I seem to be doing a lot of sunrises, apologies….so here is another one!! I hadn’t anticipated the temperature to fall as low last night (-2 C), so had a shock when everything was frozen this morning and with no wind. The dam at work is rarely this still. Handheld 😦
As I have mentioned in a previous post, this vista is one I see everyday at work. The constantly changing light fascinates me. I watched it just after sunrise today and caught this light just before the ridge completely vanished behind clouds of heavy drizzle. I liked the light through the distant tree line and the brooding clouds.
This dead tree struck me by its elegance. I liked the simplicity of the scene from the sky through to the surroundings.
Yesterday we went looking for a waterfall I’d read about at Sailors Falls near Daylesford. When we arrived there was no water, doh!! We decided to keep going and spotted this hill at Newlyn in the Shire of Hepburn. The landscape is reasonably flat with these occasional beautiful curves. Another day of dramatic clouds and contrasts with a few surprises including a very curious (and tall) Emu!
It’s been a week of freezing cold overnight temperatures and the most amazing sunrises. This sunrise was taken on Thursday with a 70-300 mm lens, I believe the temperature was about -4 C. The distant ridge is one I see almost everyday and am fascinated by its varying silhouettes in different lights – Thursday was perfect if not a little surreal! I went back today (you can view my other images on my recently created Facebook page – Lisa Kimmorley Photography) and found another individual waiting for the warmth of the sunrise!
Yesterday we went back to Nulla Vale, North Central Victoria. It’s a landscape I really admire with the granite outcrops and sparse vegetation – a really stark landscape. It was incredibly windy and so felt bitterly cold, but the sky was amazing. Challenging with clouds and shadows quickly changing. Taken from mid to late afternoon.
We made a detour on our return from Healesville last week to visit Steavenson Falls which are in Marysville. I had been told that they are spectacular which indeed they are, although the weather was less than kind with heavy drizzle for the most part. One of the tallest in Victoria, it has a drop of 122 metres, the last cascade being an unbroken drop of over 21 metres. It is floodlight until 11.00 pm. The area was devastated by the February 2009 bushfires and it was good to see the ongoing recovery.
Last week we went to Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges National Park. The forest is of Mountain Ash and tree ferns. The Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is the tallest of all flowering plants, growing to 70 to 114 metres (16-49 ft) high and live on average for 400 years. It was a humbling experience walking amongst these living giants.
Yesterday morning there was a hard frost – yes, winter is on the way! These formations were on the windows and bonnet of some old cars. It was interesting watching the light – some images were taken just before sunrise and then completely changed as the sun came up illuminating different textures.
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