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I have a bunch of lame pics from Geelong and my garden. I often forget to take photos when I'm out. Too busy looking with my eyes.
Enjoy. π
On my way to Spencer street went thru Melbourne Central and saw the Omega 13 device. Looked awesome.
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Geelong pelican. Big.
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sea monster
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an exciting museum. ( truly, this was probably interesting but I wasn't going to find out for $12. I grew up among farms and have seen factories too. So nothing new.
but what I noticed about Geelong which really *is great * is that it's very wheel chair friendly and I saw many disabled people enjoying a holiday .
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night time flowers
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happy snail light
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"Too busy looking with my eyes"
I'm the same. I try to be present in the moment, where a lot of people live their lives through a viewfinder. Nice pictures. It's been years since I've been to that part of the world.
I find sometimes having the camera enhances the moment. It helps me to focus on details and look at things from different angles, thinking about how/if something can make a good photo. I also like to put photos together into sets, so I will be thinking about things like how the detail on different old building compares, or finding all of the individual flowers in a garden as well as looking at the overall view. Then when I get back home and go through all the pictures to put together an album for the day it both helps to solidify all the memories and gives me a nice reminder to look back on.
I think the problem is that a lot of people take a photo instead of really looking, just as a way of ticking off a box of "I went here". Or they are just focussing on taking pictures of themselves, and wherever they are is just a backdrop.
I admit I do try to make nice compositions when I take photos.