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PostSun Mar 16, 2025 12:22 pm
Full moon
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At Moffat Beach
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To a Louse
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Xanthostemon Little Penda
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Bird colony
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Window with a view
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Wandjina rock paintings (Kimberley)
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Lightning
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Himalayan blue poppy
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Patio de los Leones (La Alhambra)
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Full moon
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PostSun Mar 16, 2025 12:22 pm
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This image is a good example of what we want to see; it is not what we really see. Poets and lovers have always been and will always be influenced by celestial events, as lunatics. Last night many parts of the world saw a stunning "blood red" moon eclipse. However, a fraction of Australia only caught the final moments of a partial eclipse as the Moon rose over the horizon.

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To a Louse
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PostSun Mar 09, 2025 2:58 pm
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I took this picture almost two years ago in Sydney. I found the sculpture interesting, but its reflection even more so. The reflection reminded me of Robert Burns’ poem To a Louse. It concludes with:
‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!’
Such a power or ability would save us a lot of bother and ‘foolish notions’; but a louse cannot see itself as others see it.

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At Moffat Beach
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PostSun Mar 02, 2025 12:35 pm
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I took the picture a couple of weeks ago at Eleanor Shipley Memorial Park. People were enjoying the surf at Moffat Beach, QLD. People were just enjoying themselves in the outdoors. It is interesting that ancient Pacific cultures often surfed on their belly and knees, while the modern-day definition of surfing refers to a surfer riding a wave standing on a surfboard, as in this week’s picture. Modern surfing as we know it today is thought to have originated in Hawaii. It seems the history of surfing dates to c. AD 400 in Polynesia, where Pol ...
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Xanthostemon Little Penda
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PostSun Feb 23, 2025 8:16 am
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During my evening walked I noticed this shrub dense with yellow flowers and I stopped to watch it closely. I saw busy bees going about their business; there must be a hive nearby. It seems the shrub is a Xanthostemon and belongs to the myrtle family Myrtaceae and it is a native of Queensland. It was first described in 1857 by the German–born Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller.

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Bird colony
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PostSun Feb 16, 2025 1:47 pm
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I took the picture at the Lacepede Islands, off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, from a moving boat since you can't land in these islands; they are protected bird sanctuaries. These four islands were identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they support over 1% of the world populations of brown boobies and roseate terns. Breeding colonies of brown boobies (up to 18,000 breeding pairs) and roseate terns (up to 20,000) have been recorded. Other birds breeding on the islands are masked boobies, Australi ...
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Window with a view
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PostSun Feb 09, 2025 10:37 am
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The windows is that of Harpa (Reykjavík’s concert hall and conference centre) and the view is the marina behind the North façade. The glass façade of the building consists of 714 LED lights, 486 in the eastern part of the building and 228 in the western part. These lights display a video work designed by Olafur Eliasson.

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Wandjina rock paintings (Kimberley)
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PostSun Feb 02, 2025 12:40 pm
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This rock art is approximately 4000 years old and represents the cloud spirits. Our tour guide told us the art is so old that predates the local indigenous in the area. It seems to represent the creator being Wunngurr, a being similar to the Rainbow Serpent in other Aboriginal peoples' beliefs. I thought they could have been painting aliens. Perhaps I watch too many Sci-Fi shows.

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Lightning
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PostMon Jan 27, 2025 2:48 pm
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I took this pictures just before the storm arrived from my balcony last night. We watched the Brisbane City is in the distance, the intra-cloud lightning (lighting without thunder) lit the dark sky above creating wonderful colours.

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Himalayan blue poppy
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PostSun Jan 19, 2025 7:58 am
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The Himalayan blue poppy, is a flowering plant in the poppy family, native to China (Yunnan), Bhutan, North East India and Nepal, but I found it in a garden in Iceland. It grows 1 m tall, it has a blue flowers with a yellow centre, and it flowers in late spring. It prefers an evenly cool temperature and shaded conditions, in somewhat acid soil which remains reliably moist.

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Times Square
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PostSun Jan 12, 2025 12:32 pm
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Formerly known as Longacre Square, it was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly built Times Building. The square is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street and it is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, which began on December 31, 1907, and attracts over a million visitors to Times Square every year, and one billion or more on digital media platforms.

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Patio de los Leones (La Alhambra)
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PostSun Jan 05, 2025 9:07 am
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The Court of the Lions (Patio de los Leones) or Palace of the Lions is a palace in the heart of the Alhambra. The Alhambra is a a complex of palaces, gardens and forts in Granada, Spain. It was commissioned by the Nasrid sultan Muhammad V of the Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus. Its construction started between 1362 and 1391 AD. The patio is a rectangular courtyard with a marble fountain with twelve sculpted lions.

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Golden eagle
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PostSun Dec 29, 2024 9:30 am
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The golden eagle is the top predator in the Scottish countryside; it is a massive bird of prey that mainly hunts rabbits and mountain hares but will also catch foxes, young deer and large birds like grouse. It can be seen soaring high in the sky in upland areas and remote glens in the north and west of Scotland. Golden eagles have large home territories, nesting on rocky cliff faces and in trees where it builds a giant nest or ‘eyrie’. These nests are often used by successive generations to rear their own young. Golden eagles pair for life. ...
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