I’ve always been interested in taking photographs, but over the last few years my focus has been rather less on ‘this is me outside the Sydney Opera House’ and more on ‘look what I found in the Royal Botanical Gardens’ or ‘down at the railway track’ – which is the picture on the left. I’ve become more interested in shapes, textures, forms and colours, and this preoccupation, I think, is reflected in some of the following photographs and montages.
All comments, technical, artistic or otherwise are welcome. I’m never going to be the world’s best photographer, but surely I’m a serious contender for the most prolific! 🙂
Index to Photos – (currently being updated)
All Time Favourites – The Final Weekly Photo Challenge
Poppy Day – Variations on a Theme: WPC
Growth – Perfectly Imperfect: WPC
Morning, A Time for Walking: WPC
Cherry on the Top, in Dorset: WPC
Vibrant: Weekly Photo Challenge
Optimistic: Weekly Photo Challenge
Alphabet: Weekly Photo Challenge
Weightless: Weekly Photo Challenge
Circle: Weekly Photo Challenge
Happy Place: Boschendal Estate, Franschoek
Boundaries: Weekly Photo Challenge
Change: Weekly Photo Challenge
Connected: Weekly Photo Challenge
From Every Angle: Weekly Photo Challenge
Just Chillin’: Cees Oddball Photo Challenge
Today Was A Good Day: Weekly Photo Challenge
Creepy: Weekly Photo Challenge
Beneath Your Feet: Weekly Photo Challenge
Coasting for Inspiration: Weekly Photo Challenge
Close Up: Weekly Photo Challenge
Half and Half: Weekly Photo Challenge
Sunday Stills: Three’s Company, Four’s Invincible
Sunday Stills: Buildings over 4 storeys tall
Weekly Photo Challenge: ROYG.BIV
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off Season
Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate
Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion
Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird
Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral
Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward (Good Dog)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge: Bells, Lights and Hulking Trees
Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry
Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself
Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity
Weekly Photo Challenge: Travertine Man in Shadow
Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge: Deterrent
Weekly Photo Challenge: Warmth
Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge: Lockside
Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow
Sunday Stills: Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Cee’s Weekly Oddball Photo Challenge, Week 41
Weekly Photo Challenge: Twinkle
Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge, Week 40
Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone But Not Forgotten
Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge
Sunday Stills: Rainbow Connection
Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge: Cheers Dears!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Angular
Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement
Sunday Stills: Shallow Depth of Field
Weekly Photo Challenge: Minimalist
Sunday Stills: Made in the Forties
Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent
Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art
Sunday Stills: C is for Cobweb
Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction
Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy
Weekly Photo Challenge: Night Time
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Sunday Stills: Looking Through Windows
Sunday Stills: B is for … Bastille Day
Sunday Stills: Entrances and Gateways
Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts
Weekly Photo Challenge: Between
Weekly Photo Challenge: Extra! Extra!
Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top
Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument
Weekly Photo Challenge: Thresholds
Ese’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Awakening
Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
Sunday Stills: The Colour Brown
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
Sunday Stills: L is for Locomotive
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
Weekly Photo Challenge: Treasure
Weekly Photo Challenge: Selfie
Sunday Stills: Things We Take for Granted
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote: Fragile
Weekly Photo Challenge: Object
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
Sunday Stills – F is for Fright
Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
Weekly Photo Challenge: Window
Weekly Photo Challenge – Beginning
Sunday Stills: Going to the Dogs
Sunday Stills: Holiday Lights and Decorations
Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Silence
Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
Sunday Stills: Favourite Subject
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Spread
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Allure
Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon
Sunday Stills: Tree/Fall Colours
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Ugly
Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge: Vibrations
Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning
Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Brown and Sepia Tones
Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns
Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
castelsarrasin 
Sandra I think this was the first time I rolled through the whole thing- marvellous – wonderful – what a time you’ve had – I’d love some of theduck and bird pictures and one of you with something! My ink would run out if I tried to get it all – I envy you your life – More as a later date I have to go out =love Martjprie xxxxxxx
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Hi Marjorie, glad you found the site again, and had a chance to look. I’ll print some photos out for you soon. Going out hey? Attagirl!
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Sandra, I’m so glad you took the time to visit my blog, as it gave me an opportunity to meet you and be introduced to your wonderful photo journeys. Now that I see that you really can write, I want to encourage you to think about fleshing out one of your stories and entering my “authors helping authors” project. Just know that the deadline date is March 14th for this first round. HINT: Start at http://www.tales2inspire.com and click on the GREEN CONTINUE button at the bottom of each screen for all the info, what if’s how to’s, etc.
Hope to hear from you.
Best,
Lois
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Nice blog Sandra, I’m following you!!! Kisses from Italy…;-)
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I will be honest with you, I haven’t read every part of this posting today but what a gem it is, I like the many different pictures, each telling their own story, like the disabled dog with wheels that give him / her new life and the zoo animals, actually I am not fond of some zoos but as long as they have lots of open space for the animals then I guess their lives are safer, which in this day and age is a good thing with poachers unneccesarily killing animals for their skins, tusks and whatever else takes their fancy, which is disgraceful for sure. I like the picture of the Heron, his staying power must have given you many smiles, but what a character 🙂 lol
The roaming goats are also a brilliant feature and something lovely to see, I don’t know why the French don’t like it, but then there is always someone not liking something so I suppose it has to be expected. Right I will call back to your blog again soon and read through this one again, it is certainly an interesting posting my friend.
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
Andro
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Thank you! 🙂
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I am a photographer myself and I loved looking through your pictures. They are stunning. 🙂
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Thank you Maddy. So pleased.
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Hi Sandra, we both appear in each others “likes” in support of our WPC posts! So sad to see it go, but I thought I would follow several bloggers who seem consistent and loyal to the WPC. YOur photos are wonderful and I kick myself for not following you sooner!
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