Decisions, decisions

This is the straight-out-of-camera version of yesterday's photograph.

My contribution to the Your Sunday Best community.

Chanelling Harold Cazneaux

Many of you will realise that not everything converts to black and white successfully. Finding a suitable image this week was a challenge. And I am not sure I rose to meet that challenge.

So, a pigeon pair. Today the black and white, cropped version. Tomorrow, the straight-from-the-camera version.

This is my contribution to the Weekend in Black and White community.

This is my contribution to the Weekend Reflections community.

The heart and soul of my city

So near and yet so far, the city appears to ride at anchor, soundlessly, on this magnificent drowned valley.

This is Little Sirius Cove in Mosman, adjacent to Taronga Park Zoo. Come with me on this walkway around a fascinating headland redolent with history. It is so named because this is where HMAS Sirius, the lead ship for the First Fleet, was careened in 1791.