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Colourful building facade Adding a bit of colour to your Monday so that it's not too mundane. It's a public holiday for most of Australia today, thanks to the Queen's birthday celebrations, so it's definitely a great way to start the week. This building is in Canberra and the size of this facade was really …
Afternoon stripes of sunshine in the city The city buildings create their own patterns with the afternoon sunshine - it's good to look up occasionally! What else could it be? An elevator moving up, a phone battery display....let your imagination go wild. Mundane Monday Challenge is hosted by Jithin at Trablogger - it's all about finding the beauty …
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Reflection The water was so still it was hard to see where the reflection actually starts. Mundane Monday Challenge is hosted by Jithin at Trablogger - it's all about finding the beauty in mundane things ....a challenge created to find beauty in everyday mundane things...capture the beauty and upload the photographs. Feel free to join in! Welcome to Mundane Monday . Deb …
No words on Wordless Wednesday just wishes! Debbie 🙂
Welcome to Wordless Wednesday! Debbie 🙂
Welcome to Wordless Wednesday! Debbie 🙂
Welcome to Wordless Wednesday! Debbie 🙂
Welcome to Wordless Wednesday! Deb 🙂
I used this photo in a recent Mundane Monday challenge. It's a photo of a solar light in the garden, taken from above. In the original the yellow stands out and now in black and white it looks completely different. I decided to play around with the photo and ended up transforming it into black and white …
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Here's a photo of one of my favourite rosebuds. This particular rose bush has the most delightful fragrant yellow roses so I'm quite surprised that there is so much other colour in this bud. As an aside we used some of these roses petals for my daughter's wedding on the weekend. My husband and I collected a …
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It's the first Monday of the month which means it's Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge - and this week the theme is Nature. On our way home from a bit of a road trip on the weekend, I spotted these rolls of pink silage sitting in amongst the green spring grass. I liked the contrast of the green …
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This hot air balloon created a great deal of excitement on a recent weekend away. I tried hard to capture the flame, with my iPhone, as the gas was being pumped into the balloon. I am quite pleased to have caught it. It's the fourth Monday of the month which means it's Sally D's Mobile …
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I'm really not a cat person, despite having a cat in our family for many years. We used to have two dogs and a rabbit as well but they have long since gone. Luna the cat has outlived them all. Our eldest daughter acquired 'Luna Aphrodite' as a tiny kitten and when she left for …
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Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge has Macro as the theme for this week. I'm very surprised at the quality and clarity that the humble phone can produce. I didn't do very much editing on this photo but did take quite a few shots trying to capture what I have dubbed 'the tendrils'. I'm not quite sure if I've …
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If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ~Vincent Van Gogh Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge has Nature as the theme for this week. We've had the most beautiful weather over the weekend, so warm and summery all of a sudden! Last week we were cold with our wood fires still burning and this week …
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It's the fourth Monday of the month which means it's time for Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge - and this week it's Challenger's Choice. 4th Monday Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Animals, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Objects, Panorama, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel). I have chosen night photography so that I can share this great photo from …
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It's time for Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge and as it's the third Monday of the month, the theme this week is Black and white. My sun-room is an absolute delight at this time of the year - it's sunny, light, warm, cosy, comfortable, functional and it's my go-to place, my hideaway, my cocoon. I have lots of …
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Sally D's Mobile Photography Challenge has Nature as the theme for this week. I've been taking lots of photos of nature lately, flowers, landscapes, sunsets, sunrises, skies - it is such a great subject! My Every day photo project features lots of these photos as they inspire me so much. It's also helped by the fact that I …
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