BlogHide Resteemsonethousandpics (48)in teamaustralia • 6 years agoFacing the storm: standing after life knocks you downThat little fireball I told you about a few posts back survived. Saved by a surgeon's knife and the titanium force of her will. Her body hammered by steel. Pulled from wreckage with muscle torn from…onethousandpics (48)in photography • 6 years agoSunset Swagger: dancing into nightI like the cut of your jib sunset. Your swagger toward night. The way you toss light across the ocean with your sway. And gather your clouds over the horizon. I like the way you drawn in your…onethousandpics (48)in life • 6 years agoShifting the goal posts: changing the meaning of life goalsLife makes ghosts of us all. There is no other way out. In a world filled with self-serving and externally driven goals what are you leaving beind? What is your mark, your legacy. How will you be…onethousandpics (48)in love • 6 years agoCircles of loss and love: prayers for a ball of fireA few years back I was burnt out and washed up from looking after other people's kids when a little fireball danced into my life. She was feisty and formidable. A slip of a thing made from a heart…onethousandpics (48)in photography • 6 years agoFinding Home: where are you from?My dear friend Elinor has a fabulous conversation starter. She asks, "Where are you from?" She doesn't mean where where you born, not where you grew up nor where you live now. What she means is…onethousandpics (48)in photography • 6 years agoWatching & Waiting: a dance into the setting sunI have been more inclined to wait for my vision of an image of late. I used to settle for what life gave me. Now I bide my time, watch for the skies to do what I want. An apt metaphor for how life…onethousandpics (48)in travel • 7 years agoCrystal Ball Photography - Vivid Sydney: get intimate with 2 million of your closest friendsI regularly avoid Vivid Sydney - one of the largest light festivals on earth. The idea of battling with a hundred thousand odd folk in a single night for a look at some lights doesn't leap out as…onethousandpics (48)in life • 7 years agoSucked down the drainpipe: life and the death of creativity“What sort of brainwashing, he had wondered, had created a world in which people worked fifty or sixty hours a week, every week, no matter how beautiful the day outside, no matter what thoughts they…onethousandpics (48)in life • 7 years agoSunset from the Cubicle #4: fairy floss skies and Sydney's Shit BusesMy sunset from the cubicle series has been waylaid by poorly timed customer enquiries and early finishes. You will be pleased to know that I leave the office after dark for the next two weeks.…onethousandpics (48)in writing • 7 years agoChasing the Muse: on writer's blockMy writing muse has escaped her cage and run for the misty autumn hills. Now the words will not come. I can feel them all stopped up in my chest. Block is the right word. Perhaps I need my…onethousandpics (48)in blog • 7 years agoAttacked by a Beagle and other heartbreaking arguments with realityA Beagle broke free from it's leash and charged at me from the darkness last night while I was riding my bicycle. Teeth bared, snarling, and intent on drawing blood. I crashed my bike in an effort…onethousandpics (48)in steepshot • 7 years agoBreenhold Gardens: finding pools of light in a photographer's paradise: NSW, AustraliaBreenhold Gardens was about finding beauty in miserable conditions. The rain fell at a drizzle interspersed with showers. The cold cut to the bone. The day I chose to wind my way through the foliage…onethousandpics (48)in photography • 7 years agoWhat if ... and ode to the beauty of being weakWhat if you let it break you into a million pieces? Let it's momentum carry you to the floor like sand. What if you stop resisting the wakeful nights and twisting stomach? If you let your…onethousandpics (48)in life • 7 years agoYou Complete Me: on finding the other half of my rainbow and other absurd notionsRainbows are a complete circle. We only see half of them because of our perspective. Where does the rest go? Is someone on the other side of the world simultaneously gazing in wonder at the other…onethousandpics (48)in life • 7 years agoLetting in Light: on healing ancient historyWhen she was very small the cool kids made her walk at least ten steps behind them, alone. She felt a red hard ball of shame lodge firmly in her chest, where it has remained ever since. I have…onethousandpics (48)in blog • 7 years agoDancing in the Street: life lessons from a homeless ray of sunshineMy home town is a rag tag collection of the homeless. A quirky lot who refuse to conform to the recent onslaught of gentrification. Folks with trolleys for homes who wheel their belongings through…onethousandpics (48)in portraitcontest • 7 years agoWeaving Spells: the illusion of romanceI like what I see, the me, reflected by you. It is no way to live, this fickle self existing exclusively as mirrored through you. We can only be known backwards - keepers of our intertwining…onethousandpics (48)in life • 7 years agoWrack & Ruin: life's hard lessons in forced surrenderMore than once of late I have wondered how it is that I am still here. I am not prone to exaggeration so believe me when I tell you that a series of storms tore through my life and left nothing but…onethousandpics (48)in photography • 7 years agoSunset from the Cubicle #3: candy cloudsToday was all grey skies from the cubicle. I had given up on sunset colour and then ... this happened. And I got stuck on a call watching it catch fire. This is the tail end of a cracker.…onethousandpics (48)in travel • 7 years agoEyes of an Eagle: being hunted in Outback Australia: Kinchenga National Park, NSWSo the other day I'm driving along this dirt track in Kinchega National Park real slow right? Two reasons. First there are wattle bushes all along the sides and they're faded like someone pressed…
