Poking around in the backyard with my macro lens yields all manner of weird and wonderful landscape.  This off a rather large succulent that’s currently flowering up a storm.

Toogoom, QLD.

Toogoom, QLD.

The earth’s shadow is rent on a pink dusk sky above the Beelbi Creek at low tide.

Toogoom, QLD.

Toogoom, where I spent a lot of my last week and a bit, is still a sleepy little coastal hamlet where dropping a line is the highest priority.  That said, the every encroaching ‘seachange’ is but a housing estate away.

And with that, I have returned!  With a bit of luck, it will be for a while too.

The above image is of (part of) the beautiful Hotel Shamrock in Bendigo.  The architecture of this building is exquisite, right down the the coloured tiles beneath the window sills.  It’s great to see a country town maintaining a pub like this and not to see it adorned with garish large modern billboard advertising for mid strength beers.

Another taste of the Bendigo streetscape.
Alas I’m going to be sans intertrons for the next week and a bit as I take a bit of a break.  I’ll be back to continue the post a day quest from the first week in May.

A recent trip to Bendigo afforded the opportunity to wander the streets, albeit briefly, and marvel at some of the majestic gold rush period architecture.  The town hall, hidden back from the main street, is indeed one.

There’ something wonderfully simplistic about ‘dashboard photography’.  The premise is that as dusk approaches, you crank up the F stop and increase the exposure time to let in a fair bit of light.  This, coupled with your forward velocity at 30.58ms-1 coupled with the undefined velocity of vehicles heading towards you lends itself not only to a fairly interesting picture, but one which is truly unique as it would be nigh on impossible to replicate.

Simple, sure, but simplicity does not in anyway dictate beauty.

I’d also not recommend you to try this at home while driving…

Albany Hwy.