Better late than never!

This time I do have some photos of my winning experience at Northbridge. My image was called 'linemessage' but unfortunately the message didn't get through and I was accused of voting for my own photo which of course I didn't do. I had voted for no.5 and the paper proved it while my number was 3. Oh what it is to get old!!! Only this time I had not been the cause of the confusion.
Anyway I'll move on and upload the amazing wall sculpture made of coffee cups and representing Marilyn Monroe. But one has to look closely before the eyes can recognise the image. This picture you can enjoy after your visit to the Art Gallery of course! A well earned rest is yours after many hours of walking.
By the way you are probably wondering about the name of this great photography/camera club. It is WESTSIDE in Mt. Claremont. We do have a website you can find us on.
 I didn't mention 'The Caller', also at the Art Gallery Cultural Complex. So onto our next interesting outing this weekend at East Perth where the theme will be........I know but it is a secret! The last time I was there it was a full moon and I couldn't resist taking a photo of a man sitting in the park and reading a book. I called that one 'Reading by Moonlight' and I hope you'll be able to see it displayed at the Showgrounds National Photographic exhibition in September. Here's to the Caller!!! Can you hear him?

One winner and 4 that weren't included.

Yes that was just my luck! At the photography club I had organised 5 photos to be entered in the digital section which meant I could only enter three prints. So, back the other  3 went not quite discarded but slotted into the future competitions section. Lots of negative comments by the judge left me hopeful for my digitals. But no, no images appeared. The competition organiser had simply deleted mine and included only one. And just when I thought I had the competition sewn up. But at least I did win the club outing competition, our visit to Northbridge.
Which brings me to recall the set of cups on the cafe wall...these were strategically placed so that the gaps represented an image of Marilyn Monroe. Fantastic! But I'll try and find my winning photograph. The challenge was to capture the 'lines' everywhere.

No luck! It was a Tif and was too big. Instead I have uploaded the club members on one of our outing. The judge thought it was a laughing matter because the little boy appeared to have his nose in the figure's backside. I was not amused! And this one, Boomtown Perth, was the member's winner choice at another occasion. One click too many and whoosh we have our President capturing a discarded piano at the Piano Cemetery in York. This was another club outing a while ago. I can't say that my technique of uploading photos has been perfected. Oh well, better luck next time.

Happy Birthday

Yes, best wishes to myself. I have achieved the impossible. I have lost so much weight that I have dropped one dress size. Unbelieveable! But I have a photo or six to prove it. My present (one of them) was a new Canon G15 and as my neighbour is such a hot shot with the G-range (and I'm not talking about the G-string although she has the body to suit) she arrived to take some photos. I may include one if I can find it on my computer. I am told my legs are super so why do I always hide them by wearing slacks? Because they are the longest part of me! A short answer. But, you can decide and don't forget that 60 is the new 50. So what will 70 be I wonder?
Who cares! I'll have a few years to worry about that. Whatever I think now I know that I haven't lost my sense of humour. From what I read in the travel books it is important to keep smiling. However the hotels do all they can to help and we will be off next month:
MOSCOW If this is your first visit you are welcome to it.
More is in 'The Secret Life of the English Language' Martin H. Manser.

Shock, horror!

Yes the 'loser' has just checked out her book sales and the income chart provided by my publisher. No wonder he thinks that my books (Baggage and Kin Deep and the inability to Mourn) are not producing income for him. The sales are not even producing income for me and I was the one with the ideas and the hours spent in front of the computer.
Yes dear friends, guess how much I make after selling 3 books to American or English buyers? No wrong!! Not even $3.00 per book. In fact I can see marked on my sales account a whole Us$ 8.88. Whoopee!!! I am rich!!
I'll cheer myself up by posting another photo. I don't have one of me crying or beating my publisher over the head so any J-peg will do. Cheers!!!

Where have I been?

Good question! This time I can't blame my absence on my computer or anything else in my life except that I have escaped the rut I have been in. Yes I don't mind admitting it but I have been so down about the Australian Political Experience that I have ended up in the foetal position on more days than I want to contemplate. But out of the blue came a complete stranger requesting me to review his book on Bullying and suddenly I was up and about...my ego had been tapped into in a good way. I did his review on the basis that he would review mine on Amazon. And off I was, pen in hand, no not quite and I found myself reviewing several books I had bought from Amazon and read. In the meantime my publisher has kept on the pressure sending me research proving that unless more promotion of my books (Baggage and Kin Deep and the Inability to Mourn) occurs I would be described as a loser. On the contrary I think, why has my publisher spent not a second promoting my books? I known he/she has been too busy lugging my money to the bank! Or his printing pressers in Asia are running out of orders. Not my problem!!!
 But 'Baggage'is a good read because it is based on an incident which really happened to me and of course the Memoir, 'Kin Deep and the Inability to Mourn'  is full of real life also. So get onto Amazon and try them out....I don't like being called a loser simply because I am not performing my duties as a book salesperson.
While you are at Amazon read my book reviews. They have kept me really interested  this morning as have my posts of the past. I must be just like so many others in this world and just love to see my opinions in writing perhaps I should start writing to the paper. No this Blog will do for the time being.

Back at last!

I refuse to be  one of the stats...85% of bloggers stop blogging eventually.  Me? Never!
So let us prepare for Remembrance on Anzac day.

The image taken in Albany WA 2013 I thought I would never use. But time has crept up on us once again. I won't be going to any dawn service but I will be thinking of all those young men and women who served their country. I feel proud to have been at Gallipoli last year. I am not a a supporter of wars and can't help but see it as a huge ego trip played by boys. Even if, when we visited Gallipoli, the sight of gravesites was very moving emotionally considering the many young lives lost.

 As evidence of the religious wars and ideological warring continous with many innocent by-standers among the people whose lives are destroyed.....can anyone describe the benefits of warring to me? 

 

On a better note let us allow our imagination  to run riot. Can you see what I saw when  took these photographs?

My new life? My rock foetus or was it a watery birth?

And this image gave me a pain in the foot!
There are many more rock images in my collection and over time I'll show them to you....now that I have learnt to post them to my blogspot.

How to survive Australia!

The subheadings should have been...how to survive a computer upgrade or/and the installation of 'Lightroom' in time to enter the magnificent photographs unadulturated into competitions or the interior painting of your house. BUT I will take each topic one at a time.
As per usual I couldn't resist reading some booklets I found in my bookshelf...the house painting had forced me to donate 6 boxes of books to the children book fund...but these topics I couldn't resist to read again while the painters swooshed their brushes over my walls. And I will never part with these books...NEVER!
Robert Treborlang...you are my hero!! Wherever you are today your books have had me curling up in laughter. At last I have discovered where I have been going wrong in the 57 years of my stay in Australia. I have been living under the false impression that I was /am a true-blue Aussie. Not so old girl! But I wasn't even ten years old when I came to Australia and began my denial of being German-born. Not so Old Girl! I have been speaking Aussie since that day of arrival. Perhaps, was the answer.
Let me explain: 'How to survive Australia', 'How to be normal in Australia', 'How to make it big in Australia', says it all! It explains to me why I have been living on the edge of society. forced to live that is...bullied at school and in my working life for being different... too smart, too tall, too opinionated, too successful, too outspoken, too good-looking (when young), single parent and refusing to marry, too critical and judgemental...I get it now...I have been living on the wrong continent wearing my German mantle, something I have never considered before until reading these wonderful books by Robert Treborlang.  If you are not original Australian read these topics...'Are you surviving Australia? For a start...Don't ask questions, always seem busy, never be interesting, how to have nothing to say, never draw conclusions, how to be moody, how not to make requests, never criticise, never praise (unless expected), how to be low key, not to dress well, how to recognise a tall poppy, never question ancestry, why losers are heroes' and much more. Try reading the books. You will be amazed! I now know why so many Australians have become ex-pats! Why didn't I discover all this before now? Enough is enough!! For all the other topics I will continue in my next POST.