Shadow Shot Sunday #54

Howdy! The Shadow Gallery collages feature a selection of photos from participants from last Sunday. If you’d like to join in SSS, please do. How? Shoot a shadow, post it on your blog on Sunday (or close to Sunday), then add your link to Mr Linky, and visit other players. First-time participants are required to click here for further info before submitting links. Thanks heaps and I hope you enjoy all the shadows!

Shadow Gallery

The Shooters:
1. GalleryJuana 2. HappilyRetiredGal 3. Hildegarde 4. AuthenticallyUnique 5. CJ@ProArtz 6. Generik 7. JustLikeMartha 8. HighDesertDiva 9. SweetRepose


The Shooters:
1. Dorte 2. Fotodiod 3. Christy 4. ElizabethSchmid 5. Chie 6. ctmott 7. MolokaiGirl 8. JoannaP 9. kbear


The Shooters:
1. Alexa 2. Kelley 3. Linda 4. PJ 5. Hejoko 6. Vicki 7. Kenobiitti 8. EmBelISH 9. ChickenSue

Here's my Shadow Shot Sunday #54


The Cleveland Point Lighthouse. I posted a TtV (through the viewfinder) photo of this very same lighthouse last month that had been taken on a lovely warm sunny day. The mood of this photo I find seems to suit our upcoming dreary cold season. Yup, winter in Australia officially commences tomorrow. Bye bye autumn.

Happy Sunday!
Shadow Shot Sunday Participants

1. La Vie Est Belle 2. robin-one still frame 3. High Desert Diva 4. Sylvia K 5. PJ - Pensacola 6. Jen - Canada 7. Bobbie 8. Martha - Menagerie 9. Shannon 10. maryt/theteach 11. Gallery Juana 12. Generik 13. Chie 14. BABYLONEZOO (France) 15. Molokai Girl 16. Whizkid 17. Margaret Gosden 18. Tom Hilton 19. Rinkly Rimes Australia 20. Carin 21. ctmott 22. girlichef (USA)

23. The Summer Kitchen Girls 24. Just Like Martha 25. Gemma 26. Dianne 27. wickedchilddesigns 28. wildeve 29. storyteller - my other blog 30. Sunnymama 31. justjody 32. Sweet Repose 33. MonikaRose 34. Catherine Bardrick, Mexico 35. Terri - teelgee 36. Paz's New York Minute 37. Martha Z 38. Tanja, Finland 39. Evette Mendisabal 40. marcia TX USA 41. Rita@Cashjocky 42. ginger 43. Joanna P 44. EmBelISH

45. Jacqui 46. CJ@ProArtz 47. prkl, Finland 48. Sherrie 49. julie king 50. Diahn Ott 51. Julia 52. Long Island Daily Photo,USA 53. David C. 54. Sara Chapman in Seattle 55. Alexa, Canada 56. hejoko 57. Kenobiitti - Finland 58. Brandi B. 59. ScrappyGram 60. Lizzy Frizzfrock 61. Magical Mystical Teacher 62. Authentically Unique 63. Lisa's RetroStyle 64. elizabeth schmid 65. Sarah Wallis

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7 things I love

I've been lucky enough to receive a few blog awards recently. The Honest Scrap award from Zen Dot Studio. The Lemonade Stand award from Zen Dot Studio (geez two, woo-hoo, thanks Zen!) and also from Jane of Scrappy Gram. And the Kreativ Blogger award from Nicole of Bits of Toffee. Thanks ever so much guys! Blog awards are strange things. It's so flattering to know that people like my blog enough to give me awards, but they also make me uncomfortable because I have great difficulty choosing blogs to pass them along to. It's so hard! There are so many blogs that I love for different reasons and to narrow it down to a mere 5, 7, 10 (or whatever number the particular award specifies) I find impossible. So may I please please please be excused from following through on that part? I'm also not good at compiling those lists associated with the awards (I really am a hopeless case of an award recipient!) but I will at least follow through on one of them. I've chosen the '7 things you love' list because I really enjoyed the way Nicole compiled her lovely list using photos. I thought that would be a fun way to go, so I hope you don't mind me stealing your great idea Nicole. Again, thanks so much for the awards. And I do sincerely apologise for not playing by the rules. xo

Seven loves in no particular order. I have many other loves but some are much trickier to photograph...


Fudge is a weakness of mine. One of many. This I purchased from the City Farmers Markets

Coffee I love in absurd amounts. I've posted this photo previously but I liked it so I'm posting it again

My sweet dog Sophie. What is not so sweet is her regular refusal to budge from the bed...

Music! Especially in the form of pretty designed mix-CDs made for me by kind friends

I rarely take pics of flowers but I adore our native Aussie Rosella flowers. And I adore Rosella jam too!

Oh how I love blue skies! Photo taken last Friday. Blue skies have been a rarity here since

Simplifying. It's enabled me to focus more clearly on things that are most important to me
"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify" — Henry David Thoreau

Shadow Shot Sunday #53

Howdy! The Shadow Gallery collages feature a selection of photos from participants from last Sunday. If you’d like to join in SSS, please do. How? Shoot a shadow, post it on your blog on Sunday (or close to Sunday), then add your link to Mr Linky, and visit other players. First-time participants are required to click here for further info before submitting links. Thanks heaps and I hope you enjoy all the shadows!

Shadow Gallery

1. Kuusela 2. TheExplorer 3. SarahWallis 4. Bobbie 5. BrandiB 6. kden 7. TwinkleStarArt 8. Carin 9. Raven(Raven'sNest)


1. SaraChapman 2. ChickenSue 3. SylviaK 4. Charlie&Grace 5. Marcia 6. Dianne 7. LongIslandDailyPhoto 8. WickedChildDesigns 9. Whizkid


1. Tapirgal 2. ScrappyGram 3. TomHilton 4. Ria 5. Martha 6. CatherineBardrick 7. Jeri 8. Wildeve 9. Terri

Here's my Shadow Shot Sunday #53



My shadows were found surrounding a sculpture at the Gallery of Modern Art this week. The artwork is called Human human - lotus, cloisonne figure 1 by Ah Xian. This piece is part of The China Project exhibition being presented by GoMA until the 28th June 2009. This exhibition is really really good!

And the randomly drawn winner of the SSS giveaway is...

Number 42 shadow shootin' Whizkid!
Congrats Whizkid! Email me (my email link can be found in the sidebar) your postal address. Part of the prize pack includes your choice of four photos from my shop, so pop in there, and then include the titles of the four prints you would like in your email. As soon as I've received the details from you I'll pack up the bundle of goodies and send them your way! A big mushy thanks to everyone for making the first year of Shadow Shot Sunday so much fun. I'm looking forward to celebrating the second year anniversary already!

A few very lovely bloggers have kindly passed awards onto me recently and rather than making this post any longer than it already is, I'm going to follow through on acknowledging and thanking those sweet folk in my Wednesday post. I'm sorry to those who did give awards to me for taking a while to respond. I'm really not good at this kind of thing. And being so disorganised doesn't help matters. But please know the fact that you like my blog enough to give me an award does make me very happy and I do really appreciate it. xox

I'm off to the Cameraholics Photographica Fair today

I've compiled a wish list. I'm so excited. I'm so nerdy...
Please note: The Mr Linky site has been experiencing difficulties this past week. So if you have problems adding your link, just let me know via a comment and I'll add your name/url to Mr Linky as soon as I can.

Happy Sunday!
Shadow Shot Sunday Participants

1. La Vie Est Belle 2. High Desert Diva 3. Sweet Repose 4. Cecile 5. PJ - Pensacola 6. robin-one still frame 7. Gallery Juana 8. Generik 9. MARGARET GOSDEN 10. Bobbie 11. Sylvia K 12. Martha - Menagerie 13. whizkid 14. Chie 15. BABYLONEZOO (France) 16. Carin 17. Kenobiitti - Finland 18. Vicki 19. Jen - Canada 20. Terri - teelgee 21. wildeve 22. Tom Hilton

23. justjody 24. Brandi B. 25. Gemma 26. Molokai Girl 27. Rinkly Rimes Australia 28. kbear 29. Sunnymama 30. Bree (meandmy2guys) 31. The Summer Kitchen Girls 32. Catherine Bardrick, Mexico 33. Lisa's RetroStyle 34. MonikaRose 35. Joanna P 36. Sara Chapman in Seattle 37. alexa 38. Twinkle Star Art 39. CJ@ProArtz 40. Just Like Martha 41. wickedchilddesigns 42. fotodiod 43. Kuusela Finland 44. Charlie and Grace

45. Katie 46. EmBelISH 47. Sherrie 48. elizabeth schmid 49. ctmott 50. Christy 51. Ria 52. ScrappyGram 53. Hildegarde (Flanders,EU) 54. Ginger 55. Sarah Wallis 56. Kelley 57. marcia TX USA 58. dorte 59. hejoko 60. Linda 61. chickensue 62. VickiSp 63. Authentically Unique 64. Happily Retired Gal - USA

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Fun at the Fair

Recently I went along to the Ipswich Show and it was my first time attending this annual event. It was much like Brisbane’s annual Show (aka The Ekka) but on a much smaller scale. It had the usual amusement rides, sideshow alley, livestock displays, exhibits pavilion of arts and crafts and many food stalls. Before heading along to the show I read that there’d be a variety of ‘gastronomic delights’ so I was quite excited about this. I discovered a stall selling dagwood dogs. And then another one selling dagwood dogs. And another…and another…but I never did stumble upon those ‘gastronomic delights’ in my travels. Never mind. Junk food is exactly what I always expect to find at these events and the dagwood dog I had didn’t disappoint. Wish I could say the same about the woman who sold it to me. I also purchased a waffle cone from her but as soon as I took one step away the big blob of cream on top of my cone plopped off onto my shoe. I looked up very sadly at the dagwood-dog-waffle-cone-woman expecting her to offer to top up my cone again but all she said was “I told you to be careful.” Grrrr. Why on earth dagwood-dog-waffle-cone-woman didn’t squirt the cream inside the waffle cone rather than constructing a dairy replica of Mt. Everest on top I just do not know. Apart from that incident it was a fun day. Here are some TtV photos I took while wandering around.








I loved this carnival camel with his colourful mohawk. He was very friendly. I've always been concerned about the treatment of animals in these sorts of environments. The camel did appear to be healthy and happy. And the man who cared for him spoke of his furry friend with such fondness that I was left with the impression that the camel was well looked after. This last photo is my submission to Color Carnival, which is a great new photo meme that commences each weekend and runs all week long. What a fun idea! Join in!


(I believe dagwood dogs are known as corn dogs in America. Just in case anybody was confused by that)

SSS #52 - First Birthday Bash!

Howdy! The Shadow Gallery collages feature a selection of photos from participants from last Sunday. If you’d like to join in SSS, please do. How? Shoot a shadow, post it on your blog on Sunday (or close to Sunday), then add your link to Mr Linky, and visit other players. First-time participants are required to click here for further info before submitting links. Thanks heaps and I hope you enjoy all the shadows!

Shadow Gallery

The Shooters:
1. ElizabethSchmid 2. BelafontePA,PhotoADay 3. ChickenSue 4. PJ-Pensacola 5. SweetRepose 6. Gingerbread 7. Generik 8. Kenobiitti 9. Bree


The Shooters:
1. JulieKing 2. Paz'sNewYorkMinute 3. Hejoko 4. maryt/theteach 5. Tameka 6. Karen 7. EmBelISH 8. Chie 9. ctmott


The Shooters:
1. Dorte 2. Raven 3. MolokaiGirl 4. ParallelBotany 5. Diahn 6. Whizkid 7. Chris(c/his son) 8. GalleryJuana 9. PaganSphinx

Here's my Shadow Shot Sunday #52


Shadows spotted on the roof of a circus tent at the Ipswich Show last week. And would you believe that just as I clicked the camera a plane had completed a skywriting session leaving that very appropriate message in perfect monotype corsiva font. It was indeed my lucky day! I also took my Argus 75 camera along to the show to shoot some TtV photos, so once I've narrowed down the 100+ pics I snapped I'll post some here.

Now for the surprise I mentioned last week. To celebrate one whole year of shooting shadows I've decided to have a little giveaway for SSS participants. It's just my way of saying thanks to you guys for playing along and making SSS so much fun each week. I so wish I could give everybody something but that's really not possible, so I have one prize pack to give away to one lucky shadow shooter. Here's what's up for grabs...


(1) Eco friendly hand-pulled screen printed camera journal made with FSC certified Mohawk paper by Disconsolator (2) TTV volumes 1 & 2, mini zines of 'TtV' photos shot in NYC, including a bunch of stickers by Kate Black (3) Original Yashica-D ACEO sized pencil, ink and acrylic artwork on Japanese Washi postcard, signed and dated, by Gallery Juana (who's also a regular shadow shooter!) (4) Polaroid book zine, a 14 page compilation of photos taken with a Polaroid Sun 600 camera during 2006-08 by vhswins (5) umm...the giveaway logo thingy obviously not included in the prize pack (6) Limited edition signed & numbered Vintage Camera Retro Pop Art Print by Monster Gallery (7) Cute & colourful collection of retro style camera pinbacks/badges by Barrel Of Monkeys (8) Mini art canvas peace magnet, ink on vintage kodacolor II 620 film backing paper by me. (9) A choice of any four TtV photo prints from my shop.

This is a collection of little photo/camera related things that I've purchased from Etsy for this occasion. Each item I purchased I did so because it appealed to me, so please click on the seller name links to check out all of their wonderful shops! To be in the draw to win the prize pack all you have to do is be a participant in SSS this Sunday (as every week, the Mr Linky will remain open until Sunday has come to an end in America). Yes, it's that easy! Once you've posted your shadow shot and you've added your link to Mr Linky you are automatically entered into the giveaway. I'll randomly draw one name from the Mr Linky list and announce the winner on the SSS #53 post next Sunday. A happy 1st SSS anniversary to us all! Good luck! xo

Happy Sunday!
Shadow Shot Sunday Participants

1. Sweet Repose 2. bentley's photoblog 3. The Summer Kitchen Girls 4. Shannon 5. Sylvia K 6. Chie 7. Tom Hilton 8. Martha 9. robin-one still frame 10. Margaret Gosden 11. Kuusela Finland 12. PJ - Pensacola 13. Gallery Juana 14. BABYLONEZOO (France) 15. Molokai Girl 16. Carin 17. Rinkly Rimes Australia 18. justjody 19. Sunnymama 20. Bobbie 21. marcia TX USA 22. kden

23. Gemma 24. The Pagan Sphinx 25. MonikaRose 26. wickedchilddesigns 27. Dianne 28. ScrappyGram 29. Ginger 30. Jeri 31. lisa/parallelbotany 32. Just Like Martha 33. Generik 34. Ria 35. Raven at Raven's Nest 36. Brandi B 37. Sara Chapman in Seattle, USA 38. Catherine Bardrick, Mexico 39. Gina [Gingerbread] 40. ChickenSue 41. Terri - teelgee 42. whizkid 43. Diahn 44. Charlie & Grace

45. EmBelISH 46. Sherrie 47. Katie 48. ctmott 49. Dorte 50. Long Island Daily Photo 51. Christy 52. elizabeth schmid 53. wildeve 54. Linda M 55. Paz's New York Minute 56. tapirgal, Astoria, Oregon 57. Sarah Wallis 58. hejoko 59. storyteller's other blog 60. maryt/theteach 61. David C. 62. The Explorer, Philippines 63. Twinkle Star Art 64. Lisa's RetroStyle

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Updated 18th May - As Sunday has officially ended worldwide, entry into the SSS giveaway has now closed. Thanks very much and good luck to all the wonderfully creative shadow shooters who entered!

signs of the times

The Brisbane Powerhouse building was formally used to run the now defunct Brisbane tram system from 1928 until being decommissioned in 1971. Following this, the building lay derelict for almost thirty years, appearing to be abandoned during this time. It wasn’t however. Homeless people and street kids found refuge in the many empty rooms, photographers and filmmakers used the site to create artistic works and the army even used the site for a period of time for target practice and other army exercises. During the 1990s the Brisbane City Council identified the building as being culturally significant, so the concept of the Brisbane Powerhouse as an arts centre was born and the BCC took it on as its millennium project. The design philosophy aimed to preserve the history of the building, both as an industrial site, and from the 1970s as a place where people found refuge, staged parties and left their marks. Existing fixtures were maintained and much of the graffiti remains preserved on the beautiful old raw textured walls. The heritage-listed Brisbane Powerhouse opened as an arts venue in the year 2000 and continues to present some of the most innovative theatre, live music, visual arts, festivals, film, and comedy in this country.


If arriving via the Brisbane River on a City Cat you'd likely enter the building from this side

If arriving in your own car or via a stroll through New Farm Park you'd likely enter this side

Here's a sample of a graffiti-preserved wall. I love the gorgeous wall textures throughout the building. If you wander around outside you'll find a bunch of cool signs erected in the carpark and surrounding areas.





See you again on Sunday. For the Shadow Shot Sunday birthday celebration! Enjoy the rest of the week.

Shadow Shot Sunday #51

Howdy! The Shadow Gallery collages feature a selection of photos from participants from last Sunday. If you’d like to join in SSS, please do. How? Shoot a shadow, post it on your blog on Sunday (or close to Sunday), then add your link to Mr Linky, and visit other players. First-time participants are required to click here for further info before submitting links. Thanks heaps and I hope you enjoy all the shadows!

Shadow Gallery

The Shooters:
1. MargaretGosden 2. RinklyRimes 3. Robin 4. Gemma 5. Storyteller 6. Cecile 7. Jen 8. JustJody 9. Sherrie


The Shooters:
1. Amazed&Confused 2. DaviMack 3. Becky 4. Lisa'sRetroStyle 5. MarthaZ 6. Rita 7. NatureRambler 8. SummerKitchenGirls 9. Raven


The Shooters:
1. Sunnymama 2. Rebecca 3. Katie 4. BrandiB 5. MonikaRose 6. Cam 7. TwoBarkingDogs 8. Martha 9. LindaM

Here's my Shadow Shot(s) Sunday #51


Shadows on the Brisbane Powerhouse arts centre

Outside the Brisbane Powerhouse, a large public art sculpture creates some shadows. As does speedy scooter boy who crashed my shadow shootin' party. He suddenly appeared from nowhere and I really like the addition of his little shadow in the shot. I didn't think at the time to take a photo of the complete sculpture but while drafting the post I thought it may be of interest to some, so I did an image search and found one photo. I thought there'd be more. Below image sourced from Brecknock Consulting Projects.


The sculpture is by artist Richard Tipping and I believe it to be a representation of the level of water in this particular location during the 1974 Brisbane floods. I could be wrong about this, so please feel free to correct me if I am and I'll amend the post. I'll be posting about the Brisbane Powerhouse this Wednesday, so if you are interested in seeing a little more of this unique heritage-listed arts venue, do pop back then!


My friend Gina from Gingerbread gave me this adorable award recently. Thanks so much Gina! I'd like to pass it along to all SSS participants because all of your blogs are 'deer' to me! Mmmm...cupcakes! Enjoy!


Elizabeth (About New York) is one of the organisers behind this cool event. Here's my attempt at haiku.

Fragile so it seemssew its seams she unravelsin heavy cycles
To read much better compositions head on over to Elizabeth's blog for a list of global participants. Join in!

A fellow BrisStyler needs support!
Fellow BrisStyle Team member Eliza, is needing to raise some money for an important cause. Eliza is having a sale in her Etsy Shop to raise the required funds, so pop on over for the details and to snap yourself up a fabulous bargain. Further info can be found on Eliza's blog, and she's also currently having a cool giveaway!

Oh and Shadow Shot Sunday turns one year old next Sunday. Woohoo! To celebrate the occasion I have a special little surprise in store for next week. I hate keeping secrets but I don't want to spoil the surprise!

Ok, I think that is all for now. Phew! Gosh I bet you thought this post was never going to come to an end!

Happy Sunday!
Shadow Shot Sunday Participants

1. La Vie Est Belle 2. Lisa's RetroStyle 3. Gemma 4. Jen 5. Gallery Juana 6. Bobbie 7. Sylvia K 8. Sweet Repose 9. alexa 10. Martha - Menagerie 11. ChickenSue 12. tameka 13. PJ-Pensacola 14. robin-one still frame 15. Generik 16. ctmott 17. Carin 18. Margaret Gosden 19. Chie 20. Sunnymama 21. Martha Z

22. maryt/theteach 23. Tom Hilton 24. Raven 25. Catherine Bardrick, Mexico City 26. The Summer Kitchen Girls 27. Bree (meandmy2guys) 28. MonikaRose 29. Rinkly Rimes Australia 30. Vicki (Maraca) 31. Molokai Girl 32. Paz's New York Minute 33. lisa/parallelbotany 34. whizkid 35. Diahn 36. BABYLONEZOO (France) 37. Dorte 38. Rita/Cashjocky 39. CJ @ Pro Artz 40. Kitty Boo Boo 41. Gina [gingerbread] 42. Sarah Wallis

43. Katie 44. Sherrie 45. wickedchilddesigns 46. wildeve 47. Christy 48. EmBelISH 49. Linda M 50. Elizabeth Schmid 51. Brandi B. 52. hejoko 53. storyteller's other blog 54. Chris 55. Kenobiitti 56. Long Island Daily Photo,USA 57. Bellefonte PA, Photo A Day 58. julie king 59. Karen ~Georgia Angel 60. The Pagan Sphinx, Massachusetts 61. justjody

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Buddha Birth Day Festival

The Buddha Birth Day Festival is a celebration of the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha, who was born over 2,500 years ago in India as Prince Siddartha. This annual Brisbane event is held each year in the Southbank Parklands and the organisers claim it to be the largest event of this type in the world. Judging by the crowds I wouldn’t disagree with the claim. The aim of the festival is to promote peace and harmony in our society and multi-faith interaction amongst people from diverse backgrounds. This fun (and free!) 3 day event included multicultural performances, displays, various activities, and a large international food fair.











The festival also included lots of lanterns. When I uploaded my photos I discovered the majority of them were of the lanterns. I'm not quite sure what that was about. It seems I have an obsession with lanterns!