Monthly Archives: February 2015
Weekly Photo Challenge – Reward
Last year my daughter and I spent three weeks travelling around Turkey. We had some amazing experiences – one of the most memorable being a balloon flight over Cappadocia. As the balloons take off just on dawn we had to be up and ready to leave before 5am. Our Reward? See for yourself.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Rule of Thirds
This week’s challenge is to use the Rule of Thirds, a concept that puts the subject of the photograph off-centre. It’s worth trying when you are framing your shot as it can make it much more interesting. The photograph I’m using for this challenge puts my subject – the cow – in the top third of the […]
The Changing Seasons – February
You may remember this time last month I posted a series of photographs taken around the Federation Square/Southbank/Flinders Street Station precinct of Melbourne in response to a challenge set by fellow blogger Cardinal Guzman from Oslo to capture the changing seasons each month throughout the year. Melbourne is still in the midst of summer although we’ve not […]
The H.D mystery
The Arthur Boyd ‘Brides’ exhibition has been showing at the Heide Museum of Modern Art since November. I’m a huge Boyd fan so decided to check it out before it closes in a few weeks. Boyd is a well-known and very talented Australian artist and created the Brides series – more than 40 paintings in […]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Scale
The photo I’ve selected for this week’s theme of Scale was taken at our State Library from an upper floor where you get a birds-eye view of the magnificent domed reading room.
Lunar New Year
Today there is a festival at the end of my street to celebrate Lunar New Year and the year of the goat. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese people came to Melbourne in the 1970’s as refugees and then in the 1980’s through migration programs. Since that time Victoria Street in Richmond – also known as […]
This Melbourne Life 