YOU HAVE MAIL

Making some stamps from various places in Melbourne! Good fun...

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COSMIC ROSE

One of my photos digitally altered with Photoshop.

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HO HO HO!

Just seen in Magadan, Russia, on his way to Australia and here in 50 minutes and counting down!

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MOROCCO

Visual travel candy...

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URBAN ANIMALS

We live in a big metropolis of over five million people, and yet we are lucky to have many parks, parklands and nature reserves right in the midst of the urban area. Within walking distance of our house is the Darebin Parklands, which straddle Alphington and Ivanhoe, approximately 10 kilometres northeast of the City of Melbourne. Darebin Creek flows through the Parklands, to join the Yarra River, at Alphington.

Darebin Parklands comprises an area of approximately 40 hectares of urban bushland, containing much native flora and fauna. The park is highly accessible being both on a bus route and adjacent to the Hurstbridge railway line. The digital mosaic below shows some of the fauna inhabiting the park.

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PINK

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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NATURAL

Rock -> Bark-> Water: A layer merge with Photoshop.

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SEQUESTERED

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TIME

“We can live in none
but the present

the past is past
the bygone days

cannot be filled with life
we are no time travellers” ― Dahi Tamara Koch

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PARKLANDS

Yellow Pyracantha berries, canola flowers and red haws are always great to take photos of. When you can't get them all in frame as they are too far apart, create a mosaic with fuzzy borders in Photoshop!

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MICROCOSM

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RECONDITE GAME

Make your own rules...

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MEMENTO MORI

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PETER WEPT

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TIME & TIDE

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QUARTET

A string quartet is a musical ensemble consisting of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group. The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the mid 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.

The string quartet was developed into its current form by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, with his works in the 1750s establishing the genre. Ever since Haydn's day the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form and represents one of the true tests of the composer's art. With four parts to play with, a composer working in anything like the classical key system has enough lines to fashion a full argument, but none to spare for padding. The closely related characters of the four instruments, moreover, while they cover in combination an ample compass of pitch, do not lend themselves to indulgence in purely colouristic effects.

Quartet composition flourished in the Classical era, with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert following Haydn in each writing a number of quartets. A slight slackening in the pace of quartet composition occurred in the later 19th century, in part due to a movement away from classical forms by composers such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Then it received a resurgence in the 20th Century with the Second Viennese School, Béla Bartók, Dmitri Shostakovich and Elliott Carter producing highly regarded examples of the genre. In the 21st century it remains an important and refined musical form.

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Here is Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No 1, performed by the Moscow String Quartet.

TEMPUS FUGIT

Nay, every race on earth of men, and beasts,
And ocean-folk, and flocks, and painted birds,
Rush to the raging fire: love sways them all.
Fast flies meanwhile the irreparable hour,
As point to point our charmed round we trace.

Virgil - "Georgics" Book 3

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CAMELLIA

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CITYSPHERE

You may have seen those photos where a panoramic shot is taken and converted into a round, "tiny planet" spherical structure in Photoshop. Well, I watched a short video on YouTube and created one myself without spending too much time neatening it up. The results are below, with the original photo and the "tiny planet" version underneath. Try it yourself!

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