SEA The World: Under A Southern Sky

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SEA The World

Under A Southern Sky

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The sun is fierce under a southern sky... colours stand bold and true .. and the afternoon sun casts deep shadows stretching out to the horizon... Shadows that can trick the eye in this harsh Australian sunlight..

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Is It Sand

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Or Is It Sea

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Real

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Or Imagined

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Shadows of My Mind

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The Sydney Spring is still playing hide and seek.. Playing tricks with my mind!! So I've created my own imaginary spring.. Where sailboats glide through the sand and hopscotch along the shadows.. Where the sea can be golden hued or iridescent blue.. where the eye cannot tell where the sand ends and the sea begins.

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[Original Shot - Unaltered]

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SEA The World

Comes To Sydney

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This shot was taken at South Cronulla Beach, Sydney on one of our sunny days ..

The shadows are from the towering palms in the park behind me

I only managed a few shots before the camera battery died..

C'est La Vie.. I'll imagine the rest.

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Participating in this week's photo challenge at Chania's Razmataz

'Capture a Shadow'

Thanks Chania

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[click on the icon for more SEA The World posts]

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'Have A Fabulous Weekend Everyone'

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IMAGE SOURCE:

Text, Photography & Altered Image Artwork by Being Ruby©

Location: South Cronulla Beach

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The Red Shoes

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NO

Not These Red Shoes

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These Red Shoes

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Red

When you least expect it!!

[maybe I should have called this the Ruby Slippers!!]

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Just a quick post for Chania's Photo Challenge.

Thanks Chania just when I thought I couldn't find red.. There it was..

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Will be back with my Full Moon post soon. Until Then...

Have a great weekend..

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IMAGE SOURCE:

Seagulls: Photography and artwork by Being Ruby©

The Red Shoes: Source unknown - sorry had this one so long can't remember... restored in photoshop by me

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Myopia Utopia or Focus Pocus

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Myopia Utopia or Focus Pocus

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This weeks photo challenge over at Chania's blog Razmataz was to 'Get up close to your subject'... To play with the blur that exists in up close shots. Sounds like a perfect assignment for a myopically challenged individual like me.. My whole world has blurred edges and indistinct backgrounds.. and lately some of the reverse.

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The first shot is clearly not clear at all.. Neither foreground, nor background is in focus.. but being an outcast of perfection, I love it all the more.. The overall blurry effect appeals to me on some psychobabble level.. A haven of blur in the sharp reality of existence.. [or .. I just find it pretty] ... And.. it's a bit like my eyesight at present..

... neither here nor there!! ...

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A Bit of Focus Pocus

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Oh... here we are back with my lightbulb obsession.

Yes this shot clearly meets the challenge requirements, but ... a tad boring?

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A little cheating and voila!

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Have a fun weekend everyone

And thanks Chania for keeping me focussed!

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And thanks everyone for your continued visits and kind comments.. My internet took a vacation last week and forgot to take me along! Hopefully this week will be better although I think I've been saying that a while now? Non?

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IMAGE SOURCE:

All text & photography by me - [Being Ruby©]

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Post Updated For Katherine!

[see comments]

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[Please: No-one ask me to take a shot whilst jumping off the gap!]

[and can someone lead me to my retinas I seem to have misplaced them after this shot]

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Mrs Wagner & The Fish Knives

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Mrs Wagner & The Fish Knives

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Maud Stevens Wagner

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Maud Wagner. Wife, mother and contortionist. Also the first woman in the United States to gain recognition as a professional tattoo artist, tutored by her husband Gus Wagner.. the infamous 'Tattoed Man'. It is Gus's fine handiwork you see adorning Maud's agile torso... It is reputed they met at the St Louis World Fair and it was love at first sight. Obviously a match made in heaven. Their love was so grand .. they named their daughter Lovetta.

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Although Maud died in 1961 and Gus in 1941, both remain in service today... together again .. forever captured in glass paperweights .. to grace the homes of us modern day folk and remind us that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and happiness awaits those with an adventurous spirit. Apologies for Gus's absence.. He's stuck in the camera waiting for a battery recharge... Maud however was keen to be in the limelight.. with only a slight grudge that the vintage silverware was the object of focus.. I think her menacing appearance would make her a worthy watcher of the family silverware and heirlooms.

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My Grandmothers Sideboard

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It's been a while since I posted a Silver Sunday hosted by the lovely Beth over at Gypsy Fish Journal .. Mostly as everything has been packed with the recent move .. but I love any opportunity to polish up the silverware for a bit of vintage indulgence. OK.. there was no polishing involved. I admit i love the pretty worn patina from years of show and tell. Childhood years digging through my grandmothers imposing sideboard to find all the shiny silver pieces hidden beneath the dusty napkins, vintage photos and cardboard boxes filled with strange little trinkets meaningless to anyone but the finder and keeper. That would be me! [sorry dear brother and any other lost family relative reading this post].

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Rewards were at the waiting for those willing to tussle with the overstuffed drawers. Drawers that jammed prying little fingers rushing to hide their pilfering pilgrimage. A journey would take place in mind and imagination. An adventure into lands of shiny sparkly things, musky napkins, and faded memorabilia that documented the lives of unspoken relatives with ambitious dreams. Rewards were at the waiting for those brave enough to excavate the treasures from the sentinel of untold golfing trophies standing guard of a pirates loot. The world would seem a little more mysterious in the presence of these shiny silver things. Shiny silver things that had passed through hands of strangers and carers and traversed the decades to reach this bottomless pit.

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Although Mrs Wagner and her trusty sidekick are new acquisitions, not residents of my childhood memories, they remind me of the strange inhabitants I encountered in the wonderful world of my grandmothers sideboard.

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And on That Note I Bid You Adieu!!!

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Oh and once again Congrats to Meredith on winning the Chic Little Shop

giveaway [see last post]

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IMAGE SOURCE:

All text & photography by me - [Being Ruby©]

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