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This is probably the last post you will see on this site. I have finally wrapped my head around giving Lost Aussie on the Loose a new home. Future posts will be featured at the new website. So please bookmark... Continue reading

Posted Jul 26, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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A Little South Carolina Weekend

This weekend's adventures included a rather off the cuff and last minute dash down to Charleston, South Carolina where I enjoyed some fabulous walks on the beach, a decent amount of "head cleaning" and just generally enjoying the seaside air.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 21, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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More Black and White - this time, Street Candids

... sorting through some off the cuff street images tonight and thought that I would share a few that captured my eye .... I also came across this quote in my internet meanderings.... and rather think it fits the bill... Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Black and White Mandala Love

If you browse back and look at the post from Thailand and check out my Palace Stairs, you will see the BW starting image for this series of Mandalas.... I love concocting these things. It's a rather calming and certainly... Continue reading

Posted Jul 15, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Lovely shot Bob and yes, it's amazing what you can grab hand held these days.

Commented Jul 16, 2013 on Model Monday at Dream Tomorrow, Live Today, Cherish Yesterday

Food and Friends

Despite the continued rain, 22 days in a row, this weekend has been filled with fun, food and friends - so far. Last night we met up with a couple of friends and ventured to downtown Charlotte and tried out... Continue reading

Posted Jul 13, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Love, love all these great textures you have created with your custom carved stamps! Well done.

Commented Jul 14, 2013 on CARVING STAMPS at ad libitum

Pelican Portrait and Profile

Fiddling tonight with some of the images that I shot in Florida earlier this year with a view to using one or two for Pixoto or some Nature comps and this particular fellow caught my eye amongst the slew of... Continue reading

Posted Jul 12, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Faux Old in Photoshop

It's been a looooong time since I did much with Photoshop other than than using it for photo processing and compositing so tonight I broke out the virtual canvas and the Mixer Brushes and had at it.... ... and since... Continue reading

Posted Jul 9, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Sunshine and Rain Along the Blue Ridge Parkway

It's been raining on and off now for 14 days here in the Carolinas. Lots of flooding and soggy ground and so the sunshine moments need to be grabbed while you can. Today's Carolina adventure was off up into the... Continue reading

Posted Jul 6, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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A Wet and Wild July 4th

After a little research, DH and I decided to venture off to the US National Whitewater Center to celebrate 4th of July and take in the local color and watch/photograph the fireworks. All augured well to start, clear sunny skies... Continue reading

Posted Jul 4, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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To Clarify....

For those of you who have left comments or emailed me about my previous post.... Never fear, I won't stop blogging! I like the format and the platform, but have grown weary of Typepad and it's insufficiencies and just want... Continue reading

Posted Jul 3, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Thoughts About Blog Stuff....

Star Dreaming © Marie Otero 2013 Next month my Blog will be 8 years old!! WOW!! I started it in way back when I lived in Charlotte (NC) the first time, 2005 . Since then I have seen my boys... Continue reading

Posted Jul 3, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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A "Fruitful" Day

It became apparent over the weekend when looking for toppings for toast and finding little in the (post move) pantry that something had to be done! So I enjoyed a computer free day today and spent a little time cooking... Continue reading

Posted Jul 1, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Out And About In The Carolinas

Inbetween thundery evenings DH and I have been traipsing about the Carolinas this weekend. We headed back to Dupont State Park to visit Hooker Falls again. Little did I know that in the Summer time it turns into a watery... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Fluff and Nothing

Ever have one of those days when you tweak and twiddle and nothing seems to be "just right"? Well today was one of those days. I worked on several images and the ideas and concepts were there but nothing gelled... Continue reading

Posted Jun 29, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Life Lakey V5

In the few months that we have been living on the Lake the sunset seems to have moved across the horizon significantly. I am sure there are better students of solar/planetary behaviour than me who can explain this phenomenon because... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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New Creative Bits...

DH is away this week for work and on the nightly phone call this evening there was "hello, how are you?" which was immediately followed by " where's the blog post for yesterday and why is there no new art... Continue reading

Posted Jun 25, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Mae Klong Train Market - Thailand

Sifting through my photos of Thailand tonight and I've inumerable ones of the market at Mae Klong, where the train track run right through the middle of the market, within inches of everything and everyone ... absolutely fascintating. Vendors just... Continue reading

Posted Jun 23, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Some Meetup Belly Wiggles

Today I joined in with one of my new Charlotte Meetup Photography Groups to take pix of Belly Dancers. It was my first time working with this crowd and hopefully not the last as it took a little while to... Continue reading

Posted Jun 22, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Reflecting On Things

I spent a fair amount of time today helping a friend figure out how to make effective reflections in Photoshop and it rather got me thinking about some new ways to interpret some of the model shots I garnered in... Continue reading

Posted Jun 21, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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The Love and Hate - the Adobe Thing

It's hard to believe that Photoshop "14" is here (aka CS7) ... under the guise of the Creative Cloud. I've subscribed to the Creative Cloud since it's inception and have done Beta testing for Adobe for some years now and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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"Converse"ly - Altered Sneaker Speaking

Recently I came across an image on Deviant Art of a Converse sneaker mired on the beach... it sparked off a light bulb moment as I had happened to snap pix of my #2 Son's Converse sneakers when we were... Continue reading

Posted Jun 18, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Rodeo - Country Style

As we are want to do, DH and I headed out today for some weekend adventure, cameras in hand. Initially we had planned to go Bluegrass (music) hunting but since I really wanted to get some pics of a Rodeo... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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Life Lakely V4

It's been a while since I posted a pic of the "Lake" ... but tonight's crescent moon, sundry stars and aeroplanes and the dashing about of late night boats on the water were too pretty to miss. I shot this... Continue reading

Posted Jun 14, 2013 at Lost Aussie on the loose

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