/ This image found its way to the redbubble homepage – and it’s parking there right now. Thanks a lot for the honor!
Hello sweet person who purchased a card of ‘hypnotic’! Thankyou!!!! Hello sweet people who comment on my work and who support me on R…
Hello sweet person who purchased a card of ‘hypnotic’! Thankyou!!!! Hello sweet people who comment on my work and who support me on RB. Thankyou too~! Sal :D
I’m happy… I won today the National Parks of the World mood of anger “co…
I’m happy… I won today the National Parks of the World mood of anger competition for this image / / I’m also featured in the group. / Please check this group and contribute to it by joining. There are amazing images, writings and artists in this group. / Thanks for all the members who voted for it..
Hi Everyone! Carmen here – I hope you are all well! I know lots of you creative types and connoisseurs of the arts love to know of up…
Hi Everyone! Carmen here – I hope you are all well! I know lots of you creative types and connoisseurs of the arts love to know of up comming exhibitions and I have been very busy painting for an exhibition I am having with Narelle Manser Smith and Tanya Cook in September. The opening is on the 12th of September at 6:30. Please keep this evening free as this is my first step toward a solo exhibition and I would love to see all you Perth or anybody in Perth at the time, there! Please email me your postal addresses so I can send formal invitations when they are get delivered from the printer this week. Warm Regards, / Carmen Address: ‘Victoria Park Centre For The Arts’ at 12 Kent St, Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia.
A hearty Thank you for being featured in America’s National PArk Group. Thanks again, Mike
A hearty Thank you for being featured in America’s National PArk Group. Thanks again, Mike
Firstly I was wondering why my Vintage Pink image was taking off…
Firstly I was wondering why my Vintage Pink image was taking off suddenly today with more comments and favouritings – now I know!! It is featured on Redbubble’s Art page – along with amazing images by Jason Connelly, Paul Vanzella, Robert Mullner, Sharon Hammond and others whose bootlaces I feel unworthy to tie! I am thrilled. Secondly I had word today that Vintage Luna Park will be used by a card company in Sydney to create giveaway postcards in spinners at hundreds of venues – I don’t think it has sunk in yet – Sarah’s Butterfly Kisses was published by them a few weeks ago, and is already out there in the ‘marketplace’ so keep an eye out in tourist spots, cafes, theatres etc … you may see some familiar images!!! Woohoo !!!
Hi Everyone!! Good news!! Perenti was featured in the fabulous new group Australian Wildlife :)) Perenti...
Hi Everyone!! Good news!! Perenti was featured in the fabulous new group Australian Wildlife :)) Perenti Thankyou so much to Steve and Michael for allowing me to adorn your lovely feature page:D Much appreciated :) Sal
How encouraging it is to find your work on Featured pages!!!! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found / Music...
How encouraging it is to find your work on Featured pages!!!! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found / Music featured in Inspiring Greeting Cards / Catching the LIght in Light and Reflection / Spring Fever in Live Love Dream / Safari in National Parks of the World It always makes my day to have some validation from our ‘leaders’ and encouragement from other members. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!
Over the past ten days or so Banquette has been featured in Stil…
Over the past ten days or so Banquette has been featured in Stillness Speaks Group / Enticement in the LIght and Reflection Group / Queens Cascades in the National Parks of the World Group, and / As Time Goes By in Cards: Best of your Best. Thanks to the hosts, and all who faithfully comment, favourite, and support!
Hi all, My Perenti has been featured in the Australian Wildlife Group! How cool is that? Thankyou so much to Steve, Sharon a…
Hi all, My Perenti has been featured in the Australian Wildlife Group! How cool is that? Thankyou so much to Steve, Sharon and Michael for showcasing my work!! Much appreciated:)))) Please pay a vist to this wonderful growing and ever so proud group! Australian Wildlife Group Regards and best wishes Sal XXXX
This afternoon I got a phone call from Wilsons Promontory National Park asking me to pay $275 a year for a photographers licence, due to …
This afternoon I got a phone call from Wilsons Promontory National Park asking me to pay $275 a year for a photographers licence, due to the fact that I am deemed to be a ‘professional photographer’ because I have a website . What I don’t understand is how one arm of the government regards my photography as a hobby and another as a profession. Yes I sell a few cards and pictures but this merely offsets some of the expenses I don’t actual make a profit out of this and can’t even claim those expenses off my tax because the tax department does not deem it as a professional activity, merely a hobby (one that just went another $275 a year into the red). I so don’t get it. Would be interested to know what experience and views others have of this phenomena and for that matter how many of you out there already pay this sort of money each year for this sort of license. Confused
The wonderfully talented Traceyanne has taken my “Billy Goats Gruff No 2” image / !http://ima…
The wonderfully talented Traceyanne has taken my “Billy Goats Gruff No 2” image / and turned it into a stunning oil painting How amazing is that! THANK YOU lovely lady … I am so honoured. Rosalie
Just catching up after a busy couple of weeks – over that time Endurance...
Just catching up after a busy couple of weeks – over that time Endurance was featured in the Nirvana Group / Grieg Piano Concerto in the All About Your Best Work Group / Kunzea Ambiqua in the Live Love Dream and the New South Wales Photography Groups / Blossoms in Spring Blooms / Monet Moment in Live Love Dream / Fagan Park Bridge No 3 in Mornings & Evenings – Sunbeams & Storms Group / Classic Sydney Harbour in the MELBOURNE GROUP!!!! (Thank you Sea Eagles!! Seeing we won the footy, the Sydney host – Sarah – got to host the Melbourne Group and wreak a little bit of havoc!!) There were also a few “top 10” challenge results along the way … I am hugely grateful to those who voted, those who comment on and favourite these works, The Hosts of the Groups also deserve some kudos – it can be jolly hard work!!
Hey wow!! Mike bought a card of Point Hicks lighthouse!! Wow..thankyou so much Mike!! I am really happy and appreciative! I hope it br…
Hey wow!! Mike bought a card of Point Hicks lighthouse!! Wow..thankyou so much Mike!! I am really happy and appreciative! I hope it brings you some joy! Please gp and visit this lovely mans folio! mikrin Kindest regards, Sal (I have to go to bed now..on nightshift :( but I think this excitement will keep me awake!!) / xxx
On the second weekend of November 2008 a group of Bubblers wandered into the town of Mannum, on the Mighty Murray River. Most of them were South Aussies, with one supagroovy Bubbler from Tassie. We had a total of 20 including the 3 Bubblers who visited from very very early Saturday morning until late that night. The really wonderful and friendly Bubblers who attended were Photoj, Danni, Jim, Elphonline, Beautiful Valley, Suzanne, Patapping, Mtapping, Bombamermaid, Tamarama, Bill, PrincessBren and AndyGii, plus the adoring family members that tagged along out of pure love! Not one to wake easily, I didn’t get up before the birds to take photos of the sun waking up. Most of the others did though (that’s dedication for you). / I’d say thousands (altogether) of photos were taken of various old cottages, leanto’s which looked like Joliffe created them, steam driven paddleboats, local wildlife (and tamelife… Mum Possom, her baby and her friend all seemed to enjoy that banana!!), sunrises, sunsets, water, clouds, people sitting, people standing, people eating, people chatting (about cameras!! Surprise surprise!!) and of course, people taking photos! And loads more things too!! My budding photographer didn’t want to know about the camera until we were packing up. He saw the tripod (that I hardly ever use) and spent ages playing with the various bits on it. He then decided he wanted to actually take some photos, not just play with the tripod!! Good thing I emptied the memory card first, or he wouldn’t have been able to take any! What else? I’ve found that not only do I have to save for a digital SLR, but I have to save for a Christmas in July AND a bubbler holiday on a houseboat!! How awful!! I’ll have to wait until after March or April to decide if I can do them both or not… well after Christmas! I’ve got it all bookmarked in Safari though ;D I didn’t get any painting or drawing done, but I did come home so relaxed that I felt really weird. I had no idea what the strange calm feeling was until I was chatting (bragging) to Belladonna on the phone and she said I sounded so relaxed! So thank you everyone for helping me become relaxed!!!! I hope it lasts longer than just a day ;D Thank you, all of you, for such a wonderful weekend!! / xx / GG
Today I received my 100th Feature Photo!!! I knew I was close, and today I spent hours and hours tabulating my features and here is …
Today I received my 100th Feature Photo!!! I knew I was close, and today I spent hours and hours tabulating my features and here is my 100th feature photo: $20 Bill Scene Many, many thanks to the wonderful hosts, Chuck and Gary in Mountains and Light for giving me this honor today. I am so happy and grateful to you in this beautiful group. / Talk about having a good day, wow!
The 2009 Geelong Highland Gathering was held on the long weekend at Queens Park. Lots to see and do ….. There were highland dancers …
The 2009 Geelong Highland Gathering was held on the long weekend at Queens Park. Lots to see and do ….. There were highland dancers of course, massed pipe bands, some medieval mayhem, the heavy games, haggis hurling, lots of tartan, Dad’s Army were there (well not really, but it looked like them), even an owner/scottish dog breed lookalike contest! / / / want to see more? ....go here / / / / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5 ~ that’s a bagpipe tuner! / / / 6 / / / 7 / / / 8 / / / 9 / / / 10 / / / 11 / / / 12 / / / 13 / / / 14 / / / 15 / / / !6 / / / 17 / / / 18 / / / 19 / / / 20 / / / 21 / / / 22 / / / 23 /
ANZAC Day in Geelong, whilst not as big as the capital cities around the country, has plenty of atmosphere and emotion. The parade, follo…
ANZAC Day in Geelong, whilst not as big as the capital cities around the country, has plenty of atmosphere and emotion. The parade, followed by a service, and then a bit of a chat, in Johnstone Park is always very well attended by the young and the old. The weather today was kind for the most part with just a passing shower and a sprinkling of sunshine. / ....and as usual there is a heap more pics here / / / / / / 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5 / ! / / 7 / / / 8 / / / 9 / / / 10 / 11 / / / 12 / / / 13 / 14 / / / 15 / / / 16 / / / 17 / / / 18 / / / 19 / / / 20 /
Recently I emailed images from the local big park (Fagan Park) to Hornsby Council suggesting they would make wonderful postcards, calenda…
Recently I emailed images from the local big park (Fagan Park) to Hornsby Council suggesting they would make wonderful postcards, calendars etc to promote the area, especially with a kiosk now being built near the main park entry. Today I not only was told photographs are sourced via their annual Hornsby Council photo comp (which is not widely advertised so I was unaware of it!) but that Council has a policy re photography (where have we heard this before? There must be an epidemic!) and if anyone intends to put photos up for sale, there is a ‘process’ to go through, and payment of a fee!!! So I will need to make my Fagan shots for viewing only on RB, which also means they will not be available on my bubblesite. I think it is the latter matter which distresses me more. They are a major part of my portfolio but I won’t be able to display them to bubblesite viewers. Has our society gone mad? Sometimes I wonder! Maybe we’ll need to stick to our own backyards pretty soon and not be seen in public carrying a camera!! :(( Rosalie PS Council website has, among other things, a statement saying Fagan Park is great for “Wedding ceremonies and photography” ... with NO mention of permission or fees!!! PPS I really like the following statement (which is on a similar topic) by Russell Stewart (www.potd.com.au – and I quote this with Russ’s permission!!!) Photographers are NOT automatically terrorists! / Photographers are NOT automatically paedophiles! / Photographers have the right to photograph in public places, where subjects have no reasonable expectation to privacy. / When in public, people do NOT have the right NOT to be photographed. This is the LAW!! / Photographers are the VICTIMS of uneducated law enforcement, the media and it’s misguided group of followers.
I haven’t been on RB over the past few weeks, only to moderate, due to family commitments which have kept me very busy! Many Thanks fo…
I haven’t been on RB over the past few weeks, only to moderate, due to family commitments which have kept me very busy! Many Thanks for the following features and placement: Ocean Views – Cape Tribulation featured in the Top 10 of / World Heritage Listed Properties Challenge My Favourite Heritage Listed Property Site Pacific Gulls featured in The Scavenger Hunt View to Cradle Mountain featured in All Parks Three Blue Berries featured in Alphabet Soup – The Letter B* Banksia Plagiocarpa featured in Protaceae Family Red Tulips featured in Tulips Fruits of the Forest featured in Berries Fruits & Seeds Misty featured in All Parks Moss Covered Myrtle Beech featured in Forests The Saucepan featured in Far North Queensland Isopogon anethifolius featured in Protaceae Family* Smiles from me! / Marilyn (Blossom) :o)
Occupational Health and Safety…..... My bitch for today…. I went to “History Alive” today, at Fort Lytton, in Brisbane, and of …
Occupational Health and Safety…..... My bitch for today…. I went to “History Alive” today, at Fort Lytton, in Brisbane, and of course raced over to the fort itself, to grab some new shots. Imagine my dismay when I discovered that most of the area had been cordoned off, and the best places for light and shadow had been totally ruined because plywood had been cable-tied across all the railings. Some of you might remember “Last Man Standing” where the light and shadow play made for an interesting composition. The light can’t get through there any more. / The trip through the tunnel was turned into a nightmare by shoulder height plywood instead of an open railing where you could see into the other rooms, as shown in these two following images from last year. How can we appreciate the difficulties faced by the young men and women who had to defend our shores when we’re faced with the tidying up and “making safe” of these historic sites? Somebody let their child play in these tunnels, and they hurt themselves, so now we’re faced with plywood instead of bricks and steel? Please!!!!!! Keep these places as historically original as possible! Parents need to learn that they are responsible for their children, not the state, not the national parks, and not the museums! I thank you for listening (or reading)
The following article in our local paper last week exemplifies what is going on here in our town and I imagine other places as well….hu…
The following article in our local paper last week exemplifies what is going on here in our town and I imagine other places as well….humans behaving in an unconscious manner with sickening results….. / I am feeling so angry right now and so frustrated with the human race….my heart is aching and I just needed to vent and to share this, for what it’s worth…..it’s a long read, I know, but maybe some of you will take a few minutes of your time and will feel this and maybe, just maybe, it will create some further awareness…. Unchanging Human Habits Pull the Trigger on Unlucky Bear / The price of human food costly to bears / By Juley Harvey Trail-Gazette / Posted: 08/05/2009 02:19:58 PM MDT There`s a reason, it turns out, that wildlife officials tell you not to feed the bears/wildlife. It corrupts the animals, and then wildlife officers must intervene and destroy what they have signed up to protect. The chain of events leaves a lot to be desired. But it can be easily changed. / District Wildlife Manager Rick Spowart of the Colorado Division of Wildlife just came from a killing last Friday, and brought the bear carcass with him to the Trail-Gazette. It`s not a happy bearskin rug. A picture may get the grim point across, he said. There are consequences to everything—even something as simple or good-hearted as feeding the hummingbirds. When bears are about, they pay the consequences for intractable human behavior. Division of Wildlife officer Rick Spowart examines a euthanized bear on Friday. The 4-year-old female had become habituated to breaking in to homes, as well as bird feeders and garbage bins. ( Walt Hester )Spowart is not a happy camper. He had to kill (not euthanize, not put down, but kill) a healthy adult female bear that was about three to four years old, in the vicinity of the YMCA of the Rockies, for just being a bear among humans. The bear is gone forever, taking one piece of the wilderness with her. It`s simple, really—spare the bear and secure the food. Food kills. Bears are attracted by human food and garbage—humans are culpable in their death. Wildlife officials ask why not be positive, guard our garbage and keep the bears alive? Maybe you`re thinking it will never happen to you—colliding with a bear. But it will surely happen to the bear, and it won`t be a happy ending. Just listen to Spowart, he has many sad tales. A week ago, a bear broke into a cabin in which there was a two-year-old child. “The bear wasn`t looking at the child as a food item. This one was after human food, but it was a danger and the people were upset,” Spowart said. “This bear wasn`t afraid of people.” The bear had a big, white mark on its chest that made it easy to identify. Wildlife officials tried to give the bear a negative human experience, before the ultimate one. They don`t relocate bears because the bears find their way back or just cause problems in other locales once they`ve caught onto the idea of feeding from our freezers and shelves. “There`s no place to take the bears,” Spowart said. “We`ve trapped them and moved them to Wyoming. They came back to Pinewood Springs. It`s a hard sell to take them to another area…. It`s a no-win situation. If you move them, you have to tag them and try to move them as far away from town as possible, moving the problem to somebody else, where they will probably cause damage or injury. This is the end result of feeding.” There are several bears in town this year. A little gingerbread bear is now in the crosshairs. The little bear has traveled Moraine and entered houses on Aspen, by the hospital and in the general vicinity of Laura`s Fudge shop. He`s been up and down main street. Spowart has approached town officials about the problem and about providing bear-resistant garbage cans. The town needs to start cleaning up its own garbage, he said. The shop owners need to ask the town to better manage the garbage. Raccoons have been getting into it, as well as the bears. Spowart said wildlife officials have had to shoot some raccoons with distemper. “We euthanize raccoons every week,” he said. “They get into the garbage and spread the disease, right downtown.” The town council should consider bear-resistant garbage cans. There is a regulation requiring mitigation of garbage and different options are available. “Once a bear`s had a good meal at your house, he`ll come back. Take away the attractions,” he said. He suggested using bear pepper spray and air horns to signal the bears are not welcome. “It`s in the best interest of the bear,” he said. “I`m the guy that gets stuck with pulling the trigger and killing the bears…. It made me feel terrible and frustrated. This is going on all over the state. It`s a shame. If people would do a better job of coexisting, we wouldn`t have to kill the bears. Once a bear starts down this road….” The little gingerbread bear in town is on his last legs, a “hair`s breath away” from the bad end of a gun. “I`m almost for sure going to have to trap him,” Spowart said. “We`re trying to turn around behavior, but people just are not getting it. I`m frustrated. The bears graduate from garbage to bird feeders to houses. They`re trained by people.” Leaving a bear any opportunity is dangerous. An open garage door invites him in. Spowart said he`s known bears to knock holes in garage doors, if they smell food. “It`s best to be proactive,” he said, “and not have any attractants. Don`t leave windows and doors open…. Bears are getting trained to enter houses. They`re rewarded. They become corrupt. They go house to house. You can`t expect people to live with their houses being broken into. I had no choice (but to kill this bear).... This bear would continue its behavior. “We have to educate people to coexist with bears, to manage their garbage and pet food,” he said. He told of one bear who jumped into a kennel to get pet food. Anything that smells good in a car is also at risk. Bears seem particularly attracted to vanilla air freshener in cars. They break into bathrooms because of “good-smelling toiletries,” he said. The unfortunate bear last week had broken into at least nine homes or cabins and created a mess in one place, after a dinner of pizza, watermelon and peaches. “It`s easier than foraging in the forest,” he said. However, fast food is death on a stick. Spowart said the bear killed last week could`ve been in better shape and you could feel the ribs on her. A Y employee reported the same bear broke into a house last year. She had broken into several places in recent weeks, emptying refrigerators. He and Bear Aware volunteer Jim Boyd (who works at the Y) treed the bear 50 to 60 feet up a blue spruce Friday morning. “I darted it,” Spowart said. “It fell asleep in the tree. We lowered it to the ground with ropes.” Then, he shot the bear. “I don`t feel good about it,” he said. “I didn`t sign up to kill…. You can`t blame the bear.” However, he was under pressure to remove the bear. Spowart gave the Y and Boyd credit for obtaining bear-resistant garbage cans. However, the more that people “don`t get it,” the more frustrated he becomes. “I`m the one that pulls the trigger,” he said. “They`re (people) the cause of it. Some people feed the animals intentionally, to get pictures.” He has a photo of a man with a can of pork and beans held out to a bear, who has his nose in the can. “I gave him a ticket and had to kill the bear,” Spowart said. There are at least five bears currently foraging in town. “One big male has been pushing over dumpsters,” he said. “There`s the little gingerbread bear a hair`s breath away from euthanizing, a sow and two cubs and another sow and a cub.” They have been seen from the Catholic Church to the hospital to Davis Hill. They`re spending a whole lot of time in downtown Estes, he said. “It`s a pretty bad year for bears,” Spowart said. “It`s really discouraging. We`ve had a nice, wet summer. There`s natural bear food out. I`m hopeful that when the chokecherries ripen, they`ll switch to natural food, and with negative conditioning from humans, they`ll go back to being honest bears.” Spowart also hopes to turn the people around. The same people are causing the problem repeatedly and we “need to clean up our back yard,” he said. “Wherever there are people, there are bears,” he said.
Through my cyber travels i have come across many photographers work that has been stolen and used without their knowledge / And just recen…
Through my cyber travels i have come across many photographers work that has been stolen and used without their knowledge / And just recently i have found a site that tracks back photos and shows where they are being used on the net / http://tineye.com/ / you simply enter the image address (URL) or choose an image from your HD and the site looks for it in their archives / it even works for images that have been cropped after being stolen or partially photoshopped this is a good example / http://tineye.com/search/0ac89241ed4c8ccd104094f6412ded2e0acfc2d7 / The original is the profile pic of someone who friend requested me on Facebook as something seemed odd/funny about it I put the image through Tineye.com / and you can see the results Another image site which you might like (if you use flickr) is / http://clipyourphotos.com/FP / they serch through the Flickr Front page history for your photos that might have been featured there that you missed any way I hope these are useful for people Cheers Richard
Tone has journaled about Ken Duncan having a spra…
Tone has journaled about Ken Duncan having a spray regarding the rules and regulations confronting photographers in Australia at the moment…as Ken states, there’d be much less tourism without the photographers…. This is a very interesting read….especially to those who are being accosted more and more by self righteous worriers who seem to think we’re all there to photograph their children, and paste them all over the internet….or dare to show off the beauty of our country…
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