Day 517, Best Friend

I love watching a happy dog play in the water as their owner strolls along side. Can you imagine the opposite? While pondering this question I remember a scene back in summer here where a couple of small children played in much the same way in the tiny surf while a great German Shepard stood […]

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Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II

This view of the The Lamson Rapid Wire System shows both its simplicity and complexity. To send the cart the clerk would pull down slowly on the pull-chord until the the launching frame was held under stretched elastic against a stop. On release the the launcher would send the cart flying along the wire to […]

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Day 515, Zebra Plant

The beautiful zebra plant would have you believe it boasts beautiful bright yellow flowers which lasts all through the winter. You’d be mistaken. Now a common indoor plant, Aphelandra squarrosa is native of Brazil. It gets its common name from its striking striped foliage which gives no clues at all to those wonderful non-flowers. The […]

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Day 514, Washed Up

I have read that the ideal ‘landscape’ has three key elements; the foreground, the middle ground and background. With that in mind I decided to look for something washed ashore. These two washed up lumps of sea weed may not be the most exotic foregrounds imaginable but at short notice and without a lot of […]

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Day 513, Fusion

What caught my eye in this image was the way the reflections of the sky, the beach, the jetty and the sunset seems to perfectly balance the the light coming from within the Thai Orchid restaurant. Like a perfect fusion of two worlds, beautifully set dining tables seem to float over and through the outside […]

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