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Month: August 2022

McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #4 in series (3rd winter of COVID-19)

 

Candid photo (copyright Doug Spencer) taken at 12.36 pm on 27 June 2022 in St Georges Terrace, Perth CBD.

I could, of course, have taken a not-dissimilar shot in the main street of any major Australian city, indeed any “First World” city.

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #3 in series (lunch on “The Terrace”)

 

 

Enjoy modern European and east-meets-west fusion, locally caught seafood and the finest organic produce paired with locally produced wines. Try it from a food truck, in a health-conscious café or tapas style, dress up for the occasion or relax with fish and chips beachside. Perth’s diverse dining scene will have foodies’ mouths watering and no taste bud left unsatisfied.

(First paragraph of “EAT DRINK TASTE PERTH “ section of Perth Holiday Planner 2022, published by Perth Region Tourism Organisation Inc)

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #2 in series (tar, cement, photosynthesis + musical bonus)

 

 

Looking at the ground right in front of your feet can offer surprising rewards, even when your feet are trudging along urban, paved surfaces.

Especially when a decent amount of rain has recently fallen, such “dead” zones can be surprisingly alive, not endlessly-grey.

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #1 in series

 

McGowanstan’s capital city is a very paradoxical, much-misunderstood metropolis.

State and city, respectively, are also known as Western Australia and Perth.

This single-image series will mostly look at details, but it begins panoramically.

The featured image was taken from one of Perth’s favourite picnic spots – the Matilda Bay foreshore, just across the road from the University of Western Australia, and looking across the Swan River to the Kings Park escarpment and Perth CBD.

How often does “the bleak midwinter” – a time of year which many locally-raised residents abhor – look like it did at 4.30 pm on 12 July 2022?

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Intertidal: #11 in series (living kelp on “dry land”, Catlins Coast)

 

 

More famous for its (diminishing, via global warming) spectacular, fully submerged, underwater forests”, kelp can sometimes be found, alive and well, on “dry” land.

The land in question is only “dry”, briefly, at low tide.

Also, I imagine, this circumstance would only be possible where the climate is cool and humid.

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Peerless artist revealed (answer to previous post’s question)

Peerless artist:  nature.

Medium: fresh, unpolluted water – in this instance,  naturally infused with plant oils and tannins as it is river-rushed, and whipped by wind and waterfall, then briefly detained in the rock-rimmed pool immediately below the waterfall.

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