Seen on a Walk

Hadn't realised, until I enlarged the photo, that mum was washing the joey's face.

Early into our first morning drive in the Khwai Concession within the Okavango Delta, we encountered this lone elephant bull grazing.

We stopped to spend time with him as he munched away, surrounded by the Okavango bush.

I could hear invisible birds that were around.

Seen at the start of the Kepler Track. Te Anau, Southland, New Zealand. Does anyone know the name of these?

Winter snows hit the Central Tablelands of NSW and provide some not-often seen scenes of snow amongst the gum trees in the Chatham Valley.

The Perturbed Sanctum

Fuji GW690II, 90mm

Cinestill bw XX @800

Join us at Black & White Film in Vintage Cameras and Lenses:

www.flickr.com/groups/oldschoolstyle/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=udLOPLhUiJo

'Moving liquid

Yes, you are just as water.

You flow around all that comes in your way.

Don't think it over,

It always takes you over,

And sets your spirit dancing.

How I'm moved.

How you move me

With your beauty's potency.

You give me life.

Please don't let me go.

You crush the lily in my soul.'

kate bush

Intentional camera movement

Kragga Kamma Game Park in Port Elizabeth lush coastal forest and grassland is home to vast herds of African game.

A visit to Bush Park, Salem, OR , shooting infrared. Nikon D7500 converted to 830nm. Nikkor 10-20 f4.5-f5.

Since 1992 the Ladysmith Sportsmen's Club has operated the Bush Creek Hatchery west of Oyster Bay, British Columbia, Canada. On a good year they will release a quarter of a million coho and chum salmon fry into the wild.

A Common Bush Tanager (Chlorospingus flavopectus) mist-netted in Cusuco National Park, Honduras.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rCpjc87tY

'See how the child reaches out instinctively

To feel how the fire will feel.

See how the man reaches out instinctively

For what he cannot have.

The pull and the push of it all.

Reaching out for the hand

Reaching out for the hand that smacked

Reaching out for that hand to hold

Reaching out for the Star

Reaching out for the Star that explodes

Reaching out for Mama.'

kate bush

Triptych

my film scanner is shit

Film: Adox Silvermax 21 (ISO 100), 35mm

Camera: Leica IIIf

Lens: Summitar, f=5cm, 1:2

Developer: Rollei RLS, dilution 1+4, 13 min, 24C

Stopper: Rollei RCS citron stop, dilution 1+19, 2min, 20C

Fixer: Rollei RXA fix acid, dilution 1+7, 4.5 min, 20C

Running water for 20 minutes. Final rinse with AGFA Agepon.

Scan: Epson V500 Perfection, 2400 ppi, high exposure

No digital manipulation.

Simsia calva

1965 Minoltacord twin lens

Vicia sepium. Eartham Wood, West Sussex.

Marbled Bush-crickets are common in Corfu but I was pleased to find that this image is of one of the less common species.

E.leucasi is on the IUCN Red List of threatened species and classified as 'vulnerable'.

HSS!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=286ZtWf2qaw

Still you argue for an option

Still you angle for your case

Like you wouldn't know a burning bush

If it blew up in your face

Yeah, we scheme about the future

And we dream about the past

When just a simple reaching out

Might build a bridge that lasts

Road to bombing ranges at Orfordness, Suffolk, UK.

The ranges are disused now and have been taken over by the National Trust.

An icy bush.

TAIL END ?