AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

Followers

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Ruby Temptress


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana Hub Shopping Centre, Mornington Peninsula
~
Ruby Tuesday prompt
~
Dromana Hub Shopping Centre is sporting a new coat of paint. Gone are the sea blues and sand yellows. Now there are two ruby entrances and a few colour contrasts on other arches and segments of the building. But ruby is the dominant colour!

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A touch of more ruby on the arches
~

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A carpark view
~
Colourful shopping
Bright temptress beguiling the purse
Happy loose spending
~

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Gemma,
It probably was smart to give this center a face lift and include Red. It just has a way of popping out at you. Have a wonderful Tuesday..

Felisol said...

Dear Gemma,
Red sure is a tempting color.
I might like to take a peek in that store.
I'll have to come back to explore your blog properly. Intriguing introduction.
From Felisol

Leora said...

Oh, yes, that is a nice shade of red. Temptress it is!

Day4plus said...

Beautiful colors. I wish Spring were happening here. Just good ole Fall, while I like Fall it only means Winter is next--so I would like it to be Spring. MB

EG CameraGirl said...

Well, red is such a happy colour. ;-) Did the ruby colour subtly convince you to purchase more? Were the mall employees nicer to the customers? Did you leave with the intention of returning?

Ha! I'm sure some marketing guru gave the mall owners many reasons why they should change the colour to ruby red.

Happy Ruby Tuesday!

Jim said...

Hi Gemma, I'd go into that center. I also like your Tasmania picture above, it has a red tree, it is about to be spring where you are.
..

RW said...

You can't miss that when a sale happens lol! Happy Rubie Tuesday!

Hey Jemma you should come on back to Creative Photography contest. Changes have been made judges can,t vote on each others post and only post in a sharing capacity.

Have a good one! :D

Mojo said...

Love the title "Ruby Temptress"... made me laugh. Interesting take on the theme there.

Mimi Lenox said...

I also love those awesome clouds in the background. Great post!

I am here with Ruby Tuesday and Naked On a Horse.

Ralph said...

This shopping center in red looks so tempting...you want to spend there...

Unlike most boring glass and steel stores you see everywhere!

Anonymous said...

Gemma, if wasn't for the words that stated it was a mall, I would have thought it was an aquarium! :P
Nice one for Ruby Tuesday :)

Anonymous said...

That's a pretty spiffy looking shopping center entrance. Happy Ruby Tuesday.

Anonymous said...

That's pretty mall. The building looks great and very inviting!

Norm said...

nice shopping center, red in color.. love to shopping..here's mine sweetnorms and travelnorms..

magiceye said...

the last pic is very pretty..

Maria Verivaki said...

lovely use of red

Anonymous said...

Nice red stores.

Robin said...

I'm sure someone somewhere did a study and found that red makes people spend more money. Still, it does look inviting, doesn't it?

Unknown said...

Nice! Red is not my color, but it looks great in the photos!

A Wild Thing said...

I am always fascinated by your architecture down under, it has a style all it's own for sure...wonder what it's all about...

sharon

Anonymous said...

The clouds made it really stunning shots! Beautiful reds this week:)

Dianne said...

the title made me smile too

and I love the light posts in the car park! - very quaint

Raven said...

Nice new paint job. I like the red. Looks like a nice little shopping center. Just the right size.

Hey Harriet said...

Wonderful Ruby Tuesday. That looks like a really sweet little shopping centre. I like how you captured a bleak & grey sky & then a beautiful bright blue sky. Love the blue sky with the red shops!

CALENDAR

Tasmania

Tasmania
A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

Tasmania

Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

New Landscapes

New Landscapes
New Worlds

Archive of Blog Quotes

  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

Google Analytics

The Inner Light of the Spirit

The Inner Light of the Spirit
The Spirit of Inner Light

Lady Gemma

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Lady Gemma the Unique of Walk upon Water
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails