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A break from Tassie to the beach- Dragon Head rock, Rye Victoria.
The late afternoon was cloudy and grey though not totally flat.
-Will there or wont there be a sunset? That was the most discussed question of the afternoon (or course there is always sunset but will it be a colourful one!. The sunset App said -overcast-forget it)
When we arrived at our destination, two groups of photographers had taken up prime position around the dragon. This limited composition somewhat but they were pretty obliging.
The sun was setting to the right of the dragon and as the sun began to drop towards the sea, there was a band of some lovely colour, just not in the right place!
I am not totally happy with this but because it is my birthday and I am feeling pretty blah this morning, I wanted to post some colour.
The automatic streetlights came on well before the sun had finished doing its thing!
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
The More Life....
I just read that somewhere. I am sure it probably speaks to people at certain times of the their life when everything looks black and white and monotonous.
The ocean always breaks some routine, always offering something different with each day, each tide, each season.
Hope you get to do something outside of your normal routine today-or at least just dream about it!
Another colourful sunset from Mount Gambier, South Australia, taken from our front garden.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
Deep in my heart I still believe that there is a place somewhere in space and time where he is still flying and looking for his Little Prince...
Smile on Saturday#Over-processed clouds
HSoS!
I guess you will all be pretty familiar with this wonderful place by now (and hopefully not sick of it). We are actually planning on going back just after New Year. I imagine the lake will be dry but this may provide different opportunities. We may cancel if it's too hot though.
I hope all your preparations coming up to Christmas are going well and your plans haven't been ruined by COVID. I know many people will once again be unable to spend it with family.
Keep safe xx
This was the sunset that reflected in my car windows last week. It was full of rich deep colours.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
For fellow flirckr followers, I am busy with visitors for a few days - will catch up with comments real soon!
I remember this evening when there was heavy cloud and I wondered if the sun would break free. I waited and it did at just the right moment.
I love this place, still farming land and only 10 minutes from home.
"I can see her lying back in her Satin Dress
In a Room where you're doing what you don't confess"- Sundown Gordon Lightfoot.
Lake Tyrrell, after the sun has gone down and everyone else turns away, thinking the show has past. While the bright colours have left the sky, what remains is a gentle glow, sparkling salt crystals and water so still it looks like satin.
Part of a very angry looking storm front that passed over us yesterday. It was quite spooky looking for a while!
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
This was taken as the sun had just dipped and bathed the sky in sun burnt orange.
Cape Woolamai, is not only known for its surfie culture but also its amazing sunsets. It either goes burnt orange or deep red or a combination of the two.
It is very difficult to take surfie images in the evening because of course the camera wants a slow shutter when you want to freeze the surfie. High ISO called for.
This was the rather ominous looking sky during sunset a few nights back! Although it looked dramatic, nothing came of it all. Just a nice show for five minutes.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
While I am not out taking photographs much at the moment, I have been using my time productively. I have completed Photobooks for my Tasmania and Hawaii holidays. My most recent project was a photobook of mostly seascapes from holidays at Phillip Island. I was able to download my Flickr album and then included many of my Flickr musings accompanying some of the images in the album.
It was a really fun thing to do and made me glad that I write so much waffle about how that particular photo came to be or about my feelings at the time. Of course there was a fair sprinkling of Bob Dylan lyrics amongst them.
I would encourage anyone to do it if they feel so inclined. I think it will be nice for the kids to appreciate one day!
This image is just after sunrise at Richardsons Beach, Coles Bay, Tasmania. The title is from a Barry Maitland book on my shelf.
Dipping into the archives for this amazing sunset from a couple of years ago. This was the view from my front door here in Mount Gambier.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
"Quietly as rosebuds
Talk to the thin air
Love came so lightly
I knew not he was there"
From Australian Love Sonnets and Such
Took a chance on a sunset at the little Syrian Church the other day. One corner of the sky, around the setting sun briefly exploded with colour.
Alone again, while the world whizzed around in the near distance, I waited in the hope that those dark, grey clouds over the rest of the sky would follow. Not to be.
A sweet diversion to the day none the less.
I am in the processes of doing my Hawaii Photobook (December 2018) and found this one I hadn't posted.
Hanalei Bay is the largest bay on the north shore of Kauaʻi island in Hawaii. The town of Hanalei is at the midpoint of the bay. Hanalei Bay consists of nearly two miles of beach, surrounded by mountains. A really beautiful place and few people were about while we were there.
There must be something about me, holidays and flooding as Kaua'i was subject to terrible flooding before we got there so that many of the major trails, especially here in the north were so damaged, they were closed.
You can't see it in this calm image, but many of the houses along of the beachfront had collapsed due to storm surge and were pretty much totally destroyed.
End of a summer day in Adelaide and many visited the local beaches to enjoy a wonderful balmy evening stroll along the water's edge.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
A happy coincidence of two birds lining up and looking like a pair of eyes. The birds were galahs flying toward a bright sunset. There were many more but they "slid" out of the final image.
Happy Slider Sunday!
5 minutes before sunrise on Trade Winds lake in back of my home in Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina
10 minutes after sunset from the fishing pier on Northwest Creek in Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina.
Handheld
35,000 acres (140 sq. kilometer) forest fire in the Croatan National Forest, Craven, Carteret and Jones Counties, North Carolina. Fire was located about 15-20km to the south of this location. Photo taken 21 April 2023 from the fishing pier on Northwest Creek, Fairfield Harbour, NC
On a wing and a prayer there would be a stunning sunrise on the one morning I chose to get up early.
While the skies didn't light up, the early morning breeze was soft and smelled like salty air, the gulls and swans sang of freedom and the rising sun danced along the ripples of the ocean. This more than made my early morning venture worth while.
As we were driving to our motel, the clouds started to get colorful, found a place to pull over and got this!! Hope you are having a blessed week, never forget if you are God's He loves you very much!!!
"Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air
Tomorrow keeps turning around
We live and we die, we know not why
But I'll be with you when the deal goes down" Bob Dylan
I have just spent the last four days in a tiny little town called Sea Lake, in the Mallee district of north-west Victoria, about 4 hours from where I live. The town is famous for the myriad and ever changing reflections found at the salty Lake Tyrrell.
I will include more information as I post images (of which there are very many!). I didn't know what to start with and as much as I hate posting photos of myself, this was the scene that greeted us when we first arrived and I think having someone in the image illustrates its claim to fame ( This was after several selfie attempts that just show gumboots!). The night sillouhettes are what the Asian tourist market fly across the world for.
I spied this amazing cloud formation on the way home a few weeks back while driving down the freeway. This is a quick snap out of the car window with some glow added.
p.s. I was not driving!
Amazing sunset afterglow, 20 minutes after sunset from the Fishing Pier on Northwest Creek, Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina
Flickr 100 (10x 10) 6/10 My suburb
Hope you aren't sick of images of this little Syrian Orthodox Church.
It has been a long time since I have been able to visit it with the camera. Same view but always a different sky. I can't really explain why I feel so peaceful at this site.
A chaotic chorus of frogs bubbled up from the dam and the crows and magpies watch my movements without fear. As do the resident kangaroos. The breeze was gentle.
I am parked on the dirt road that currently leads to nowhere. A housing development has crept up directly behind me. I have noted before that this site is earmarked for future development.
So I will continue to visit. Same view, different sky till it is no more but it will exist in these images at least.
Alittle while ago I posted a couple of images of this famous lone Mangrove tree, the site where I got stuck in the mud-like quicksand.
This was even later in the evening where the purple hues dominated the sunset and the tide had ventured further in, covering partly covering the aerial roots of the that help them survive in these salty waters.
Evening shot such a mystical look to it. It reminded me of the song Into The Night by Benny Mardones love that song. Take a look at the sky at night it comes alive before our eyes.
I haven't been to the beach for ages so have frolicked in the archives for this one, taken at Buckleys Creek near Warnambool last year.
The title is inspired by a line in a poem called Seascape by Bruce Springsteen 1969