AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

flight of seagulls...


flight of seagulls at West Head, Flinders...


a burst of wings
celebrating
autumn sea breezes



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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Beauty of a Grey Day


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rosebud beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Scenic Sunday #139
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Winging in grey clouds
A sense of space and freedom
Solace for the soul
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Scenic Sunday
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Flurry of White Wings


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Cockatoos suddenly swing into the powerful winter winds in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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SOOC Sunday #86
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Flurry of white wings
Like crazy white paper kites
Cockatoo mayhem

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Friday, April 9, 2010

An Autumn Morning Skyscape on Parade


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ This Autumn morning, the skies in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula offered a parade of interesting shapes and colours!
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Sky Watch Friday #80
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Autumn on parade
A dazzle of morning lights
Skyscape festival
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

We Have Lift Off!


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Take off at Blairgowrie, Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula
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Watery Wednesday #81
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A splash in motion
Wings shooting the sea breezes
Traditional flight
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Morning Wings


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A seagull flying toward my verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Monochrome Monday/Monochrome Maniacs
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Morning touch of wings
Flying in with breaking dawn
Welcome to the day
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Crazy Flight


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Crazy cockatoos in flight, Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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SOOC Sunday meme
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A change in weather
Wings contort and twist in flight
Cockatoo madness
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Monday, March 10, 2008

One Photo Could Be My Life ~ Prompt from Mind Bump



mindbump suggested by Testube

"If you had to select only one photograph from your photo albums to represent your life, which photograph would you choose?"
Winging my way home to the early dawn of an Australian spring, (from a whirlwind Autumn in Saskatchewan, Canada), and as I approached the last airwaves before landing in Melbourne, I took a photo of the Victorian Alps, huddled in the northeast landscapes of Victoria.

The raining colour I had left behind in Canada still resonated in my wistful spirit. So, seeing far below a blue, misted world quilted with fancy, melting snowy icing was quite a shock for the flying soul. Taking the photo helped make the culture shock tangible. But I had to wrestle to get a clear image. You see, I was seated near a window, but halfway down the plane. That meant all scenic views were crossed with a single, silver-plated, gleaming wing of the aircraft.

If I struggled for too long to get the perfect shot, I knew the beauty would be gone in just a moment. So the wing had to be there, somehow. Thinking quickly, maybe desperately, I turned the camera slightly so that the wing of the plane angled diametrically, symmetrically; beauty cleanly divided into two self-contained parts with a sliver of silver.

The final photo could be so symbolic of all that I am. Imagine pearling white clouds, patches of pale blue sky meeting the blues of earth; cloudy pockets of snow deftly icing random peaks. And then a wing, like a silver lining struggling for a place in this world of magical mystery, struggling to fly in it, through it and over it; maybe carrying a little memory to the heady bustle of urban Melbourne.

That is me! A kind of Jonathan Livingston Seagull tweeked with just a hint of airbrushing; maybe limping a little on one wing at times, but always flying above the clouds; seeing worlds beyond the routine of traffic lights and time frames. After all, in the space of one flight, I had travelled from Autumn to Spring!

Anything is possible when you fly!

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View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

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Archive of Blog Quotes

  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

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