A quick post as very busy times now. Not the best of images but thought I would share what I see and think about most of the time at the moment! The weather is proving difficult – after months of no rain and now when we need it dry, there are periodic days of wetness or drizzle. Today was a beautiful day with a good pick. This is a bunch of Pinot Noir taken last week after heavy fog.
Last image from my recent visit to Pyalong. I’ve enjoyed this series of posts – they are surreal but then so is the landscape. I’m aware they may be becoming a bit ‘samey’ so something different next time….anyhow, this scene struck me as it was so desolate, dead trees both standing and fallen in a tinder box landscape….
Again very time poor (but who isn’t?) so another image from Pyalong taken last week. When I saw this hay shed, the structure reminded me almost of a Roman villa or palace with columns but stuck in this quite alien landscape of bleached parched land…
I haven’t had the chance for either taking photos or posting due to moving house and work being really busy- but we all know what that is like… a week in we are getting there (slowly!). Today I needed to do some ‘soul soothing’ so went out to one of my favourites – Pyalong. Probably a bit too tired for photos or processing but still good to have camera back in hand with a wonderful sky again. Here is one from this morning…
The cirrus clouds today were amazing, and yes, quite surreal – the scale was huge! I’m not sure this works due to the smoke haze still on the mountain horizon but the sky screamed out black and white so here it is….
…and another tree!
Nulla Vale shortly after sunrise a few weeks ago. Today has been a horrible day (with night to come) here in Victoria – fires all around, watching the wind and warning app on the phone, radio is on and fingers crossed. Thoughts to those impacted already.
In my experience the weather in this part of Australia (Victoria) can be sometimes incredible. Often after a period of very hot days we get a ‘southerly change’. This is in reality quite a shock – it can go from 40 C to 20 C (104 F to 68 F) in literally 30 minutes…the wind changes from a hot northerly to a cool southerly and the winds are often very strong. This happened on Monday and flattened the long grass in this paddock. The prevailing winds are north/south as you can see from the way this tree has grown, bent from south winds.
I found this old building on my way back from Nulla Vale on Sunday. After a bit of Google search, I discovered that it was a school originally built in 1875 by George Wines on 5 acres. It was moved to this location by a team of 22 horses in 1902, becoming full time in 1911 until it closed in 1943. It is sad, but this is a heritage listed building that I somehow don’t think will survive much longer.
Being Australia Day today I went out to one of my favourite places – Nulla Vale, very early this morning. At best it is a harsh landscape but in early morning facing east it seemed even more so. This is a cleaved rock in which I saw the outline of two faces…Processed using a red filter.
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