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onethousandpics (48)in #teamaustralia • 6 years ago
Facing the storm: standing after life knocks you down
That little fireball I told you about a few posts back survived. Saved by a surgeon's knife and the titanium force of her will. Her body hammered by steel. Pulled from wreckage…
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onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 6 years ago
Sunset Swagger: dancing into night
I like the cut of your jib sunset. Your swagger toward night. The way you toss light across the ocean with your sway. And gather your clouds over the horizon. I like the way…
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onethousandpics (48)in #life • 6 years ago
Shifting the goal posts: changing the meaning of life goals
Life makes ghosts of us all. There is no other way out. In a world filled with self-serving and externally driven goals what are you leaving beind? What is your mark, your…
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onethousandpics (48)in #love • 6 years ago
Circles of loss and love: prayers for a ball of fire
A few years back I was burnt out and washed up from looking after other people's kids when a little fireball danced into my life. She was feisty and formidable. A slip of a…
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onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 6 years ago
Finding Home: where are you from?
My dear friend Elinor has a fabulous conversation starter. She asks, "Where are you from?" She doesn't mean where where you born, not where you grew up nor where you live now.…
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onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 6 years ago
Watching & Waiting: a dance into the setting sun
I have been more inclined to wait for my vision of an image of late. I used to settle for what life gave me. Now I bide my time, watch for the skies to do what I want. An apt…
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onethousandpics (48)in #travel • 7 years ago
Crystal Ball Photography - Vivid Sydney: get intimate with 2 million of your closest friends
I regularly avoid Vivid Sydney - one of the largest light festivals on earth. The idea of battling with a hundred thousand odd folk in a single night for a look at some lights…
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onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years ago
Sucked down the drainpipe: life and the death of creativity
“What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week, every week, no matter how beautiful the day outside, no…
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onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years ago
Sunset from the Cubicle #4: fairy floss skies and Sydney's Shit Buses
My sunset from the cubicle series has been waylaid by poorly timed customer enquiries and early finishes. You will be pleased to know that I leave the office after dark for the…
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onethousandpics (48)in #writing • 7 years ago
Chasing the Muse: on writer's block
My writing muse has escaped her cage and run for the misty autumn hills. Now the words will not come. I can feel them all stopped up in my chest. Block is the right word.…
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onethousandpics (48)in #blog • 7 years ago
Attacked by a Beagle and other heartbreaking arguments with reality
A Beagle broke free from it's leash and charged at me from the darkness last night while I was riding my bicycle. Teeth bared, snarling, and intent on drawing blood. I crashed my…
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onethousandpics (48)in #steepshot • 7 years ago
Breenhold Gardens: finding pools of light in a photographer's paradise: NSW, Australia
Breenhold Gardens was about finding beauty in miserable conditions. The rain fell at a drizzle interspersed with showers. The cold cut to the bone. The day I chose to wind my way…
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onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 7 years ago
What if ... and ode to the beauty of being weak
What if you let it break you into a million pieces? Let it's momentum carry you to the floor like sand. What if you stop resisting the wakeful nights and twisting stomach? If…
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onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years ago
You Complete Me: on finding the other half of my rainbow and other absurd notions
Rainbows are a complete circle. We only see half of them because of our perspective. Where does the rest go? Is someone on the other side of the world simultaneously gazing in…
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onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years ago
Letting in Light: on healing ancient history
When she was very small the cool kids made her walk at least ten steps behind them, alone. She felt a red hard ball of shame lodge firmly in her chest, where it has remained ever…
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onethousandpics (48)in #blog • 7 years ago
Dancing in the Street: life lessons from a homeless ray of sunshine
My home town is a rag tag collection of the homeless. A quirky lot who refuse to conform to the recent onslaught of gentrification. Folks with trolleys for homes who wheel their…
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onethousandpics (48)in #portraitcontest • 7 years ago
Weaving Spells: the illusion of romance
I like what I see, the me, reflected by you. It is no way to live, this fickle self existing exclusively as mirrored through you. We can only be known backwards - keepers of our…
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onethousandpics (48)in #life • 7 years ago
Wrack & Ruin: life's hard lessons in forced surrender
More than once of late I have wondered how it is that I am still here. I am not prone to exaggeration so believe me when I tell you that a series of storms tore through my life…
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onethousandpics (48)in #photography • 7 years ago
Sunset from the Cubicle #3: candy clouds
Today was all grey skies from the cubicle. I had given up on sunset colour and then ... this happened. And I got stuck on a call watching it catch fire. This is the tail end of a…
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onethousandpics (48)in #travel • 7 years ago
Eyes of an Eagle: being hunted in Outback Australia: Kinchenga National Park, NSW
So the other day I'm driving along this dirt track in Kinchega National Park real slow right? Two reasons. First there are wattle bushes all along the sides and they're faded…
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