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• A Photo of Me with Ophelia!
  by udonchow

  Hi! Yes, that’s me with a framed up painting of “Love Meditations” and my little owl finger puppet toy named Ophelia too! I was at a j…

  Hi! Yes, that’s me with a framed up painting of “Love Meditations” and my little owl finger puppet toy named Ophelia too! I was at a joint exhibition’s opening ceremony here in Bangkok,Thailand yesterday evening, I’m currently having 7 of my paintings exhibited there, one of which is “Love Meditations”. There are slightly more than 100 budding artists involved…so there are many many paintings to view and enjoy :D If anyone of you is in Bangkok right now(I know the chances are super slim), do drop by for the show if you can :DThat little happy boy whom I am posing with….his mum is a great supporter of my works and had bought a few from me previously:D I dont normally look this orange, it’s the lighting in the hall and my cam :D

• Twisted Featured in 'Bits and Pieces' Group
  by Lesley Hill

  My image ‘Twisted’ has been featured in the ‘Bits and Pieces’ Group Oct 5th. / THANK YOU VERY MUCH! / To the wonderful moderators of the…

  My image ‘Twisted’ has been featured in the ‘Bits and Pieces’ Group Oct 5th. / THANK YOU VERY MUCH! / To the wonderful moderators of the group and the kind people who encourage me by leaving such lovely comments on my images! I would like to sincerely thank you all for your support! Many thanks! =) / Cheers Lesley /

• Two Things!!!
  by Karin Taylor

  / 1. Spotting Rainbows....

  / 1. Spotting Rainbows just got featured in All the Colours of the Rainbow Group and I want to thank the hosts or whoever chose it!! / Little Green Teapot TShirt sold just a few hours ago to a mystery buyer….thank you whoever bought it and hope you have heaps of fun wearing it around or giving it to someone else who’s gonna wear it around :D

• Up Close! My First Calander!
  by Lesley Hill

  / Please have a look…

  / Please have a look and tell me what you think! I hope you like it. / Thanks / Lesley

• Meet Little Lost Orca and Migaloo
  by Karin Taylor

  MIGALOOMAGIC is my new concept gallery at Red Bubble…below are the very first offerings!...

  MIGALOOMAGIC is my new concept gallery at Red Bubble…below are the very first offerings! My Definition of Magic / Adjective – Wonderful, amazing or incredible, ie as in ‘a magic moment’ I think it’s very important to define magic, as for some people this is a stumbling block and something that conjures up images of black magic, darkness, and other practices which i don’t subscribe to… for the record I’m a christian who doesn’t head to sunday services each week, although i have spent most of my life doing that, it’s not where I am at this stage of the journey….and I’m not a perfect one by any means, I’m quite an unusual one by christian standards, and many feel i don’t meet the standards, but that’s ok…God and I are like this :D we’re tight, so it doesn’t matter what others think on that score…and I guess it’s unusual for me to use the word ‘magic’ when ‘magic practices’ are forbidden in the bible… but it is the where I am coming from that matters to God…He knows I don’t mean it in that way…so already, i apologise to any who may find it offensive or inconsistent, but I intend to keep the name as to me it only implies magic in this case as “wonderful, amazing or incredible, as in a magic moment”. / migaloo-pink-magic / / migaloo-blue-magic / migaloo-in-antarctica / little-lost-orca / rainbow-orcas / little-lost-orca tshirt / Moo Cow Sunrise / Little Moo I’ve been busy with a new concept…. / I wanted to bring parents something special to help them connect with their children… / I am busy creating a series of digital wall art, especially for children…for their bedrooms. My new gallery on Red Bubble is called migaloomagic / So far, I have created six conceptual pieces of art over there….but I am excited to show you anyway!! This is a gallery which I hope will provide gifts for children, for their bedrooms, for their birthdays…...I hope that it will bring parents closer to their children by helping them remember to tell their children stories, you know – the old fashioned kind of stories….the ones you just make up on the spot….. When the kids say….’tell us a story mum/dad/aunty/uncle/guardian/carer” i hope that you as a parent will gain an inspirational thought or two, from glancing up on the wall and seeing these whales or some other little idea from my artwork…to help you along :D Hugs to all, / Karin :D

• Featured in Public Art 30th Sept
  by Lesley Hill

  Thanks to the hosts of Public Art for adding my image ‘ANZAC MEMORIAL’ to the features today. I really appreciate the opportunity! Thank…

  Thanks to the hosts of Public Art for adding my image ‘ANZAC MEMORIAL’ to the features today. I really appreciate the opportunity! Thanks to all my friends on the bubble for your kind comments! Cheers!

• Setting up a studio
  by Cathleen Tarawhiti

  Hello :) I’m about to head down to the camera shop and say “hand over all of your photo shoot studio set up equipment or the dog get’s…

  Hello :) I’m about to head down to the camera shop and say “hand over all of your photo shoot studio set up equipment or the dog get’s it”. Not really, I wouldn’t hurt animals, unless they’re a particularly plump chicken, but I have been known to drop a few lenses. Well one, but it rolled down the hill. Actually, now that I mention it, I’m looking for the paperwork for said lens to take in on account of the strange rattly noise. I just made that up Harvey Norman, in case you’re reading this. Serious. So I thought I’d better check in with my mentors (Wendy, Mel, Rose, Paul, Paul, and Paul, Deke, Dave, Shanghaiwu, Gemlenz, Sam, Ashley, Peter, Barbara) first before I sell our first born and maybe the second. Better wear a shortish dress. Kidding again. Not even. If it get’s me $500 off I’ll wear bells on my shortish dress. See, still kidding. It’s hard to tell though. If you saw me right now, You’d know I wouldn’t be caught dead in bells. Any advice on which equipment I need for a full set up? Thank you :) / www.cathleentarawhiti.co.nz

• Featured in the Sea Group
  by Lesley Hill

  Thank you to the kind moderators in the SEA group, for featuring my image ‘Waves in WA’ today! Thanks! =) / Cheers / Lesley

  Thank you to the kind moderators in the SEA group, for featuring my image ‘Waves in WA’ today! Thanks! =) / Cheers / Lesley

• Featured!!
  by Jennifer Woodward

  Wow!! Another one, and the first ever in the Patchwork Group!! AWESOME!! The House on the Hill...

  Wow!! Another one, and the first ever in the Patchwork Group!! AWESOME!! The House on the Hill THANK YOU!!!!!!

• Wind Power is featured in Art in Math Group
  by Lesley Hill

  October 1st. My image Wind Power is featured in art in math today !! Thanks to the group moderators. I am very pleased. = ) Made my day!...

  October 1st. My image Wind Power is featured in art in math today !! Thanks to the group moderators. I am very pleased. = ) Made my day! Lesley

• Dave Hill Effect
  by metronomad

  Here is one fine tutorial I found for y’all creative people. *Holle…

  Here is one fine tutorial I found for y’all creative people. Holler at me if you found this useful! and here is the famous Dave Hill’s website another webby you ‘d love to see. It’s Jill Greenberg’s ooh and of course, one of my favorite artist on DA! His Name is Murat Sayginer ——ooh btw, why don’t you try the same tutorial with your famous landscape shots? you’ll see. Don’t ya hatin’ people… Keep lovin’....... I say, WORLD PEACE! / Before / / After / / _ vector graphics, bitmap

• The Central Simpson Desert, Australia
  by Joe Mortelliti

  My portfolio has a number of rare images of the inner Simpson Desert, which according to notes I have read is 178,000 sq km’s. / A search …

  My portfolio has a number of rare images of the inner Simpson Desert, which according to notes I have read is 178,000 sq km’s. / A search on “Simpson Desert” will bring up most of my desert images. These images show areas of the Simpson only seen by a small number of adventurous travelers. We have had great times combining photography and 4 wheel driving.. These trips have been described in 4×4 publications as “Hardcore Touring” Our small group along with our specially prepared 4 wheel drives have made two crossings over 2 years of the wilderness areas of the Simpson Desert. There is an established route that is easily followed that can be found at the south end of the desert. This east west route was blazed by early oil exploration companies. Known as the French Line after French Petroleum,and the QAA Line, we consider this the “popular tourist” route as you are likely to pass another oncoming traveler in the course of a week. Our trips were “cross country” without any track to follow, however the Hay River route has now become more readily defined, but is still one of the most remote wilderness areas to travel in Australia / The first trip was the Hay River which took us through the North Simpson Desert,via Lake Caroline and up to Batton Hill. / The second was a west to east starting at Old Andado Station crossing the desert following the Madigan Line using GPS co ordinates. Cecil Madigan in 1939 crossed this section of the desert by camel undertaking a scientific exploration. The Simpson Desert features parallel sand hills running roughly north south, that can be hundreds of km’s in length. / These sand hill are around 30mt high, with the top section being the “live” top that moves and shapes in the winds. / The rich red sand is very smooth and soft, very powder like and it’s rich colour varies in changing light from red, redy brown to iridescent orange. These sandhill or dunes are roughly half a km apart, with a spinifex valley in between. The Simpson has 1,100 of these sandhills running across it north to south. Traveling west to east we have crossed every one of these. The Hay River flows after seasonal rains and is a ribbon of green life from north to south through the middle of the desert. These cross country trips were very arduous, some days only covering 50km. We had to be totally self sufficient, and as an example we carried 110lt of water and 420lt of fuel. / We also undertook the trip on the understanding that if any of our vehicles could not be kept operational due to major part failure, that the unit would be left behind and another special recovery trip made later with the required parts and team members. This meant each member had to budget for a $5,000 recovery operation should it be needed. Towing out a failed vehicle would only result in serious damage and to the tow vehicle and result in 2 vehicles being not operational. / Our group is known as LCOOL. LandCruiser Owners On Line and all our trips and meeting points are arranged on the internet.

• Featured Work :-)))))))
  by RLHall

  Thanks to the Dilapidated Buildings Group and Budrfli...

  Thanks to the Dilapidated Buildings Group and Budrfli for featuring my work! It’s a great group and Sandy does a wonderful job as Moderator… / Made my day! Barn at the Bottom of the Hill

• "Hill's Symphony" Is Featured In Fine Arts!
  by udonchow

  Many thanks to Fine Arts Group for feauturing “Hill’s Symphony” which is a very dear painting to my heart :D !http://images-2.redbubb…

  Many thanks to Fine Arts Group for feauturing “Hill’s Symphony” which is a very dear painting to my heart :D

• Home Page Feature and 10 days away!
  by Lesley Hill

  Well, my work ‘Ode to Jeffery Smart’ made the home page this week and I missed it!!! / Such is life! Back to work with no time for myself….

  Well, my work ‘Ode to Jeffery Smart’ made the home page this week and I missed it!!! / Such is life! Back to work with no time for myself. Student performance for 2 nights, Parent teacher interviews…... I will be away from the RB for 10 days from this Sunday 17th August until the 27th. I am on a 10 DAY trip with some of my year 9 students! Off to South Australia by coach from Melbourne, then onto Perth WA by train across the Nullarbor on the Indian Pacific Train. Touring around Perth and Albany. Should be fun. I am hoping for lots of photo opportunities in my time away. See you upon my return. / Cheers / Arteach / Lesley

• Abstract Macro Urban Art Feature and Another Card Sold!
  by Lesley Hill

  A Feature in the ‘Abstract Macro Urban Art ’ today and another card sold. / Thanks to the wonderful Abstract Macro Urban Art Group from f…

  A Feature in the ‘Abstract Macro Urban Art ’ today and another card sold. / Thanks to the wonderful Abstract Macro Urban Art Group from featuring my image ‘Paint Chips from Ships’ being featured! Thanks very much you have made my day/ night. / / To the mystery purchaser who bought a card from my collection., THANK YOU. I really appreciate your support and I hope you enjoy it. I love this piece ‘Ode to Jeffery Smart’ has now sold for the third time. / / I am very pleased and proud. / Have a fantastic weekend, mine is looking very pleasant! =) Thank you, / Lesley

• “One Tree Hill (2)”
  by Peter Marin

  Just wanted to say thanks to the person from abroad that purchased one of my prints on RB. Fantastic feeling and special thanks to RB.

  Just wanted to say thanks to the person from abroad that purchased one of my prints on RB. Fantastic feeling and special thanks to RB.

• Cards Collection 1
  by littlearty

  I’ve decided to learn from successful r…

  I’ve decided to learn from successful rebubblers out there and be more proactive :p (I love browsing, lazy to write), and decided to pimp up my profile page a little with some of the ‘HOT’ sellers…ehem… just to give everyone an idea of what sells from my collection. I haven’t sold any cards on ‘Bloom’ and ‘Companion’ yet, but I added them in anyway…..just to add some variety :D Who knows, maybe I’ll get lucky. hehehehe……

• Sold a card of 'Proud as a Peacock'
  by Lesley Hill

  I would like to thank ‘Nancy Polanski’ for buying my Card Proud as a Peacock! !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/backingcolor:white/...

  I would like to thank ‘Nancy Polanski’ for buying my Card Proud as a Peacock! / I am honoured and very pleased. / Thank you, thank you you have made the beginning of my week! / Please visit Nancy on RB to see her Stunning work! (no idea how to do a link!) Have a wonderful week! / Lesley

• Yippeeee! Thank you mystery buyer!
  by alexkess

  Somebody just completely made my day, by buying one of my photographs (Hills Hoist and I jus…

  Somebody just completely made my day, by buying one of my photographs (Hills Hoist and I just wanted to say a big “THANK YOU!” to the wonderfull buyer, obviously you have fantastic taste…haha. Cheers, Alex

• Stubborn horses and advice to intrepid tenters. Quantocks.
  by Michelle Dry

  Well this weekend was spent like many others knee deep in mud with excitable flatulant horses. I was somewhere known as the Quantock hill…

  Well this weekend was spent like many others knee deep in mud with excitable flatulant horses. I was somewhere known as the Quantock hills. It is a place in England where the people are known to talk with additional RRRRRRRRRR’s in everything they say. When they answer yes they often say ARRRRh, a bit like a pirate. I think the word referee would be a good illustration. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReferrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrree. Anyway deep in a forest area a horse event was taking place where the riders draw their own map and navigate the forest. An orienteering with horse adventure if you like. And I luckily was able to photograph most of them before they got lost. And you may think that I am joking but numerous disappeared into the forestry green yonder. Admittedly I met a man who lived there and he did say that when he walked his dogs around here he spent a great deal of time being lost. So thank God I didn’t venture too far, especially with my track record. So each entrant had to draw their map, I think one couple forgot which way up they were suppossed to be. So, not being able to tell the competitiors they were going in the wrong direction, I continued taking the pre-lost picture as best I could. Later that afternoon I was asked to photograph an event that was suppossed to take place at one o’clock but was delayed because the competitors were lost. So to make the best of the time, the other photographer (Carol) and myself had a buttercup photographing competition. Yes that is what you do while you wait for a horse to appear. So since buttercups are bright yellow I thought I would create the anti-thesis of buttercup and photographed in black and white…. I never like to be the same…. Always original… After a couple of hours of buttercup embued photographic frenzie, we learned that the entries for the competition had declined from 60 down to 14. There were talks of alien abduction, actually that talk came from me, but there was still talk. Then a number of questions arose: if a horse was abducted would an alien know how to ride it? If the horse was abducted would they take the saddle and all the gear? If you were an alien why would you abduct a horse? Where in a space ship would you ride the horse? So many questions that will never be fully answered, that is unless I meet an alien. Although if you meet an alien I doubt that would be the first thing on your mind. I think more likely would be what do you eat and please don’t let it be humans. Also what happens if the space ship runs out of fuel? Do you have an alien AA? Still I did learn there were people who would be abducted by aliens in a second. The competition commenced but some of the horses were not complying. When it came to jumping a few tried to throw their riders. When it came to crossing a brook the image of a woman standing behind a horse and pushing with her shoulder made it apparent that you could lead a horse to a brook but you could not make it cross . I tell you it was so funny. She tried everything, pushing pulling, leading, waving food at it. The horse was having none of it. When she walked away and had completely given up the horse snuck across the brook and acted as though nothing had happened. It was brilliant. Later that evening I invited Steve Spraggon (another photographer) to the hog roast. I met Steve through flickr and red bubble. Since he lived in the area I thought he might like to join the Carol and myself for an interesting evening. That way he would experience the reality and know the stories were true. Steve miraculously found the field in the middle of nowhere and was lucky enough to be persuaded to go on a chocolate mission to a near by village. It was apparent in the first few minutes of meeting carol and myself that he had wondered into extreme eccentricity and that he had just met two women who laughed hysterically at their own jokes…. Poor guy. / After a slighlty slurred conversation about one of my books: Goyle, about Gargoyles. I informed Steve that Gargoyles eat walls and poop pebbles. I am convinced that Steve thought I was completely fruit loop. I also told him the Goblin story, you can find that on one of the other Journal entries or in writing. And yes that was it, he realised there was no escape! Anyway after the chocolate mission Steve was enlisted in helping me put up my tent. Now most people would put the tent on the flat. Seems obvious. But the way I saw it: horses could jump fences and go for a rampage during the night. Also when I was in Namibia I always camped on a slope close to rocks just in case the desert elephants wanted to play twister using tents. So my logic seemed perfectly okay to me. Although since then I have been informed that the word logic was nowhere near the mark. Never mind. So I pitched the tent under trees, up a bit of a hill and where there weren’t too many ditches. Also in terms of thinking: if I was a horse and I was going to escape from a field where would I run? I would run down hill because up hill would be too much of an effort. So do you see the logic now? I know I am convincing you. Once the tent was pitched there were a few comments amongst the horse fraternity. Who’s camping on the hill? Er me? So there were a few amused looks and a couple of ex-service men who said. ‘I did that once, never again.’ Well that was it, stubborness kicked in. I would camp there no matter what! Then one of the lady riders kindly offered for me to stay in the comfort of a nice warm cottage. Most people would have jumped at the chance; however i still had work to do, a buttercup photography competition to have judged and had to save Steve who was being bullied by salivating dogs. So imagine you have a choice of sleep in a cosy cottage or sleep in angular tent construction. My question is: what enables the most adventure? So of course I politely declined their kind offer and returned to the photo van where Steve was being licked to death by two dogs whose breath smelt like tripe. He seemed okay with it all. In fact I was astounded by how calm Steve was considering he had worn nice shoes and had been forced to trample through mud. He was very chilled out: I put that down to shock. So for the buttercup judging. Bearing in mind that Steve had not met either Carol, who owns the company, or myself before. We felt it fair to force him to jude the buttercup photography competition. Of course it was highly competitive and could turn nasty. I had images of WWF wrestling, but I did keep that to myself. I didn’t think it was fair to put your boss in a double nelson in the middle of a field. For someone now in the throng of two competive female photographers Steve was potentially at risk. He took his role seriously, showed dedication and was very fair in the judging, albeit completely wrong in his choice. I lost, but came highly commended. I think the black and white photograph of a buttercup defied the idea of buttercups! Anyway I was not sore, but I was going to be… After the hog roast and my vegetarian version:quiche. Yes I know that a quiche rotating on a stick over a fire does not conjure the same romantic imagery. That is why I said Hog roast, you can imagine fires, men beating their chests and women dressed as wenches weilding jugs of beer saying arrrr and Robin hood turning up. Try that same image with a quiche on a stick! Yes I know it doesn’t sound so great… But it was nice. Anyway after saying goodbye to Steve, whose eyes were slightly glazed and he may well have developed a twitch, it was time for bed. On the hill I arranged my sleeping bag and blankets. The slope, I would guess, was about 20 degrees. So I worked out my plan. Sleep on my back with my legs out pressing against the canopy. I could dig in with my heels and stop myself sliding. Well I laid down and got myself comfortable and it worked quite well. Then a horse let out a loud ney and made me jump. So I rolled onto my side. This is where it got difficult. I slid to the wall of the tent. I then scrambled back up and re-arranged my sleeping back and slept on my back. I don’t know whether anyone else ever has it that when they are camping their hearing goes into over-drive. Well I laid silently and all I could hear was grass being ripped up and chewed- all night. Had the horse got out of the pen? I undid the zip of my tent expecting to meet a horse face to face. No. There was no horse, it was down the hill. Hmmm? I went back in and fell asleep until two o’clock in the morning where another horse did a rather loud bottom sound. I thought the phantom rasperberry blower was in the field. He was not. Horses pass wind a lot, you thought cows were bad… This one sounded like it was playing a bugle through its bottom. So I woke up and not only had I slipped but I had rotated. It had rained and my face had made contact with the side of the tent. I had managed to unintentionally wash my face. Ironically I had been dreaming about waterfalls. So back to laying on my back until five in the morning when there was a rain storm. I wondered about the comfort of a pretty the cottage and considered I may well have made a mistake. Although the thought of the morning conversation about the virtues of erecting a tent on a hill made me feel I had made the right choice. The last three hours of sleep were the best. I wedged my bottom in a pot hole, it stopped me sliding and I made it through to eight oclock where yet another horse made a loud neighing sound. That was it, I was awake. So I took a stroll down to an area where they are making some very tasty fried egg sandwhiches. Also there was home made Victoria sponge. It was lovely. I did notice there was were a number of smiles in my direction, numerous people asked if I had slept well. Now for me the word ‘well’ is not definite. It is like nice. So since well had no specific parameters, I went for well in comparitive to an insomniac. So my answer was yes, surprisingly well considering. All through the day numerous people came up to me. ‘Ah you’re the girl who slept in the angular tent pitch. ‘Yes I am.’ ‘The girl who slept on the hill, giggle.’ Yep all of the above… But with such mini-adventures you learn the following. So in terms of pitching tents: do not pitch on a hill, even if you think that freaked out horses or elephants may well crush you. If you do make that decision- make sure you do it where no-one can see if and make jokes about it. Always deny the fact to the masses that you have been a completely stubborn idiot. Always justify why such an idiotic attempt has been made and convince them you are completely right! And finally invest in a camper van and do not park it on a hill! Moral of the story, when pitching a tent do not imagine angry horses playing twister on your tent! If you want to see the shots have a look here: www.Jayphotos.co.uk

• My First Sale!!
  by Lesley Hill

  Well I am very surprised and happy tonight as I sold my first Photograph- / A Card of ‘Ode to Jeffery Smart’ to Anthony Knoblauch! / Than…

  Well I am very surprised and happy tonight as I sold my first Photograph- / A Card of ‘Ode to Jeffery Smart’ to Anthony Knoblauch! / Thanks Anthony….I really appreciate your faith in my work!

• My computer almost died...
  by Ben Vernel

  ...saving the poster file at such a big size. Now I don’t know if I want to go through it again if I want to make any changes. Here’s wha…

  ...saving the poster file at such a big size. Now I don’t know if I want to go through it again if I want to make any changes. Here’s what it’s looking like now:

• Features
  by Lesley Hill

  Thanks to the Bits and Pieces group for featuring my shot ‘Wikki, in the Sun’ and also for including me in the feature artists last week….

  Thanks to the Bits and Pieces group for featuring my shot ‘Wikki, in the Sun’ and also for including me in the feature artists last week. / The Uk to Aus & Back group for featuring my shot ‘BUDDAH’ thanks very much to you all. / The Bridges group have featured my image of the ‘Wooden Bridge -Mildura’ that was taken with my mobile phone! / I would like to thank these groups for their support of my work! / Cheers / Lesley