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Preview shot from my hike today. Due to Christmas i had/have no time to process the photos of my camera. So i post you a shot from my iPhone. The "real one" will follow in the next days :) I thank you all and wish you merry christmas!
Thank you all for Explore!
This was taken on a foggy morning where you could just make out the glowing white of the Church. This is the little Syrian Orthodox Church I generally photograph at sunset. The sun is setting further around to the south-west of the church at the moment so it doesn't really illuminate the site. I will keep visiting though, just in case something divine happens....
I have added some textures here to create an image that you may or may not appreciate!
If you want to see the different moods of the Church, please check out the album.
The title is a beautiful Warren Zevon song and the name of the tribute show that led to us spending a glorious weekend in the City. Henry Wagons channelled the perfect Zevon.
At one point in the show he asked for three volunteers to come on stage to play an accidental quiz. Of course I didn’t volunteer but I should have given I probably would have won!
Unfortunately Warren suffered from OCD. One of the questions asked was what Warrens’ main compulsion was. It was buying up every single grey Calvin Klein T-shirt in a store. So if he was touring, he would sometimes be late for a concert because he would insist on travelling to all the department stores in the area, sometimes an hour away from the gig to buy out every T-shirt.
“The phone don't ring
And the sun refused to shine
Never thought I'd have to pay so dearly
For what was already mine
For such a long, long time
We made mad love
Shadow love
Random love
And abandoned love
Accidentally like a martyr
The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder”
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4rISvAhQc]
Most know I have an aversion to early mornings so I was very lucky here to step out onto my balcony to make this image.
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"If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on, now
Cause there's too many places I've got to see
But, if I stayed here with you, girl
Things just couldn't be the same
Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you can not change
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
This image was a bit of a snap and there wasn't a lot of light. I really loved the seagull in the foreground, though my shutter speed not as high as it should have been. It is on my wish list to try to get a good image of gulls flying above me at the beach but haven't achieved it yet.
I know it looks like I have really emphasised the bright mirror around the two salt people but I went back and checked my original. It must have been a bright spot in the clouds that reflected in just the right place to highlight these two and the still water surrounding them.
Sunrise, when the pinks were really pink and the clouds tattooed the salt lake _____Lake Tyrrell.
Hope you aren't bored with these images. I still have more and if I don't post them now, they will end up not seeing the light of day!
Yeah, I might seem so strong
Yeah, I might speak so long
"I've never been so wrong
Yeah, I might seem so strong
Yeah, I might speak so long
I've never been so wrong" London Grammar [www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drfp_3823I]
I made this image over the weekend at Winton Wetlands.
This swamp was flooded in 1971 to create Lake Mokoan. It created a very large water storage that irrigated thousands of hectares of agriculture. At the same time the new reservoir inundated around 7,000 Ha of agricultural land, ancient forests and beautiful and unique wetlands. The flooding killed around 150,000 river red gums.
The stags still stand and create a haunting landscape, especially as the sun goes down. I chose to focus on this lone tree, standing out in front of the dense stand of trees behind.
I see strength in this tree and it makes me feel oddly emotional.
Even though most of these trees are dead, they still provide crucial habitat for so many bird species. The wetland hasn't had any water for several years now.
Continuing on from last Tuesday's post, this was the same sunrise just a few minutes later. A fake or false sun briefly appeared. This was maybe 10 or 12 minutes before the actual sunrise. It barely lasted a minute or two before moving on to the next phase of the sunrise which I will post next week.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
"I see the morning light
I see the morning light
Well it's not because
I'm an early riser
I didn't go to sleep last night"
Bob Dylan -- Walking Down The Line
I probably should have started with this image for the Coles Bay series. This is the sunrise I saw seeping through the blinds when I ran out and took this grab shot from the balcony. One click of the shutter.
Other images can take hours of work in planning, editing and creative thought but perhaps need more engagement from the viewer to be appreciated.
The hardest thing about a sunrise is getting up in time!
Sunset at Cape Woolamai where everything feels uncomplicated.
Next installment in Harpo's never-ending mischief - This morning he stole the Sherpa's wallet off his desk and ate two credit cards, medibank card and drivers license. Sigh.
"If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs." -
Tony Gaskins, American motivational speaker
I pulled over for this shot back in December, a little east of Flagstaff Arizona on I-40. There was some crazy weather and temperature changes, and as the temperature dropped the ground began to steam. Seems counterintuitive, but that's what happened. I believe the temperature was in the high 20's Fahrenheit.
These are the wheat fields surrounding the township of Sea Lake. We were lucky that they hadn't been harvested yet as the farmers were waiting for the fields to dry out.
The reason I took this image was, from a distance, I noticed that a section of clouds were pink. It was abit like a mirage, the closer you got, the further away they seemed. The clouds are pink as they are reflecting off the surface of the pink lake (Lake Tyrrell) below.
When I stopped here, it was the beautiful gold of the wheat that got my attention and it wasn't I uploaded the image that I realised I did capture the pink in the clouds.
This scene describes the spring we are having here in rural Iowa this year. Cold , wet, windy, very few sunny days. The corn field in the foreground would have been planted in a normal year but remains untouched this year. However they are predicting warm, sunny weather for this weekend. 👌
Fen Drayton is a small village between Cambridge and St. Ives in Cambridgeshire, England, and between the villages of Fenstanton and Swavesey.
The lure of the sun lighting up the fog trapped low in the grass was too much to pass up on my commute down to South Gippsland for work last week.
A quick dash down some side roads, jumped out of the car and snapped a few images. As soon as I drove out of my suburb, the fog was gone. It added perhaps 10 minutes to my two hour plus journey but I think it was worth it.
Merry Christmas everyone.
A couple of months ago I went to a landscape photography trip not too far from home. Among other shots, I came across this quite interesting scene from where I was standing.
Arguably my most favourite photo from the trip. Hope you like it too.
The lower layer of clouds were in darkness and made a great silhouette for the sunset colours above.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
I was briefly amazed at the storm that built over our village today as it had some of the meanest looking clouds I have seen in a long time. This lightning flash was my signal to go inside! The lighting was amazing for half an hour, but very little rain fell in our area - just all around us.
I only managed to catch this lightning through reacting to the first of what must have been a multiple flash. A touch of good fortune!
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!
A little bit of ICM for some Pelican Poetry.
While we were at Cherry Lake in Altona, there was a group of Pelicans, all huddled closely, seemingly working together to round up the fish. It was fascinating to watch. I will post an image of them at some point.
An image I wasn't sure about but got the nod of approval from No. 1 son and that is always enough for me.
Slow catching up with you but will try.
Take care my friends
"Now the day bleeds
Into nightfall
And you're not here
To get me through it all
I let my guard down
And then you pulled the rug
I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved"
Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi
A line from one of the new Bob Dylan songs called My own Version of you.
This was taken at Cherry Lake in Altona. A gloomy day of drizzle and grey clouds put to rest my plans for some birding so my sister and I visited a beach at Altona and then stayed for sunset at Cherry Lakes. The clouds were quite heavy so I didn't think we were going to get much colour. As I was packing up I said to my sister you know it is often when the sun goes down, after the drab grey that the sky can light up. As we were walking back to the car, I turned around and saw the gorgeous colours reflected in the water amongst the reeds. I was pushing my luck as everyone was freezing but no way I was going to leave this. The colours just got deeper and more vibrant.
As things are ramping up again (our winter) in terms of the virus here, the line from Dylan's song stood out.
Everything on the surface looks calm and beautiful but underneath, the anxiety of the things we cannot see bubbles away.
I've started using a new raw editing program, and have been practicing using some raw files from the archives. I'm still learning how to get the best out of it, but I liked this result better than the one I posted three years ago. HFF
"Let me tell you something
There's a change in me
Even now you're gone
You'll always be
My only love, my only love
Only love, my only love"
Brian Ferry Roxy Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6vknxfh2A
Revisiting an old flame ;-) hopefully we will meet again soon.
A storm at the Colonnades, Cape Woolamai
Down at the ancient Pinnacles, Cape Woolamai.
That's how I am feelingso apologies for not commenting much at the moment.
"Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you
Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me"
An image from the archives.
I am not sure why I hesitated to post this image originally. Perhaps I thought there was too much going on, too much rock in the foreground. But I do love the little swirls of water in the rock pool.
My happy place by the wilds of the ocean.
San Remo
A view across the Dee estuary from the beach in the Wirral Country Park at sunset.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wirral Country Park is a country park on the Wirral Peninsula, England, lying both in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in the county of Merseyside and in the borough of Cheshire West & Chester in the county of Cheshire. It was the first designated country park in Britain, opening in 1973.
The park is located along the Wirral Way, which follows the track bed of part of the former Birkenhead Railway route from West Kirby to Hooton. The old line, which closed in 1962, follows the estuary of the River Dee for 7 miles (11 km) between West Kirby and Parkgate. The route then heads inland, across the Wirral peninsula, to Hooton.
There are two visitor centres along the Wirral Way. The visitor centres are located near to the site of Thurstaston railway station, at Thurstaston, and at the preserved Hadlow Road railway station, in Willaston.
HFF. Like many of the fences in the farming area around where I live, this one has long since passed the point of keeping anything in or out. Many farmers around here no long raise cattle so the fence now is just a reminder of how things used to be.
Cold front pushing in from the north, from the fishing pier on Northwest Creek in Fairfield Harbour, NC
Some weird looking clouds drifted over Mount Gambier a couple of weeks ago. I haven't seen anything quite like this in Mount Gambier before - it was quite eerie looking. They didn't give any rain. As we were just out shopping at the local supermarket, I only had the phone camera at the time, but it seemed to capture the odd look of these clouds well enough.
Happy Nice Wonderful Clouds Tuesday!