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Recently I visited a previously unheard of town called

Dunnstown

Lunch at the local ‘Watering Hole’

Although no locals were frequenting the bar for lunch

 

Dunnstown and its Shamrock Hotel are not all that far from Ballarat

where some of our best gold deposits were discovered in the 1850s.

The inter dominion is Harness Racing’s

answer to the Melbourne Cup.

The caption below this image reads…

 

‘A tribute to

Donald F. Murphy whose forsight

has made Dunnstown

The Harness Horse Capital’

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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Patti:  Monochrome

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Leya:  Monochrome

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Amy:  Monochrome

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Tina:  Monochrome

 

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Walks.


Walkers alongside Ballarat’s Lake Wendouree.  

Lake Wendouree was the site of all rowing events

during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

The walk from Eastern Beach car park.

At the top of the hill, you are only a five minute walk

from Geelong’s Central Business District.

The reverse view down to the Promenade.

Nearing the top of Lucerne’s

Mt Rigi.

The walk in context.

 

 

Walking in Schoenbrunn Palace gardens

 

 

 

 

We didn’t have the time or energy

to walk all to the back of the garden.

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A few years ago while out on a photography drive

I came across the small town of

Corindhap and its Avenue of Honour.

Woman and Child

 

Cavalry Officer

Pilot, Lancaster Bomber

Woman’s face

‘Digger’ (Australian Soldier)

Digger’s face

Cypress and Radiata Pines were planted

after World War I to create the

Corindhap Avenue of Honour.

Upon their demise they were

re purposed and the Avenue lives on

in the form of street art.

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Cee’s Black & White Challenge:  Tree-Art

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court

a body of people presided over by a judge, judges, or magistrate,
and acting as a tribunal in civil and criminal cases

A courthouse which was…

…functional during the gold rush era.

Now it serves as museum displaying

all sorts of memorabilia from the time.

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Varied Mothers.Black Swan and brood in Geelong wetlands.

 

Mother and child in South Africa’s

Kruger National Park.

 

 

 

The Grieving Mother…

unveiled about two years ago in Ballarat,

which is about a hour inland from Geelong.

 

 

The purple tint is due to incorrect camera settings

which I did not detect until too late.

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