Umbrellas

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australia, brisbane, Greenland, people, photographs, photography, photos, places, tourists, Umbrella, Victoria Bridge, water

In 2009 I went for a walk around Brisbane taking photos of reflections. While crossing the river Victoria bridge I glanced across to the other side of the road and saw these wonderful tourists just passing. Of course, I didn’t have my camera ready so had to quickly snap what I could. The result is below.

Now, normally I don’t play too much with pictures as I am in the mood of trying to get the photo right at point of origin. That doesn’t always happen 🙂 This one I played with and kind of like the effect of the coloured umbrellas.

Which version do you like?  I wonder if the tourists ever went to Nuuk (ha – I bet you didn’t pick up the link between this and Greenland!).

 

Friday photo

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art, art gallery, artist, arts, brisbane, gallery, GOMA, illustration, indigenous, painting, people, photographs, photography, travel, women

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. 

– Alberto Giacometti

Today’s Friday Photo comes from a trip to the art gallery.  Hope you enjoy. As usual, click on the picture below, here or the drop down menu at the top of the page to see to see the full image.

Friday Photo

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brisbane, circus, park, people, photographs, photography, photos, picnic, places

A teaser. To find our what today’s photo is you are going to have to click here or on the photo below. While you are in the clicking mood, check out this article of unemployed life by Claire Varley – Just when you thought you would never laugh at unemployment

Have a great weekend.

 

Friday Photo

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animals, australia, brisbane, conservation, endangered, photography, photos, savetigersnow, tiger, tigers, wildlife, zoo

Last week, the last of school holidays here in Sunny Queensland, we took an eruption of kids to the zoo. It was a great day – albeit overcast and a little rainy at times. (Note to weather gods; please see first sentence which gives Queensland its proper title. Please adjust weather accordingly!)

Anyway, the zoo we went to was Australia Zoo, started by Bob Irwin in the 1970s , made world famous by his son Steve and now run by Steve’s widow, Terri, with help from kids Bindi and Robert.

It was a lovely day with the five kids wee had with us at times sounding like fifty and at other times quietly looking on in awe at the beautiful animals. Yes, they are caged, and yes, it would be better if they were not. But it does give one an appreciation for their mere eexistance and if one animal in captivity can raise enough awareness to save hundreds in the wild, maybe that is a good thing.

Enough rambling. Today’s photo is over here. As a teaser, here is a photo of his/her room-mate at the zoo. Let me know what you think.

Friday Photo

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art, brisbane, contemporary, images, people, photographs, photography, photos, woman

At a recent art exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia, I came across my own Contemporary Woman sitting in one  of the rooms. I took these photos and had a play with a dark and moody look to see if I could capture the essence of a sixteen year old girl.

I also sent one to my resident Photoshop guru to have a play with and he zapped a gorgeous version back in about 10 minutes flat.

Click here to have a look at three more versions.

Contemporary Woman

Friday photo

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bicycle, bike, brisbane, lipton, photographs, photography, photos, sustainability

Ever take a photo that:

1. you nearly had it right;
2. you wish you had more time to stop and set it up a bit neater;
3. figure it was close,  but no cigar; and
4. haven’t got the heart to hit the delete key?

Well, nearly every one of my photos fits category (D) and I have thousands of snaps which really should be ground down into a series of ones and noughts.

Today’s photo is one of those. It’s a quite unremarkable photo but I thought it could be spiced up with a bit of cropping. Let me know what you think. It’s over here or click on the thumbnail below.