That In Between Time
Light is the most exciting element, especially at that In between time.
Categories: Nature & Urbanisation Connect, On the River, Photography, Travel Theme, Uncategorized • Tags: Potography, Weekly Travel Theme
Launching off the Rocks
I’d been shooting the surfers in their waiting room for quite a while, being dissatisfied with the limitations of my dear old camera, when a large grey cylinder loomed into my peripheral vision. Attached to it was a man wielding a bulky tripod attached to a small black camera. As I remarked to Amy apropos lens envy, I almost cried, when I thought of the shots he’d get, and blurted out something to the effect of ‘talk about making a person’s point and shoot look pretty inadequate’. He […]
Categories: At Play, Photography, The Beaches, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
Caught him in the Barrel
One of my favourite moments, here in another paradise, occurs just after driving past the Lifesavers Club car park at Alexandra Headland. Right at that point the road crosses a little stream, and if you turn your head back over your left shoulder you get the most expansive view along the beach. I was passing the other day and just had to stop. The light was beginning to turn, as was the tide, and by some lucky fluke I had my camera […]
Categories: At Play, Photography, The Beaches, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
On Top of the Water
Coming back home I was quite surprised at how this sport has become so much more popular in just four or five years. In the evening, as they glide through the purple light, one can see why. Posted in response to On Top, this week’s Photo Challenge. PS – Not having a pet of my own yet, I had a lovely time baby sitting my friends’ two cats at Christmas. It was amusing how each had a favourite spot. Kitka’s was […]
Categories: Nature & Urbanisation Connect, On the River, Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
The Scent of Clean
Every day, when I wake, I take a deep breath of the clean air of my homeland, smell the peculiar, idiosyncratic scent of the Australian bush that even here, on the outskirts of town, floats through the rooms of my apartment. It’s not a nose-twitching, follow that smell type of scent. It’s not fragrant, like stepping into a garden, or odoriferous, like a tropical forest. It doesn’t smell of eucalyptus, or wattle. or tea tree oil. Here, in this particular piece of paradise, […]
Categories: Australian Native Plants, Nature, Travel Theme, Uncategorized • Tags: Photography, Weekly Travel Theme
Just Pink
I’ve been terrible at taking the camera out and about with me – even being mindful enough of my new surroundings to whip out the phone – so this poor blog languishes way behind my expectations of it. Not universally, though … Today it’s just pink, as Ailsa prompted:
Categories: Gardens and Gardening, Photography, Travel Theme, Uncategorized • Tags: Flowers, Gardening, Gardens, Photography, Weekly Travel Theme
I Wish You Could Hear the Birds
Imagine, if you will, a single cot bed marooned in the dark of an otherwise empty room, the deep pre-dawn chill of a winter’s day. It was my first morning in my new home. I don’t know whether it was freezing fingers that awoke me, or the cacophony of myriad birds as they woke, discussed the timing, and took off from their night rooks out to the warm dark above the river beyond my apartment. The noise, the mystery, the […]
Categories: Nature & Urbanisation Connect, Photography, Uncategorized • Tags: Nature, Photography, Rainbow Lorikeets
Furry and Prehistoric
Walking down the street a while ago I almost fell over my feet when I saw this cycad flower right there beside the footpath – iPhone to the rescue to capture this amazingly furry relic of the past. Furry flowers? Really, look: This is a sort of Wordless Wednesday cum Yellow, for Ailsa’s Travel Theme post.
Categories: Gardens and Gardening, Nature, Nature & Urbanisation Connect, Photography, Travel Theme, Uncategorized, Wordless Wednesday • Tags: Gardening, Photography, Plants and Flowers, Travel Theme, Wordless Wednesday
Evocative Fragrance
If I could bottle the heady fragrance of the bush around here, I’d send you a sachet of that today, but Ailsa’s asked for a photographic representation for her Travel Theme this week, so I’ve been casting about, tying to think of something else to tell you about. For a gardener, the garden here at my new patch is almost a misnomer, but when I walk out to the letter boxes in the early evening and close my eyes, I could […]
Categories: Gardens and Gardening, Photography • Tags: Gardening, Gardens, Photography, Sunshine Coast, Weekly Travel Theme
Nature’s Lines
Since I was a child and Christopher Robin made me aware of the lines and cracks, I’ve loved how lines add definition and vibrancy – even to my first colouring efforts (as I was recently reminded, coming across an old favourite while unpacking the books!). But the master drafter in my opinion is always Nature itself. Can you guess what this green delta really is? PS – I had to laugh when I saw these forlorn, forgotten sox, messing up […]
Categories: Gardens and Gardening, Nature, Photography, Uncategorized • Tags: Gardening, Nature, Photography, Word a Week Challenge
Another Paradise 