Sunshine Streaming from the East
The theme for Smile on Saturday for the 29th of May is “nothing in focus”. As soon as the theme was announced, I knew exactly the photo I wanted to use.
I recently took a short holiday to Victoria’s Alpine Region with some friends. As part of the trip, we took in the small township of Wandiligong. We were there very early on the morning of the 1st of May for a dawn photography walk to capture the autumnal colours in the brilliant morning light. One of my shots of the former Wandiligong Church of England was all blurred because of the brilliant sun rising in the east flooding my lens. I didn’t delete it because I personally quite liked it. It has some pretty bokeh, light and colours in it, even if it is out of focus. I never thought it would find its way onto Flickr, until the “nothing in focus” theme was announced! I hope that you like this photo for the same reasons I do, and that you have a smile filled Saturday.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Sunshine Streaming from the East
The theme for Smile on Saturday for the 29th of May is “nothing in focus”. As soon as the theme was announced, I knew exactly the photo I wanted to use.
I recently took a short holiday to Victoria’s Alpine Region with some friends. As part of the trip, we took in the small township of Wandiligong. We were there very early on the morning of the 1st of May for a dawn photography walk to capture the autumnal colours in the brilliant morning light. One of my shots of the former Wandiligong Church of England was all blurred because of the brilliant sun rising in the east flooding my lens. I didn’t delete it because I personally quite liked it. It has some pretty bokeh, light and colours in it, even if it is out of focus. I never thought it would find its way onto Flickr, until the “nothing in focus” theme was announced! I hope that you like this photo for the same reasons I do, and that you have a smile filled Saturday.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.