The family photo [a reflection]

June 4, 2022

I see You, and I am feeling this moment with you. You, the one who wasn’t ‘paying attention’ in that family photo. the rest of the mob were engaged elsewhere, together but without you. While your own deep interests hold you, enthral you. In your mind another world turns, fascinations draw, wonders beheld. An inner […]

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Storms and Rainbows

January 14, 2022

It rained yesterday. Then it stopped. Then the photos began….  Follow along below, or see them on my website here. Ciao. 

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Paths and Places – an photographic adventure

January 7, 2022

It’s taken months, but I’ve just finished the first photography course I ever enrolled in.  FWIW, here is my final submission. It is called “Paths and Places”, to travel along lanesand meet life in rural Australia.  My approach is to create a series of six doublets that link a lane or path to an expression of life […]

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Discovering community within Kata Tjuta

August 8, 2021

Kata Tjuta invites us into a community of discovery and diversity

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Uluru up close. (Lessons on encountering)

July 31, 2021

Once imagined, now seeing; once heard of, now felt. This is my first time on Anangu land in the Northern Territory. Uluru lives here. Now, briefly and belatedly, I am here too. I pay my respects to the Anangu people and traditions, and to their elders past, present, and emerging. From far away, in the distance […]

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Outback Australia in 100 photos

July 16, 2021

Six thousand kms and three weeks of Outback Australia… in 100 (of my own) photos. Many stories to tell, later, but for now please enjoy the photos through this link, or just watch the slideshow below 🙂

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Vincent’s Moon

June 15, 2021

It is mid-June, and this crescent moon graces the sky above my home. In another mid-June, another crescent moon hovers over Vincent van Gogh as he paints his  “Starry Night” .  It is 1889 and he is in  St Remy, southern France,  striving to recover his mental health.  I sense Vincent is creating both a painting […]

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This morning greets me…

March 29, 2021

…this simple beauty was good for my soul this morning.. New Holland Honeyeaters Spotted Pardalote Monarch Butterfly

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Wild life meets wildlife

March 12, 2021

The wonders of this afternoon. Started out installing internet access and computer hardware in a rural church that’s never seen either. Finished with visiting nature’s friends around Mt Koorong. Life: in gathering face to face, in new encounters online, in scampering goanna and swooping rainbow bee-eater. #ruralministry Link to today’s photos.

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This morning’s choir..

February 21, 2021

Twenty minutes of listening to the choir this morning. Lots of sopranos: pardalotes, thornbills and silver eyes among them. Tenor magpies and percussive galahs were chortling away too, just out of shot. To the Birds Gallery

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