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Author: Kathie Thomas
Sharing a love of postcards
I have been writing blogposts but not in my usual category. I’ve created a new one called Postcards and it is linked in the menu of my site. So it won’t be going out through my normal email feed. For almost a year now I’ve been a member of Postcrossing.net and enjoying receiving postcards from…
Eastern spinebill in salvia
I’ve been away on holidays overseas and it’s taking me awhile to get through all the photos I took. However, I’m back to taking local photos now too. This is an eastern spinebill in salvia in our garden. I love seeing the birds here all year round, even in winter, enjoying what our garden has…
Postcard passion
July 2014 I was introduced to Postcrossing.net. I am a keen gardener, as well as a photographer, and learnt that a fellow gardener was into postcards in a big way. So much so, that she belonged to a postcard swapping site – Postcrossing. She showed some of the postcards she’d just received that week, from…
Barbara Gabogrecan, President, Home Based Business Australia
“As an artist of Australiana, I often depend on good photos of Australian wildlife for my silk painting. Not only does Kathie provide brilliant photos, but her ability to capture the strength of colour and indeed the idiosyncacies of the various wild life, is something special.”
Stuart Campbell
“I have known Kathie for many years and she has a habit of working hard and succeeding in whatever she puts her hand to. Firstly, as Australia’s leading Virtual Assistant, as an author of Worth More Than Rubies and now as a photographer. Her photography beautifully captures the essence of the Dandenongs and the wildlife…
Sally K Witt
“Kathie is an amazing photographer She exhibits incredible patience to get the right shot. Her creativity knows no bounds, and she can be dramatic or subtle – depending on the subject. I highly recommend Kathie in any capacity!”
Visiting Mawarra: An Edna Walling Garden
As you may have gathered in past posts, I am a keen gardener and for me, the mix of nature and gardens is just perfect. Last year I learnt about Edna Walling, who was a well known garden designer here in Australia during the 1920s-1940s but she was also a photographer and an author, writing…
Beautiful sunrise
I attend a weekly business networking event at a local golf course in Rowville. The windows of the building look over the course and to the Dandenong Ranges and Mt Dandenong beyond. As it’s an early morning meeting we sometimes get to see a great sunrise. This morning was one of those.
Photography in Olinda
Recently I had the privilege of photographing a garden in Olinda, Victoria, Australia. As the property is surrounded by tall mountain ash trees sunlight tends to arrive quite late in the morning, even in the warmer months. For more garden images visit my Gardens album at Flickr.
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show
For probably the 3rd (or maybe 4th) year in a row, I attended MIFGS and never tire of visiting this event. Such beautiful garden arrangements, flowers, bulbs, seeds and garden accessories galore, lots of dreaming and oohs and ahhhs. So beautiful. Sunday was the pick of the 5 days it was open in March 2015…
Would you like your garden photographed?
I’m taking bookings for gardens, particularly in the Dandenong Ranges region, but any area in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne is fine. A keen gardener myself, I would delight in photographing your garden and producing images you can keep in print format or digital. Why not have a photo book of your garden? Here are…