Yes – I enjoy these challenges. This week’s photo challenge – Orange – did present quite a challenge, but I found photos with orange, and include subjects that are reasonably varied.

We have flowers:
inside an orange hibiscus type and a rose whose gold has intensified towards orange with sunset’s lowering light:

and a native West Australian bottlebrush type flower which I call ‘the orange puffball’:

Grevillea – here you see the orange within all the other colours:

and fish! Not sure whether they are koi or carp – either way they were large and colourful:

Sunset on a wall turns it gold and orange

orange within the flaring colours of clouds at sunset:

The smokey sky from bushfires turns orange as the sun lowers (the sun later became a great crimson globe):

The setting moon a couple of months ago, orange as it dipped into the layers of dust on a hot summer’s night:

a butterfly on an almost orange wall:

Sacred ibis flying home at sunset, light turning their wings orange against a sky with its own tinge of orange down near the horizon:

a friend’s marmalade striped young cat:

and my own Fattee Cattee – sunset light lighting her fur kinda orange. OK – I’m stretching 😀

I hope you enjoyed my response to this week’s challenge and I look forward to seeing yours 🙂

The 2nd Sunset after Clouds in MtLawleyShire: 25 Feb

Mar3

On the Tuesday, with the air heavy with cloud and the threat of storm – although nothing happened in the way of rain or storm, the sunset was rather beautiful.

It started with a hint of gold washing a sky of almost tropical-seeming clouds, although to the south-east, it was remnants of storm cloud that intersected the hot blue:

Then the sun sank below the clouds and suffused everything with intense gold:

Clouds in the distant east began to take on that golden hue:

And the sun sinks through the dan of golden cloud:

From a distance, you can see the rays of light shooting out across the blue to touch the serpentine cloud above:

and then it is below the horizon and the gold deepens into rose:

The rays of light slice into the clouds creating ethereal shadow and light:

the cloud darkens, stripes of gold slowly subsumed into a deepening rose:

with an underneath of rich gold:

the clouds too lose gold and glow a darkening pink laced with shadow:

the red diminishes into grey and darkness:

leaving the sky clear for the moon:

I hope you enjoyed this sunset. There is another sunset to come, but not from storm clouds this time. And this week, I am going to Matilda Bay, so hopefully, ravens and other birds.

🙂

Walking with flowers in MtLawleyShire

Mar2

A clutch of flowers gathered over a week or so, though this first isn’t a flower. I’ve been trying for ages to catch the way this crystal hanging in my courtyard catches the light and I’ve almost got it with this.

More ‘light catching’ – sunlight turning leaves emerald beyond a garden gate

a bee in sunflower-like flowers (it begins with a ‘d’ but I can’t remember the name of the flower except that they’re not sunflowers)

roses – my favourite is this one:

frangipani 🙂

light tangled in grass seed heads:

two types of Grevillea – brush and lower ground cover type:

bottlebrush – that delicate pink and a deeper shade:

coral blossom:

the glorious colour of this geranium-type flower:

Honeysuckle, scented even if a little bedraggled:

Petunias in the garden, and looking deep into their hearts – as a friend said: a bee’s eye view 🙂

And no, she’s not a flower, but she is in the garden – amongst the lemon grass 🙂

I hope you enjoyed these flowers.

Another sunset soon…

Fattee Cattee and Sunset after clouds in MtLawleyShire: Feb 24

Mar2

“What you doing, Mum?”

I’m not your mother, but there will be a glorious sunset after all those stunning clouds. I’m going to walk around and take photos. Look at how the clouds are scattered and clumped across the sky!

“Noooooo! Not yet *another* MtLawleyshire sunset!”

Yes – and look! Birds! Too far away to see them properly, but can you hear them? They’re probably corellas, and they look like specks of black dust across a golden sheet:

& the golden sky! It’s so pretty.

And now – look – you can see the sun sinking into the clouds:

“Can I watch?”

Of course you can. See how it goes down through the clouds, the clouds turned into golden stitching over the darker golden sky behind:

and then it’s gone

“And what are these clouds doing?”

They are growing luminous

becoming great veils trapping and then conducting gold through the coming darkness

“But what’s happening down there?”

Oh! Well spotted, darling cat – sweeps of colour defying the darkness spreading from the east

And look – those luminous veils are becoming something else:

“And down there?”

“Gold spreads its light. So beautiful – swathes and crinkles of golds washing across the sky, leaving that tiny space of a pale almost green-blue down at the horizon. But it begins to fade:

“Down there still looks amazing.”

It does indeed – east echoing the flaring golden fire of the west:

But the west – the deeper blue gown of coming night edged with the intricate gold of persisting light:

Softening now, gold intensifying and deepening into great cushions of rich colour:

And that marvellous cloud is dissipating as the deep blue velvet of night seeps in

and in the east, the colour is fading

Back towards the west – last moment of brilliance

and it fades into crimson and the grey of clouded evening

“Yeah, OK – it was a good sunset”

I hope, like Fattee, you enjoyed this sunset 🙂

Clouds over MtLawleyShire – 25th Feb

Mar1

Last week there were clouds and storm – well, for everywhere but Perth there was storm, but at least we got the clouds. And they were fantastic, massive this, , almost making up for the lack of any rain or cool because both days have been hot and humid. Most unpleasant.

These first 3, with their lines of mammutus clouds, are taken over Beaufort Street:

Then back home and out with the camera to catch massive thunderheads – cumulus piling up in the east:

To the southeast were all sorts of clouds – these were taken about 15 minutes apart. I’ve greatly enhanced the contrast to bring out the different shapes and types of clouds. Despite the colours, it was well before sunset: