I’ve missed a couple of days. I had preposted up to that point but didn’t get time to do more posts. Almost two weeks ago my husband had a serious mountain biking accident that required the SES and Ambos to trek a good half kilometre or so into bushland to retrieve him in a stretcher…
More at Alfred Nicholas Gardens
The first is of the Boathouse on the lake – probably one of the most photographed buildings in the Dandenong Ranges. The other is of my husband enjoying the scenery. He’d not been to these gardens before. Just 24 hours later he was involved in a serious mtb accident and is now in hospital recuperating….
The essence of Autumn
I love the colours in this shot. Such a display of what Autumn is about – colour and mess! Here at home our own trees are changing colour and look beautiful but on the ground there is such a mess to clean up! This photo was taken at the Alfred Nicholas gardens and not long…
A visit to Alfred Nicholas Gardens
On Anzac Day my husband and I visited a number of scenic spots in the beautiful Dandenong National Ranges. One of those places was the Alfred Nicholas Gardens just as the sun was rising over the hill – around 8.30 in the morning. So I thought you might like to see the beauty of the…
Photography isn't just about taking photos
At least it isn’t for me. It was to start with but somewhere along the line I discovered other things. Recently at the Australian Photography Forum we were discussing a photo that one of the members had taken of a blue banded bee. I was able to identify the bee and give some information about…
As the sun rises
We drove home through the country, rather than through Adelaide, and saw fog as the sun was rising. Shortly after it cleared as we neared Palmer and we stopped at a lookout to get this view. It’s a long trip between our home and where we stayed – 870kms and 10.5 hours of driving, but…
Monarch and friend
While we were wandering around on Mengler’s Hill in South Australia my husband and I spied a rather large Wanderer or Monarch Butterfly. So I followed it around and got a few shots, only to find this one had a companion in it, once I viewed it on the computer screen.
Pizza and wine
The flames in the background is my brother-in-laws pizza oven and the wine in front from the winery across the road from their place. It was a lovely evening. The photo is more grainy than I would have liked but was taken in quite bad light and I didn’t want to use a flash to…
Miner's Dwelling
Seen in Burra these are early Miner’s dwellings in one of the main streets of Burra.
Yellow-tailed Cockatoo
Not long before we went away we had a visit by three Yellow-tailed Cockatoos. I couldn’t get any shots of them all together so had to settle for just the one. I believe this one is a female. They make quite an unusual grating type of sound when in a tree eating nuts and berries. …
Photographer's magazine
I thought I’d start writing about things that I learn from or get inspired by on a weekly basis. I collect a huge number of reading materials, both in printed format and online, but it wasn’t till a recent holiday that I was able to catch up with some of that reading. Life gets in…
Anzac Day
Today is Anzac Day in Australia – ANZAC being short for Australia New Zealand Army Corps. Probably one of the most important days in Australia’s calendar. You can read more about it here. For the first time Graham and I attended an Anzac Day Memorial Dawn Service. There were tens of thousands of people doing…