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overhead
above the level of the head; in the sky.
Two photos which are both
14 hour flights from Australia.
African Hawk-Eagle soars above me
in Kruger National Park.
From Butchart Gardens.
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Canada
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Gardens
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During our travels of the past twelve months
we were fortunate to visit several gorgeous gardens.
Butchart Gardens, Schönbrunn Palace, Versailles Palace
and finally Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand.
Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Versailles Palace
Geelong Botanic Gardens
Geelong Botanic Gardens
Geelong Botanic Gardens
Geelong Botanic Gardens
Geelong Botanic Gardens
The Gardens which I really wanted to visit were
The Butchart Gardens on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
We were so pleased that we arrived a day or two early.
This gave us time to look around Victoria
prior to our tour commencing.
Because of this we spent much more time exploring
Butchart the our tour had allocated.
We were just finishing a walk through the Sunken Gardens
when were were scheduled to leave.
Public transport took us back to Victoria
and we both would recommend this to anyone visiting
Victoria and Butchart Gardens.
Hamilton Gardens,
New Zealand.
Hamilton Gardens,
New Zealand.
Hamilton Gardens,
New Zealand.
Hamilton Gardens,
New Zealand.
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Tuesday-PC-Wk170-Sculpture
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While these two terms are related to each other, they do not mean exactly the same.
A statue is a carved or cast figure of a person or animal.
Sculpture is a piece of art that is made by carving or molding clay, stone, metal, etc.
A sculpture that contains a human or animal figure can be termed as a statue.
I miss-defined the statue/sculpture definition,
so this is take two.
Vienna, Austria.
Avignon, France
St Paul de Vence,
France
Taupo,
New Zealand
Statue or sculpture.
Grouse Mountain,
Vancouver, BC.
Canada.
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Word-of-Day-Challenge-Dragon
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dragon
1. a mythical monster like a giant reptile.
2. another term for flying lizard.
Dragons.
Dragon Fly
Dragon Fountain in Butchart Gardens…
…on Vancouver Island,
British Columbia,
Canada.
Finally, Geelong Gardens
provides a Dragon Tree.
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Word of the Day Challenge: Dragon
Lens-Artist-PC-53-My-Choice
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First up, Happy Birthday
to all concerned with the
Lens Artist Challenge.
The My Choice theme has seen me needing to curtail my choices….
and still there are too many images.
Sorry.
I have quite a few ‘favourites’ of Corio Bay.
This is one of them.
The Het Zand Square fountain in Brugge, Belgium.
Special, because I like the fountain and it was
our first night on the European continent.
In Canada’s Rocky Mountains,
in the province of Alberta is the Columbia Icefield.
It was here on the Athabasca Glacier that many of us
experienced falling snow for the first time in June 2018.
Our visit to Wiseman in Alaska
took us further north than ever before.
At 67.41 Degrees North and
63 miles north of the Arctic Circle,
took us further north than ever before.
Prior to last year my furthest north was
about a half-hour drive north
of Loch Lomond in Scotland.
October 2018 was also when we visited
Shires Rest and Hobbit movie set
in New Zealand.
Definitely the first of our wonderful travel experiences
was the last evening and an unexpected game drive
of our 2013 African Safari.
We came across Limpy and her cubs.
For around 20 minutes we had these two cubs
within a few metres of our vehicle.
A day or two ago I read on Facebook
of a Namibian tusker being shot.
When beasts will come to within a few metres,
where is the sport in shooting them.
I refer to this shot as my ‘National Geographic’ shot.
Probably because I had only ever seen this shot in a
National Geographic magazine.
Again the leopard sat there while we clicked away.
In 2017 I was fortunate enough to return to
France and Belgium and tour
the Western Front Battlefields of world War I.
I visited many of the well known areas, memorials
and sites of (to me) lesser known battles.
All I could think of was how lucky my Grandfather
was to survive when so, so many didn’t.
The Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate
was worth the visit alone.
Finally, a recently posted blue hour
image of Geelong’s Western Beach area.
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Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Patti: Your-Choice
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Leya: Your-Choice
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Amy: Your-Choice
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge Tina: Your-Choice
FOWChallenge-Aquarium
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aquarium
a transparent tank of water in which live fish and other water creatures and plants are kept.
a building containing tanks of live fish of different species.
My images are not exactly aquarium images…
…but they all show fish…
…in water.
Looking through a glass bottom boat on
the Great Barrier Reef,
near Cairns in Queensland
is probably the closest I have to an aquarium shot.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Aquarium
SUNDAY-STILLS-PC-Great-Outdoors
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Two continents and one island this week.
A scene from Day 2 of our
Rocky Mountaineer Train trip
to Vancouver, June 2018.
Whistler ski slopes, Canada, June 2018
Across the Pacific Ocean
and much closer to home is
New Zealannd’s…
Mount Ruapehu,
which is an active volcano
in Tongariro National Park.
New Zealand’s North Island’s major ski resorts
and only glaciers are too be found on Mt Ruapehu.
Across the Indian Ocean is the Mt Sheba Resort.
And a not too long drive from Mt Sheba
is an area known as God’s Window.
Stunning views
