WPC : Shades of Grey

This week’s challenge asks us to “be a tour guide in your local area”!

Flying into Sydney is always spectacular because of the harbour. Up to the middle of the last century, it was also notable for its predominant red terracotta tiled roofs. The building fashion of the 1950-1960 period was houses built of red texture bricks. Another fashion, a bit later, was that mission brown was used everywhere, for trim, guttering and the like.

Now, everyone seems to want to go grey! In this area, perfectly functional houses built in the 1950-1965 period, are being replaced with bigger homes. Grey rendered walls, grey trim, grey fences. You name it, grey everywhere! At least it’s not mission brown!

These properties were all photographed within a 1 kilometre radius of a northern Sydney suburb, around 18km from the CBD.

An entry in the weekly photo challenge “Tour guide”.  This post is also dedicated to Yvette, who can be found at priorhouse.

WPC : Weathered

After a couple of scorching 42C (107.6F) degree days with hot north-westerly winds, our gardens have a weathered look. Even the normally tough-as-nails sasanqua’s new growth took a thorough scorching.

for the Weekly Photo Challenge, Weathered

WPC : 2017 Favourites

Fortunately, this challenge offers the use of different reasons for selecting our favourites from 2017.

Emotional pull – walking around Borough Market, London, the scene of a terror attack just three weeks later.

Memorable experience 1 a week in Saint Petersburg, with my daughter and our fabulous guide, Elena, seeing many highlights of the city that are off the regular tourist trail. Sometimes cold, sometimes wet, worth every minute.

Memorable experience 2 – East Sussex with family: visiting Batemans, the home of Rudyard Kipling, Sheffield Park and its beautiful gardens, and the white cliffs of the coastline.

Photographic effects – Experimenting, and modestly claiming some success!

Gardens – regular visitors would be disappointed if some Aussie gardens missed the “Favourites” list.

Inspired by The Weekly Photo Challenge set by Ben Huberman

Wishing all my blogging friends a Merry Christmas, and a Safe and Prosperous New Year.