These little snaps aren't the best shots in my collection but they do capture the essence of 'road widening' in the Philippines. Since 2014 roads all over the country are being widened 2 metres on either side. And it doesn't…
Tag: PhotoChallenge
My contributions to the Wordpress weekly Photo Challenge.
Lady with Orange Flowers
paying 10 pesos for photographs and a peek into her life Day of the Dead floral tributes hand woven (her own hands) into little bamboo baskets the hands of the poor in every bunch. © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily…
Real Market
weaved by hands hanging, basket & bauble beautiful © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Fluff Weekly Photo Challenge: Rounded I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Iloilo City (Philipppines)
The Urunga Wetlands
The Urunga Wetlands is a heartwarming environmental success story where a piece of natural landscape (decimated by careless production and industry) was reclaimed, remediated and released back into the wild to be shared by a local community. A mineral processing…
Beach Pedestrian
washed beyond her kin brown, no longer wet seaweed beach pedestrian © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Pedestrian I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Nambucca Heads (Australia)
Spring Rhododendrons
bright pinks, red-purples pamper the twisting ivy spring rhododendrons © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows Daily Prompt: Pamper I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Blachheath (Australia)
Avoca Street
Randwick is awash with spring blossoms! I love the way the white blooms and their dark brown twiggy branches launch the most beatiful layers of little windows to the sky. © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Layered Daily…
What You Don’t See
Photographing the top of sugar cane you can't see a group of kids following me along the hot road running back to a little bridge when I turn around. You don't see a man under that sun waving in delight…
Where Will I Focus?
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts who I am is not a broken total I am the whole © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Total Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus I'm part of Post A Day…
ENFP = Messy
I'm an ENFP (that's Myers-Briggs talk) and basically that means I'm messy. Yep, by nature I'm one of those creative, messy people that has a desk filled with papers and other junk without a hint of filing. These days I'm…
Dogwood Original Photo Challenge (Week 14)
WEEK 14: Landscape (Zoomed in) Most landscapes are wide sweeping images. Try an alternative and zoom in instead. The Dogwood Photo Challenge The Dogwood Photo Challenge is a series of weekly assignments responding to a theme or technique. Participants are…
How do I say friend in a single photograph?
Attending mass at the Shrine of Agtalin on the first Saturday of the month is a religious tradition practiced by thousands in the Capiz and Iloilo provinces of the Philippines. The Shrine of Agtalin is located in Pilar, Capiz (Philippines).
Storm
storm's precipice monsoon strikes the mountain evanescent © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine This poem was published in 50 Haikus (Volume 1, Issue 11) a literary journal featuring only Haiku poetry in open form. Daily Post: Precipice Weekly Photo Challenge:Evanescent I'm part…
Wretched Heritage
i am living a tradition my eyes pieces of tin, metal scraps for hands feet (torn nails) just look at my toes! but don't get too close you don't want to see all i've got © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly…
Early
light passing torn clouds palm leaf rags tattered hut poverty a man into rice fields out the window of the bus © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Photo Challenge: Reflecting
A Beginning
each thing has a core a tiny centre somewhere to begin and bind © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: A Good Match
Hands
shadowing me, hands speaking me, take a green line standing me, black sun © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadow
Solitude
© 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude
Repurposed, Reused, Recycled
One thing that delights me about the Philippines is it's dedication to repurposing, recycling and reusing everything. Filipinos are the most industrious people I have yet met when it comes to knocking something useful together at a pinch and for…
In the Garden
Gently leaf sway soft to the morning in your Grace © 2017 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
Ambience
Tuesday was my last afternoon in Australia for possibly a year or more and the sun's golden ambience lit every tiny detail. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Ambience
Nambucca Valley
© 2017 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Names
She Will Remain
She lies behind you another century, back turned she will remain. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Resilient
The Path of 2016
In many ways this little beetle represents my path during 2016. I felt trapped and surrounded by adversity, not just falling but ready to jump. I found it really, really difficult to see the beauty around me. I'm glad I made…
Anticipation
© 2016 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Anticipation
New Horizon
"I will come back here, new horizons, wildflowers and rest call me." As I promise to my cousin I do wonder though ... ... will I come back here? © 2016 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: New Horizon
Things That Relax
Bare feet wanderings. Wet earth. Leafy ground garden. Last rain's gentle drops. © Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Relax
It’s not this time of year without …
Driving along with my mother in tow this morning, I was looking for photographs for this week's photo challenge when I suddenly realised ... It’s Not This Time of Year Without… a sign on the main road advertising prawns. A big U-turn later,…
The Magic of Ebor Daisies
Tired driving hands turn the wheel exploring white roadside flowers. Calm is their magic and, soothed by their spring arrival, those same hands return. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
It’s gone: Tiny and Sandra B. parted
Fans were left outraged late Friday afternoon, as Sandra B. escaped her sometime boyfriend and anti-sawmilling activist Tiny Timberlake, with little more than her poise. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Chaos
Chaos hides out in tight coloured places. Outside, ordered car parked rows. © Melinda Irvine
Transmogrify
TRANSMOGRIFY: transform in a surprising or magical way ... Oxford Dictionary of English © Melinda Irvine
Lady Goes Out For Water
lady out for water stepping to the usual place but the only water she will carry are the tears that stain her face © 2016 Melinda Irvine A different take on the wordpress weekly photo challenge: H20
Shine
the #shine on the floor pulls me away from the down and up into light ... © 2016 Melinda Irvine © 2016 melinda irvine
Nostalgia
nostalgia sits inside two pot plants and home mother's gardened hands © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Quest
© 2016 Melinda Irvine Wandering the busy roadside, I'd escaped the monsoon rains and found a little piece of solitude for the first time in days and days and days. A few uninteruppted moments where I could take some photos for…
Edge
here i am inside the edges. strangely finding symmetry once more. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Mirror
Muddy in a city puddle I saw myself © 2016 Melinda Irvine Photos taken in Iloilo City for the Weekly Photo Challenge (Mirror).
Frame of a Little Boy
delighted little boy frames happiness wanting to sleep in those gloves © 2016 Melinda Irvine