Maiga Zilpauša
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Lily
Messing around with DxO Photolab again.
Messing around with DxO Photolab again.
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Seldom Seen Creek Brumby, Snowy River Catchment
Taking its name from Mount Seldom Seen, this unexplored small creek is typical of the fractured Gippsland high country. This creek cascades and falls unevenly in the high country, with larger falls on the slopes of the Mountain and down the escarpment to the NE of Gelantipy.
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One of the nice things about G+ is the way a post can built - thank you to my friend +Charlie Be
+Charlie Be wrote: "Sounds like a sacred place - sacred water. Thank you"
This made me think of other conversations about this area and i responded: "Thanks mate. The spiritual world of the First People is populated with distinctly Australian mythical creatures that differ from place to place. Today modern rural dwellers tend to lump them all together under the label 'Bunyip' and use it to scare kids away from dangerous places.
The First People (the insular Kurnai) in this area divided the mythological world into three groups of beings.
The first are the evil Narguns - stone beings that can detach themselves from the sides of mountains or emerge from holes in the ground. They drag travelers to their deaths underground.
The second are the friendly Yabungs that live in trees and give friendly warning of things to come by the crack of a dry branch.
Finally, there are the Mraats, pale colored (like the palm of a first person's hand - the color of death), who were thought to be spirits of the dead.
When the Kurnai first saw pale colored Europeans (mainly Scottish colonialists) they took fright thinking that they were Mraats.
You may never see a Nargun, Yabung or Mraat, but when alone in the bush you can feel their presence."
The response may seem spur of the moment, but is in turn the sum of dozens of other comments and discussions here over the past week. Thank you all for your inspiration - and thank you +Charlie Be
Image: single shot on flat ground, toned for structure.
Taking its name from Mount Seldom Seen, this unexplored small creek is typical of the fractured Gippsland high country. This creek cascades and falls unevenly in the high country, with larger falls on the slopes of the Mountain and down the escarpment to the NE of Gelantipy.
Edit:
One of the nice things about G+ is the way a post can built - thank you to my friend +Charlie Be
+Charlie Be wrote: "Sounds like a sacred place - sacred water. Thank you"
This made me think of other conversations about this area and i responded: "Thanks mate. The spiritual world of the First People is populated with distinctly Australian mythical creatures that differ from place to place. Today modern rural dwellers tend to lump them all together under the label 'Bunyip' and use it to scare kids away from dangerous places.
The First People (the insular Kurnai) in this area divided the mythological world into three groups of beings.
The first are the evil Narguns - stone beings that can detach themselves from the sides of mountains or emerge from holes in the ground. They drag travelers to their deaths underground.
The second are the friendly Yabungs that live in trees and give friendly warning of things to come by the crack of a dry branch.
Finally, there are the Mraats, pale colored (like the palm of a first person's hand - the color of death), who were thought to be spirits of the dead.
When the Kurnai first saw pale colored Europeans (mainly Scottish colonialists) they took fright thinking that they were Mraats.
You may never see a Nargun, Yabung or Mraat, but when alone in the bush you can feel their presence."
The response may seem spur of the moment, but is in turn the sum of dozens of other comments and discussions here over the past week. Thank you all for your inspiration - and thank you +Charlie Be
Image: single shot on flat ground, toned for structure.
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Last blossom today
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Another Yellow Moon
title from the Tom Waits song Downtown Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtZKkCIVmI
title from the Tom Waits song Downtown Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtZKkCIVmI
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In The Age of Purple
Yolo County, CA, US
[Another (very small) flower from my grandfather's garden.] But if you may lend your philosophical ear for a moment, let's consider an interesting aspect of flowers together. We (humans) go through life thinking about our appearance, beauty and age on a day by day basis, year by year and decade by decade. We have better days and decades, and worse days and decades. Flowers (and plants in general) bloom rapidly but typically do so from one end to another (or one flower to another on a larger plant) and expose their entire aging process at once. The smallest pods on the bottom of this flower are older than the ones at the top; they stand tall and show their entire aging process at once as if they exist in all their ages at once.
This image on my site: http://bit.ly/2wSqVYe
More of my photography: http://capturedonearth.com/
Photography Tips, Stories: http://blog.captured.earth/
#hqspflowers for +HQSP Flowers
#hqspmacro for +HQSP Macro
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography curated by +Margaret Tompkins +Eric Drumm +Chandler L. Walker +Krzysztof Felczak +Jeff Beddow +H Peter Ji +Dorma Wiggin
Yolo County, CA, US
[Another (very small) flower from my grandfather's garden.] But if you may lend your philosophical ear for a moment, let's consider an interesting aspect of flowers together. We (humans) go through life thinking about our appearance, beauty and age on a day by day basis, year by year and decade by decade. We have better days and decades, and worse days and decades. Flowers (and plants in general) bloom rapidly but typically do so from one end to another (or one flower to another on a larger plant) and expose their entire aging process at once. The smallest pods on the bottom of this flower are older than the ones at the top; they stand tall and show their entire aging process at once as if they exist in all their ages at once.
This image on my site: http://bit.ly/2wSqVYe
More of my photography: http://capturedonearth.com/
Photography Tips, Stories: http://blog.captured.earth/
#hqspflowers for +HQSP Flowers
#hqspmacro for +HQSP Macro
#LandscapePhotography +Landscape Photography curated by +Margaret Tompkins +Eric Drumm +Chandler L. Walker +Krzysztof Felczak +Jeff Beddow +H Peter Ji +Dorma Wiggin
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