Hello again šĀ Last week we made a return visit to stay at Johanna Beach which is near Cape Otway, part of The Great Ocean Road trail. Being the middle of winter the weather was very stormy with some very rough seas, which being from Swansea in the UK, I love. The sense of being a small part of a wild landscape is very thrilling š
Hello again everyone! Ā Once more, apologies for not responding to comments (I appreciate them!) or liking posts, but at least I’m managing to post for Monochrome Madness, the first week of year two, hosted by the ever hard working Leanne Cole. Ā I took this nearly a month ago in a landscape shaped by a distant history of volcanoes…the grass is bleached white, it is barren and dry with granite outcrops. Ā On this day, there were massive clouds moving very quickly causing huge shadow and light contrasts Ā If you click in, there are cows on the left crest in what I think of as a folded or undulating landscape š
This is my entry for the MMC week 41, hosted and curated by Leanne Cole and devised by Leanne andĀ Laura Macky. Ā In my mind this image is called āBrokenā ā nothing was straight and there were thunderstorms on the horizon ā a beautiful bleak landscape š
Please take time to look at Leanneās post – lots of monochrome talent form all over the globe š
I appreciate this image won’t be everyone’s cup of tea! Ā This is a complex reflection of a cliff face with gums trees growing on it, taken a few weeks ago at Turpins Falls.Ā (The website image looks like it was taken at about the same time of day) Ā The reflection is on a very large pool which in turn is being distorted by ripples from the distant waterfall. Ā I foundĀ the patterns literally mesmerising as the late afternoon sun sank lower and the reflections became more vivid š
Another rushed post, and whilst on the topic of rushed, I apologise for not answering comments at the mo, but I do read them and very much appreciate them – things will get back to normal in a week or so š Ā This is an upward view of Ghost Gums which are native to my part of the world here in SE Australia. Ā I love their white trunks and the foliage now highlighted in near infrared. Ā Also this is my submission for the 27th Monochrome Madness curated by the ever hard working Leanne Cole š
I took this image yesterday after work at Mount Macedon (luckily for us only 10 minutes away). Ā I know that for people that get to experience winters much, much colder than ours, this image may seem unremarkable! Ā Where I live we frequently get sub zero temperatures in winter, but that means a very severe frost, not snow. Ā 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 š š
I found this old building on my way back from Nulla Vale on Sunday. Ā 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. Ā It is sad, but this is a heritage listed building that I somehow don’t think will survive much longer.
Anyone who has watched the tennis will know that Melbourne and hence Victoria has endured a week long heat wave. Ā 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. Ā I think I have chosen these as the heat is so claustrophobic and these are cool and open spaces. Ā Metered for the sky and handheld, taken about 30 minutes before sunrise.
At the going down of the sun…
And in the morning…
We will remember them.
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