A Photo Every Day from the Sunshine Coast - Australia

Friday 31 March 2017

Greenfields

When developers march in and take over vast tracts of land, the result is referred to as "green fields" development.   I have no idea why.

Aura




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Thursday 30 March 2017

City of Colour

It's a new estate which pretty much closes the gap between the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane and it's seemingly endless.

The developers have completed a promising if not impressive amount of infrastructure, and the landscaping at the moment needs just a bit of time, but the bones of something very civilised are certainly there.

It's the marketing though: "City of Colour" which it is while the houses are clad in blue building paper, but once the drab grey modern donkey colours go on the walls they tell a different story.

Here's hoping the real colour will come when the residents arrive!

Aura
Sunshine Coast.

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Wednesday 29 March 2017

Magic Carpets

  

The Persian carpet place hasn't fared too badly.   I think if we find the photo from a few years ago, we'd see a bit of maintenance has been done and the sign seems to have got to the point where it isn't going to fade anymore.   It's quite nice and understated like that.

Birtinya


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Tuesday 28 March 2017

Hanging Tree

 No not that kind of hanging, the kind you use to dry your beach towel while you barbecue your breakfast.


Moffat Beach 


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Monday 27 March 2017

Lake's end

The cut in the dune only lasts a few days after the lake has emptied itself, soon no one will know the scar existed.   Then it will rain again and the process will start all over again, with or without the man in the orange digger.

Tooway Creek Moffat Beach


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Sunday 26 March 2017

Waterhole


We could be at any inland waterhole in Australia, except for that sliver of blue screaming "ocean" in the background.


We are actually standing at the bank of Tooway Creek.

Moffat Beach




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Saturday 25 March 2017

Glasshouse Mountains one day four photos 4 of 4


Time to concentrate on the aperitifs now I think and put the camera away for another day.

Maleny


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Friday 24 March 2017

Glasshouse Mountains one day four photos - 3 of 4


When all else fails, switch to black and white and tell Ansel you liked his work.

Maleny


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Wednesday 22 March 2017

One evening above the glasshouses - 1 of 4

Not much to say here really, we had friends staying from overseas, they were having a good time in the water at the beach, which meant by the time we got to the top of the hill we'd missed the sunset.

Just.

Maleny

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Monday 20 March 2017

How it begins.


I wonder how many great cricketing careers have begun at the beach, on the sand or among the Norfolk leaf litter.

Caloundra



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Sunday 19 March 2017

The photographer's shadow


I suspect I could have avoided it, but for once I thought my shadow may tell part of the story.

Just what that story is I will leave to the beholder.

Caloundra


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Saturday 18 March 2017

The musicians meet.


My friend Manu is a French musician who speaks little English, but he speaks music, and was so taken by the sounds of an accordion being played in the streets of Australia that he just had to say "thanks"!

Caloundra


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Friday 17 March 2017

Vintage.


It's the roof rack which captured my imagination.  We used to use them before board racks and gutter fixings were invented.  Originally they had big rubber suction caps to keep them neatly on the roof, clamped down to the gutters and of course if they were overloaded resulted in four neat dents in the roof.

Oh for the good old days!


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Thursday 16 March 2017

Orange


While rummaging through the ladies' clothing in the Bulcock Street Markets... don't ask!!

Caloundra


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Wednesday 15 March 2017

and now we are NINE!

 

Hat's off to all who've been following this blog for nine years today! 

It's been an interesting time, and I am no closer to discovering why or what it's about,  but I can say with certainty that it's a photoblog not a photography one, and despite some misgivings from time to time, here's to making it ten!

I would have liked to have posted a shot of exploding fireworks or a birthday candle or something, but all I had that came close was this collection of hats at the Caloundra markets.

Caloundra



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Tuesday 14 March 2017

Beach Beetle

To my great shame I don't have a link to the photographer who sells these super surf shots at the Bulcock Street markets, perhaps I'll find it later, but none the less he knows, as we all do, that old VW's and surf photos go hand in glove.

Just why that is for others I'm not sure, but I know I certainly had one, admittedly older than this example to carry my surfboards.

Caloundra



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Monday 13 March 2017

A lot of bikes


At two hundred dollars a pop and destined never to be recycled - no pun intended, there is evidently no shortage of customers!

Birtinya


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Sunday 12 March 2017

From China With Love.

I went into the bike shop this afternoon to buy a couple of tyres and some brake parts for my wife's vintage roadster.

That sounds a bit hipster I suppose, but we bought it more than forty years ago, which must make it genuine vintage!

The trouble is, for the price of the parts, we could buy one of these colourful beasts that have a little less rust showing, but will have been landfill for thirty-nine years in forty years time!

It has to stop, the "everything is disposable" mentality.

99 Bikes
Bertinya

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Saturday 11 March 2017

Shoot a gun down the street


It's a "Way" apparently, not a street, but that doesn't mean I'm at risk of being hit by a car when I stop to take a photograph.   It's a scary thought, the prospect of these four lanes being filled with traffic at some time in the future.    Hopefully that will be after my time!

Kawana Way
Birtinya




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Friday 10 March 2017

For Marjan


Thanks for reminding me of things I used to photograph!

Birtinya


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Thursday 9 March 2017

Where we shop


Honestly, it's hard to come to terms with the lack of people sometimes.   We have friends from Asia who feel unsettled walking our streets because they are spookily deserted to them.   How would you like to own a business here, where palm trees outnumber customers?

It's different in holiday times of course, and it's pleasant as a customer, but hopefully as our population grows it will bring more people and therefore more security for the traders.

Birtinya


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Wednesday 8 March 2017

Banners no more


Again, without searching these pages, I do recall a photograph of a series of banners on this shop, remarking that they may not be there forever.  Well they weren't.   The poles are there should someone feel generous once more, but I suspect that the maintenance of those strong colours is stretching the budget as it is.

Birtinya


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Tuesday 7 March 2017

The end of the world is nigh.


Actually it's just a bit jaded and faded, the Workout World building facade in that Home Centre that's featured here many times.   When times get tough, just pop up and see how the buildings are maturing.

Birtinya



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Monday 6 March 2017

Sunday 5 March 2017

An explanation


When Tooway Lake fills to overflowing, it bursts out into the ocean where ever it feels like it.  It appears that someone in council doesn't like that happening, so when he moon is just right and the water just so, a digger arrives to create a lake-emptying channel in a spot where council wants it to be.

Then, in the dead of night, the creek sneaks back where it was going to go anyway.

It's a fascinating battle to watch.

Moffat Beach

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Saturday 4 March 2017

Never bring a knife to a gunfight.


So you have that little yellow plastic spade to build your sandcastles with eh?

Bah!!

Moffat Beach


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Friday 3 March 2017

Repurposing

I wonder if at sometime this old outboard motor, disguised as a letterbox will be discovered by someone who restores old outboard motors?

Dicky Beach


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Thursday 2 March 2017

Left over almost black and white

It's funny how some things stick with one.   In one of my first ever art classes, I was harangued  or perhaps berated by my teacher for a poster design which featured lettering that dropped vertically down the page.

"Your eyes are side by side" she said " if we were meant to read like that we'd have them one above the other".   A lot more than half a century later, it is a rare sign in that format that meets my approval.

I wonder if the residents at number five under two have thought about that.

Moffat Beach

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Wednesday 1 March 2017

Black and white in colour.

This Month's City Daily Photo Theme day is "Black and White in Colour", which gave me just the excuse I needed to hang around a public toilet in a park.   Of course I carefully modified my exposure so that other lingerers would dissolve into the photograph, as the dissolving feet on the left of the shot bear witness.

When I found this place a year ago, I didn't consider the possibility that someone might have gone to a lot of trouble with the lighting to ensure that it would be even more spectacular at night!

Change Rooms at
Bulcock Beach




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