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Day 59
28th February, 2009Proud to be an Australian. Found this flag flying in my space today and thought I would capture it. After all the tradegy in Australia in recent weeks with the bush fires in Victoria and the floods in North Queensland and the Northern Territories, it really has been an amazing experience to see people in this wonderful country get behind each other to sujpport one another.

Day 58
27th February, 2009
Just some more gumnuts in the gardent. Loved how I was able to capture the bud jus opening and springing foth new life.

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Day 57,
26th February, 2009
Pretty desperate for photos today. This is blooming just outside my front door. Had to set the camera on manual to get this photo. If I use the Auto setting, the flower comes out almost blue. This is pretty true to colour. Am going to the beach this weekend, so hopefully I might get to take a few beach shots.

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Day 56,
25th February, 2009

Found these blooming in my garden this afternoon - what beautiful flora we have in this country.
Seems to be that lots of my photos lately revolve around plants. I must admit though, that I never realized that our gardent contains such beauty and colour. I think that perhaps I have taken it too much for granted over the last few years.

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Day 55
24th February, 2009

I've had a busy couple of days - I did manage to take photos but haven't had a chance to get on and upload. My sister has been visiting, and we have been busy Resume writing. After homeschooling all her children through their entire school live, she has now decided that she would like to get a job.
Driving home from work this afternoon, I was just in awe of the colour from these gorgeous berries on my neighbours palm tree. Just had to run inside and grab my camera and take these couple of shots.

Day 54,
23rd February 2009
Not a hugely exciting photo today, but just had to take a photo of this dangling chain on the back of our lounge door.

Day 53,
22nd February, 2009.Sunday afternoon we took a walk along the walking tracks near the Yeppeen Lagoon. It is so beautiful at the momment. So lush and green. The Lagoon has had water in it for 12 months now. For years before that, the area had been so dry. The birdlife along here is amazing.

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Day 52,
21st February, 2009
We have fruit trees full of fruit at the moment - not ripe yet but hopefully will be sweet and juicy by the winter months. The top picture is oranges on our orange tree and then the second photo is taken of the mandarin's on the mandarin tree. And to finish off the walk around our garden, I found this rose, just past the prime of its bloom.
Shockingly hot day here today - way too hot to spend too much time out of the air conditioning.

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Day 51,
20th February, 2009
These are my photos for today. I went for another walk through my garden this afternoon - nothing extraordinary but quite pretty in their own right. I am really happy with the way these photos have turned out.
Original PhotoPhotoshopped Photo
I am really enjoying my TAFE course, learning heaps, and I am amazed at how you can transform pretty bad photos into half decent ones. Yesterday was Sarah and Colin's wedding anniversary so I was looking at some of the photos from the Sarah and Colin's wedding and I decided to have a play around with some of them - not great photos but photos that were way too dark, so I have managed to lighten them up a bit. I can't beleive how easy it is these days to make really bad photos look OK.

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Day 50,
Thursday 19th February, 2009
Just a little bit of debris laying in the garden. Interestingly enough this pretty much is the same photo. On the top photo I focused on the dead branch, and the second photo I focused on the leaf. Totally different look.
Second night at TAFE tonight - digital manipulation of photos and I am loving it. Looking forward to some more photo taking this week and manipulating them.