Yellow Pumpkin Flower with Radiating Spines
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Friday, 11 April 2008
Palm Trees and Moon - Sky Watch Friday
This is one of my older photos, taken in 2006 with the Kodak camera. I was experimenting with taking moon photos, and tried out this framing technique with the palm trees silhouetted against the twilight sky, and the fronds reaching from the top of the picture downwards to the moon. I think it turned out fairly well, although the moon is quite small due to the minute 3x zoom offered by the Kodak camera.
You can just see the colours of the setting sun reflecting off the top of the palm trees.
Update: Tom and other readers pointed out that you can actually see a face in this picture - look at the curve of the tree on the left for a nose, and the moon becomes an eye. Thanks Tom!
You can just see the colours of the setting sun reflecting off the top of the palm trees.
Update: Tom and other readers pointed out that you can actually see a face in this picture - look at the curve of the tree on the left for a nose, and the moon becomes an eye. Thanks Tom!
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Friday, 4 April 2008
Purple-red Clouds at Sunset - Sky Watch Friday
Deep purple and red Sunset looking over the city
Last Sky Watch Friday, just after I put my post up, I went out to listen to a presentation on the Australian Navy. When I was walking in the door I noticed this brilliant sunset lighting up the sky. I happened to have my camera with me, so I was able to snap a few shots. I didn't have a tripod with me and I used about 250mm lens so I had to bring up the ISO a bit to get a clear picture.
Purple clouds at sunset
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Friday, 28 March 2008
Moon behind a Tree - Sky Watch Friday
Full Moon behind a Tree (Eucalyptus)
Sky Watch Friday
Sky Watch Friday
For some reason, whenever it came around to Sky Watch Friday, I automatically thought of a day-time sky. It never occurred to me until now that a moon landscape is actually a "Sky Watch" photo as well! So, today I have this photo I took the other night of a full Moon behind my gum tree (see my other moon / tree silhouette). I find the layer of cloud interesting in this picture - it serves to split the picture into two parts horizontally, while the tree splits the picture vertically. Not exactly the rule of thirds - maybe more like the rule of fourths!
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
Dragonfly Insect - Wordless Wednesday
Dragonfly-like Insect clinging to a Eucalyptus leaf
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
Lacewing (nymphes myrmeleonides)
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Easter Sunday
Life
Sun shining through green tree leaves
Easter Sunday
Happy Easter!
Sun shining through green tree leaves
Easter Sunday
Happy Easter!
Today is Easter Sunday. Easter, also called Pascha, is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.. Many non-religious cultural elements have become part of the holiday, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike.
Easter Eggs are a popular traditional food eaten on Easter Sunday. The egg is a symbol of the Resurrection: while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it.
Easter is termed a moveable feast because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. Easter falls at some point between late March and late April each year, following the cycle of the moon. After several centuries of disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church that Easter is the first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.
Easter also refers to the season called Eastertide or the Easter Season, which lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost. So don't stop eating chocolate after one day and think the party's over - you've got over 5 weeks of celebration to go!
Friday, 21 March 2008
The Cross - Good Friday (Sky Watch)
The Cross
Good Friday
Sky Watch Friday
Good Friday
Sky Watch Friday
Today is Good Friday. Good Friday, also called Holy Friday or Great Friday, is the Friday before Easter (Easter always falls on a Sunday). It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus at Calvary. In many English speaking countries, hot cross buns are eaten on Good Friday, with the cross standing as a symbol of the crucifixion. This is the first day of the Easter Triduum, which begins on Holy Thursday night and ends on the evening of Easter Sunday.Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Green Grass waving in the Breeze - Wordless Wednesday
Grass and Seed Heads waving in the breeze
Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday
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