Nah, It's Canberra

I'm not from around these here parts (I'm from the windiest part of New Zealand) but I do think these parts look like parts of other places I've seen. That's what's here. That's it. Blog retired in 2016, but back for a bit in 2020, cos y'know - strange times.

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Coastal Plain Cooter, Mobile Bay, Gulf of Mexico, ALA.

Nah, it’s an Eastern Long-necked Turtle, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, Paddy's River Road, ACT.

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Nah, it’s a Sophie the Giraffe stencil at the IGA in Lyneham.

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Manhattan skyline. Full moon. Bokeh.

Nah, its Majura Park Shopping Centre. Full moon. Bokeh.

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'200 Motels, or, how I spent my summer vacation’, a fictional Florida road trip, from Key Largo to Key West | by Helmut Newton for Playboy Magazine 1976.

Nah, it's 'Look up, or, art is everywhere here', an actual Canberra paste-up, from Amaroo to Banks | by Mel Edwards, Stirling Park, 2020.

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A small Eurasian insectivorous bat, Est Parc, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Nah, it's a grey-headed flying-fox megabat in the Commonwealth Park, Canberra.

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Close-up of Gaudi’s trencar (to break) mosaic round ceiling detail in Hall of Columns at Parc Guell, Barcelona.

Nah, it’s a close-up of the extremely ordered mosaic artwork and fountain celebrating a centenary of women’s suffrage, Old Parliament House, Parkes.

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Two Weeping Angels, London. An extremely powerful species of quantum-locked humanoids (sufficient observation changes the thing being observed). Blink. Tenth Doctor, Martha.

Nah it's two Garden Angels, Reid. Extremely balcony-locked decorative items (insufficient garden renders decoration insufficient). Ride-by. Third iPhone, Mel.

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Horseshoe Road, Mill Neck, NY 11765 - Where you can get a place for about $17,400,000 million.

Nah, it's Horseshoe Road*, Mullion NSW 2582 - Where you can get a place for about $1,007,000 mullion.

*20k from Coree, so riding distance and practically ACT

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Len Lye Hotel (brochure still), Queen Street, New Plymouth, Taranaki.

Nah, it's the Little National Hotel (caught at a jog past), National Circuit, Barton, Canberra.

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Close-up of Young-hee (renamed Jessica) in the US remake of Squid Game (renamed Circle Square Triangle (2022)).

Nah, it's the girl from The Other Side of Midnight (no name) outside the Canberra Centre, unveiled by Joy Burch (name misspelled on tribute plaque (2012)).

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People Matching Artworks, Stefan Draschan. The photographer waits until he captures perfect encounters between museum visitors and the works of art they engage with.

Nah, it's people matching artworks, Mel Edwards. The photographer was strolling around the upper levels of the American Painting and Sculptures at the NGA and looked across and down at the right time.

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Musée National Gustave Moreau, 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld, Paris. Night capture of storage room for the artist’s 1879-1885 Fable watercolours. 

Nah it’s Megalo Print Studio, 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston. Screen Studio sink captured after Tuesday Night Print Club.

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Lake Onega Оне́жское о́зеро. Petrozavodsk Петрозаводск, Republic of Karelia Республика Карелия. Summer Лето.

Net, eto ozero Berli Griffin Нет, это озеро Берли Гриффин. Poluostrov Chernaya gora полуостров Черная гора, Respublika Kanberra, республика канберра. Vesna Весна.

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The Starr Bumble Bee II maiden and final flight. An experimental aircraft designed and built specifically to acquire the title of “The World’s Smallest Airplane.” April 1988.
Nah, it’s an Anoplognathus on a flight near Fairbairn. Members of the scarab family, they are noisy and clumsy fliers that often crash into you when you are sitting still having a cider outside, merrily titled “ Christmas Beetles”. December 2019.

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Storage area, back of the New Unicorn Inn. Woebly.

Nah, it's a storage area, back of the Knightsbridge Penthouse. Steady.

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Back of The B-Ball and Beats Court, Meibloemstraat, Oud-Turnhout, Belgium.

Nah, it's side of the Telopea Park School Tennis Courts, Griffith, Canberra, ACT.

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One of recycling artist Thomas Dambo’s ‘Tree Trolls’, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Kentucky.

Nah, it’s recycled fish sculpture, ‘Red Scrapper’ in a tree along the Majura Parkway, Majura.