Family Rituals is the next theme for ABC Open’s 500 Words. Thinking of summer coming up and family – I couldn’t help but think and write of our many games of cricket! What are your family rituals? Backyard waits. The lawn’s mowed to resemble the perfect cricket green of our imagination. Bats out. Reality. Continue reading “Backyard Dreaming”
Moon Gazing
Thwarted by a lack of ear plugs. I was going to catch the lunar eclipse, but I just got too tired due to the noisy farming going on around us at all hours this week. Oh no! I had fun working on moonlight pics anyway… I think I might need to make a camera hide,Continue reading “Moon Gazing”
Country Music – Calls to My Heart
After an intensive blog challenge writing month, I am doing more private writing. Next month I will share fewer stories but more regular photographs. However, I am going to be disciplined and just share one photograph each time. Obviously I take more, but there is always one I particularly like at the end of theContinue reading “Country Music – Calls to My Heart”
Mission Who Shaped Me
Yes, I did it! I finished my nineteen blogs on Who Shaped Me. Now here are the heroes and heroines of my upbringing and present existence. My Mum – impatient, generous and strong My writing/art mentor – charismatic and universal My religious education teacher – practical, disciplined and creative My music teacher – patient andContinue reading “Mission Who Shaped Me”
Film Making Mentors: Piece 19
I couldn’t end this journey of who shaped me without special mention of Mick Bromage and Leandro Palacio who have helped shape my beginnings as a film maker. They have taught me that you start with your imagination and a storyline. You begin to create that storyline through images and sounds. You match the imagesContinue reading “Film Making Mentors: Piece 19”
June Paisa Perkins 