Now I want to preface these remarks by saying that my thoughts on this subject have not been influenced by anything like a scientific study or even from a learned source of any kind, nay not even wikipedia. I’ve noticed that when you are looking around in a landscape your eyes are naturally drawn to [...]
Urban Nature
A cold blustery morning at Cottesloe Beach The beach has all but disappeared And there is so much seaweed on the beach that remains. Still the scenery isn’t all bad I haven’t been down to Cottesloe in a while and I was surprised to see the beach all but gone. I know it diminishes [...]
No story. Just a rainbow. Isn’t that enough?
Tonight I walked home with my daughter under a pink sky. She had been at Tai-jitsu – Ninja training basically. Yes, they wear black. I guess I am lucky. To have a daughter patient enough to wait for me to dig out my camera. And one who even points out a good shot. Love ya. [...]
I know that I take a lot of photos of flowers. I’m a sucker for hitting my macro switch and stopping to photograph – and even sometimes smell – the roses. You know how it is, you’re walking to the train or the shops and you have your camera. Well that’s me. I loved these [...]
If you were new to Perth you might think that these fantastic towering gums are supposed to look like this. You know, with those spots of bark against the white. They kind of look like the remnants of bark that has fallen off. But no. What you are looking at is hail damage. Yes from [...]
Check out the eyes! When my son was a little tacker – about 2 – we asked him what he was thinking about. He answered: “I’m thinking about that spider.” I don’t remember what spider – or even if there was a spider or if he was thinking about another spider somewhere else but it [...]
Today I wandered towards the Crawley boathouse and the Eliza statue for a bit of a looksee. On Saturdays you struggle for space as the jetty out to the old boathouse is groaning under the weight of bridal parties keen for those “special shots”. (or maybe not so special as there are A LOT of [...]
And I thought my alarm was bad. These birds were so loud this morning. I felt I was in the Hitchcock film “The Birds”. And such an unattractive call.
