Yesterday I found this old tree trunk on its side, it has been there for years judging by how bleached and weathered it was. I was fascinated by the effect of the weathering, creating waves of texture. Taken in, what seems at the moment, a rare window of sunshine!
The last week and a half has been utterly miserable, low cloud, drizzle and bitterly cold (for us!). Tonight there has been a severe weather warning issued – well I guess it is winter! After choking up my hard drive (again!) I am sorting through old files, and found this one. Taken last summer at Pyalong, the original taken with a polarising filter, has a really, really deep blue sky with the dead tree which is silver grey.
I’m now into the full swing of pruning – this is enjoyable and rewarding but physically hard work and days like today when you stand out in the winter rain all day, well…suffice to say I’m a bit tired 🙂 So a late post with an image looking through the bottom of a trestle bridge that is in a very sad state of repair – I spent half my time looking up to make sure nothing was going to fall on my head. I will go back at a different time of day but here it is for now 🙂
This weekend I’ve been back to Pyalong – the first time since the end of summer. I always get a jolt at how green it becomes with the first winter rains (as opposed to the bleached, sparse landscape of summer). Later in the week I will post a colour image, but for today a b&w conversion taken late afternoon with the low sun casting strong shadows onto what is always a beautifully surreal landscape 🙂
The day before yesterday saw a really heavy fog at sunrise (we didn’t actually see a sunrise!). I knew that the spider webs would be beautiful and wasn’t disappointed, but from a photography point of view (excuse the pun), as the light slowly got better so the wind picked up. This shot isn’t as sharp as I would like (also on an old DSLR) but still an interesting web full of beads of moisture. The reflections are dormant vines and the trellis system.
When I first saw these seaweed impressions left in the sand they struck me as looking like bare trees in a forest, or an art nouveau frieze. I decided to convert it to mono to bring out the contrast a little more, as even though the impressions were quite deep, the light was comparatively flat.
A post note! My husband has looked at this and said he thought water had made the pattern as it drained back out to sea – so I may have assumed the wrong artist, not seaweed!!
Another image from our trip away. I am endlessly fascinated by patterns made by wind or sea in the sand. The tide was coming in for this shot and this is just one pattern made by a single wave on the sand.. 🙂
On Friday we had a day trip to the coast (a 2 hour drive), the weather was so overcast and dark, but having driven so far I had to make the best of it. High tide was just over and so lots of interesting seaweed had washed up. Taken with the macro in what was very, very wet sand (the tripod sank by the millisecond!), I’ve never seen this type before. To compound issues, I had the macro lens on an old DSLR so the resolution isn’t that great. Still, good to be out 🙂
Last week I went back to Lauriston Reservoir to take some images of the other side of the spillway, but the roar of water caught my attention. One of the sluice gates was open and I found myself nearly hypnotised by the cascade of water hitting a structure that covers a massive tap. Taken with the tripod as high as it would go, me on tip toes, and this milky effect produced by tiny bubbles – please click in to see more detail.
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