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Hi everybody:

I bring greeting of great happiness, joy and some sorrow. I ask you to continue to keep the victims of the Victorian (AUSTRALIA) bushfires in your thoughts, prayers: in which over 1200 homes have perished along with almost 200 people, over 1,000,000 animals (i cried even more when that figure was delievered) and over $70,000,000 has been raised so far. Lives have been lost, torn apart and whole communities destroyed, some towns have only a few houses left standing. Also to keep the North Queensland flood victims in your thoughts as they face rebuilding their homes, lives around the wet.

Well the week has been a good and bad one. The bad coming from the natural disasters faced here in Australia at this present state. The torrential rain has now reached where I live and we have had over 6 inches in the last 24 hours, so its not too bad. But good news! I finally got a new job! As a teacher aide/assistant in a lower primary class at a local school. It fits in around Uni and it means since its only weekday and school hours, it does not effect my many sports so i am very, very happy! I start Monday morning! So im very excited!!!

Anyways, its Valentines Day tomorrow...for those with someone special, enjoy the day, spoil your special one

Must be off to bed now, its nearing midnight soon enough. And all theyre playing on tv is encores of the programs from this week so very boring...

And oh please (BEGGING YOU NOW)vote on my poll so i know which photo to enter in the Here Comes the Rain contest, which ends soon! thanks

kate xxx

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WINNERS of Simone’s =simoneyvette Canon Powershot Macro 2009 Contest
News Article - [link]


First Place *patul - Agung
Spider – Mr Beard



Second Place `WaitingForTheWorms Irena
Creeping



Third Place =dansch Daniela
Balancing Act I



Fourth Place *lostknightkg Kris
Magic



Fifth Place ~shadowsongII Phoebe
Periwinkle



Encouragement Awards

*Declan11 Declan
Droplets



=katiexxxbeth Katie
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Best Kept Secret
The Best Kept Secret is a weekly feature of a selected deviant with under 5k pageviews. This deviant will be featured by *SeaWhisper *HellAngelBaby `WaitingForTheWorms =Adi-Emus `babyducks =DandiBooks315 =G2K2007 =karen5258 *0-kelley-0 and myself. Let me know if you are interested in becoming involved and I will notify *SeaWhisper

This week’s deviants are *padika11 *sbluesky ~Godsworld










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Features

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Valentines Day

For all those lucky people out there in this world, here is a feature for Valentines Day




Watcher Feature

Ben Hunt - One of Sydney's homegrown aspiring young photographers. While he is best known on dA for his captivating street photography, there is certainly a few other categories within his gallery to explore through. Please take a look through his gallery and "have a good one"
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Aussie Deviant Feature
*foxxyemceelouise


Amazing Photos Under 25 Favs

Sunset at Arawang no.1 ~artcheval

“This beautiful photo displays a lone horsem grazing at sunset. This photo has only 5 favourites”

Welsh Mountains ~thisisyesterday

“A silhouette of Shetland Ponies grazing on the hills in the cold winter mist. Just 21 favourites”

Zoe. Jack Russell ~sdeeth

“A beautiful portrait of the dog sitting in her bed, enjoying the morning sun. Just 3 favourites”

.White as Snow. ~Photosnap

“This contrasting photo has been focused onto the smaller detail of the small clump of white snow on the tip of a twig. Just 19 favourites”

Ah, childhood ~shadowsongII

“This beautifully captured photo subjects a young child enjoying colouring, creating and designing different pieces of artwork with chalk on a sidewalk. It has just 21 favourites”

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The MOST awesome clubs here on dA! I am a members, please join as well!!!!



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