Floral displays

Some of the flower and plant photos from my collection.

I found this creeper climbing over a friend's back garden fence and was struck by the contrast between the bright blue berries, red stems and green leaves.

I rescued this little chrysanthemum bush from the throw-away table at a local hardware store. What a sad, sorry little bush it was. It survived the trip home and is now thriving in my garden.

An unusual view of an Aloe plants. The photo looked rather ordinary in its original shades of green. But convert it to Black and White and it looks amazing.

Yes, I know there are a million photos of Frangipani flowers out there on the net but I added one more.

Tree bark can be really beautiful if you look at the right way.

Finally, a rather different way to look at leaves on a tree, with the afternoon sun shining through them. It brings out the colors and the delicate network of veins in the leaf.

Landscapes and seascapes

Just a few of the landscape photos from my collection. Some are recent and some have been in my files for a while waiting for a blog post.

The view from Busselton Jetty looking back towards shore. I didn't create this shot by adding all the different elements from other photos. This photo just happened. Maybe its a little cluttered but I liked the range of different elements; the yacht and the buildings on shore and the start of the jetty to the right. The long building is a restaurant. The row of blue buildings with white windows house the jetty ticket office and souvenier shop. The round tower is a waterslide at a funpark. The park is about to close. Kind of sad since its been there since I was a kid but its certainly looking ragged now. 

I guess I could have cropped this photo more but I liked the contrast of the wide blue ocean meeting the wide blue sky. The white yacht added a good interuption in all that blue-on-blue.

No, the sunrise didn't have all that purple and orange in it, or at least not that much. This is what happens when you play with photoshop a little too much. But I liked the effect so I kept it.

A view of some of the white-trunked gumtrees that line one of the main roads in Bunbury. Taken at night with their trunks illuminated by the orange-color of a nearby streetlight.

This photo was taken several years ago when I was out covering a story for the newspaper. I liked all the horizontal layers - water, earth, grass, forest, clouds and sky - in this photo. All of it broken by the clean vertical trunk of the lone tree.

A rather striking windvane that sits far out on the Busselton Jetty. I liked its image of a small boat racing before the big waves as it seeks the shelter of the bay.

Family portraits

While my brother and his 5 year old daughter were visiting this past Easter weekend my mother requested that I get her some family photos. Then she complains that I made her look terrible. Still working on the problem with the overly red/pink skin-tone. Maybe its just something about our family? By the way little brother, that shaved head makes you look like a real thug! Am going to have to do more work on the photo of my sister and niece, that one has rather a yellow tint now. More tinkering to do. That and give mum a cyber-facelift.

Girl and Dog on the beach

Going walking on the beach with my 5 year old niece and my mother's dog I couldn't resist taking my camera. My favorite photos of people are those when they have forgotten the camera is there and are relaxed and enjoying themselves. Kids are always good for these type of photos since they have a short attention span.

I got copies of these printed to give to mum and was annoyed to find that they came out very red/pink. I don't know if that was caused by the camera or my attempts at photoshopping. For these I was using a blue filter since it was near sunset and I've found that it can give photos a real blueish hue.