I captured this image of these Mountain Bongos at the Dubbo Western Plains Zoo in the mid west of NSW, Australia. An amazing zoo to visit if you are in NSW, Australia. I chose to post this image due to its endangered species.
The Mountain Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) is a critically endangered, large forest antelope native only to Kenya's highland forests. With fewer than 100 individuals estimated in the wild, they are among Africa's rarest mammals, characterized by a vibrant reddish-brown coat with white stripes, large ears, and spiral horns.
I created this mandala from my photograph of the Sydney Harbour Bridge I captured and created the mandala / kaleidoscope with special software from my image. I was amazed to see how the Harbour Bridge looked so different in the mandala with magnificent detail.
A complex mandala featuring detailed geometric patterns set against a natural blue sky background. The center showcases vivid reds, oranges and black adding to the depth and intrigue.
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A very red rooster and a speckled hen living on a farm in New South Wales, Australia. The rooster's feathers were a lovely dark rich red and had a beautiful shine as if he conditioned them with hair conditioner. I loved the speckled hen with all the texture and varying colors in her feathers.
I couldn't resist adding the speech bubble with the hen asking the rooster - "Will You Marry Me?" There were numerous other hens that lived on the same property and I felt this one was jealous! Just adds a bit of comedy to this chicken portrait.
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My photograph of a pretty pink rose with a French letter overlay with the word LOVE at the top.
Suitable for relationships or especially Valentine's Day.
**ACHIEVED EQUAL 2ND/3RD PLACE IN FAA CONTEST - "Love Letters" October 2018
**ACHIEVED EQUAL 1ST PLACE IN FAA CONTEST "Valentines Day Designs Photography Only" January 2017
**ACHIEVED EQUAL 3RD PLACE IN FAA CONTEST "Valentines Day" February 2016
Fine art pastel of a soft pink rose with a message of love in a pretty French textured overlay.
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**ACHIEVED 2ND PLACE IN FAA CONTEST - Sunrise or Sunset in Australia - September 2025
**ACHIEVED EQUAL 1ST PLACE IN FAA CONTEST ' "Sunrise and Sunset" November 2017
A vivid sunrise over the Pacific Ocean, Bronte Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The sky was an amazing red with the golden sun peeking through and reflecting onto the wet sand.
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A vibrant collection of succulents displays rich hues of green and red burgundy. The varied textures and colors create a visually appealing arrangement.
This image shows a lush cluster of Aeonium succulents growing closely together, their sculptural rosettes layered like living flowers on branching stems.
The contrast between the tall, pale green Aeoniums and the darker, richly coloured varieties creates depth and visual drama, while the woody stems and overlapping leaves give the scene a natural, almost miniature-tree quality.
Set against a backdrop of dense garden foliage, the composition feels vibrant, abundant, and full of quiet movement, celebrating the elegant geometry and colour variation of these distinctive succulents.
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Whilst crossing Sydney Harbour one beautiful day in September 2016, I captured this Sydney skyline image showing the harbor and city buildings, with a ferry in the foreground heading into Circular Quay. It was sunny, windy, and the sky was a rich blue with fluffy clouds floating by.
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My photograph of a sunny scene in the center of the Albury Botanic Gardens, Albury, NSW, Australia.
Lush greenery surrounds a stone monument in this peaceful park. Tall trees and manicured lawns create a tranquil atmosphere under a clear blue sky.
Albury Bontanic Gardens is also well known for its many tall palms (the ones in this image are nowhere near the tallest!)
Set in the left centre of the image on the grass is The Hamilton Hume Monument. It is a historic white marble obelisk unveiled on July 19,1858, to commemorate the 1824 discovery of the Hume (Murray) River. It was originally erected to mark the site of a tree carved by explorer Hamilton Hume, but was moved to the Gardens in 1884 for protection against vandalism.
My photograph of a sunny scene in the center of the Albury Botanic Gardens, Albury, NSW, Australia.
Lush greenery surrounds a stone monument in this peaceful park. Tall trees and manicured lawns create a tranquil atmosphere under a clear blue sky.
Albury Bontanic Gardens is also well known for its many tall palms (the ones in this image are nowhere near the tallest!)
**ACHIEVED shared 3rd place in FAA Contest - "MOSAIC EXPRESSIONS II" July 2025.
An image of an owl that I created with digital art and digital painting, and enhanced in Photoshop.
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.
I captured this photograph at the Albury Botanical Gardens.
The Albury Botanic Gardens are a botanical garden located in the city of Albury, New South Wales, Australia. The garden was established in 1877 and forms an example of the mainstream ideas about gardening in the 19th and 20th centuries. Wikipedia
This image shows a lush garden filled with flowering plants and accompanied by a classic lamppost. Sunlight filters through the trees, illuminating the scene beautifully.
**ACHIEVED TIED 2ND PLACE IN FAA CONTEST - "Wisteria" - October 2021
Beautiful cascading Wisteria over a white picket fence in Springtime in a local garden in the northern suburbs of Sydney.
Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria or Wysteria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the Eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Some species are popular ornamental plants, especially in China and Japan.
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Photograph I captured in parkland in the north of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
A vivid red hibiscus is prominently displayed against a backdrop of green leaves. Its ruffled petals glowing with rich scarlet and hints of orange as they catch the light. The delicate veins of each petal add texture and depth, while the long, graceful stamens extend outward, tipped with golden pollen.
Set against a softly blurred background of lush green foliage and subtle touches of purple, the bloom stands out as a bold symbol of tropical beauty, warmth, and natural elegance.
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Delicate lily of the valley flowers are adorned with glistening dew drops some with blue refractions of color. The lush greenery creates a vibrant contrast against the flowers.
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Lily-of-the-valley (Convallaria majalis) also written lily of the valley is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring. It is native in Europe and western and northern Asia.
Other names include May bells, Our Lady's tears, and Mary's tears. Its French name, muguet, sometimes appears in the names of perfumes imitating the flower's scent.
family Liliaceae
My photograph of rich blue purple Wisteria flowers digitally painted onto a brick background. This gives the effect of a graffiti painting on a brick wall. I loved the midnight blue colors, hence the name I chose of Midnight Oil.
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Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria or Wysteria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the Eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Some species are popular ornamental plants, especially in China and Japan.
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A vast field of sunflowers stretches toward the horizon, glowing under a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds adding contrast to the vivid landscape.
Golden blooms stretch across rolling hills, their faces lifted toward the sunlight as they sway gently in the breeze. In the distance, layers of soft green valleys and mountains create a serene backdrop, their contours softened by the hazy light of afternoon. Towering white clouds build dramatically overhead, adding depth and grandeur to the expansive scene. Altogether, the landscape feels joyful and uplifting—a radiant celebration of nature’s beauty and the simple charm of a sun-drenched summer day.
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My photograph of pretty pink magenta azaleas in my garden in the north of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
I have added a slight canvas texture overlay to this photograph.
A cluster of vivid pink azaleas in full bloom, surrounded by green leaves and other blossoms. The flowers' delicate petals and intricate patterns create a visually striking scene.
Vibrant Pink Azaleas in Full Bloom captures a vibrant cluster of pink azalea blossoms at the height of their spring splendor, each petal glowing with rich magenta tones and delicate speckled patterns. Their ruffled edges and graceful stamens create a sense of movement and softness, while the surrounding greenery and hints of white blooms add depth and contrast. Shot in natural light, the flowers seem to radiate freshness and vitality, offering a lively celebration of nature’s seasonal new bloom. This image beautifully showcases the elegance and exuberance of azaleas at their most captivating moment.
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This is a long reply. I agree with you, I'm explaining my perspective of why I think you see what you are seeing, feedback is welcome.
Thank you OP for this meme. I don't get why the other commenters are defending OF creators as sex work when they are clearly financially benefiting from isolation to create parasocial relationships for sex as opposed to having those same people have the time for actual relationships.
Most OF creators make next to nothing but some make boatloads. Same with drug dealers. The same cannot be said of regular, average job holding employees.
This is because when you have a job, you sell time, while with OF and drugs you sell products. And since multiple people can buy the same product at the same time, some (because of probability) get rich. But it is impossible for you to sell the same hour more then once. Try selling your same 9-5 time to 2, 3 or more employers at the same time, you cannot. Instead you have to get a second job and sell more hours of your day. Since you sell more hours of your day, you buy more products (take-out for food, OF for sex, and drugs for relaxation). If many do this at the same time, then each day these sellers have multiple people buying their products at the same time as opposed to one after the other.
Selling products is parallel while selling hours is serial. Number of products they can sell is capped by the number of people who buy, i.e. for the internet (OF) it's in the billions and they control the profit per membership $/product, but the number of hours you can sell is capped at only 24 hours per day, that's it, you cannot sell more so you only control the rate $/hr to get rich. They have 2 variables to play with while you only have 1.
Most OF creators get next to nothing because they only sell few products at low prices while some get a lot because they sell a lot at low prices. But I bet there are some OF creators that sell few products at high prices. Many products (100,000 products) * low price (10 $/products) = few products (10 products) * high price (100,000 $/product) = be able to buy 5 cars ($1,000,000). See, 2 variables, and neither is time (because time is capped at 24) is important to get rich because you can play with both to get where you want.
This also shows why most OF creators struggle. Few products (10 products) * low profits (10 $/product) = "just getting by" ($100). Most OF creators price their product low because their are a lot of people who pay low prices so they charge the same price because they see that price the most often. What they could do is charge the same number, fewer people, but higher prices to get the same result.
Also be aware there is no minimum price point so if you sell at 0.01$/product you need a lot more product to be able to make a living, let alone rich. Look at stripe. They sell at 0.30$/product but their product is online transactions, and there are a lot if transactions. So 0.30 $/transaction * 10,000,000,000 transactions = $3,000,000,000.
Furthermore, while some OF creators get 5 cars the owners of the OF platform have 5 yachts because all OF creators (all the big and all the small creators) go through the OF platform so all OF transactions is the number of products that the OF platform company sells (product) * ($/products) and their $/product is their cut of each OF membership = $$$.
This shows the same goes beyond just OF creators and drug dealers but all products, including food, cloths, rental units, online content, games, toys, cars, appliances, etc.
When doing the above examples keep the correct units. Unit algebra is important here: $/product * product = $ same as $/hr * hr = $ but remember the max number for hr is 24 while #products is uncapped. $/hr and $/product is determined by your ability to negotiate.
So, given hr is capped at 24 and #product is uncapped, would you rather have $7.25/hr or $7.25/product ? ($7.25 is fed. min. wage in US, replace your min wage in this example to drive the point home).
* ACHIEVED 1ST PLACE IN FAA CONTEST - Australian Extreme Weather - December 2025
* Equal 3rd place in FAA Contest - UNESCO World Heritage - June 2015.
* Equal 2nd place in FAA Harbour Bridge & Opera House Contest - June 2013.
One of my night captures of The Sydney Opera House on a hot balmy night in Sydney on 1st Dec. 2012... just as the lightning struck. The skies were magnificent and the storms were brewing.
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts center in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.
The Sydney Opera House is on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the north-eastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and inland by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
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Oriental lilies are known for their fragrant perfume, blooming mid-to-late summer. Stargazers are easy to grow and do best in full sunlight. They have a fast growth rate and should be planted in full sun in well drained loamy or sandy soil. When mature, Stargazers can grow to a height of 36 inches with a spread of 12 to 16 inches with 4 to 5 flowers per stem.
The Stargazer lily was created in 1974 by Leslie Woodriff, a lily breeder in California. Woodriff called the new cross 'Stargazer', because the blooms faced towards the sky.
The ASPCA reports this plant as being toxic to cats. They are said to cause vomiting, inappetence, lethargy, kidney failure, and even death. Cats are the only species known to be affected.
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A soothing and peaceful panoramic sunrise beach landscape over the Pacific Ocean in beautiful warm tones of red, yellow and blue.
I added a touch of digital enhancement in Photoshop to bring out the smoothing effects.
This image was shot at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia.
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My photograph of a dandelion with water droplets after the rain in a local neighborhood garden in Sydney. To me, the droplets look like pretty Christmas decorations.
guess I'm in the wrong business