1997 and Ken and I were visiting Australia with friends who live in Sydney.
While I'm not out looking for something to photograph, I went up to my art room closet where I can't even imagine how many photo prints I have filed away, but still in the camera-store packaging. I pulled out a convenient file and scanned two pictures of wallabies who had joined us in the wild. For the plain backgrounds, I could have taken them in a zoo, so I went to Pixabay for some "Outdoor Australia". My reasoning was to brush up some blending, a little texture and coloration.
Just a pleasurable passage of time...and I found prints I want to send to friends. Lots of Plus Plus going in in this endeavor, and I look forward to hearing what my friends have to say about my finds. I now know where I can find and share A LOT more!!!
It definitely looks very Australian. I've also been scanning old slides of a trip around Australia we did around 1974 so lots of good old memories. By the way - I do live in Australia. The wallaby is beautiful.
@jeneurell Thank you Jennifer! Our Aussie friends visited us for a week earlier this summer, but I suspect we may never travel back. I'm ready to haul out one of my (probably 25) Rubbermaid boxes filled with memories and indulge in a day of pouring over! Ken can hardly wait to begin! Thanks for your compliment...they're beautiful!; I just photograph them!
Great editing and, like Jennifer, I think it is unmistakably Australian. I shall look forward to some more. Always interesting to see my own country reflected back by visitors. I am always intrigued by what visitors see that residents sometimes miss or that we are so used to we don't particularly notice.
@ankers70 That makes such interesting reading! We've traveled there many times in the last 30 years, and I understand what you mean because of conversations with our friends about what *we* find interesting locally that you might take for granted! The same happens, to our delight when foreigners stay with us! Travel is Grand!
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From California, to each of you, thank you and G'Day! I adore receiving the conversations that photo elicit, and Suzanne got me to thinking about my "Aussie" memories! I love the way the folks there shorten so many words (you know what I'm talking about ; ) Before I got out of bed, I was formulating an "Aussie" sentence to go with the photo above. "Arriving in Oz, I was met by a Wobbly in a Cossie, there to give me a Pressie"! Did I get that right? Gotta love you all! As Ken would say, "We're separated by a common language! Have a g'day, now!
I love trawling through old photo stock
From California, to each of you, thank you and G'Day! I adore receiving the conversations that photo elicit, and Suzanne got me to thinking about my "Aussie" memories! I love the way the folks there shorten so many words (you know what I'm talking about ; ) Before I got out of bed, I was formulating an "Aussie" sentence to go with the photo above. "Arriving in Oz, I was met by a Wobbly in a Cossie, there to give me a Pressie"! Did I get that right? Gotta love you all! As Ken would say, "We're separated by a common language! Have a g'day, now!
@paintdipper Thanks, Junan!