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'Abracadabra'
Variegated hybrid tea-rose.
Pretoria Parade
Hornsby, northern Sydney
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8 L 100mm macro lens.
Processed in:
Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software
Natures magic show :) Shot in the north of Norway, Lofoten. A place where the mountains rise out of the sea. This night it looked like it was raining color. A sobering mystical moment
Fantastic Magic Show at FAB Glitter last night!!! My first time performing there!! Though I think most people were concentrating on which half of Bri they preferred!
Dancers are great Magicians Assistants, and Gracie proved that today when she came to my Magic Show!!
She only earned...half...her salary. ;)
The town of New Victory Independence Day, July 4th 1900.
After Turkish dancing came Magical illusions - sawing a man in half.
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VICTORIAN EDWARDIAN AMERICAN TOWN. It is somewhere in time, being 1890-1914. All welcome.
Period clothing is encouraged but not compulsory.
Visitors are always welcome, whether it be for shopping or relaxing in the Botanical gardens, taking a balloon ride over the town or taking a tour with our well informed taxi driver who can show you all the hidden gems. Or perhaps you would like a lazy summers day on the beach or a romantic slow river ride on the swan boats.
Show us your photographs of your visit to New Victory;
www.flickr.com/groups/new_victory_sl/
If you would like to live in New Victory visit the town hall to see available properties
I broke one of my photography don’t do’s yesterday. I had great day exploring a wood in Northumberland, found lots of new places and totally wore myself out. On getting home late afternoon Carla fed me well with a delicious fish pie, Carla is a super cook, it’s her Italian genes and the love good food. So well fed and exhausted, all you intrepid explorers know this place, I made the big mistake of downloading my photos of the day onto the computer. This knocked my mood right in, very disappointed was I. So I did what I should have don’t in the first place, sat down with a good beer. My son Gino from Bristol sent some @drinkmoorbeer for my birthday last week, the one last was a Nor’Hop ultra pale ale, gorgeous. He sent a dozen selection and it does not matter which one I pick it always hit’s the spot. This morning after a grumpy damp dog walk, damming my camera to hell, it’s right what they say, a bad craftsman blames his tools, I sit down and look at my photos again, and this time I have a little more empathy for them. Here is one after I’d already started to make my way back to car and was on the phone to Carla saying as much. Ooo that looks interesting I say to a gap in a broken stone wall leading to splashes of yellow and golden, so I say bye and hang up. Fifteen minutes later I’ve passed the point of no return, up a steep slope heading towards some crags, I see below these silver birch sharing an opening with some tall pines but somehow managing to cloak there presents with a vail of shimmering leaves. The background pines and foreground birch help to give a natural split tone vignette, edged with the jutting branches of ragged pines acting as pointers to the magic show. It just shows what a good beer and a nights sleep can do for your photography.
This scene was part of a magic show at the Provo Recreation Center. I thought the most amazing part of the show was how this girl squeezed into the bottom part of the box when a tube was put right through the middle.
For more of my creative projects, visit my short stories website: 500ironicstories.com
It's no secret I love the Great Ocean Road . . . it has always held special place in my heart and I can never get enough of this very special place. It's charm and it's beauty ignite my passions and soothe my soul and it's mystique has over me, a permanent hold.
Rain, hail or shine it is always amazing and it always promises and delivers an element of surprise as it did once more over the weekend.
As we drove along the coastal road we both marvelled at sight we haven't seen here before . . . lining the shore on the sand were a series of beautiful stone formations that it appears have been created and continue to be created by visitors to the beach. They were all shapes and sizes . . . some intricate, some delicate and some stood as tall as people. We've seen the odd ones here and there but never anything quite like this before. You couldn't help but do a double take as you drove past . . . we stopped to take a closer look as did everyone else passing by too!
It really was a spectacular sight seeing them all 'en masse' like this and I wasn't sure where to shoot first. I took a few snaps as Ray and the pooches were waiting ever so patiently in the car and I returned later that afternoon on my own for a closer look and a wander in and around them too . . . all the while I was thinking how wonderful it would be to see them at sunrise too . . . that I had to make a reality and a couple of days later I did just that!
I woke around 5.30am to the my favourite sounds, magpies warbling, kookaburras cackling and the sounds of the ocean crashing onto the beach . . . heaven! I lay in bed for a little while longer, watching from the tips of my toes the sky as it too began to awake, teasing me as it did with traces of pink. It was the then that I leapt out of bed and drove the few kilometres
up the road to where these amazing formations were.
As I drove the winding Great Ocean Road the skies became dark and grey and what little light there was, was flat and dull. I had contemplated turning back as it didn't look promising at all, but I had made the effort to get out of bed and so I thought I may as well stay. As I arrived, I could see another lady in the distance amongst the rocks taking photos but perhaps she had the same thoughts as I had earlier, as she left moments later . . . lucky for me I stayed.
I had the beach all to myself . . . within uneven footing I wandered in and around the rocks, careful not to knock any of these delicate formations over with my twists and turns and my camera bag and finally I wedged myself into position, just in time it seems for the light and magic show to begin!
As the sun broke through the clouds, grey skies gave way to hues of purple and pink and gold, casting a rich red glow over the rocks and beach before me . . . but as quickly as the colourful skies appeared, they disappeared and within minutes the skies once more were dull and grey. The contrast was amazing and literally if you had blinked you would have missed it . . . you would never have believed any colour had even existed this morning at all . . . but this is my proof!
With a spectacular sunrise under my belt, a hot coffee and breakfast beckoned and I was ready to head for home, but as I turned my back on the sea I was bestowed with yet another beautiful sight, as mist had rolled in and settled low in the mountains behind, providing a mystical backdrop to the stone formations before me. There was still not a soul about, not even on the roads, unless you count the hundreds of flies that were hell bent on hassling me, but still it was a small price to pay for the beauty of this morning . . . it was almost ethereal.
By the time I eventually left some 90 minutes later, the mist had well and truly settled and the spray coming off the ocean was severe, infact it was not ideal conditions for my camera, especially with the amount of moisture in the air making everything feel damp and sticky! Coffee and a hot shower were definitely both in need, but when it comes to mother nature I am easily distracted . . . and as I headed for home the light and my surrounds continued to change with every twist and turn of the road.
It can be very much like that down here, in one small pocket it can be dull and grey and just a couple 100 metres further along the road or around a bend the weather and the conditions can be completely different . . . this morning being a perfect example of that.
As I rounded one of the corners . . . last nights moon was still evident in the sky and the silvery ocean was almost blinding, so too the spotlight a beam of sunlight had created upon it. I really was in awe of mother nature today, I am most days, but this morning was incredibly special.
Almost home, I stopped once more at a property just up the road from us where a little farmhouse sits perched atop a small hill . . . it has the best of both worlds mountains on one side and the sea on the other and at dusk you will always see kangaroos here too! This morning it looked particularly beautiful as the morning sun made it's fields looked like they were bathed in gold, while mist settled in the mountains behind and the light on the trees was just glorious too!
No matter how many times we come here, and we come here a lot, I still get giddy with excitement as no two sunrises, or two days or even two minutes for that matter are ever the same. This is my kind of heaven . . . a heaven I can never get enough off and with every visit it becomes just that little bit harder to leave here.
Back home, as I sat sipping my coffee on the deck overlooking the ocean the adrenaline was still racing. What a way to start the day!
Shot taken hand held, no tripod. I'm back online now too and look forward to catching up with all of your streams.
Whiskey Girl model Anna came to Shorties today for my magic show. These models need to learn if they come to my show, this will happen to them!! Mwahahaa!!!!
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DJ Luci and I did a set together, she did music and I did my magic show. What better person to ask to assist me than Luci's...better half...her partner Cheri!!
Come one, come all
To my Magic Show
Snag all your friends
To come along too
No one should miss
This dazzling curtain call
I spin the moon
Where stars once flew
But now you shall see
What miracle taunts my breeze
From the top of the tent
To your mind it must please
Welcome to my magic show
You’ll never yearn to leave.
by Bambi Chicque
Thrill yourself here: bampulegacies.com/2014/10/08/welcome-to-my-magic-show/
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A water drop with colored light flashed through it. No photoshopping here, just cropping and resizing. Feedback is appreciated. I am trying to get a feel for which of these posted are people's favorite. Thanks for the help.