tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15085149062727461162011-11-14T16:37:55.989+11:00Tracy Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10792766137506801230noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508514906272746116.post-13210365056860362042010-01-06T19:23:00.007+11:002010-09-05T23:39:06.133+10:00

I decided on the 1st of January that I was going to keep a separate blog for my non-photography related stuff and dedicate this one to all things photographic. I've changed my mind!Instead, I'm going for bigger and better photos, and keeping everything in the one place - so I've started a new blog to replace this one. I won't be posting here anymore. You can find me HERE from now on.

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Melbourne's forecast for this coming Saturday is 38 degrees and sunny - Mornington Peninsula forecast - 32 degrees and sunny. If that doesn't change, it's going to be a perfect weather weekend for the Cowes Night Market.Even better, I've found out that the Kustom Nationals are being held on Phillip Island this weekend too. That alone will draw huge crowds.I'm really looking forward to this market

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The first of the series of five Cowes Night Markets on Phillip Island is happening next Saturday, January 9th, from 5:00-9:00pm right by the Cowes jetty and foreshore. If the weather is perfect, it will be a wonderful night out. Phillip Island is SO beautiful, and the location for the market could not be better. It's at the end of the main street, right at the entrance to the jetty, overlooking

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It's a new year and I'm heading in a new direction with my photography now, and I've decided that my very sporadically used blog has become far too much of a mishmash of unrelated posts over time. So I've started a new blog for more personal musings, and am dedicating this one to my photography.My new home for the personal stuff is over here.Wishing everyone a safe, prosperous, happy New Year. :)

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If tears could build a stairway,And memories a lane,I'd walk right up to HeavenAnd bring you home again.~Author UnknownAlmost the end of another month, another year, and another decade. But this year, for my family, has been like no other. Our beautiful Mark - my beloved brother - diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer on the 19th of November 2008, finally gave in to this

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I found out a couple of days ago that I have been accepted into the five Cowes Night Markets on Phillip Island that will be happening in the first part of 2010. I've never actually been to one, but I've been told that they are extremely busy markets - packed with summer holiday-makers and tourists, more than happy to part with their holiday dollars. :)It's a wonderful location, down by the jetty,

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I'm slowly but surely adding new listings to my Etsy store, and starting to find my way around. Blimey. Can't believe it's only a month til Christmas again! Where do the months go? :)

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I've finally started listing some of my little photo blocks for sale on Etsy. They are plenty more to come. They are so cute. I just adore them. :)

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I was intending on reworking a couple of designs I did a few years ago and creating my own 2010 wall calendars, but so far I've not had the time to make it happen. So, instead I've decided to opt for creating my calendars and selling them through RedBubble instead. Their print and post-production work is excellent, and they are offering beautiful, high-quality A3 wall calendars for purchase.At

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I've been working very hard this past week or two, preparing hi res files for upload to a stock photography site in the UK. It's meant a lot of work, but hopefully, all of the effort will pay off in the end.I'm very happy to say that Rights Managed Image Licensing is now available for a selection of my photographs through Trigger Image Stock Photography (keyword search: tracy edgar).

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I've just had a number of my images accepted by a rights-managed image licensing website in the UK (which I'm pretty happy about, cos there's no way I'd ever have thought my work would be good enough), and I've been busily preparing the high res files for upload these past few days. It's been a bigger job that I expected it to be, and has certainly taken longer than I thought it would. But I

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"Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love." 'The Angels' Little Instruction Book'Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994I've spent the whole day cleaning - vacuuming the floors, scrubbing the bathroom, washing the dogs, weeding the garden, pruning the roses, doing the laundry, sweeping out the garage - not even the car escaped untouched. I'm

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I didn't expect there to be quite so much work involved in setting up an Esty shop (so many things to consider!), but nonetheless, I've been working hard at it over the past few days, and I've finally got something up and ready to go. There's not much to see in terms of art yet, but I will be listing plenty more works over the coming days. I was keen to get the calendars up at least, and now

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I've just created a new gallery on my website, for my 2010 calendars. Three down, one to go. :)

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Ok, so I finally decided to relent and give the whole Facebook thing a try. I've never had any interest whatsoever in using it, but I have to admit, now that I have been for the past week or so, I've completely changed my mind. I'm catching up with friends and family I haven't had contact with for years. It's actually kinda fun. And a useful business tool too, as it turns out. :)

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I've spent the last couple of days working on my desk calendars for 2010. With the second one, I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go with or without the texture overlay - so, typically, I decided to go with both. The third calendar is slightly different to the textured version in that I have bumped up the colours and the size of the 'month' text a little. Otherwise, they are basically the

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I couldn't help myself. It's 3:30 in the morning and I have to be up at 6:00am to head off to market. But here is a sneak peek at two of my little desk calendars - both still very much in draft form at this stage. I love creating calendars, it's so much fun. Especially when you are creating them from scratch, without using templates - which I much prefer to do. And of course, I totally heart

Tracy Edgarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10792766137506801230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508514906272746116.post-56610240903945586322009-10-17T22:08:00.002+11:002009-10-17T23:37:30.692+11:00

... new 2010 desk calendars coming this week. If I'd been able to make it to the post office to pick up my jewel cases yesterday afternoon, I would have had them in time for the market tomorrow. Now I have to wait until Monday. Doh!At least the designs and artwork will be ready by the time I get to collect them. Then... good to go. :)Williamstown market tomorrow. I've been really lucky with the

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Just found out through Twitter that Polaroid are making a comeback next year. They will be relaunching some of their instant cameras. I have been sooooo wanting to get my hands on one - but figured they were too expensive and the film too difficult to get. This is fantastic news! :)

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...getting around to working on my Etsy shop. Launching in the next day or two. Will be good to get that one off my 'to do' list! :)

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For G. Two years of silence, yet still you have your own very special place in my heart. And always will.

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...a beautiful weekend in Melbourne. Forecast for Saturday at least, 20 degrees and sunny. Pretty much perfect. It's that time of year when everything is fresh and new. And the beautiful Rhododendron Gardens in the Dandenong Ranges is certainly no exception. I've been there a couple of times so far this Spring. I could easily lose myself there. It's beautiful at any time of year, but perhaps

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Had such a wonderful day at the Trentham Spring Festival yesterday. The weather was mild and kind, the setting was perfect. Met some really nice people. The gardens of beautiful Feldspar made for the perfect location. I so love this part of Victoria. The Central Highlands is such a pretty area, and a great place for exploring. Gentle green rolling hills, farmlands and quaint little townships full

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I spent ages trying to make up my mind how I wanted to decorate my market stall, until one day recently my travels took me past the most adorable little shabby chic style shop in the city. I must have walked past it a hundred times at least over the years, and never really paid it much attention before. But fortunately, this day I did. And as soon as I walked through the door I knew - shabby

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Opening my long overdue Etsy & Madeit shops. I've been intending to do it for longer than I can remember, it seems. Too many other things getting in the way. As soon as this weekend's markets are over and done with, that's what I'll be tackling next.Think I really need to work on my time management skills! :)

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I've finally started doing arts and crafts markets. This weekend I have two, and I'm keeping everything crossed for perfect spring weather! On Saturday, I'll be at the Warrandyte market, on the banks of the beautiful Yarra River. It's one of my favourite places. My dogs and I spend a lot of time here, especially in the summer months. It's a wonderful place to stroll along the riverbank and renew

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I didn't end up getting to the Royal Melbourne Show this year, but I really love carnivals and that whole deliciously wonderful retro/vintage, nostaglic style that show rides lend themselves so perfectly to. And since I still had a lot of my images from last years' shoot that I hadn't yet gotten around to processing, I thought I might pull a few from the archives and have a bit of a play around.

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I've decided that my long-neglected blog is in need of a make-over. I've had it up and running for 11 months now, but in all that time it has been seldom-used. I guess there's not much point in having it, if I'm not going to use it, and use it properly. So, it's time to pay it some long overdue attention - starting with a revamped layout and cool new colours - and a shiny new banner - which I've

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So I did my very first official market today, in beautiful little Kyneton, a pleasant hours' drive to the north-ish of Melbourne. It was a significant day, for a number of reasons. I came to realise recently that the universe was pointing me in this direction, way back as far as July. I just didn't see the signs (and there were many), at the time. It can be like that. Often, it's only later, that

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“The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.” Deepak Chopra For Deepak. His presence on Twitter is earthy, comforting, soulful, uplifting and inspiring. I look forward to his tweets most of all. :)

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They're fiddly, they're time consuming, but they're fun to do (well, for the first hundred or so, at least!). And they'd be just about the cutest little photo blocks in the world. They're painted smooth, bright white, they are square (3&3/4" or 95mm square, in fact), they can be hung on a wall, or they're plenty thick enough to free stand pretty much anywhere you like - and I've got a bunch of

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Under the snow in the dark and the cold,A pale little sprout was humming;Sweetly it sang, ‘neath the frozen mold,Of the beautiful days that were coming.“How foolish your songs,” said a lump of clay,“What is there, I ask, to prove them?Just look at the walls between you and the day,Now, have you the strength to move them? ”But under the ice and under the snowThe pale little sprout kept singing,“I

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"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." Mark Overby

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"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."Ansel Easton Adams (1902 – 1984)American photographer and environmentalist

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I've found a supplier of the cutest little photo blocks recently, and I'm having a lot of fun with them. I opened an account with the online arts and crafts site, Etsy, way back in March, but I haven't done anything with it yet. I've also found out about another similar site, Madeit, which is exclusively for Australian artists. As soon as I've got all my framed prints off to the lab, this will be

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I'm turning my place into a pseudo art gallery at the moment. These stunning old frames and many others will soon be filled with my artworks and available for purchase. Please see my Flickr post for more details. :)

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Twitter seems to be the latest craze these days. It's not something I'd even considered trying before, but a friend suggested I give it a go, so, I thought I might. I figure anything that helps to direct traffic towards my website can only be a good thing. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. :)

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I had no idea how much work I was letting myself in for when I decided to set up for online selling. There's way more to think about than I'd realised. It's fun. But I'll be very glad when it's all done. Then I can get back to doing what I love to do best. Taking photographs and playing in the digital darkroom.Still got a few hours of work ahead of me yet, tho'. Now that my portfolio is all set

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It's been a very long time coming, but fine art prints and canvases now for sale on my new website. I have been workin' my ass off for weeks to get this portfolio up and running. It's taken way longer than I ever intended it to. I've done pretty much nothing else for the past month and a half - and I've barely spoken to anyone, including my family, for weeks. I ended up reworking a lot of my

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One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the starsShall lift its pure flame changeless, and beforeThe throne of God, burn through eternity -Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.~Nathaniel Parker WillisFor G.Second anniversary. Not forgotten. Never will be.

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Seems like blogging and flickr have both taken a backseat to everything else that's been going on lately (not that I've been all that consistent with either of them in months anyway). I've been so busy getting my images ready for sale, and online sites up and running, I haven't really thought about much else this past while. My SmugMug portfolio will be ready to go in a day or two - I'd hoped to

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What could be more beautiful than walking in the pouring rain? It's been so long since we've had the opportunity to do that, I'd almost forgotten how wonderful it felt. This evening the heavens opened while I was out walking with the dogs. We got wonderfully drenched. And it was invigorating. Cleansing.Victoria has been in drought for some 10 or 12 years now. We've had rain during that time, of

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I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell;I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.You have been mine before –How long ago I may not know;But just when at that swallow's soarYour neck turned so,Some veil did fall, – I knew it all of yore.Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882)English poet, illustrator, painter and translatorFor

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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."William James (1842 – 1910)American psychologist and philosopher"A year from now you may wish you had started today."Karen Lamb (b. 1956)"Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back."Charles Kingsley (1819 – 1875)English university professor, historian, and novelist"There are a million

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"No spring nor summer beauty hath such graceAs I have seen in one autumnal face."John Donne (1572 – 1631)

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I question not if thrushes sing,If roses load the air;Beyond my heart I need not reachWhen all is summer there.John Vance Cheney (1848 – 1922)American poet, essayist and librarian

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"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." - Alfred Adler (1870-1937)I've used this quote before, on one of my Flickr posts. But it's so simple and so powerful. I just had to use it again.It's something I sometimes need to remind myself of.

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I've been busily doing some extensive research on the different options for selling online these last few days. I'd been looking into it for a while, but it was time to get down to the nuts'n bolts before I make a final decision.At the moment, I'm trying to decide between two really great pro portfolio sites - Smugmug and Zenfolio. Both have great features and I think either would be really good.

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There's a really great website called Luminous-Landscape that is a favourite of mine. You'll find loads of useful photographic information and some excellent tutorials on this site. Three of them are downloadable - Camera Raw, Lightroom, and 'From Camera to Print' - about 22 hours of learning all up. I have an Epson inkjet at home and found the fine art printing tutorial to be excellent. I found

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"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)American essayist, philosopher, poet

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I really love the Williamstown Botanical Gardens. I believe it was one of Melbourne's first (could be wrong), being opened to the public in 1860. I love spending time here. It conjures the most wonderful feelings. I like to close my eyes... and imagine as best I can, what it once was like - in the days of innocence, when families would gather on Sundays to stroll through the ornate front gates,

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On political correctness. Why do people do the verbal dance? If a spade is a spade, why would you choose to call it a toothpick? I've never understood that.

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“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”Helen Keller (1880-1968)American Author and EducatorMelbourne has been shrouded in a blanket of heavy smoke for the past three days. Cooler weather has given the fireys a chance to gain a little control of the fires that have wreaked so much havoc and caused so much heartache this past week. The residents of

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I spoke to a friend today. She's been spending the last couple of days in the Yarra Valley, frantically moving horses around and trying to save desperate animals. Those left burnt and injured, or even simply homeless and destitute by the bushfires. She said the damage in the Valley hasn't been widely reported in the press. I guess they are concentrating their attention on Kinglake and Marysville.

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Life is eternal, and love is immortal,and death is only a horizon;and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840–1918)Dedicated to the many, many victims (both human and animal) of Victoria's current bushfire crisis.

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That's the almost unbelievable temperature they were predicting it would hit in Melbourne this last Saturday. Throughout the past week, the authorities have warned extensively of impending gale force winds and extreme fire danger conditions for Melbourne and across Victoria. This state has been in severe drought for some 12 years now. Pretty much everywhere is desperately dry. So everyone knew it

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“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”Sam Abell (b.1945)American photographer

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"Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe."Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

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I'm not exactly the most patriotic of people. I mean, it certainly isn't something I am passionate about. There are things in life I am far more passionate about... like - photography, animals and metaphysics. But when I found out that the Australia Day celebrations in Melbourne this year included a Sail Parade of Tall Ships, from Williamstown pier across to Brighton and back, I couldn't resist

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Melbourne and Victoria are in meltdown. We are in the midst of an intolerable heatwave. I was only sayin' a few days ago in a previous post, about how I thought temperatures in the forties were obscene, and how we'd been enjoying a glorious and mild summer so far. Ok, so I should have kept my mouth shut, cos the mercury hit 43 degrees today - with little relief in sight, at least until the

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I was 16 and still in high school. He was 19 and a Ford mechanic. Many an hour I spent, patiently waiting for him, while he busily worked away under the bonnet of one of his beloved XBs, XCs, XYs. He was always buying, rebuilding, selling something. And he drag raced them too (now that was fun!). Many an illegal meet did we find ourselves at late at night, on the outskirts of the country town we

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Winter seems a very long way off right now. Until a week or so ago, we were enjoying a very mild summer - low to mid-twenties suits me just fine. Anything over is a tad too hot for my liking. If it reaches the thirties, it sucks, basically. And as for those horrid high cloud, high wind days when the temperature creeps into the low forties? Well, that's just plain obscene.You'd never guess I grew

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I've been wanting to do this for so long - visit the Melbourne Cemetery on a full moon. I did get a chance to a couple of years back, but it was a guided tour, and we only got to see the moon for the first few minutes we were there because of heavy cloud cover - and then got completely drenched in the middle of the cemetery before the end of the night (not that I minded in the least!).Friday

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"Not long after the funeral, held on January 5, 1945, Gladys had a dream in which she saw Edgar's passing in a vision of a glorious sunset and a brilliant night sky. As the last rays of the sun shone through the heavens, a single star appeared in the gathering darkness. And then a second star appeared, connected to the first star by a single thread of light. A third and a fourth star appeared -

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I've just spent Christmas in Perth with my family and my brother Mark, who, in November, was diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of thyroid cancer.Normally, we are scattered to the four winds - living in different states and even different countries. It isn't very often that we all come together in the one place at the one time like this. It was special.We'll all be heading back

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I am going to be in Perth for a few days over Christmas. And that means having to leave these little guys behind. I really hate leaving them. But they've gone to stay with my cousin and her family for a few days, so I can at least go knowing they are in safe hands (I miss them already!).I have an early flight - actually, it's 2:30am and I have to be up in an hour and half or so to head off to the

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I have always dreamt of having a white Christmas. An outdoor Aussie Christmas, where it's usually hot and sticky and plagued with flies, somehow just doesn't feel like... well... Christmas. So far, the closest I've ever gotten to experiencing a real white Christmas was when I was living in the UK, many years ago. But even then, it didn't quite happen.Who knows? Perhaps one of these days, my wish

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I've been busy adding to my collection of frames. I just love these old things, and I already know I'm going to have trouble parting with some of them. Craig, the guy that I buy them from goes around to demolition sites, grabs as many of the floorboards and architraves as he can, takes them home, and molds them into the most gorgeous old picture frames. I've got quite a collection happening now.

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October 24th. Seven weeks ago today. Seems so much longer than that now. That was the day I finally made the decision to throw caution to the wind, ditch the day job - and go chasing a dream. December 12th. Last day in the day job. Feels completely surreal right about now. I've been wanting to do it for so long. Now I actually have. Wow. Have no idea what comes next. I just know it was the right

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For my Grandfather in New Zealand. Who, at 98 years of age, passed away quietly and peacefully in the early hours of this morning."Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.""You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the

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The Dandenong Ranges, on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne, are such a beautiful part of Victoria. This area has very special significance for me. I spend a lot of time here and I just love it. There are some gorgeous little bed and breakfasts, cafes, restaurants, galleries, shops, forest walks, and gardens here - just begging to be explored. I've been poking around in some of the wonderful

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Hi there. If you've found yourself reading this, then welcome to my new blog. I am a self-taught photographer, who, after having worked as a desktop publisher for more years than I care to remember, one month from now will be giving up my day job in the printing industry to pursue my dream of becoming a full-time photographer. It's something I've been day-dreaming about doing for months, and

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