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For my video; youtu.be/a0yTKQAZbLI,
Photo taken 33 years ago today,
The Dreamtime Cultural Centre is an Indigenous cultural arts and education centre in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
Situated on the Bruce Highway in the suburb of Parkhurst at the northern entrance to the city, the centre was established to promote greater awareness of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, history and traditions through various cultural displays, guided educational tours and interactive activities.[1]
The Dreamtime Cultural Centre is also a popular attraction for tourists visiting Rockhampton with many European and Australian backpackers visiting the centre each year.
Path to dreamtime beach
The expression 'Dreamtime' is most often used to refer to the 'time before time', or 'the time of the creation of all things', while 'Dreaming' is often used to refer to an individual's or group's set of beliefs or spirituality.
For instance, an Indigenous Australian might say that they have Kangaroo Dreaming, or Shark Dreaming, or Honey Ant Dreaming, or any combination of Dreamings pertinent to their 'country'. However, many Indigenous Australians also refer to the creation time as 'The Dreaming'.
What is certain is that 'Ancestor Spirits' came to Earth in human and other forms and the land, the plants and animals were given their form as we know them today.
These Spirits also established relationships between groups and individuals, (whether people or animals) and where they traveled across the land, or came to a halt, they created rivers, hills, etc., and there are often stories attached to these places.
Once their work was done, the Ancestor Spirits changed again; into animals or stars or hills or other objects. For Indigenous Australians, the past is still alive and vital today and will remain so into the future. The Ancestor Spirits and their powers have not gone, they are present in the forms into which they changed at the end of the 'Dreamtime' or 'Dreaming', as the stories tell.
The stories have been handed down through the ages and are an integral part of an Indigenous person's 'Dreaming'.
The 'Dreamtime Girl' on Sydney harbour, near Miller's Point.
Photographed in the early evening - near sunset.
Monday, November 30th, 2020.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 24-105mm lens.
Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH Software
It differs slightly from the one displayed on the back of the card.
(See next photo)
It says 1992 on the card, but it wasn't promoted until 1993.
General Store, Nimbin.
Its traditional owners the Bundjalung people know the area as the ‘Rainbow Region’ and it represents to them great cultural significance.
To the rest of us who know the area know it as being the location of the 1973 Aquarius Festival which was held in the old dairy farming village of Nimbin.
According to the first nations people the Whiyabul (Widgibal) the name Nimbin comes their Dreamtime and tells of the Nimbinjee spirit who protected the people in the area.
In the 1840’s red cedar loggers moved into the area and had most of the land cleared by the turn of the century.
With the land cleared of forests Nimbin was subdivided in 1903 when the land was utilised for banana growing and dairy farming.
When the dairy industry collapsed in the 1960’s as a result of financial recession the village slid into deep financial difficulties.
In what would prove to be Australia’s first attempt at Traditional Owners reconciliation by seeking permission to use the land.
It was the beginning of the Aquarius Festival which was intended to be the Australian equivalent of Woodstock.
In the wake of the festival many people decided to call Nimbin home and went on to establish communes.
Nimbin is a colourful village that promotes the legalisation of cannabis and as a result it plays host the MardiGrass festival which had its beginning in 1993.
The village population swells and bursts at the seams as thousands of people converge to participate in the festival which is held in May.
Nimbin it really is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
Nimbin, New South Wales, Australia.
Morning shot at Arkaroo rock with the only cloud in the sky, in this direction, right over the top.
In the dreamtime of Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Arkaroo is a serpent who drank all the waters of Lake Frome in South Australia, the latter remaining a large salt pan most of the time. Heavily filled and tired, the Arkaroo retracted for a nap into the mountains west, carving by his body the valleys of what is known today as the Gammon Ranges in the northern Flinders Ranges. He was attacked by other mystic beasts and let water on his rests, each position resulting in a waterhole, such as that of Arkaroola Springs and others. Today as in ancient times, rumblings of the Arkaroo can be heard in the mountains, which are scientifically explained by the seismic activity of the ranges.
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Cala Daia/Mallorca.
A4 sec, F22, 11 mm, Cokin 8ND/8GND/Tobacco. Original colors straight out of the camera.
Please no invitations and banners. Thank you!
Meadows at Dawn.
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Camera: Canon T3i.
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8
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Candid portrait of a young child with part of the Aboriginal Flag
Barangaroo, Sydney
Australia Day, 2019
The Dreamtime Serpent at Betoota is one of three indigenous artworks in the Diamantina Shire linking the towns of Birdsville, Bedourie and Betoota Betoota is a ghost town in western Queensland, Australia with a population of 0.
Last of the four tree pieces. Their Springtime, pre-foliage crispness of line works out really nicely with this kind of image fragmentation. Since "Tumbleworld" was only developed in the Fall, it remains to be seen what happens with the fullness of verdant life in the Summer.
Sunset and twilight were described by Carlos Castaneda as the 'window between the worlds'. This can be taken to mean literally night and day, but also what happens deeper in with both demarcations of time. That idea was also meant to express a Shamanic acknowledgement of the time of day when dreamtime journeying is at it's most open potential.
Day and Night have also been cited as representing the two main types of consciousness - Day = Reason, rationality and linear thought and Night, the Subconscious, dreams, mystical states, the non-linear and non-rational.
Whatever that may mean, evening, bordering on twilight, has a richness of colour and mood about it that has always made it a time of deep, quiet feeling with sumptuous red and golden tones and dramatic punctuations of light and shadow.
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Music Link: "Bajan" - Michael Stearns, from his album "The Storm". Stearns has been producing atmospheric music for a very long time. Sometimes he's been filed under New Age, but that's not quite what he does as his music has just enough tension and darkness in it at times to have it sit quite outside of the gushing of waves under Pachelbel's Canon. He is mostly known for his soundtracks to Ron Fricke's two films, "Baraka" and "Samsara".
A bajan is a Hindu song of devotion. I chose it for the feeling it gives me of that golden, wistful time of day that I allude to with this image.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbsU1lNkAxY
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2015. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
An aboriginal dreamtime story about Milnguya, the Milky Way.
"Walik, the crow, and Bari Pari, the cat, built a fish trap on the beach. On the first day the trap caught Balin the barramundi, and some of his friends and relatives. Walik and Bari pari decided to have a dance ceremony to show their happiness at catching so many fish. As they danced Balin called out to other clans to come and help him. When they came they speared and ate Balin and all the other fish. When the crow people and the cat people came to collect the fish all that was left was Balin's bones on the sand.
They said they had to fight the people who ate the fish, but first they buried the bones because he was a friend and totem, as they would not have eaten Balin. They planteda hollow pole, painted it, put Balin's bones in it, and set it in the sand. When they caught up with the people who had eaten the fish they had a fight, but they were losing because there were too many people in the group who ate Balin. The cat people and the crow people decided to fly up to the sky with the pole containing Balin's bones, camping beside the river that flows across the sky. The twinkling in Milnguya, the Milky Way, is really the many camp fires and the small spots on the cats. Walik the crow and the pole containing Balin's bones are also there. Swimming in the river is Ying-arpaya, the great crocodile, the spines on his back and the curve of his tail are marked by big stars."
‘Dreamtime Beach’ (VH-YWE) taxiing past the ATC tower at Canberra Airport to depart 17 Canberra Airport (CBR/YSCB) for Melbourne (MEL/YMML) as Virgin Australia 278 as the sun rapidly sets... What a great day...
Timelessness, memories and dreams...
rich sea air floods my senses as I wander deeper into the forests of memory..
through the gate of the Gaurdians...
into a world apart
for a time.
~Starlisa
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Frilled-neck lizard - Chlamydosaurus kingii
Nightcliff - Northern Territory
Australia
Dreamtime Nature Photography