Here's Cardboard Dropcloth 3
When this piece started life as a dropcloth, I'd spilt some white on it and wiped it up. Through successive uses some of that beginning still shows and reminds me of a surreal dwelling which we can see as a corner turning down a brief hall into a room with a large window to frame the clouds beyond.

January 26 was Australia Day and we went to the city to see the Skyshow (I won tickets on the radio to be a VIP guest at the radio station's Listener's Party which was in a prime viewing location. I received a lot of other prizes too). Here's one I took of the fireworks.

Mother Goose, congrats on winning tickets! I never win a thing...

Trev1, what a wonderful picture of the swan. I've taken tons of pics of swans, and yours is just terrific.

Ren your vine is lovely, I'm not surprised it's a tourist attraction.

That's an amazing bench Reeshy, I do hope you and Alexx continue with the Scotland photos.

Mehaul it took me a good five minutes to see your vision of the room but I got there in the end, still not sure what a dropcloth is though.

Bhs thank you so much for your comment, swans are wonderful birds to photograph :-)



Would anyone believe this is Surrey in January?

We have been puppy-sitting tonight this is Mollie today


She has been losing her "puppy" teeth for the last couple of weeks but you can see her adult ones coming in nicely

Mollie is lovely! Quite a large puppy!

Thanks We sure will - we're never anywhere else! Your picture of "Surrey in January" is just lovely!

Trev - A very obliging swan indeed, beautiful picture.

Ren - I am not surprised you are proud of your Frecracker vine, it looks spectacular.

Mother Goose - What a great shot of the fireworks.


Here is a lonely surfer on a very cold day at the beach.

Still in Auckland, looking over to Rangitoto Island from St Hellier's Beach with a lone yacht in view.

Westonbirt Arboretum...

The suburb adjoining mine is Williamstown, which was Melbourne's first seaport.
I've begun exploring "historic" Williamstown through the eyes of the tourists who flock there on weekends and holidays.
Convicts were once housed on prison hulks in Hobson's Bay and were used as labourers.




This was Melbourne's first morgue, built on Williamstown's waterfront. Prior to this, corpses were stored in the cellars of the town's hotels, often suspended above ground as protection from rats.


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This plaque gives further details.

I took 245 photos of the fireworks but don't worry, I won't post all of them ( ). I knew my camera had a fireworks setting but had had trouble finding it in the past - finally found it five minutes before the show started! So it was like playing with a new toy.





Thanks - I don't usually either. However, I've been lucky twice in quick succession. Back in November I won tickets to the Bon Jovi concert on the same radio station.

What's a Radio Station?









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Thanks for identifying the flower, Ren. Your vine is beautiful.

MG, your fireworks photos make me jealous. I'm never able to take good shots of them.

Andrea, what are those sticks in the beach for?

The Taj Mahal has a mosque on the western side. This is a replica on the eastern side that was built to maintain symmetry and which may have served as a guesthouse for visitors.

I'm loving all of the photos, especially the fireworks and Ren's vine!

I was downtown this afternoon, and these barriers had been set up to stop people from walking too close to the buildings, and risking being hit by falling ice!

I've never had any luck in the past with photographing fireworks. I am sure the reason I got some good shots this time is because this camera actually has a specific fireworks setting.

Zorba, that picture is just beautiful. I was very young when I fell in love with the Taj Mahal, and I drew a huge picture of it; I was very proud, haha. I'll be very happy if I can visit it one day ^_^

I keep forgetting now which photos I've already posted here, haha! This one was taken in Norie Miller Riverside Park in Perth, Scotland.

Cookie, our Cavalier King Charles, is still fascinated by our three new (but rapidly growing) baby guinea pigs:

What can I say? I adore tapirs...

Oh, wow, Quiz_Beagle, the tapir is beautiful! Very cute!

The corvette HMAS Castlemaine came under fire from enemy aircraft three times off Darwin in 1942.
It's now moored at Gem Pier, Williamstown as a maritime museum.
Passenger ferries also arrive and depart from Gem Pier to cross to Melbourne (background) and Saint Kilda.

Eros Cinema, one of the oldest in Bombay.

My 8 year old son made cupcakes today! We're calling them cupcakes as opposed to fairy cakes or buns as he decorated them with buttercream icing (or frosting to stick with the term from over the ocean)

Great pictures, everyone

Santana, those cupcakes look delicious, yummy! Your son did a really good job!

Barnes Bridge over the Thames at sunset. It carries trains and pedestrians.

Snowstorm 26Nov 2010 11.30pm



Only light source street lights. I doubt I could have taken a photo like this before digital cameras came along

Great picture, Gees!

This is at Mission Bay in Auckland, New Zealand looking towards St Helliers.

There is a galaxy called Hoag's Object. It is a special type of galaxy called a Ring Galaxy. A couple of years ago, while a woman was helping to sort through the Hubble images for NASA/ESA, she noticed an unusual bit to Hoag's. At the one o'clock position, through the ring gap there is another Ring Galaxy! Only one in tens of thousands form a ring but to have two lined up with a view from Earth is "Astronomical" no pun intended. If you look up Hoag's and see the black space image, the second ring is too faint to see without the original image and a magnifying glass. My contribution was to reverse the color attributes and voila, the second ring is visible to all.


EDIT: moved image to the Image Art Thread.