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Photos I take for my own enjoyment, whether it be capturing people or the world around us
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The Pass
Lindis Pass is a stretch of road on the way to Queenstown….another one of my favourite roads and this time it was snowing. Continue reading
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Passing the Lindis
So another gravel road was discovered during my last trip to NZ. Take a right from Omarama Lindis Pass Rd onto Birchwood Rd, up the Ahuriri Valley. It was a pretty miserable day when we took this little detour but… Continue reading
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Mt Cook – The Drive
A day trip to Mount Cook and a walk along the Hooker Valley Track. Now this walk is 10km and pretty straight forward without too much huffing or puffing except when whole area is covered with a blanket of snow.… Continue reading
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Good Morning Twizel
Twizel was a place I was hoping would be smothered in snow – a cold, frosty, very white type of snowy day which really is a photographers dream. But sometimes things don’t quite go as planned or hoped for. However,… Continue reading
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The Road to Sunday
You may need to google Hakatere Potts Road but it has become one of my favourite stretches of gravel in New Zealand – 49 kilometres to be precise, from our accommodation in Mt Somers to Mt Sunday. For those of… Continue reading
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The Pink Lake
When in Victoria…a road trip to Lake Tyrell, a four-hour drive from Melbourne to my mind, is well worth the visit. Well who wouldn’t want to see a pink lake! The largest inland salt lake in Victoria is an amazing… Continue reading
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To Ripley with Love
A beautiful wedding – filled with love. Elise and Alex were married at Ipswich Central Church surrounded by family and friends. After the ceremony, there was a chance to mingle with all the guests over afternoon tea. From there it… Continue reading
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Waihi Beach – Sunrise Version
So in my last post I mentioned that when visiting my mother, I have sort of started a tradition of going out to Waihi Beach for a sunrise. I always park near the Flat White cafe which is obviously always… Continue reading
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Te Aroha – 2023 edition
One of the highlights each year, is the annual visit in February to Te Aroha, New Zealand to spend time with my mother. This year she turned 95 years young. Since immigrating from Holland in 1951, Te Aroha has been… Continue reading
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Vivid Sydney 2023
This year I went to Vivid Sydney. It was everything I expected it to be. The light shows, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge all painted in a dazzling array of colour and light. I loved it and so did… Continue reading
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Endometriosis High Tea
I had the pleasure of photographing this event, where the keynote speakers were Anastacia Palaszczuk and Emily Seebolm as well as Endometriosis Ambassadors, including radio queen and podcast princess Ellie Angel-Mobbs, media personality Mel Greig, Laura Furiosi from Bossy Mummy… Continue reading
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one fine morning…
New Zealand and back again – two weeks that simply disappeared. Post COVID catchup with family and friends. This is one particular morning that I hadn’t booked for a 5th day of ski hire or lift passes…so I headed out… Continue reading
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that shorncliffe pier…again!
I love this pier…I love photographing this pier and I love that early in the morning there is a coffee cart supplying those that go fishing, running, walking and photographing, their caffeine fix for the morning. ….and I love how… Continue reading
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all that glitters….
The weather in Brisbane hasn’t been this cold in a pretty long time….the cloudless skies are much to blame for this phenomenom – no clouds, no blanket, no warmth. Normally if there are no clouds I don’t even bother….but the… Continue reading
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a little road trip to Carney’s Creek
It was a spur of the moment, jump in the car and drive type of morning. There was a lavender farm that I wanted to swing by, just to see whether the lavenders were in bloom, but Google could have… Continue reading
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…3 boys and a goat
had a wonderful afternoon with this gorgeous family from church…the goat was an unexpected addition! Continue reading
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it’s beginning to look a lot like Gingerbread….
…nothing like a gingerbread house, and even better when you can make it yourself. Which is what these ladies did. They were decorators extraordinaire!! Continue reading
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another very covid wedding!
Another daughter married amidst another COVID scare, but so thankful that the 10:00am announcement did not herald a lockdown. So married they are…all of them…all 6 of them. My heart is full! Continue reading
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poppies, daisies, whatever
Just an experiment to see whether I can get photos from my phone onto this site…and talking about cell phones, why did Google stop selling Pixel 5? my Pixel 2 is dying and I was wanting to buy another Pixel… Continue reading
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avoiding the Brisbane traffic jam…
Had to travel to the north of Brisbane to pick up a Marketplace purchase (why did I not look up the location first!) So at 3.30pm with purchase in hand, the thought of negotiating my way back through the city… Continue reading
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