Category: Australian landscapes

It is as beautiful as it looks and very peaceful (Lysterfield Lake Park I mean) – at least during the week when there aren’t many people there. The weekends can get quite busy and noisy with music playing loudly, people yelling (happily) and laughing, ball games being played, the whir of mountain bike wheels as…

Back at Lysterfield again. This time afternoon and the water was amazingly still and glassy looking. It wasn’t until I was looking through my viewfinder though that I noticed the circle of clouds from the sky and water reflection. They lined up with the circular grid inside my camera. Amazing. Can you see the circle?

Even in a cobweb there is beauty, although I couldn’t quite capture the rainbow colours I saw when I was there. This was taken early morning too. And the jetty I’ve often taken photos of in the past was almost lost in the reflections in the lake that day.

You will have heard about the flooding at the park if you’ve been reading any or my blogs or at Facebook. I’m Secretary of the LysterfieldMTB club and so the park has a special interest to me, apart from being able to walk there and take photos. It does concern me that people ignore the…

I went out to Lysterfield recently on a beautiful crisp clear morning as the sun was rising and was suitably rewarded with beautiful scenery and a feeling of calmness. Only 10 mins from my home it’s a favourite place to visit for walkers, bird watchers (there is a bird hide there), mountain bikers and family…