Ben Cooke’s elementography

The deliciously Western Australia Kangaroo Paw commands the centre of attention in a sea of planted colour in one of the Kings Park’s wildflower gardens.

Reeds from around the ‘water gardens’ in Kings Park exude a glorious mix of spotted patterns and straw colouring.

One of the beautiful things about Kings Park is the wide open spaces nestled in the 400+ hectares of land.  On the fringes of many of the parks they have some excellent places to sit and wile away an afternoon.  There’s also usually some nice artwork to boot.

A couple of smaller boabs sit high on on the Mount Eliza escarpment looking south towards South Perth and Melville Water.  They are surrounding the larger boab transfered to Kings Park late last year.

A juvenile seagull hunkers down to begin a preening regime on the shoreline of Lake Monger.  Many young seagulls are following their parents around this time of the year learning how to trick your mate out of a chip and the best angle of inclination with which to dive bomb a car windscreen.  They make such a quiet squeak; quite in contrast to their older, surlier brethren.

A corella steels itself to land into a willow tree to join his friends late in the afternoon on the shores of Lake Monger.  The birds are truly ‘in season’ around the lake at the moment and put on a fantastic show.  A few days ago some friends and I were at the lake for a a barbeque and one bird was on the ground playing with a stick and rolling around as a dog would.  Great fun to watch!

While the cream of the crop comes to this site, the ‘still pretty good’ images from this Lake Monger photo shoot have been posted up on my other blog.  I like to create a back story to each of the series where possible and also to put together a more comprehensive selection of images , whereas this site generally focuses on a single image a day.

The absolute best images will for now remain site unseen until they’re included in some of the upcoming ‘series’ which will be put on this site.

Not quite the ‘chorus of corellas‘ that Darren Hanlon experienced in Manilla, NSW, but there was still a partially deafening cacophany of birds playing and nesting in trees on the shores of Lake Monger.  The birds seem to have also taken up home in a tree about 100 metres from my house which is equal parts wonderful and squawking!

A study for a series I have in mind focusing on textures, both natural and man made.  This one comes from one of the many beautiful trees on the shore of Lake Monger, just north of the Perth CBD.

A single detached Plane Tree leaf is held aloft on the shores of Lake Monger in late afternoon sun.

Welcome to the new look for elementography.com.  I hope you like what you find.

After over a year’s hiatus at this site, I finally feel I have something that I wish to contribute as well as feeling at a point where I wish to now accelerate my overall photographic pursuits.  There will be more details and news on this site as these come to fruition, but for now I will be at the very minimum posting a photo a day to this site when it is practical (i.e. I’m actually within cooee of a computer!)

I’ve spent the past seven years of my life forging what I feel is my style and with that in mind I hope to use the next few in fostering and building on that.  This site will hopefully document that growth and change as much as the old site documented the formation.

In the meantime, sit back and enjoy the daily photo, subscribe to the feeds and leave a comment every now and then if you like an image.

As always, general news will continue on my more wordly blog.