in our garage :-) see PiP

Arriving in the South Island. On board Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas cruise to New Zealand 8-17 December 2019.

Saturday challenge.. unfocused abstract

On board Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas cruise to New Zealand 8-17 December 2019. Sunday Challenge Yuletide

Hyde Park, Sydney The Archibald Fountain, properly called the J. F. Archibald Memorial Fountain is located in Hyde Park, in central Sydney. It is named after J. F. Archibald, owner and editor of The Bulletin magazine, who bequeathed funds to have it built. Archibald specified that it must be designed by a French artist, both because of his great love of French culture and to commemorate the association of Australia and France in World War I. He wished Sydney to aspire to Parisian civic design and ornamentation. The artist chosen was François-Léon Sicard, who completed it in Paris in 1926 but never saw the sculpture be placed in Sydney, where it was unveiled on 14 March 1932 by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Samuel Walder. TSC Scavenger Hunt 29 Fountain

Arriving back in Sydney on Royal Caribbean Line's Radiance of the Seas, after our cruise to New Zealand 8-17 December 2019.

Our cat Dora frequently ambushes our Westie, Angus, throwing her paws around his neck. He tolerates her but does not understand her at all :-) I keep trying to catch the moment without success, so here are some easier subjects. Saturday challenge - Unusual or absurd connections