Tag Archives: Australia

Silly Saturday: Pocket Pretzel

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Back in 2007, while on a working trip to Australia, I had the chance to visit the family of the young man who was to become my first son-in-law a year later.  Their home was a drive of some two … Continue reading →

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Face to face

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Something that someone said the other day reminded me of a close encounter that I enjoyed immensely, in Australia, almost exactly four years ago.  It’s been haunting me ever since, and the only way I can ease the pressure of … Continue reading →

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Serenity Sunday–Australian abstract

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

I am long overdue for a Serenity Sunday post, and I haven’t posted an abstract for quite a while, either, so this is to help to address both needs with—as the Germans say—two flies with one swat.  The location was … Continue reading →

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Flashback Friday: Dip Falls

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

If memory serves, March 1995 was when I made my first visit to Tasmania.  It’s one of the states of Australia, roughly the size of the state of Maine in the USA, and is the 26th-largest island in the world.  … Continue reading →

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Belated backup blues

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

I’m not a complete computer illiterate.  I understand very well the essential value of backing up important information on a regular basis.  Yet I, too, get complacent, and Mr. Murphy still exercises his uncanny ability to strike when we least … Continue reading →

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Places Remembered: Hickeys Falls

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

I am a great fan of pretty much anything to do with water—quiescent, flowing, or falling—and it’s been a while since I presented a post with a water feature.  Here is a place that I remember very well.  I was … Continue reading →

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A Liking for Lichens: Australia (Part 2)

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

I have had so many favorable responses to the last post in my lichen series that, for my third, I’d like to stay in Australia and present three more photographs.  I made the first two below in Tasmania on the … Continue reading →

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Places Remembered: Mt. Glorious

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

It was February 1995 and I had a day of exploration and travel.  I had just visited a friend in the Moreton Bay Region of Queensland, Australia, some 35 km northwest of Brisbane.  As I rounded a curve in the … Continue reading →

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A fine line for a fine print

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

I’ve been reading several posts recently about the philosophy of not “taking,” but rather “making” photographs, some in reference to a recent lecture given by legendary National Geographic (among many other prestigious publications) photographer Sam Abell.  I’ve been saying for … Continue reading →

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Places Remembered: Coonawarra

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

For this post I’d like to remember a day in October (spring) in Coonawarra, South Australia, one of the country’s (deservedly) best-renowned wine districts.  I was headed from one town to another (this was back in 1994, and I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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