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Encounter with a Dragon

8/14/2015

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I'd borrowed Marianne's 'Gnome on Dragon' in the hopes of taking some photos of it with my gang at the Ruins Garden. So yesterday, even though I wasn't feeling especially well, we packed everyone up and headed off to to Guildwood. 

The Ruins garden is full of beautiful flower gardens, all of which I wanted to avoid in my photos, so I was on the lookout for something a bit 'woodsy'. Well, I found the perfect spot with the amphitheatre pillars in the background, set up my dolls, and got down to take some photos.

Suddenly I started to feel burning stings all over!  Seemed I'd laid down on a red ant colony! Usually I roughly pose my dolls where I want them, go lay down some distance away, and direct Jan to do the final positioning. But this time I wasn't going to wait. Who cares if Milo was weirdly posed, or Ringo's clothes were all bunched up, or Nami's headband had fallen down over her eyes, I wasn't prepared to stay there and get even more stings, so there's just this one photo...
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With arms burning from the ant bites, we moved to a different spot, 
and took a couple of group shots with the pillars. First the girls....
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....then the boys.....
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I had wanted to photograph a little story about meeting the gnome on the dragon, 
but ended up just taking a few more single shots.
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4 Comments
Babel link
8/14/2015 03:21:54 am

It is very well Martha, I hope that you get better at the moment :o))

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Jane
8/14/2015 04:48:26 am

*ouch* about the red ants!!! You have more dedication than I would have done, I would have jumped up without taking a photo!!!

I really do love how you can incorporate the art dolls with this fantasy gang though.......so clever!

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Brigitte
8/14/2015 11:49:00 am

Your group looks like they were caught by surprise. :-)

I think, you were very brave. I would have jumped up without a photo too.

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diane lithgow
8/17/2015 11:43:05 am

I love the unposed photo. it looks like they were scrambling to meet the dragon.

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