Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

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Macquarie University Train Station

Macquarie University Train Station

Macquarie University is the only university in Sydney that has its own train station. Under the stewardship of former vice-chancellor Professor Steven Schwartz, the university has undergone significant modernization and growth, particularly in the area of research in medicine and the hearing sciences. And we now have a fabulous new library, what is termed a sustainable building, which makes assignment research (something I’m meant to be doing right this minute :-D) a pleasure.

For more entries to last week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

Blurb blurble bloop… Help! One-Sentence Biography Competition

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I’m trying to get my first poetry book completed and self-published on Blurb. One of the elements I’m still missing is a short blurb/biography about me in relation to poetry – I don’t want to write this myself, and if I asked anyone in my family or non-blogging circle of friends, I’d get something along the lines of:

“‘x‘ is my ‘insert relation type here‘ – she writes poetry, but I’ve got no idea what she’s on about.“

So I’m looking for some help from you—the esteemed Blogging community (how’m I doing on the sycophantic flattery front?) for something short, and not necessarily serious, and thus am holding a one-sentence biography competition: 

Post your entries in the comments section of this post.

I will include the kindest best ones on the front flap and may include any snide irreverent blooper blurbs on the back, all attributed of course.

Payment?!

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Don’t be silly! We all know poetry books don’t sell!

The winner will, however, receive a mystery prize. 😉

Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View

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There is traffic
and, then, there
is a galaxy. Traffic does not move
at the speed of light, like a flash
of rage. Step into space
without the gravity suit
and you will see
there is traffic
and the oh so important
corporate man
 and, then, there is the universe. I don’t look
at the pegs as I hang
out the washing. I look
 for you
beyond the moon.

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For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

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I’ve dived and snorkelled in different parts of the world and so, for me, the sea is about the many strange and wonderful things that live in it – I think of it as liquid art.bb-sea0

For more takes on the Sea theme, see The Daily Post.

My top five:

Ohm Sweet Ohm

Serendipity

Life through a Lens

What’s (In) the Picture?

In search of a thousand cafés

Creosote

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Is the scent

of an ancestor’s skull kicked
down a bush runway –
an elephant remembers

bones and dust,

the echo of hyena
comedy nights, jaws
on buffalo bones

chalk and dust,

a tall silhouette beyond the runway –
a blind man – inhales the dusk
for ghost-lions
before crossing to light
the camp fire

blood and dust

in the dark, leopards
gaze at embers
of an ancient story

fate throws the bones,
a plane flies
into a hillside

flesh and blood,
bones and dust,

and creosote.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus

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bb-f1-1When I did a B&W photography course some years ago, our instructor provided a simple but effective mnemonic for remembering how to create depth of field:

  • F-stop 2 = 2 fence posts
  • F-stop 22 = 22 fence posts

I’ve never forgotten it.

For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

My top five:

Postcards from…around the world

What’s (In) the Picture?

Pa-Blam

Jelliefishie – The Ongoing Saga

M & A’s Blog

Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways

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bb-ostw0bb-ostw1Do you think that context changes meaning in the two shots of the same subject above? What about the two shots below?

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For more entries to last week’s challenge, see The Daily Post.

My favourite five creative takes on this theme:

Bluebrightly

hamburg und mee(h)r

filling my bag with gear

Ron Mayhew’s Blog

SPH3RE

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow

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bb-fs2In a Pruning Mood

Whenever I go outside to garden (cue sounds of my mother laughing in disbelief, at this point), I’m reminded of Roald Dahl’s story ‘The Sound Machine‘, which is why I got rid of all the previous owner’s lovingly tended roses when we bought this townhouse.

That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. 😉

For more entries from this last the week before last’s weekly photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece

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bb-mp1At Moo Burgers, kids are encouraged to give expression to their inner Moonet.

I’d give Tony, aged 4, first prize for his moomorous, Aussie-themed moosterpiece.

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The world seen through the eyes of children can open ours – see Launch Pad for children’s unique insights.

For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post – my top five for the week:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

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bb-fp1I greatly admire people who reinvent ordinary everyday things as something revolutionary or breathtakingly wonderful. Parisian architect Jean Nouvel, French artist and botanist Patrick Blanc, and Australian landscape architect Keith Stead are three such people.Without their wonderful ideas and collaboration, One Central Park in Sydney might be just another (albeit luxury) residential apartment building.  However, when finished, OCP will don the world’s tallest vertical garden.

Now, that’s fresh!

(A bit of nominative determinism in the case of Mr Nouvel, perhaps? ;-))

For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

My five favourites so far:

ThirdEyeMom

Chronicles of Illusions
(getting up early does have its rewards, Nancy ;-))

Pixelicious

Lucid Gypsy

Stories of the Wandering Feet and Mind

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour

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Finesse jetty and knots,
Rumble the motors’ power,
Slide past nodding yachts,
Skim glass at the golden hour.

The Sydney Harbourbb-tgh0is best explored by boat

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bb-tgh1If you’re not into boating, there are so many great walks around the harbour for all levels of fitness.

For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post. Here are my favourite five:

blueberriejournal

Ohm Sweet Ohm

Ron Mayhew’s Blog

Erin O’ Leary Photography

Overcoming Bloglessness

Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

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‘Science of Nostalgia: It was first thought to be a “neurological disease of essentially demonic cause,” but it turns out that nostalgia is good for your brain. And there’s science to prove it.‘
More of this article in The New York Times

My beautiful pictureI took this (rather overexposed) photo of my nieces cooking dinner around 20 years ago when we all still lived on the African continent. We had given one of them a children’s cookbook for Christmas, and they invited us over for dinner—a three-course meal—which they cooked using recipes from the book. They were such sweet, funny munchkins – still are 😉

For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

Sea of Creepy Monsters (Warning: Not Suitable for Tillys)

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bb-wcuts1I don’t believe in god or Intelligent D, But if I did, it would seem to me, While creating things wot live under the sea, He was high on coke or LSD.

Sea of Creepy Monsters

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable

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imageEvery couple of years, my mum gets on a plane and travels 12,000kms across the globe to visit us. We always try to do a girlie road-trip to a different part of the country while she is here and, this year, we headed down to Thredbo, where she was able to cross ‘Standing in snow’ off her bucket list (and I made her eat some, just for good measure ;-)).

Above is us on our way down on the ski-lift after sinking into the lovely, powdery stuff below.

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For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.

Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Eyes

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A long time ago I had an unpleasant experience which precipitated a few changes in direction, the most curious of which was in my reading tastes: almost overnight, a previously voracious appetite for serial-killer fiction evaporated and, in general, I no longer enjoyed reading fiction much at all. I’ve never worked out why–life is a strange journey. However, recently, I’ve had to read a lot of children’s literature for an elective study, and am surprised at how much enjoyment I’m getting from reading young adult fiction, in particular. And how much I’ve learnt from it–
about the world, about myself.

What we see in the world has the power to change what we read. And what we read has the power to change the way we see the world and ourselves.

How marvellous.

What have you read recently that has changed the way you see yourself?

See The Daily Post for more entries to this week’s photo challenge.

When life gives you lemons…

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This week’s photo challenge theme is one I’ve participated in previously, so I’m giving it a miss. Instead, in response to this question from Elizabeth over at Mirth and Motivation, I’m posting my Mondegreen poem, which I wrote for Gabrielle Bryden’s Citrus Fiesta some time ago.

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naughty lemon by bb

LeMondegreen

I thought it really quite absurd
(and way too weird) when I heard
the 70s band Hot Chocolate sing
about the very strangest thing –
wild lemony love in Cadillacs,
the joys of lemons in the sack!

One day it dawned it wasn’t ‘lemons‘
of which they sung, but rather ‘heaven’s‘
and so the song proved less obscene,
and my mishearing, a Mondegreen 😯

bb-nlmI’m taking a break from blogging for a while.
Happy blogging
😀
And hope to see you on the other side.