Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are The World From My Window with Party Tea And Toast, Will You? and Rune with H Is For Hanging Drops. The other top contenders were Dagenham Dave with Wackos Wanted. Apply Within; The Three R’s Blog with How A Little Ray Of Sunshine Lifted My Mood; Chewy with Osanna Ostrich; Sandy Kessler with My Blessing To The Liberal White Bigot; Cedar Key Daily Photo with Am I Blue; Prospero with Enigma; Terra Farmer with ET Of The Insect World; Sandi McBride with How We Came To Have So Many Pomegranate Plants. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Mad Manic Mamas with Living With Teen Terrorists Is A Nightmare and Crystal Jigsaw with World Turns and Runee with Stony Faces. The other top contenders were Craig Glenn with What Movie Would You Like To See, Sir?; Blogging Incognito with Chewed Up And Spit Out By Godzilla; Big Blue Barn West with Everyone Needs A Dream; Shirley Wells with The More Hours You Have; Leslie with We're Engaged; Travel Oyster with Idlewild - Paradise Revisited. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Willow Manor with A Sad Day In History and Rune with O Is For Organ Donation. The other top contenders were Suldog with Yeah I Wrote It; Corey with When I Press The Shutter; Becky with What I’ve Always Wished For; Nikon Sniper with Last Glimpse Of The Sun; Gennasus with Black And White Time Again; John with Sunset; Your EG Tour Guide with Skunk Cabbage; DiXymiss with Blue Clue; Amy with I Heart TV Land; Mrs Nesbitt with O Is For Outdoors and Robynn with Pig Deal. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Sandy Carlson with One Word; Sniffles And Smiles with Ah Yes, I Remember It Well and Rune with Slender Odd Shot. The other top contenders were Lime with Janita and Bella; Pat with Minnie Mouse Quilt; Imac with Wot? No Dotted Line?; Lew with What A Difference A Half-Day Makes; Ibeati with I Feel Springy; Quilly with Brunch Munch; What Matters Most with Traipsing And Thinking; Fat, Frumpy and Fifty with High Spring and Beckoning of Summer; Reluctant Memsahib with Silver; Bateau de Banane with Mirror, Mirror On The Wall and What I Should Have Said with Waiting For The Other Shoe To Fall. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Rune with J Is For Joy and Sarah Laurence with Diaries, Cyberspace and Privacy. The other top contenders were Mojo with Sprocket To Me; Moannie with Are You Taking The Mickey?; Tash with Dolphin Tower; Cheshire Wife with Meet The Neighbours; Grace and Bradley with Close Up; Expat Mum with The New Matoor Me; Wake Up And Smell The Coffee with We Were Gannettized; Eddie Bluelights with Mickey The Lovesick Budgie. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's winners are Rune With I Is For Icon and Brookville Daily Photo with Rainy Days Of Summer. The other top contenders were Your EG Tour Guide With Puddle Reflection; Dad’s Interpretation Of Things with When Life Hands You Lemons; Kym with Inadequacy; Fort Lauderdale Daily Photo with Mailbox; The Brit with Thank You and Slouching Mom with Entitlement. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Rune with Spring Is Here; Mrs Nesbitt with Mellow Yellow and Bubblewench With My Addiction. The other top contenders were Daryl With Odd Shot Monday; Digital Flower Pictures with Aloe; Woman In A Window with Whipped Potatoes With That Whine; Pinkerbell with Comic Relief; Mojo with Canoe Parking Only and Hilary with A Sun Track Mind. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Mary with A Letter To Rylan and Rune with F Is For Father-In-Law. The other top contenders were My World Through My Camera Lens with My World Tuesday; An Aerial Armadillo with The World Was Silent When They Died; Beth Kephart with The Family Of Things; Fireblossom with Watching St Anne; Alison Wonderland with A Movie, A Book And An Announcement; Arne with The Entrance To Parliament and Our Vanilla Life with Fishing!. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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Bridge Players

And Now, For My Next Trick ....

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON

These two photographs were taken some months ago, in the depths of Melbourne's winter. I didn't actually go out specifically to shoot these images, but I had to walk over Prince Bridge to get to Federation Square. I remember being captivated by the sight of this solitary branch clawing upwards.

To me, the very attraction of the shot was its starkness. There was the silver paint on the metal scroll, in complete contrast to the power of Nature. I only took one shot on my way to Fed Square and then on my way back, I took this frame (below), to provide a completely different viewpoint of the creeper beside the bridge.


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Read All About It

Time To Bridge The Gap

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON

Despite quite a few visits to Singapore since I was eleven years old, I don’t think I had ever come across the beam-structured Read Bridge until just before Christmas last year.

I was on my way to India and had very little time to spare, because I was only in transit for a day and a half and I wanted to shoot as many old-world images of the prosperous island-state as I possibly could. (Some of those photographs can be seen at Turn The Corner, Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter and Open And Shutter Case.)

I was advised to spend some time at Clarke Quay and thought I’d be in and out of there in about twenty minutes. Yeah, right. From the moment I wandered in and shot some frames of a man washing down a glass-topped tourist boat, I probably spent close to three hours there.

I was captivated by the array of colours and sights at the riverside attraction. Comprising a huge array of restored warehouses, restaurants and nightclubs, the area is named after Sir Andrew Clarke, the second governor of Singapore.

Some of the brightly-painted junks moored at the mini-harbour also serve as restaurants, while others are used as sightseeing ferries for tourists. I thought about taking a quick trip on one, but there was so much colour and activity (and so little time) that I chose instead to walk around the whole area, exploring every nook, cranny, street corner, laneway and sub-precinct.

The light was moody, with thick grey cloud and little more than fractured sunlight, so the vibrant colours of the walls and windows were relatively easy to capture.

I walked several kilometers that day, shooting hundreds of frames. But no, I didn’t have any time to put my feet up. Next time I’m there, I’m sure I’ll find myself sitting by the dock of the bay.

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Post Of The Day

Today's joint winners are Fleeing Muses with Pied Piper Of Ghosts; The Grownups Wanted Us Dead with What Goes Thump In The Night and Rune with A Rowanberry Stroll. The other top contenders (it was a particularly tough choice today) were Misty Dawn with Sky Watch Friday; Miranda with A Wealth of Information; Steph with The Folkie Never Dies; Louise with About A Funeral Home; OC with A Currency Debate; Crazy Cath with Welsh Rarebit. From America. With Love; Holly with The Lady From The North and Daryl with Untitled. Do pay them a visit and leave a comment if you have time.

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