Moon Rise over MtLawleyShire

27 January 2013.   A golden moon rise:

        

 

 

 

Risen

Inside? Sulky puss 🙂

Out of MtLawleyShire and back for Sunset: river, trees and birds

These are from a trop to Matilda Bay and back again, a quick walk around the streets, then a snatch of sunset and the moon.

First – birds: a quickly snatched shot of a wattled honeyeater in the fully leafed flame tree – it’s not on the right setting, but was this bird going to wait?  Uh uh.

The others are the ubiquitious seagull, but such clear shots against the river, including wind-ruffled feathers.  And they are attractive birds – in appearance.  Habits? Not so much – & getting aggressive too.

   

Left from a magpie lark, I think.

the wonderfully knobbly trunk of a plane tree, and the massive trunk of a moreton bay on the bank of the river.

  

Back in MtLawleyShire – this beautiful tree is in someone’s backyard.  Envy 🙂

I don’t normally like these, but the way the red caught the sun was stunning.  I almost caught it.

Dunno what this is either, but it’s pretty.

Early moon.

ah – sunset – snatches of golden sky

 

from a  distance, the colour is small and slight in a sea of infinite blue

closer the colour is more vibrant, deeper

 

& it really is the middle of suburbia – inner city suburbia at that.  This one looks like it’s out in the middle of nowhere.  Well, I suppose it is Perth…

a hint of rays

 

the moon partly obscured by clouds tinted by sunset

the sky darkens and I alter the settings on the cameraL moon waxing towards full:

 

The real distance of it

I like this one 🙂

but I like this one too 🙂  The second of these the camera was totally on the wrong setting so she comes out as a glamour-Plush 🙂

 

I hope you enjoyed my little afternoon.

More soon

🙂

 

 

 

Moon over MtLawleyShire: more pictorial adventures

More adventures with my little camera.  Last night, I took photos of the moon last night & included them in the post on a sunset last week.

I have just taken photos of the moon tonight & this time, I have noted the settings and the best is this one:  Manual setting:

Auto setting.  The worst of them

enhanced colour – interesting but not quite right.

Super vivid isn’t bad:

ISO 100 – pretty good.

Portrait setting is surprising:

should be brave more often: Manual setting is the best though portrait setting surprised me.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

I almost forgot about this Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond, then when I remembered, I wasn’t sure whether I had anything that would fit the idea of Beyond that I hadn’t already posted.

Well, I’ve found a few photos, and I’m still not sure whether I’m correctly interpreting it, but here goes –

Beyond the city buildings, clouds give a more true perspective and beyond the clouds – an infinitude of sky:

       

Beyond the stark quality of white sharp building and dark leaves, the deepness of sky & hint of morning cloud:

Beyond suburbia, looking east: massed clouds against an evening sky:

 

without these clouds falling into the deep coloured darkness of the sunset beyond the trees, the pic would have no particular perspective:

Coming from beyond the visible:

 

Beyond day, beyond open sunset, the closing down of night with remaining colours beyond the tree/suburbia line:

I’ve posted some shots from this series before, but not these 2. I could call them ‘beyond hope’ – a shot of virga lit by sunset with the pale evening sky beyond.

 

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Another MtLawleyshire Sunset

This is during the last week, but for the last couple of days, I have either been working or the sky has been utterly clear – like last night, although I managed to get this shot of the moon.  It’s heavily cropped, so the sky is a bit grainy, but I am very happy with the moon itself:

As I was trying out the new camera settings, here are all the photos I took with the different settings:

If only I could remember what the settings were!  There were a couple of others but I am ashamed to say I MOVED!  Oh dear!!

Now, onto that neglected sunset – well almost.  First, a white cockatoo flying above sunset & a bottlebrush flower

 

Fellow sunset watcher: a singing honeyeater

Now – MtLawleyshire’s sunset: it started gold, almost benign:

 

 

As the sun sank, clouds whisped in & the silhouettes and light made the shots look like stills from a horror film:

 

It was also the light itself contributing to that sense of something inimical:

    

 

a close-up of those golden swirls:

The more distant view:

 

These are more ‘Turneresque’ in feel:

 

The last of it, with the sky darkening:

No – not a sunset, but my fluffy gorgeous girl coming down to see what I am doing:

& finally – do you remember the rose the lovely Italian lady gave me?  Here are inside shots of the rose in a vase on my desk.  Me playing with the flash & settings:

 

Just a beautiful rose, and the perfume was divine.

I hope you enjoyed this sunset & roses – & moon!

Keira 🙂

 

A sunset of clouds over MtLawleyshire

It was a hot day of storms that never happened, of rain that didn’t occur and of an overall greyness.  At sunset time, I noticed the cloud cover was thinning, so I went out, curious as to whether there would be anything worth photographing.

Well!  The clouds were stunning.  So – Sunset brought to you by Clouds.

 

 

 

 

 

One of the delights about sunsetty photo taking is my neighbourhood has become so intrigued by my presence on those evenings I’m not working that they come out to 1. find out what I’m doing & 2. chat.  One old Italian lady chats away and last night, as I took photos of her gorgeous roses (only this one turned out), gave me 2 beautiful ones which now sit on my desk.

 

 

a flight of sacred ibis I was luck to catch.  (I missed the sparrowhawks – 3 of them – because I was too busy watching them!)

When sunsetty colour finally happened, it looked like brush strokes

 

Virga above my very oven street

And it was supposed to storm & rain over Perth last night & we hardly got any rain & there were no storms.  We have the same forecast today, but the sky is clear.

Sigh.  At least it hasn’t been as hot as over Christmas/New Year – in Perth, at least.  In the centre & the east, from the tip of the Cape down to Tasmania, breaking temperature records & up in flames?  Welcome to global warming!

Hope you enjoyed these clouds 🙂

 

Saturday sunset over MtLawleyshire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

Trees and some flowers in MtLawleyShire

I went for a walk today, down to Hyde Park.  It is a mess, and the water levels are so low, which, considering the heat we’ve been having is not surprising, even though we have had some rain.  I’m still trying to get the hang of the new camera, so many of these trees are those I have photographed before, but not all of them turned out.  Something to do with – I think – ISO or something…sigh.  I will sort it out, eventually.  But in the meantime…

It was a very windy afternoon, so I wasn’t able to take as many flower photos as I wanted, but I was successful with some.

I don’t know what the 1st one is, the next is a hibiscus.

 

& I have no idea what these are, but the colour is amazing!

 

& these are like pieces of sun fallen into a street side flower garden:

 

A Jacaranda with some flowers still:

Then into Hyde Park.  This Morten Bay stands like a sentry

The path is sun-drenched, casting all in tones of shadow and light:

 

 

Plane Trees:

 

Jacaranda and details of a Morten Bay fig:

 

another fig and this other tree of massivity:

 

Details of a massive Morten Bay on the edge of the park:

 

The whole tree (almost):

various trees from the walk home:

 

 

& this: sunsetty light on a young Jacaranda

I hope to walk tomorrow as well, so maybe there will be another post soon.

I hope you enjoyed these few flowers & trees.

 

mtlawleyshire sunsetty photos

The evening of the wet morning in the city – the clouds were clearing, so I wasn’t sure what kind of a sunset it would be.

It was filled with swirling clouds and not much light, as though the heat pressed all the colour out.  The heavy clouds lingering in the west depleted colour, asphyxiated brilliance, but the clouds were fascinating in their chaotic patterns.

First – a  fellow sunset watcher: a singing honey eater on the wires

sunset was filled with colour smeared clouds:

 

 

 

the clouds themselves were wonderful – such shapes and patterns

 

 

The last glow of reddening light was almost smothered in the grey of heavy cloud, somehow intensifying the sense of thick heat, trapped by oncoming night:

 

the colours suggest malevolence:

     

 

From a distance there is empty sky above the horizon, but the heat remains

I hope you enjoyed these photos 🙂

Out of MtLawleyShire: Early morning in the city

Monday morning, Jan 7.  Up very early – it was too hot to sleep anyway – and just as I stepped out to catch the bu? Thunder & rain.  The thunder went, the rain didn’t.  It was already over 30 degrees and raining.  It wasn’t cool in the slightest.  It was like being in the tropics!  Much as I love rain, this was a little disappointing – no photos of the flowers in the city orchard this morning!  Would I be able to take any photos at all?

When I stepped out of the air-conditioned bus in the centre of the city, it was like stepping into a hot, dripping wet blanket.  YUCK!

But – there were photos to be taken.

These tall buildings on the corner of William & Hay streets leaned together under the heavy skies like conspirators, and their customary proud gleam is dulled in the heavy light of rainy early morning

 

I risked getting wet – & worse, my new camera getting wet – to get this shot:

As I walked down Hay Street Mall, I noticed things I’d never noticed before.  Many, because of the rain, I couldn’t photograph, but these 2 I could: an artfully painted wall at the entrance to an otherwise dingy alley, and a detail on the wall of Piccadilly Arcade.

 

The view down to the end of William Street – which has lost its beauty because of the unpopular work to remove open space from the river front and add more corporate high-rise – is silenced by rain and filled with reflections on the road rather than the buildings.

I found a cafe that was open (my normal cafe is closed until the end of January) in Hay Street Mall.  I tried to capture the wet reflections and the rain.  The green of the leaves is intensified – washed free of the fust over the last weeks of very hot days.

 

& as I took photos of corners saw something I hadn’t noticed before: a remnant of older architecture:

 

looking east up Hay Street is all quiet reflecting roads and grey skies and looking down Barrack Street to the river and the ‘Bell Tower’ is just greyness, except for the washed green of leaves.

 

Then it was time to head for the college.  I played some: a reflection in a shop window: mask over the building across the road.  It didn’t really work as the building is too blurred, but it intrigued me nonetheless.

 

 

& this building, normally so stark and white against the sky, is as grey as the sky, it lines not as stark.

It was a strange morning, so hot, so humid, and this was Monday.  I am posting on Wednesday, and it only began to cool down last night.  We are in for a horrendous summer.  As I drove past Hyde Park yesterday afternoon, I saw that one of the ponds is almost completely empty of water.

Global warming is going to have the most heartbreaking effects.