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Being AWOL
I am currently on day 8 of 14 away from home, at a conference in Lorne, Victoria. Lorne is on the Great Ocean Road, which, according to Wikipedia is an Australian National Heritage listed 243 kilometres stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Allansford. Built by…
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Symmetry yrtemmyS
This is not quite symmetrical, but kinda close. I took this at the beach in Lorne, Victoria, where we are at a very long conference. Photo was taken with my iPhone6 and I added the Clarity filter in Camera+. I have been so busy with this conference, I’ve only had a short amount of time…
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Give Me Some Sugar!
For this week’s Scientific Reasoning, I want to talk to you about growing crystals. It seems fitting since last week’s feature was an Interview with Dr Julia Archbold who worked with protein crystals. I work with some scientists who are protein crystallographers. These talented individuals isolate a particular protein and then work out how to…
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Toytown
For this week’s photo challenge, Scale, I immediately thought of my photo taken from King’s Park in Perth, of the construction of the new conference centre. It is now complete, but I love the effect created here using th “Diorama” art filter on my Olympus OMD EM5. This mimics the effect you would see…
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A Touch of Yellow
This is my 100th post !! 😀 Another post for Lucile’s Rehab Clinic over at bridging lacunas. If you want to join a supportive community of photography enthusiasts who like to share their images and a little technique, please come on over! This is a weed in my garden, we’ve sprayed it but it’s pretty resilient,…
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The Vultures
I was honoured to be asked to do a guest blog post for the lovely Jill at jillypopmusic. Go visit Jill for great reviews of new music, creative writing and posts about her personal journey. Please take a look at my guest post here on jillypopmusic, where I’ve incorporated various photos of the band, along with a review.…
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One Photo Focus 2
Stacy from Visual Venturing is hosting One Photo Focus, a photo editing challenge. Editing is something that I don’t have much experience with, so I thought this would be a good way for me to learn. Please click through the link above, it’s an amazing group of talented people. Thank you to Stacy for organising…
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Scientist Spotlight – Dr Julia Archbold
This is my first interview for my Scientific Reasoning feature. The questions will be the same for each interviewee and I hope that they will give us some insight into the lives of a few of today’s scientists. Dr Julia Archbold is a good friend of mine. We have known each other for many…
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Frangipani for your Thoughts?
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post specifically for Lucile’s Rehab Clinic over at bridging lacunas. I dedicate today’s photo to my beautiful mum, whose birthday it is today. I’ve just come home from dinner with the family – I love my mama, she is my rock and my role model. We had a…
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Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award
I have been so lucky to have been nominated for this award by 4 very talented bloggers, so I will answer each of their questions separately. This is my first time answering an award, so here goes! Nominated by Lucile de Godoy at bridging lacunas. Lucile has been my rock during this process of starting my blog.…
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Sloe Aged Flirt
Today, I’m bringing a cheeky little cocktail to Justine’s Tea Time #5. If you haven’t been to Justine’s Tea Time before, come along, see what you might find 😉 Before my birthday cocktail party last year, my friend and I went out to taste-test some cocktails, as you do 🙂 I had been introduced to…
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Depth of Soul
One cannot look deeply into the eyes of an animal and not see the same depth, complexity and feeling we humans lay exclusive claim to – Nan Sea Love. We were wandering around a temple in Chiang Mai this time last year, somewhat separated from our group, when we came across a little collection of ornaments…
Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist
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Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist 