Photo Challenge on Writing Slowly

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:24:21 +1000

This video of Kurama-dera, a Buddhist temple outside Kyoto, is quite lovely. And the snowy scenery makes the place look completely different from when I visited it in late Summer.

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Summer:

Winter:

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +1000

📷 From time to time the world offers you an extraordinary, fleeting gift.

#photography #clouds

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:44:10 +1000

12 days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge by Micro.blog: Dec 15 - Frost 📷

We don’t have frost here so this is the best I could do. Also, it’s not Winter in Australia. Just saying.

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +1000

📷Photo challenge day 30: solitude.

💬“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.” - Rudyard Kipling.

And there’s more solitude.

#mbjune

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:38:34 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 26: bridge.

I’ve used this as a metaphor for writing, but it’s also a real bridge, of which #Sydney has many more than the famous one across the harbour. The image shows the causeway to Bare Island, at the mouth of Kamay, Botany Bay.

#mbjune

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:19:37 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 29: winding.

It’s well worth taking a look inside White Bay Power Station in #Sydney - as previously seen on day 7 and day 5. Oh, and day 23 last year.

See the whole #mbjune photogrid.

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:17:53 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 28: ephemeral. A reminder that our leaders don’t last forever, or even for as long as they’d like to. I spotted this election button on the very last day the Leura toy museum was open, in the Blue Mountains, just West of #Sydney.

#mbjune

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:34:35 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 27: collective. Rainbow lorikeets are among the most commonly seen #birds in #Sydney.
#mbjune

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 25: decay.

My worm farm is amazing! By turning waste into compost these little wrigglers perfom a kind of magic.

It’s also a metaphor for my writing process. I don’t worry if the input is rotten. The output will be quite different.

See also: No writing is wasted

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 24: bloom.

The bougainvillea does get a bit unruly, but it’s probably worth it. #mbjune

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:57:20 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 23: fracture.

A crack in reality at the Edogawa Japanese Garden, north of #Sydney

#mbjune

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:50:54 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 22: hometown.

The view from Yerroulbine (Balls Head) on our mid-winter walk in #Sydney yesterday. From this angle Me-mel (Goat Island) seems impossibly close to the CBD.

#mbjune

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:42:44 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 21: silhouette.

Black swans in #Sydney.
#mbjune

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:33:04 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 20: gather.

Six seagulls gather on a sandstone rock at La Perouse, #Sydney.

#mbjune

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:56:48 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 19: equal.

💬 “I exist in a fractally connected, self-organized universe where everything relates dynamically to everything else” - Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning.

Yes, we all do.

#mbjune #zettelkasten

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:22:11 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 18: texture.

Furry or spiky? Spotted on a boardwalk in the Royal National Park near #Sydney - as featured in day 2.

#mbjune

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:48:04 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 17: warmth.

We saw a curious warning at this year’s Vivid, the big winter festival of light in #Sydney. #mbjune

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:33:19 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 16: blur. A smoking ceremony at Prince Alfred Park, #Sydney. #mbjune

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 11:51:57 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 15: tie. This is how the tugboat from day 9 was secured to the wharf at Pyrmont, #Sydney. #mbjune

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 22:15:02 +1000

Photo challenge, day 14: twilight at the mouth of Deerubbin, the Hawkesbury River #mbjune #Sydney

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:49:24 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 13: pathway. Calna Creek, just north of #Sydney. #mbjune

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:18:24 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 12: hidden.

It’s easy to watch the annual ‘humpback highway’ whale migration at Malabar Headland in #Sydney - so you might easily miss this guy, who is looking the other way.

#mbjune

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:33:57 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 11: brick.

#Sydney has more than one Japanese garden, but only one is owned by geese.

#mbjune

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:11:40 +1000

📷 Photo challenge, day 10: rail.

Of the many wonderful exhibits at the NSW Rail Museum, this little railbus is one of my favourites. Though small, it still gets a Wikipedia entry.

#mbjune #Sydney #railwayheritage

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:49:30 +1000

📷 Day 9: wood. There’s a truly massive amount of timber in the old wharves around Sydney Harbour. #mbjune #Sydney.

See the whole photogrid.

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:15:47 +1000

📷 Photo challenge day 8: travel. Most of the photos this month are of #Sydney, but given today’s theme, this was taken as far from Sydney as it’s possible to get. #mbjune

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:45:12 +1000

📷 micro.blog photo challenge day 7: switch. #mbjune

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:01:39 +1000

📷 Day 6: contrast #mbjune #Sydney.

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Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:40:36 +1000

📷 Day 5: reflection #mbjune #Sydney.

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Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:21:31 +1000

📷 photo challenge day 4: nostalgia. Can you tell what these are? #mbjune

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:34:16 +1000

📷 Day 3: shadow #mbjune.

💬 “My work grows from the duel between the isolated individual and the shared awareness of the group.” - Louise Bourgeois, 1954.

See the whole photogrid.

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:23:15 +1000

📷 Day 2: curve #mbjune.

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:32:48 +1000

📷 A very special tree. Can you guess why it’s lit up? #mbjune