I hope you enjoy looking at my pictures. I have many more that I hope to get round to sorting out, scanning and loading onto my homepage, hopefully for your delectation, at some future date. I've generally promised these pictures for a while and now, at last, I've got round to doing something about it.
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| Kirstenbosch Gardens, Nr Cape Town, South Africa 1997. These three pictures were also an experiment that came out rather better than I hoped. I was inspired to do this by a photographer boyfriend of a friend of mine in Oz. I may never have thought of trying this at all otherwise. | ||||
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| Kirstenbosch Gardens, Nr Cape Town, South Africa, 1997. I just loved the fresh greens of this shaded area around a shallow brook in the gardens. It also came out a lot better than I could have hoped for. | Cape Town, August 1997. These three boats were just sitting there in a corner away from the famous Waterfront in Cape Town for a couple of the weekends I was there. I took more than one picture of them; I just loved the reflections of those lovely blues and greens in the water. | |||
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| Manly beach Australia, July 1997. I like this picture because of the flock of seagulls near the jetty and the unusual lack of tourists and surfers on this particular occasion. The TIF version of this blows up really well! | Ferry to Darling Harbour, Sydney, July 1997. It shows how my courage had grown as far as taking photographs is concerned. I would never have bothered to try and catch the office buildings reflecting in the water even a few months previously, but this time I just pointed and clicked. My sister's camera is rather a magnificent one though, I have to admit! | |||
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| Uluru and the Olgas, July 1997. Uluru, for those not in the know, is the aboriginal name for Ayres Rock. The range of mountains you can see on the horizon on the right of the picture is the Olgas, more hard rock which turns the most gloriously different shades of pink and red depending on the strength of the sun shining on them. I have an Olgas At Sunset picture which I haven't scanned, but has been blown up, framed and hung on my bedroom wall! | Uluru, July 1997. This is my favourite picture of Uluru. I waited several minutes for the tourists on my coach to follow the guide and get out of the range of the camera. I could hardly wait to capture those contrasting colours. They came out much better than I ever hoped and imagined they would. This picture has been blown up onto canvas paper and framed and will be hung in a prime position in my flat once I've made my mind up where that should be! | Sunset in the bush, Uluru National Park, July 1997. We were sitting at a barbecue on the Olgas at Sunset resort tour and the sunset just turned everything different colours. I really like the dark red earth at the bottom of the picture which contrasts really well with the sunlit tree and scrub above it. | ||
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| Just to finish off, here is a picture of my most precious blossoms; my nieces and nephew. I love them to bits and - probably in common with many, many other aunties - I think they are the most beautiful children in the world. They live with their father who has had custody of them since their parents's marriage broke up five years ago. It's not the most recent photo I have of them - that one has red eye - Shame! They seem to be quite fond of me too and I am looking forward to seeing them again in a couple of weeks, when it's the youngest's birthday! | ||||