Well, harvest is over and I’m nearly back! I hadn’t realised with the house move and harvest on it’s tail just how exhausted I became. Anyhow, what I have realised, is that when I don’t get to go out and take images, there is something missing 🙂 So, today is a total abstract, taken this morning in between showers. The top of a capped fence with rain drops refracting light into a shaded area taken with the macro… 🙂
I welcome the coming of autumn – often cool nights and beautiful warm sunny days. The coming of autumn also heralds one of my most busy time at work, there is a harvest to bring in (I’m a Vineyard Manager)! My postings will probably become a little sporadic over the coming weeks. This shot was taken a couple of days ago with an autumnal mist and spectacular sunrise….
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…
Many of you will have seen on the news the big fires here in Victoria this week. This one has come a bit too close for comfort and people have lost their homes, property and livestock, so thoughts to them. They say the fires will continue for maybe up to another 6 weeks and we have to be vigilant with wind changes. This shot, taken at the rear of Hanging Rock (see previous post), was winging it – handheld as no time to set up a tripod and the sun more or less already set, but it shows the heavy smoke layer around….
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.
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.
Last week there were thunderstorms at the end of most of the hot days. This was taken early evening as a storm was building – the sunburst was amazing as you could almost reach out and touch it such was the texture of the light.
At last (at least for us) it has cooled 🙂 I took this yesterday early morning, is of a gum tree shadow on long grass (some may have seen this on my Facebook page). I had to fit myself behind the tree and barbed wire fence so my shadow wasn’t visible….
Anyone who has watched the tennis will know that Melbourne and hence Victoria has endured a week long heat wave. It has been truly disgusting weather, as I post this blog, am waiting for the cool change due in a few hours and hoping for no fires. I think I have chosen these as the heat is so claustrophobic and these are cool and open spaces. Metered for the sky and handheld, taken about 30 minutes before sunrise.
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