rocks and water

20Sep07

This is a sort of shot that I find so refreshing. Nothing much to it – just rocks and water down at the beach. Could be any beach. I love the tasking of these pictures as much as working with them afterwards. It is really fun to be down there in all the fresh air [...]

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at the beach

14Sep07

“… at the beach …” What more needs to be said? This guy has obviously been making a habit of it, judging from his tan. Maybe he is a beach bum. I would like to be a beach bum.

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one of our cats

09Sep07

This is Pushka, one of our cats. Isn’t it interesting that you get cat people and dog people? We are definitely cat people. Not that we do not like (some) dogs, but I think we prefer them to be other people’s, not ours.
Pushka is a light-coloured, although probably heavy-on-the-stomach, Russian dessert. Here is the [...]

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our tea tree bush

07Sep07

This is a tea tree bush of some sort – there are over 80 species so it is a little difficult to know. Especially if you have thrown out the label that the plant nursery attached to it. Ours, pictured here, is flowering very well this year. We are hardly into spring [...]

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the crab

06Sep07

Here is a drawing I did in svg format, exported in png format. I was having problems transferring the blur effect you see on parts of the drawing from its native svg to png but this seems to have worked fine here. Good.
Check out the Open Clip Art Library!

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the breakwater

01Sep07

This is a corner of a wide spread of beach behind which lies Terrigal on the Central Coast of New South Wales.

I gave this some sort of treatment with Photoshop but for the life of my I cannot remember what it was. I suspect it was a gradient option under Image > Adjustments. [...]

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