Showing posts with label Monochrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monochrome. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 January 2013

Festival of the Belly Button

Taken August 2012

It took me a long while to realise that an image that worked well in colour, would not necessarily convert well to black'n'white. For me, a monochrome image works if I incorporate light, or line, or perspective. Or all three, but that is getting greedy. Light is the trickiest of these to capture. I will leave that until later in the week. For starters, I want to show what I have learnt about line and perspective. I loved the post and rail fence, its ruggedness, its naturalness. But my approach was wrong. A fence like this requires perspective, or texture. I had neither. At the station I had line, perspective, AND light.

Taken February 2010
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Wrinkled between earth and sky


Depositing a brother at Mass, I meander over to the lookout for a chat with a local. Invariably about whales. And the pros and cons of country vs city living. The bush vs the big smoke. Only dog-walkers are out this early on a Sunday.


Staggering onto the dry sand, I bee-line for the hard-compact, sudsy surface, and ease northerly. On my right, the Pacific Ocean. Where there be whales. Breeching, and frollicking. Heading south. On my left, a gnawed coastline. Crumbling. Succumbing to the ravishes of time.

I make for the entrance to Cathie Creek. Dim in the distance. I drift, trapped by dangerous beauty.

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Monochrome Weekend - Overheads


Overhead electric cables at Helensburg Railway Station on the Illawarra line about 46kms south of Sydney.



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Sunday, 7 March 2010

Monochrome Weekend - Stepping into the unknown


Matthew Flinders was a remarkable explorer of the unknown great southern land for which he championed the name Australia. Standing outside the Mitchell Wing of the State Library in Macquarie Street, sextant in hand, this imposing statue of Flinders is a testament to an adventurous spirit who was dead at 40. Behind the statue, on a window-ledge, is a statue of Trim, his cat who sailed with him.

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Sunday, 31 January 2010

Monochrome Weekend - Coal Creek, Vic


Coal Creek is a recreated community on the outskirts of Korumburra, about 120 kms east of Melbourne. Recreating the life of a community that sprang up around the mines in the second half of the 19th century, it contains an unrestored steam engine, the Titus Griffiths, K169.


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Sunday, 24 January 2010

Monochrome Weekend - Gum tree


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I am sampling the joys of Melbourne - including a day at the tennis. I will be back at my desk on Thursday 28th January.

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Sunday, 27 December 2009

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Monochrome Weekend: listening together

Father & son listening to carols on the lawns of Vaucluse House last Sunday evening.

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Sunday, 13 December 2009

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Weekend Reflections: bending light


Once upon a time, in a French patisserie in Danks Street, there was a black glass table-top ...

Weekend Reflections is hosted by James at Newtown Daily Photo.