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Bench series: Occupied benches, October

23 Friday Oct 2015

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For some reason this theme of Jude’s especially tickled my fancy, so I’ll be overposting occupied benches.

On the road trip north to my Stanthorpe daughter’s place in June, we did the unimaginable and stayed in a motel. We were both still a bit jet-lagged after our return from Warsaw and decided camping on a short day wasn’t an option. After a gruelling drive through Dubbo at school’s-out time, we were ready to call it a day. The Cooee Motel in Gilgandra caught our attention: beautifully set back from the road, on parkland with huge eucalypts and benches and gazebos and statues, it rivalled some of our more spectacular bush campsites. Its name was a reminder of my year spent researching World War 1: a famous recruiting drive in 1915, the cooee march, began in Gilgandra and gathered volunteers who wanted to enlist as the procession moved to Sydney, 440 kilometres away.

So we spent a relaxed night in a motel, and discovered an occupied bench as well.

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Bench series: Occupied benches, October

09 Friday Oct 2015

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I scheduled this in Warsaw in June for Jude's bench series October theme, because by then, three holidays away, I will have completely forgotten I have it. It's a somewhat neglected stone bench in Warsaw parklands, just near a fountain in a spacious square, and an avenue leading down to the river. The hollows of the bench have collected dead leaves and a dead branch sits bound with wire at one end.

 

 

 

 

For a total contrast, have a look at these two bench sitters, not yet three, talking avidly on mobile phones in the park, and post-processed to preserve their anonymity.

 

 

Bench series: August

23 Sunday Aug 2015

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Here's a colourful bench, to join the rest in Jude's bench collection. There are a number of such benches newly scattered around Narooma, and always in the company of a more traditional bench. I'm wondering if there's a meaning or a function I'm missing. The view is wonderful, out over the inlet to the curves of the coastline, and north towards my village.

 

 

 

Bench series: art effects

15 Monday Jun 2015

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A monster's been unleashed, and an undocumented one at that, with this post-processing caper. I decided to try many effects and filters using Lunapic and see what emerged. I can no longer remember what I used to achieve what image – although some are obvious: Warhol and Obama effects; grunge, emboss and black&white filters. All I know for nearly certain is that the original photo is the first one, and that grunge is not a bad filter for some parts of Warsaw.

For far more accomplished, and sometimes quite stunning, post-processing, have a look at HeyJude's bench series collection for June.

 

 

How can I resist?

29 Sunday Mar 2015

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As my Polish grandson would say (in two-year-old's English) “Anudder one wooden bench”. OK, I know I swore off bench challenge, but this one confronted me as I approached the stairs down to Carters Beach near Narooma. So for two days in a row I'm joining in Heyjude's bench challenge, this time with a wooden memorial bench with a spectacular view. Behind the bench is a new planting on the denuded headland, and in front of it a view over blue sea and rolling waves to the north.

 

 

 

For more benches from around the world visit Jude's bench challenge: https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/bench-series/

 

A wooden bench with a view

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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For more benches from around the world visit Jude's bench challenge: https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/bench-series/

 

I don't often participate in challenges. I have enough obsessions to overcome, without adding another one. But when I saw this bench, at the end of March (wooden benches) and on the cusp of April (benches with a view) I decided I had no choice. It's perched on a headland on the south end of Dalmeny Beach in southern NSW, looking out over mown grass and coastal rosemary to Baranguba, a lighthouse island 7 kilometres away where there are colonies of seals and penguins and breeding grounds for shearwaters, seagulls and terns.

If you want to visit the island, join me at https://morselsandscraps3.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/to-the-island/