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Looking from Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula over Corio Bay to the You Yangs
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This old rustic fence running off down the hill with it’s slotted holes in the misty morning of a cold grey Macedon day looked good with the lone tree as a backdrop.
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Looking from Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula over farm lands and canola fields toward the You Yangs State Park, fine misty rain adds a glow to the setting sun.
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Looking West from Sears Tower at dusk, taken at 7PM 08/24/2007. High Dynamic Range image.
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Abandoned shearing / wool shed. / South Australia. / © 2008.
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And there I stood in the middle of the New Mexican desert, awaiting the sun to come over the peaks of the Sandia’s….my tripod was so cold I couldn’t even touch it, thankfully I had the car behind me running, where I was returning to for some hand warming every 3 minutes. However, it was worth it! It is just so utterly tranquil, not a sound, lost in the vastness of nature….... Thoughts welcomed!
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Taken on the same morning as Spring Mist
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Another of the images from my swim through Redbank Gorge here in the West MacDonnell Ranges. Here it is easy to see the ruggard nature of the gorge with bolders wedged between the walls and deep water to swim through. My partner and her friend went all the way to the end of the gorge while I was content with this location to shoot. With all my gear so wrapped up and protected it was a major production to stop and shoot. A friend took some photos of me and the setup before I started swimming through the gorge. Its a location that is seriously hard to photograph but it has such a potential for amazing images. I think I’ll go back next week and try again. Redbank Gorge, West MacDonnell Ranges National Park / Northern Territory / Australia site: www.thedirtygardener.org .
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery View from Mt Kaputar Stopped to take in this spectacular view on my way up to the Summit of Mt Kaputar, New South Wales, Australia. Mount Kaputar National Park is located on 36,817 hectares and is 50 kilometres east of Narrabri and 570 kilometres north west of Sydney. Mount Kaputar National Park consists of a gathering of sharp peaks and rocky ranges, the remnants of a 17 million year old volcano. Millions of years of erosion have carved this volcanic pile into the Nandewar Range, with its dramatic landscape of lava terraces, volcanic plugs and ring dykes. At the peak of the range is Mt Kaputar, which reaches an altitude of 1510m. From the summit it is possible to take in 360 degree views encompassing one tenth of NSW. The National Park is popular with rockclimbers. There are 11 walks in the national park, most offering spectacular views of the area. The park protects a wide variety of plant communities, including semi-arid woodlands, wet eucalypt forests and subalpine heaths. Wildflowers in spring provide a magnificent display. It’s home to a host of animal species, and provides a haven for many threatened species – including bats, birds, wallabies, quolls and a unique large pink slug, which often appears after rain. Canon PowerShot A650 IS / 12.1MP – 6x Optical Zoom – 4x Digital Zoom
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Country Road on way to Mann River Nature Reserve Nestled amongst magnificent mountain scenery east of the Great Dividing Range in the north of New South Wales, is a lovely and little-known part of the Mann River. It is an area of great interest to naturalists, bushwalkers and photographers. The park is located 48 km east of Glen Innes, 129 km west of Grafton. Turn off the Gwydir Highway onto the old Glen Innes-Grafton road. Take this road between the park and Grafton for a scenic alternative, however it includes 120 km of unsealed road not suitable for caravans. Old Grafton Road, Rural New South Wales, Australia.
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Early morning light on Wilpena Pound as seen from Stokes Hill Lookout, Flinder’s Ranges. A larger version can be seen HERE / / / / / / / / / / /
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Sunset taken over the Great Dividing Range in central Victoria Australia / /
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Sold – Medium Mounted Print to a Mystery Buyer, along with 10 cards, thank you! This animal lives at the Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo, TN American buffalo (technically bison) are normally brown in color. Rarely, white buffalo are born. White Buffalo are considered to be sacred signs in several Native American religions, and thus have great spiritual importance in those cultures and are visited for prayer and other religious ceremonies. The following statements are excerpts from “The White Buffalo: / A Living Prophecy in Western Pennsylvania”, by Melanie J. Martin. The Rest of the Story and Here “At the small Woodland Zoo in Farmington, PA, on November 12, 2006, a prophecy was born, a living piece of a legend central to many Native spiritualities. It took the form of a buffalo calf that emerged into the world completely white, a one-in-ten-million occurrence that becomes even more miraculous when considering the scarcity of buffalo today. The Woodland Zoo, like the several other places where white, non-albino buffalo have been born in recent years, became a site of pilgrimage for throngs of visitors. The white buffalo calf holds enormous sacredness to many Native American tribes, but many of us who are not from Native cultures have felt drawn into its aura as well. We go to look, to wonder, to pay respect, to find out if it just might have a message for us—and perhaps to marvel that the very animal our society has taken such great lengths to conquer has brought forth a message with the power to save our society from itself. In Lakota spirituality, our survival as a people depends on believing in and heeding the white buffalo’s sacred message, which urges us to live the understanding that all living beings are linked and interdependent. “It has come to speak to you…and it’s telling you something here…you have to listen,” says Lakota Sundance chief and medicine man David Swallow, Jr. “It’s not an Indian thing; it’s for humanity.” On April 14, 2007, Swallow spoke to a crowd of people at the Woodland Zoo, a surprisingly large crowd considering the out-of-the-way location and the cold, persistent rain. Many of us seemed to sense the urgency of Swallow’s message. He spoke of how the white buffalo has long been sacred to the Lakota and other Plains tribes such as the Kiowa, Apache, Cheyenne, Hadatsa, Pawnee, and other Siouxan tribes, whose existence depended on the herds of buffalo that darkened the land before the days of the transcontinental railroad. A white buffalo carries a message to the people to whom it appears, warning them that hard times, such as an epidemic of disease, will be arriving unless the people examine the way they’ve been living and learn to live in a way that is better for all. The tribes of the Great Plains have traditionally shared a profound bond with all of the buffalo they depended on for survival. Like their relationship with the rest of the Earth, this relationship merges what Westerners think of as separate “physical” and “spiritual” worlds into one. The English language affords us no adequate way to describe this holistic way of life; we can only strive to intuit such a way of being in the world. Buffalo were central to the lives of the Great Plains tribes, used for food, clothing, tools, and other purposes. Hunting, to these cultures, is never mere sport; it is done out of necessity and with the utmost respect and gratitude. “Hunting is a spiritual thing,” says Swallow. “You never go hunting and just mount the head on the wall…you use every part of it.” He adds that the Lakota have always held a ceremony the night before a hunt, “because nothing belongs to us; it all belongs to the Great Spirit…through ceremony, we must ask permission from this four-legged.” The following statements are excerpts from “White Buffalo Prophecy” by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe. Since 1994, these kinds of signs have been coming, but it seems that people do not listen or want to see anything important from the animal nation’s messages. This has a lot to do with faith. What was told is as follows: This is a very dangerous time we are in! The minds of the people on Unc’i Maka (Grandmother Earth) are choosing to focus on a new way of life that is hurting us all in the global community. This way of life chooses war, hurting one another physically and verbally, and continued desecration to Unc’i Maka in taking more then what we truly need in her resources. These decisions not only hurt our own People, but the animal nations are dying in large numbers to extinction by this new way of life we are accepting. Unc’i Maka is going to have a hard time to continue to bring food to all life. These decisions need to be changed very soon and are in each and every one of your hands more then ever. Respect to the spirit of life needs to be brought back; boundaries need to put back into place and faith needs to be present in everyone’s life once again. I found the story of the White Buffalo to be a worthy read. I found myself reading other stories about the history of the white buffalo and what it meant to my ancestors of long ago. What I found most interesting of all is the way this prophecy told by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, paralells to things the Holy Spirit of my religion has recently spoken to my heart. Life is precious, whether human or animal. We should respect life. While some animals are needed to sustain the lives of humans, we should respect them by only taking what we need. We should take care of our animals and treat them with respect. Also, we should treat human life with honor and respect from conception to the end of life. And, we should love and respect one another, helping one another rather than engaging in hate and violence. The world I have known seems to be crumbling around me. Financial ruin and despair, greed, hatred,, all the sin I see on t.v., internet, and all around me seems to me exceedingly grave. I think the Holy Scriptures can express it much better than I can, it comes down to this: Matthew 22:36-40 (New American Standard Bible) “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, ” YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. “The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” And then there is the Golden Rule> Matthew 7:12 (New American Standard Bible) “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NAS) “and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
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One of those mornings when you feel glad to be alive, and especially glad that you took your camera on the way to work! Nikon D700 and 14-24 lens
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Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens, the Dandenongs, Melbourne, Victoria. © Ern Mainka
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Pastel on Colourfix paper (burgundy) – 50cm x 35cm The Flinders Ranges is full of these delightful ‘creek beds’ with no water in them except when there is a downpour. I love the colours of the Flinders. Another area of Australia where there is a painting in every direction you look!
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A young male Gang Gang Cockatoo,taken in my garden on a shrub with berries. Raw to Jpeg only Canon EOS 450D many thanks to all who view ,comment and favourite on my images
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BEST VIEWED LARGER You know i once attended a lecture by a well known Australian Photographer called Ken Duncan: one of the things he talked about was thinking outside the frame. When sometimes you have tunnel vision when you picture a image in your eye and don’t observe opportunities that come along. This is one occasion, i was focussed on catching that sunset, and was frustrated when a boat came into the wharf, and blocked my view , but then i noticed the boat was towing a dinghy. And the dinghy kept drifting out adding some wonderful foreground perspective to that sunset. So think outside the box pays off ! Equipment: Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm , handheld / Technique: HDR , 5 exposures bracketted, Photomatix 3.2 , Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Thank you for your views, comments and favouritings / Right Spot – CHECK / No Boats – CHECK / Enough Cloud – CHECK / That Consistency to the Water – CHECK / Lights in varying colours – Check / Reflections on Water – Check / Run for the D300 and the tripod – DEFINITELY Caught a range of shots on this Friday morning reached my vantage point about 5.30am. I saw these reflections and ran for the camera. Sydney Harbour like a mill pond before the many vessels start their morning trips and disturbing it’s surface. The other factor is that look to the water surface that landscape photographers might know it’s like a oily look to the water that lends itself to wonderful reflective surface. It took many shots of Sydney Harbour this morning, if, and you should have seen the sunrise that followed . WAIT ! yes i have photos of that as well. Equipment: Manfrotto Tripod, Nikon D300 Nikon 18-200mm Lens / Technique: 5 Bracketted Exposures, Photomatix 3.2, Capure NX See Also / Oh What A Beautiful Morning: Right Place Right Time:
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We all know how usually the night approaches. But did you ever see how it comes vestured in its glory? By the Creator’s will, fiery horse pulls it behind galloping valleys westward and jumping over mountain ranges on his way. Good night Nevada, good night! Those who don’t believe in miracles will never see them…
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Avalon Beach is one of the many beaches that stretch north from the Sydney CBD. Easily reached by car or public transport Sydneys Northern Beaches are well worth a visit if you visit Sydney not as crowded as the more famous beach such as Bondi, they are well worth a visit have a picnic , eat at one of the many restaurants,pubs, cafes , enjoy some fresh seafood, white wine or a ice cold beer. This is where I live , its hard but someone has to suffer LOL For those in the Northern hemisphere, its spring and rapidly approaching summer down here… so you enjoy winter Here a lone photographer enjoys photographing the dawn on a very empty beach. Equipment: Nikon D300, Handheld, Nikon 18-200mm lens / Technique: HDR , 5 Bracketted Exposures, Photomatix 3.2 64 Bit, Nikon Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER Lavender Bay on the North shore of Sydney Harbour , on this morning when the harbour in those final moments beteeen night and day is still , and the many vessels have not started their movements for the day can be like a mirror. Equipment: Nikon D300, Nikon 18-200mm Lens, Manfrotto Tripod. / Technique : 5 Bracketted Images, Processed in Photomatix 3.2 64 Bit, Slight sharpen in Capture NX
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BEST VIEWED LARGER The first rays of day lights the buildings of Sydney…magic., taken from my breakfast location in North Sydney CBD Equipment: Nikon D300, Nikon 18-200mm lens / Technique: HDR 5 Bracketted images, Photomatix 3.2 / / See Also Sparkle:
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BEST VIEWED LARGER My neighbourhood, my sunrise, my inspiration. / Newport Beach I awoke looked out the window to see a glint of colour. Will i get out of bed , or roll over and go back to sleep ? Guess what decision won? Newport Beach is one of the many beaches, north of the city within a short drive. Everyone goes to Bondi that is crowded. Why not head north to pristine beaches, no crowds, and watch the sun rise and set. A good seafood meal, some chilled chardonnay or a beer. Sorry northern hemisphere bubblers it’s officially Summer downunder, so we have to put up with mornings like this for the next few months. Yes I know it’s hard but somebody has to do it ! Equipment: Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Handheld Technique: HDR, 5 Exposures , Photomatix 3.2 64 Bit, Slight sharpen in Capture NX See Also Inspiration & Reflection: /
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