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Waking Up Coolum Wed 20 June 2018

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What do you do when your creativity needs to be on tap? Creativity on demand. As a creative, stress is the number 1 killer. Add deadlines into the bargain and how does any creative function in the business world? Add

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Sun 17 June 2018

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 There’s nothing quite like winter mornings on the Sunshine Coast but Sundays are for sleeping in after all. I hide under my doona until 0540 then bundle up in two hoodies and set off.  I make it to the beach

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Mon 11 June 2018

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–  Instinct Photography – In life it’s vital to get away, even if that means staying 15 minutes from home. Creativity needs space, lots of it and my work week has been full on. The more stress, the less creative.

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Wed 6 June 2018

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The Lure of Sunrise Early on it was obvious there’d be no sunrise today at Coolum Beach, a tall steel-grey cloud guarded the east, shaped like a long dog chasing the wash. The fascination with sunrises must stem back from

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Mon 4 Jun 2018

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Monday!   Good Morning, Monday. How do you feel at the start of the week? Glad to be alive? Jumping into your week or ‘Hell, here comes another one?’ I’m sure we’d all be bored if we just got to

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Mon 28 May 2018

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Hello Monday, means rain bucketing at 05:00, continuing at 05:20. Maybe I’ll miss my walk this morning. Beach life often enough means rainy mornings though we don’t like to advertise too much, the truth is Mother Nature rules. I busy

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Fri 25 May 2018

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Birds Rule this Morning Cloudy and dark this morning as I set off at 05:30, along the Coolum boardwalk. Above me, an osprey tilts his wings and heads north.  The waves are a tidy two feet or so, white against

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Waking Up Coolum Beach – Wed 23 May 2018

Not another day living in the glorious Queensland paradise of Coolum Beach? Does it ever get boring? No. Every morning is like a blank canvas, sometimes I think, not another photograph of sunrise! But as soon as the light changes

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Waking Up Coolum – Mon 21 May 2018

  Another beautiful May morning, though I was wearing my 8oC coat and beanie for my walk. There were only a handful of people dotted along the beach at 05:40, just how I like it, the horizon burnt orange, pale

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