Month: June 2014

Weekly Photo Challenge : Contrast

As the moon was waning last week, I noticed it was still quite high in the sky at around 8:00 am. Inspired by others’ recent photos of sunrises, sunsets and moonscapes, I had a go at capturing it. For this photo challenge, I submit a photo of the moon, to which I have applied contrasting effects electronically, including black & white. 

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The photo itself, taken with a 215mm focal length lens and 1.5x digital zoom, exhibits significant contrast to what is seen with the naked eye, as below [lens focal length 4.3mm].

For this week’s challenge, we were given wide scope to share a photo showing contrast by Michele W at The Daily Post

Weekly Photo Challenge : Between

This Japanese Maple is surely evidence that it thinks we are between seasons. Although it is now officially winter (24th June), many of the leaves are bright autumnal red, while there are also many green leaves yet to turn. That’s Sydney for you!

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I hasten to add that most of the other deciduous trees in our neighbourhood lost their leaves during April and May as one would expect.

This is a belated response to the Weekly Photo Challenge set by  Danielle Hark at The Daily Post

Weekly Photo Challenge : Extra, Extra (II)

I was taking photos of the sunset, affected by smoke from bushfires 100 km to the west of us. I did not see the bird coming! I have used a version of this photo before in an earlier post, but it so neatly fits this theme, I feel compelled to use it again.

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This is in response to the weekly photo challenge, “share a photo that has a little something extra: an unexpected visitor, or a tranquil landscape with a splash of colour.” Other entries for this week’s challenge can be found here.