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This is how it feels to live in Melbourne at the moment. It is not a commentary on which side of the political divide I support but about the fractures along political lines and ideology resulting in relentless vitriol and negativity that has fractured friendships and our once united city (and Country).
At the beginning it was all about standing together -bipartisan leadership and co-operation. Didn't take long for it to deteriorate into political point scoring at our expense.
This image just evolved and I guess I'm not sure it works. I took it from a bridge over-looking the freeway last year. Looking at it and the view of Melbourne town, just got me thinking about how much I love it and how broken it feels right now.
We will come back and be whole again. The talk of the move to mostly outdoor dining as has happened successfully in other countries even got me alittle excited this morning. You know how I love fairy lights.
Sometimes wonderful, long lasting ideas and new ways to do things arise from tragedies and I am sure that will happen in Melbourne as it will across the world. We just need to stop the cracks getting too big.
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This morning, an unexpected discovery beneath a leaden sky - a mooring rope from the sunken vessel, washed up on rocky shores. A terrible memory that the sea spat out.
She lays on her back, dizzily aware of pain, on craggy fractured outcrop that breathes beneath her like the ancient skin of a prehistoric dragon, battle-scarred and bruised. She, too, is fractured.
Fractured, but not broken.
She is the Lady from Shanghai.
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Shipwrecked: Kangsom
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From our series 'Island Story' - the story of a shipwreck. "Stranded on tropical shores that time forgot, a beautiful Lady from Shanghai struggles for survival, with humor, charm and style. Storms, cannibals and witches - she will encounter them all!"
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Pulled to the shoulder of the road to take pictures of a small stream, but wasn't happy with the look of the scene once I was able pulled over. Looked across the freeway to my left and liked the stand of tall skinny trees with dense forest behind. Using intentional camera movement. Ended up with several shots I liked. The reason I titled this Fractured Forest was the fractured and processed look the small branches created on the image. I flipped the image over 180 degrees because I liked the way it looks better upside-down. So what you're now seeing is actually upside-down.
"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real." Lucian Freud
If you take the scene of the ancient rocks I showed you yesterday, deliberately fracture it and then reassemble the parts, this is one of the results.
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It is said to expect the unexpected.
I did not expect this...
Sitting at my desk (7" away from our large picture window) looking at my monitor I suddenly heard a sonic boom. I turned to the window, hearing cracking, cracking and cracking. This picture shows the end product. I am fine, but admit it shook me up. I'm told it is not uncommon for atmospheric pressure changes to do this. Of course it had to be on my 6"x 6" picture window- Oy!
Well at least I got this unique window view to share with you.
Update: just had the measuring man out for the replacement order. He thinks it was a bird. Very odd as sitting at the window there was no shadow or movement of a bird what so ever.
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Blended several versions of the Apartment ( top floor ) & reduced it to a more fractured image.....
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Fractured reflections in London.
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Def Leppard - Fractured Love
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