Photography Anonymous: October 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Promised to post Australian Wildflowers before the end of Spring. Unfortunately, there was only one serious wildflower expedition walked on the East Coast of Sydney, before most of the spring blooms were spent and it was a blinding bright day (high contrast, whitened out details). One other search at the end of October, was sadly too late and too dark (grainy, expired blooms). However, soon Wednesday Wildflower posts, and perhaps Weekend Wildflower posts will appear. To be honest, I'm embarrassed about the quality of a lot of the photos, so will be posting them fast as possible. All photographed within three hours, a very small selection of plants and their environment.

Australian plants are not 'pretty' or 'soft'. Flowers are mostly surrounded by prickly or sharp looking foliage and even though ancient, have a modern edge to their appearance. The continent of Australia has a unique depth of flora and fauna, not found anywhere else in the world. Please don't ask for the plants' names, there was a time I could answer but other interests have pushed that information into a blocked area of my brain; THIS website is a good one covering plants from the area.

Posts will be arranged by either colour, shape or feel depending on my mood. There will be an odd image from an old post thrown in and an odd plant originally from outside of Sydney, plus there are many South African plants that have been claimed as our own so one might appear.

I can tell you the above images are Kangaroo Paws suited for posting on my creepy birthday. Enjoy!