Musings on life and times
This week we were challenged by The Daily Post to provide a silhouette. My effort uses local trees, which have, I confess, appeared in earlier posts against sunsets and the glow of distant bushfires. For this challenge, the trees are silhouetted against an interesting, late winter, cloud formation.
Dateline: Monday 28th July, 2014, 5:20 pm AEST. Location : Suburban Sydney
My wife called me to come and look at the interesting sunset that was forming, enhanced by a somewhat unusual cloud formation. I picked up a camera and headed for the deck, our best vantage point.
Realising that it was really quite special, I then fetched a camera with a zoom lens, and achieved these results, just a couple of minutes later.
By 7:30 pm, photos captured all over Sydney had appeared on Facebook, including post by two of my friends. Two photos were even shown on the ABC TV News as part of the weather segment.
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.
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
