Toodyay in the rain
The Freemasons hotel, the main street of Toodyay in the rain
Photography from Western Australia and beyond
The Freemasons hotel, the main street of Toodyay in the rain
At this years royal show there was a heritage section, and part of it was a group of blacksmiths. It brought back some memories of metalwork at school and seeing how many of the old tools I could remember taken using my old manual 50mm f1.7 lens
The remains of the Victoria plains agricultural hall in a wheat field on the side of the Great Northern highway near New Norcia a 3 photo stitch done in Microsoft ice
Noble falls after a bit of rain. tried the slow shutter speed method with my 300mm lens and no tripod, used a convenient rock instead and the 2 second shutter delay
A white tailed black cockatoo feasting on a firewood banksia cone whilst sitting on my bull banksia in Winter I counted about 20 of them going through my trees, pruning as they went. I picked up some banksia flowers they snipped off and put them in a vase They do a a fair amount of …
An old kerosene lamp, hanging on the side of an old truck. Part of the display at the WA car museum in Whiteman Park converted to grey using pseudogrey, then toned using curves
Dried everlasting flowers, living (hmm ok they are dead I guess) upto their name. Picked around 6 to 8 years ago from my garden
Doing a practice run through Bell’s rapids getting ready for the Avon descent, in mid Winter more photos in my gallery Black and white weekend
a studious gorilla at Philadelphia zoo Unique Exposures challenge Black and white weekend Camera-Critters
Australasian Darter or snake neck bird Anhinga novaehollandiae on the banks of the Swan river drying out its wings Unique Exposures challenge Black and white weekend
The Council of Motoring Clubs (CMC) of Western Australia and Auto one Classic car show at mussel pool Whiteman park a brilliant free event for car enthusiasts more here Unique Exposures challenge</a Sepia scenes
Great White Egret Black and white weekend
I like macro photography, and so far I have had to make do without a macro lens. resorting to dioptre lenses, reversing one lens onto the front of another, or more recently using a 2x converter with the glass removed. One day I will get a proper macro, I hope, a Pentax 100mm macro lens, …
one of the sculptures at Burswood sculpture park Willem de Vlamingh, at a little bigger than life size desaturated in GIMP taken on my around the bridges bike ride