Olympic Games 2008
This post and the new 125 x 125 pixel cards available in the gallery, is to commemorate the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. I always enjoy watching the olympic games, even sports that I wouldn’t normally watch. I think watching the best athletes in the world compete is absolutely amazing, especially as they break one world record after another! Or when the competition is extremely close, it just keeps you on the edge of your seat!
Of course, I’m supporting the Aussies and get very proud even if we just get a bronze medal. I particularly like it even more, when I hear a story of how a particular athlete has overcome adversity to get into the olympic games and to come out and win a medal! It’s truly inspiring…
Lastly, I just want to say a big THANKS to our first benefactor from Greece, who has kindly donated a small amount of money to help us continue to provide this free service. This small donation means a lot to us, not because it’s the first one we have ever received to this day, but because it’s really satisfying to know that someone out there has been so generous and wants to see us continue to offer this free service. This has indeed given us a boost to work hard and focus on growing free125cards.com.
Cheers,
Marie
Update on TOS and Showcase
First of all, thank you to all those who have taken advantage to become members at free125cards.com and for showcasing your personalized 125 x 125 pixel card in order to promote your website/blog.
By becoming a member and showcasing your card, we are able to have a better understanding of the volume of our visitors that are utilising this free service to create their own logo and those who are taking up the opportunity to showcase their website/blog. Through this process we are planning to improve on our services so we are better able to help each other in the long term - so stay tuned.
Just remember, once you have become a member you can use the same e-mail address to promote 1 or more of your sites or blogs.
Like with any change, we have had to update our Terms of Use and Showcase Instructions, so please take the time to read these to avoid any disappointment of being declined from our Showcase section.
Note: The Terms of Use is at the bottom of each page on the free125cards.com website.
As you may know, I had recently completed new 125 x 125 pixel cards for the flower series. However, after coming back from a brief holiday break recently and going through some of my photographs, I actually have a few more flower images which I wish to share with all of you. I promise, these will be the last flower images you will see for a while - I will move on and create a different theme when I release the next new 125 x 125 card images! 
Thanks again for all your support,
Marie
Part 2 series: 125 x 125 Flower images
As promised, here is the second part to the flower series below. These new 125 x 125 pixel card images were taken from different places in the world. These places included the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, to Oahua in Hawaii and Canada. There are 13 new cards that have been added to the “New” section of the gallery, some examples are shown below:
The image below is a photograph of a very red and huge flower that surrounded the park area at Niagara Falls, Toronto Canada.
This is a photograph of a white frangipani flower taken at a friend’s garden in Oahu, Hawaii.
By the way, although this post was to display the new 125 x 125 flower images, I have included the silhouette images of leaves, as this photograph looked almost surreal.
This photograph was taken when the sun was behind some very interesting shaped leaves with the blue sky in the background. This gave the photo a black silhouette of the leaves, providing interesting outlines with the blue background. This was taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Australia.
Here’s hoping that you will find these new 125 cards useful to represent your website or use it to promote your blog, product, project, in one way or another…
With sky as a backdrop…
I will be displaying part 2 of the flower series in the next post. Just to break it up a little , the new 125 cards that have been added to the gallery will show images of a hand, legs and amusement park rides with the sky in the background.
When looking at an image with clear blue skies as it’s backdrop, it really enhances the whole picture and gives it a different feel. It’s also intriguing when clouds are formed in the sky and make an interesting pattern. A cloud is basically a mass of small droplets or crystals but combined with a blue sky, it’s certainly a wonderful image to behold…
Below are some 125 x 125 pixel card samples that have been included in the gallery:
Card 1: Photo of thumb and index finger holding a white floating seed with blue sky in the background.
Card 2: Photograph of people’s legs hanging upside down from an amusement ride with blue sky in the background.
Card 3: Photograph of a ferris wheel with red carriages and blue sky in the background.
See you again soon..
Marie
Part 1 series: 125 x 125 Flower images
I absolutely love looking at flowers in the garden or in pictures…and ofcourse, I love having fresh flowers in the house. The new 125 x 125 pixel images will be dedicated to showcase the best from the many floral photographs we have taken so far from a variety of places.
There were so many flower images to choose from, as a result I will publish these images in a two part series. This first part, will display floral and bulb images that were taken at the Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens. This vast and beautiful botanic garden is located in an altitude of over 1000 metres in the upper Blue Mountains in New South Wales (Sydney) Australia. It was opened to the public in 1987 to house over 5000 species of plants from the cooler parts of the world.
The day we visited the Mount Tomah Botanic Gardens it was filled with sunshine. Although the garden is already splendid, the sunshine that basked over it really brought out it’s beauty every angle that you looked at. There is also a nice restaurant that is located within the garden. With the amount of walking that you end up doing, it’s great that you can have a little rest, grab a coffee or a wonderful meal while at the same time being able to admire the expansive and stunning views of the gardens from the restaurant window. It’s certainly worth a visit if you are ever in Sydney.
I’ll let you judge the beauty of the floral images by having a look at some of the new 125 x 125 images below.
Now be warned, as much as I love flowers, I’m certainly not an expert on their names - so advance apologies!
May these flower images inspire you to create a new logo or personalize a new 125 card…Happy flower day!
Marie
