I’m joining Becky in her February Square Photo Challenge over at The Life of B. The rules of the challenge are simple: most photos must be square and fit the theme word Odd, referencing one of these definitions: different to what is usual or expected, or strange; a number of items, with one left over as a remainder when divided by two; happening or occurring infrequently and irregularly, or occasionally; separated from a usual pair or set and therefore out of place or mismatched. Look for #SquareOdds.
While we didn’t travel as much as usual in 2021, we were fortunate to enjoy several holidays in our home state of Queensland and one short trip over the border in New South Wales. Join me this month in a retrospective look at the very odd year of 2021.
Brisbane, January 2021
We started the year with a few days in Brisbane to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Our hotel, located at Hamilton on a bend of the Brisbane River, was aptly named View Brisbane. And our river views didn’t disappoint – downstream in an easterly direction towards the Gateway Bridge and upstream towards the CBD.
While there is nothing odd about these gorgeous late afternoon river views, my panorama shot looks a little unusual. In an effort to capture the broad expanse of the river, my camera gave this straight stretch of Kingsford Smith Drive a distinct curve.
It doesn’t really look like that!
Looks a great spot! What did you do for this year’s anniversary, Carol?
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With Omicron raging, we didn’t go anywhere this year. We just had a nice dinner at home.
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Story of everyone’s life lately, Carol. I was amazed they got through the Open without incident. Well, other than Djokovic stories.
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Don’t even mention ND. He’s not a popular person here. And once the competition started he was forgotten. It will be interesting to see if case numbers spike in Victoria in the next couple of weeks.
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wow what views, and they say a camera never lies but clearly it can do creating curves on straight roads!!
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I should have used that for my title!
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Love the river and the boats. It is interesting how that one photo curved. It’s kind of funny that you could have tried all day to do something like that, and it just did it on its own. Technology.
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That’s true. I couldn’t have made it look like that if I tried all day. 🙂
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Oh, good. Another trip with you through your lovely country.
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Yes, I didn’t have much choice! 🙂 I hope you enjoy coming along with me.
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It’s a BIG country! And I certainly will enjoy my trip.
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It sure is and we only got to a very small part last year.
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I love the unintentionally curved shot, the road looks like a boomerang 🙂
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I was so surprised to see how the photo turned out. It didn’t look like that in the viewfinder.
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Be-lated Happy Anniversary 💐
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Thank you. We’ve had another one since then.
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So welcome and enjoy life as well 🌷🙏♥️😊🌷
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Very interesting that it curved the river. It’s like a very strong pair of glasses maybe. I bet if someone were looking in at your eye while you were taking that picture it would be huge and bulgy like someone years ago who had cataract surgery. I’m dating myself. I looked through my great-grandma’s glasses! LOL Hard to get that picture out of my mind. I wonder what funny things August will remember, if any, from these days. Those little legs of his are so cute really moving that trike along!
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I wondered if using the panorama setting through the window made a difference too. Who knows – it worked perfectly for this theme.
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It did for a fact! 🙂
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