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Landscape, travel and nature phtography. And maybe a few other bits and pieces.

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@onethousandpics Sep 16, 2018, 5:29 AM UTC

Facing the storm: standing after life knocks you down

That little fireball I told you about a few posts back survived. Saved by a surgeon's knife and the titanium force of her will. Her body hammered by steel. Pulled from wreckage with muscle torn from…

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@onethousandpics Aug 26, 2018, 12:01 AM UTC

Sunset Swagger: dancing into night

I like the cut of your jib sunset. Your swagger toward night. The way you toss light across the ocean with your sway. And gather your clouds over the horizon. I like the way you drawn in your power a…

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@onethousandpics Aug 14, 2018, 12:32 AM UTC

Shifting the goal posts: changing the meaning of life goals

Life makes ghosts of us all. There is no other way out. In a world filled with self-serving and externally driven goals what are you leaving beind? What is your mark, your legacy. How will you be sum…

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@onethousandpics Aug 12, 2018, 10:23 PM UTC

Circles of loss and love: prayers for a ball of fire

A few years back I was burnt out and washed up from looking after other people's kids when a little fireball danced into my life. She was feisty and formidable. A slip of a thing made from a heart la…

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@onethousandpics Aug 8, 2018, 10:23 PM UTC

Finding Home: where are you from?

My dear friend Elinor has a fabulous conversation starter. She asks, "Where are you from?" She doesn't mean where where you born, not where you grew up nor where you live now. What she means is where…

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@onethousandpics Aug 6, 2018, 10:45 PM UTC

Watching & Waiting: a dance into the setting sun

I have been more inclined to wait for my vision of an image of late. I used to settle for what life gave me. Now I bide my time, watch for the skies to do what I want. An apt metaphor for how life ch…

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@onethousandpics Jun 3, 2018, 6:39 AM UTC

Crystal Ball Photography - Vivid Sydney: get intimate with 2 million of your closest friends

I regularly avoid Vivid Sydney - one of the largest light festivals on earth. The idea of battling with a hundred thousand odd folk in a single night for a look at some lights doesn't leap out as the…

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@onethousandpics May 23, 2018, 10:51 PM UTC

Sucked down the drainpipe: life and the death of creativity

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- “What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week, every week, no matter how be…

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@onethousandpics May 15, 2018, 9:04 AM UTC

Sunset from the Cubicle #4: fairy floss skies and Sydney's Shit Buses

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- My sunset from the cubicle series has been waylaid by poorly timed customer enquiries and early finishes. You will be pleased to know that I leav…

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@onethousandpics May 8, 2018, 9:20 AM UTC

Chasing the Muse: on writer's block

- -- - - --- -- - - -- - - ----- -- - - ---- - - - -- My writing muse has escaped her cage and run for the misty autumn hills. Now the words will not come. I can feel them all stopped up in my chest.…

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