Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are going well.
Yesterday, 8 March was International Women's Day. This year I didn't do anything specifically to celebrate International Women's Day, however I have I decided to share a few photos of women I have taken over the last month at some events where I was taking photos. I've also included a few links further down to International Women's Day events I have been to in the past.
The first was on the 16th February where I, and other members of the Photography Group of Bunbury were asked by the Bunbury Triathlon Club to take photos at the Bunbury City Classic Triathlon. We have done this for the last few years. It was a hot morning, and I was lucky to get myself a spot under the shade of Norfolk Pines on the road into Bunbury.
Competitors were young, old, the very fit and the newbies. All having a go.
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Unfortunately none of my photos of the Ngaru Pou Maori Haka and Cultural Dance Group turned out, but this young group, who are on their way to a competition in the Pacific were fantastic. It was evening by then and I needed to use a different setting for low light on my camera. I will try to remember next time to boost the ISO.
On Saturday afternoon 8 March my husband and I were on-water-control-safety boat at the Forza Dragon Boat Club annual match-racing twilight regatta in Bunbury. Our family has been involved with dragon boat racing in Bunbury since in the first regatta in 1990 and our two sons still compete. Being in a boat on the water put in in an ideal place to take photos. Below here you can see some of the women's racing - 20 paddlers plus a drummer on front and a sweep at the back steering the boat. The pink team you see is Amazons Dragons Abreast Perth - part of an Australian and international organisation for women who have had breast cancer and their survivors. Truly Amazon women.
There have been many biographies and books written about remarkable women. I would also like to recommend a couple I have read in the last 12 months of so.
Also published as - Miss Morgan's Book Brigade.
- The Art of Breaking Ice - by Rachael Mead - This fictional novel is based around the true story of the Antartic adventure of Nel Law - artist and wife of Antartic expedition leader Phillip Law, Rachel pulls together what little is known at Nel Law to write this fictional account of Nel's trip to Antartica - the first Australian woman to set foot on Antartica in an age when the lives of wives were defined by their husbands. Mead says she was inspired by Nel Law’s courage in defying expectations and gender stereotypes, and the constant scrutiny of the men. Some characters were created - ie Dr Harris McCallum who commissioned her to draw penguins for his research paper. wikipedia.org/wiki/Nel_Law
Thank you so much for stopping by. Did you do anything for International Women's Day? Here are four previous posts you might enjoy -
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