STAMPS FROM NEARBY...

A series of imagined stamps I've created from archival shots. Just playing...

This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme
and also part of the Seasons meme

VIRTUAL SUNSHINE

Melbourne is a bit grey and cold and wet at the moment. So I'm giving you a dose of virtual sunshine with a mosaic from my photo archive.

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

WINTER'S WINDOWS

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

SKIES ASSORTED

A mosaic created with many a sky I've observed over a six-month period around the suburbs of Melbourne.

This post is part of the Skywatch Friday meme

STORMY

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and also part of the Seasons meme

I created this as a digital collage using three different shots and stitching them together in Photoshop

WINTRY

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

AUTUMNAL

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

THE NUMBERS HAVE IT

With a Federal Election looming ahead, and an amusing talk show on the radio I hear about numerology, I took the opportunity of sharing this collage of numbers I found and photographed  while walking around my neighbourhood.

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

MELBOURNE CUP 2024

The Melbourne Cup is the horse race of all Australian horse races. Every year when this race is run around 3:00 pm, it literally stops the entire nation. Melbourne Cup Day is fixed on the first Tuesday in November and although it is a public holiday only in the Melbourne Metropolitan area, Australians all over the nation are glued to their television screens or listen on the radio (or more likely on the internet, nowadays, I suppose) to watch this historic race.

The race is held over a distance of 3,200 meters, the traditional two-mile cup distance, for horses three years and older and is the richest and most prestigious “two-mile” handicap in the world. It is held in Flemington Racecourse, located in Flemington, one of Melbourne's inner city suburbs, which is named after a butcher who lived there in the 19th century. I certainly hope he didn't sell horse meat - that would be grand irony!

The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861. There were 17 starters and the prize was 170 pounds and a hand-beaten gold watch (this was the trophy given before the traditional Loving Cup which the Melbourne Cup is known for). “Archer”, the first Cup-winning horse, had been walked to Melbourne from its stable in Nowra, New South Wales, a distance of about 800km. “Archer” won again the following year to a prize of 810 gold sovereigns (£810) and a gold watch. “Archer” went on to win the race the following year once more, making him one of the five horses to win the event more than once.

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LIGHT SHOW

When you have no tripod and  the camera slips from your hand after you've pressed the shutter button! I superimposed the same image enlarged and flipped in Photoshop. Just for fun. This was a photo of the road with cars going by our house at night.

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GLADE

A digital collage/mosaic of three different photos from the same area, stitched together with Photoshop.

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

RAINY NIGHT

It's been raining on and off all day today and it's quite cold. The rain persisted in the evening and it's raining tonight as I'm posting this. A classic image of wintry Melbourne today, composed of four separate photos assembled into a Photoshop collage.

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

WINTER

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and also part of the Seasons meme

EARTH DAY

For Earth Day today, a mosaic of four acrylic paint pouring canvases I've made, with the photographs that inspired them. I've merged the photos on top with my paintings below.

We live in a wonderful, beautiful, amazing planet and yet we do our utmost to ruin it and destroy it. Earth Day should make us stop think and change our behaviour so we can save this precious planet for the generations to come.

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and also part of the Seasons meme

AUTUMN BERRIES

As the rains come, and the mosses and liverworts awaken, the berries ripen in the forests and gardens. Pyracantha with the unusual bright yellow berries (usually red and orange) and the cheerful red haws of the hawthorn (always a happy find). Add the errant flower of a canola plant and the rich green of some of the evergreen trees seen between the branches of a deciduous tree.

A Photoshop mosaic composed of several photos that have been melded together and seamlessly superimposed.

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And also part of the Seasons meme.

DAY TO NIGHT

A digital collage/mosaic of three different photos in the same location at different times stitched together  in Photoshop.

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

I CALL AUSTRALIA HOME

I was asked to do a little design project as an exercise in Photoshop technique, which identified the country I call home. The result is this "Country I.D. Mosaic" for Australia. Can you do a similar one for the country you call home?

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and also part of the Seasons meme.

FEELING BLUE

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and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
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LONELINESS

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ZEN BOX

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