FLIGHT

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SILHOUETTE PORTRAIT

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SKY VIEW

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CROW SILHOUETTE

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HAPPY 2017

May you have a Happy New Year full of health, joy and prosperity!

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CHRISTMAS EVE

M E R R Y    C H R I S T M A S

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TWILIGHT

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SUNRISE SKY

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SUMMER SKIES

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GUMTREE SUNSET

"Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day." - Rachel Boston

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WERRIBEE RIVER

The Werribee River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment that is located on the plain West of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The headwaters of a tributary, the Lerderderg River, are north of Ballan near Daylesford and it flows across the basalt plain, through the suburb of Werribee to enter Port Phillip.

A linear park follows the Werribee River along much of its course. In total the Werribee River completes a journey of approximately 110 kilometres. The river flows through the Werribee Gorge State Park before being utilised for irrigation of market gardens at Bacchus Marsh, then through Werribee where it is crossed by the Maltby By-pass. It then flows through the Werribee Open Range Zoo in Werribee Park, and finally the small coastal settlement of Werribee South before entering Port Phillip.

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DUCKS

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

H A P P Y   H A L L O W E E N !

I've merged photographic images with digital art in Photoshop to create this image.

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PORT MELBOURNE BEACH

Port Melbourne Beach begins at the southeast end of Station Pier, running parallel to Beach St, and joins South Melbourne Beach further along, and eventually down to St Kilda Beach. The high rise apartment blocks and palm trees along Beach St give the locale a cosmopolitan feel, but looking out towards the sea, one can imagine oneself in quite a remote area. Nevertheless, it is only about 3 km south of the CBD.

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AT THE PORT

Gantry cranes for shipping container loading and unloading at the Port of Melbourne. I was rather pleased this photo came out as I was stretching the zoom capability of my camera, these structures being about 3.5 km away.

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SPRING SUNSHINE & SHADE

In the Parklands, a wonderful sunny Spring day! Unused to the sudden heat and sunshine, we had to seek some shade...

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CHOPIN STATUE

The Chopin Statue is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin that now stands in the upper part of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park aka Łazienki Park, adjacent to Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue). It was designed in 1907 by Wacław Szymanowski for its planned erection on the centenary of Chopin's birth in 1910, but its execution was delayed by controversy about the design, then by the outbreak of World War I. The statue was finally cast and erected in 1926.

During World War II, the statue was destroyed by the occupying Germans on May 31, 1940. According to local legend, the next day a handwritten sign was found at the site which read: "I don’t know who destroyed me, but I know why: So that I won’t play the funeral march for your leader." The original mould for the statue, which had survived the war, made it possible to cast a replica, which was placed at the original site in 1958. At the statue's base, since 1959, on summer Sunday afternoons are performed free piano recitals of Chopin's compositions. The stylised willow over Chopin's seated figure echoes a pianist's hand and fingers.

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And here is Vladimir Horowitz playing Chopin's Polonaise Op. 53 in A flat major for you!

KANGAROOS

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SUNRISE SILHOUETTES

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AT THE TRAIN STATION

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