Yertle's Creativity Gallery

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This will be my photographic diary, just to keep me taking photos. Hopefully I can get some good ones in there, but be warned: I take a lot of photos of roses, moss, birds and water droplets. We'll start with this one.

Enjoy!

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When I took this photo, I was very impressed, since I was using a 6-year-old Nikon Coolpix L25 that cost $64 new, so the quality of this picture surprised me.

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Looks good

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For some reason I love this picture of a meerkat!

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My garden has 150+ rose plants in it. Here is just one of many:

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On second thoughts, this will be my general creativity diary. I will add to it poetry, maybe some short stories, some scanned sketches mayhap, as well as the photos. But for now, here is another photo:

But those who hope in the Lord
    will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.

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One of my recent sketching attempts, of a Mallard Duck.

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One of my recent sketching attempts, of a Mallard Duck.
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As a lover of ducks, I rate this a 11/10
(Seriously, that's pretty good! )

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Anyone here know the famous poem Footprints?

Footprints

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."

He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."

Well, that was what I was thinking of when I took these photos down at the beach in Mornington:

Mornington Beach photos

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As a lover of ducks, I rate this a 11/10
(Seriously, that's pretty good! )

Thanks. I love ducks too, they are awesome!

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A couple of other sketches, not as good as the duck, and still unfinished.

Australian Hobby sketch

Cockatiel sketch

Rockhopper Penguin sketch

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Just came over this piece of computer image manipulation that I did for a CD cover for Year 9 VisComm.

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These are a couple of my all-time favourite photos, of my old rabbit, who sadly disappeared one night 

Rabbit

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I'm so so happy with this drawing. I felt like it was going to be nice as soon as I had the sketch completed, but now I would have to say that this is definitely the best drawing of my life! 

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This one's not as good a picture, but I still like it. It's the first bird I've ever drawn in flight, so I'm actually quite happy with it!