I took this image on my way to work this morning – very cold (-1C) and watched the colour unfold as I was driving. I saw this dam with the wonderful reflections of the (very large) lambs against the increasing fog and warm pre-sunrise light – I had to stop and get out with the camera 🙂
I took this image yesterday after work at Mount Macedon (luckily for us only 10 minutes away). I know that for people that get to experience winters much, much colder than ours, this image may seem unremarkable! Where I live we frequently get sub zero temperatures in winter, but that means a very severe frost, not snow. This lasted for over 24 hrs and since the last time I saw it like this was 2007, one of my first ever digital images of snow 🙂 🙂
This is a detail of the crown or top of a poppy seed head taken with the macro lens and lit by natural light from a window – I found the pattern amazing :). This is also my entry for the 22nd Monochrome Madness Challenge which is posted on Wednesday mornings (Australia Eastern Standard Time) by curator Leanne Cole.
This is a gum tree going through its natural process of shedding bark. Taken on a rainy day, a whole chunk had come away (you can see the stripes on the trunk behind), making this incredible natural sculpture. This is also my entry for the 21st Monochrome Madness Challenge initiated by Laura Macky along with Leanne Cole who is the curator. Do take time to check out Leanne’s post if you haven’t already..
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!
This image sums up the last few weeks of weather for me – foggy, damp and cold. I took this on my way home from work last week with only about an hour left of any daylight and the fog getting thicker by the minute, manually focused as the camera struggled. There were trees that I had never noticed before, all in beautiful silhouette because of the fog 🙂
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.
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 🙂
Well, not literally! I thought I would share a view that I look at most days during the week. I have been wanting to capture the curve of the hill and trellis system for ages and now that the vines have lost their canopy the curve is easier to see. This is the largest block of the vineyard (about 9 acres) and has a different trellis system to the other blocks. It slopes down towards the west and the curve is more pronounced on this eastern side. I used a longer lens to compress the view (each row is about 220 metres long). These vines are now ready to be pruned – beats working in an office for me 🙂
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