Album 2018 frontpage from Gillian Everett

Dawn starburst

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 05:47:49 +0000

Saturday challenge - starburst

Not a perfect star, but the best I could do, given the high level of insect activity at sunrise in Queensland :-)

Merry Christmas

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:27:47 +0000

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Saturday challenge... Favourite aspect of the holiday season... Warmth, sharing and caring :-)

Wishing you all the best for Christmas and 2019!

candlelight

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:22:45 +0000

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Saturday challenge Holiday still life

cat's view

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:33:45 +0000

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Dora and Angus in one of their favourite places :-)

Early morning, Queensland.

Saturday challenge cat's view

sunrise 5 02 am

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 20:17:19 +0000

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Saturday challenge... take a photo through an opening and include part of what you are shooting through.

gorgeous gecko

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 04:16:35 +0000

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I couldn't resist buying this, just loved the colours :-)

Individually hand crafted from recycled metal drums and hand painted by the talented artisans from Haiti, each Gecko has it’s own personality.

Sunday challenge...metal object made in an artistic and skillful way.

Beady

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:21:09 +0000

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I couldn't resist this African wire gecko, found at the Eumundi markets.

The artist Givemore Dizanuhupe learned to create figures from wire at school in his native Zimbabwe.

He now lives in South Africa, where he works with his sister and brothers Advance and Luckmore, creating unique pieces of art.

TSC Orange

three boats, three blues

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 05:07:07 +0000

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Noosa River, Queensland

Saturday challenge... odd number 3, 5, 7, in a pleasing composition.

forced perspective

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 05:09:38 +0000

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Husband with his new shed, a one shot opportunity with my reluctant model :-)
Saturday challenge... forced perspective

Colour in pip

Red cedar shed measuring 8' x 8', housing lawn mowers, etc.

railway lines

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 04:56:54 +0000

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Saturday challenge... This week we are celebrating the 2nd year anniversary here in our Saturday Self-Challenge Group. In honor of this, everyone can choose something they've learned here in SSC and take a photo using this technique. You can explain why you like using the technique and you can also embellish your photo with text and post-processing if you'd like.

Curves (25 Feb 2017 challenge), on the railway line near Cooroy in Queensland. Fun to look for curves as a photo opportunity.

Happy Birthday SSC!! Thanks to Karen and Val :-)

Umbrella tree

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 01:10:22 +0000

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Queensland

Saturday challenge... Looking upwards.

Protect our creeks and rivers!

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:56:29 +0000

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Our creek is running fast, after the recent torrential rain in SE Queensland, Australia.

Sunday challenge... Create a better environment

Research shows overseas rivers are the main culprits for plastic pollution
WE THINK if we ditch our plastic bags and switch to cotton ones, we're helping the planet. Scientific research says otherwise.
Stephanie Bedo JULY 3, 2018 2:10PM
news.com.au

SHOPPERS are struggling to see how stopping their use of plastic bags is going to make a difference — and it’s even harder when there are studies to support that view.
One of those studies shows that plastic debris is primarily carried into the sea by large rivers — and the top 10 worst culprits aren’t in Australia.
With debate raging amid the cessation of free, single-use plastic bags at major supermarkets Coles and Woolworths, researchers are also working to quantify the environmental impact of plastic.
Researchers in Germany said in order to take practical measures to reduce plastic input, it was necessary to answer these initial questions: “Where does all the plastic come from anyhow? And how does it get into the sea?”
In October, Dr Christian Schmidt and his team at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) addressed these questions and found that the 10 river systems with the highest plastic loads — eight of them in Asia and two in Africa — in some cases were responsible for about 90 per cent of the global input of plastic into the sea.
In these countries, the problem often is the plastic is not disposed of properly in the respective river catchment area.

www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/research-shows-overseas-rivers-are-the-main-culprits-for-plastic-pollution/news-story/23df6c946534acf9dd754132989603eb

Mill Place

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 03:43:46 +0000

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Fenwick’s Sawmill, steam operated, originally traded as Canadian Saw Mills. It was established by the Fenwick Brothers and Robert Morrish in 1908. It closed in 2000, and the area was redeveloped in 2006 as a sustainable community project.
Mill Place continues to develop as a precinct for the use and benefit of the Cooroy community, in Queensland.

TSC Machinery

Mango Tree

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 04:11:27 +0000

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Mango tree in our garden, after the recent rain, backdrop of white clouds.

Bowen Mango "Kensington Pride". Large growing vigorous evergreen tree with a dense spreading canopy reaching 5-8m. Leaves are deep green but begin as a beautiful deep pink/purple. White flowers in Spring followed by large orange fruits.

Saturday challenge... leading lines B&W

Don't URK be happy

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 05:29:35 +0000

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Don't Worry, Be Happy :-)

Here is a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry be happy
In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy......
From the Movie "Cocktails"
Performed by Bobby McFerrin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

The Sunday Challenge Letters U R K
(In the context of this group "to URK" is to kind of complain about something, or be unhappy about doing something.)
Letters from pngtree, with my background(2017) and balloons :-) Composite image created 9th June 2018.

TSC 2017 selection

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 06:28:41 +0000

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TSC end... of challenges in 2017

Explored

another day, another beach

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:53:50 +0000

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Peregian Beach, Pacific Ocean, Queensland.

TSC Take a photograph from behind the subject you are photographing.

Explored

Dora the Explorer

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:46:27 +0000

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TSC Worm's eye view

Explored

Beach Buns

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:57:27 +0000

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T shirt from Sausalito. 1982 trip to USA.
Bob Harrison design.
The front of the t shirt shows the front view of the dogs :-)

TSC... butts, bums & behinds

Explored

abstracted

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:30:54 +0000

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TSC
Everyday object abstracted.
Original in note.

Explored