Category Archives: Australian
Sunset over the first basin…
A very dramatic sunset over the first basin, Cataract gorge, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Also posted in Astrophotography, Trees, Urban Landscape
Tagged first basin, Launceston, Sunset, Tasmania
Solar panels in Kings Medows…
The owner of Tasmanian Chainsaws and Mowers in Launceston has a lot of common sense and solar panels. With the main power link to the mainland broken solar will be helping out Tas Hydro and all Tasmanians in times of disruption.
Western Australia now has the notoriety of being in the position where more Roof Top Solar power is generated than comes from power generating stations! As a result the WA government is loosing revenue and guess what, Barnett the premier doesn’t like it, so home owners are actually being penalised for having RTS. Further Barnett the silly has allowed Synergy the states power company to re-write the regulations to actively discourage folks from using RTS.
A good friend of mine has 2.4 Kw on his roof and wants increase to 5kw but he is not allowed because his new panels will be a different COLOUR from the originals. Now how stupid is that! This is how far petty pea brained politicians will go to make common sense installation of alternate energy difficult in the sad state of W.A. Its not what one would call a liberal attitude. Protection of coal royalties and generators aside Barnetts actions to discourage roof top solar is just not in the interest of Western Australians or any other Australian for that matter…
Christmas Decorations in Launceston…
Quite the oddest of Christmas decorations. Perhaps the message is three unwise women…
Tagged Balloons, Black Bodies, Launceston, St John Street
Verandah number 23, the bull nose…
Also posted in Abstract, Architecture, Brutalism, Street Photography
Corrugated verandah number 23…
Living in a place where every other house has a corrugated steel verandah was a revelation thirty years ago I only had to look up and there was another wonderful abstract graphic. Depending on the age of the building to a greater extent determined the amount of shadow between the corrugations. Zincalum grays with age so the older the steel the less the three dimensionality and the more subtle the pattern. These recreations are square because I photographed them with a very old Yashica Mat that rendered a 6cm x 6cm negative so when translated photos to sketches and ultimately to Freehand and eventually Photoshop I maintained the square format. But the histrionics of the use of the square goes back much further than that. Using a square format camera from boyhood sort of formatted my visual perception of rightness. Square was my normal and it seems to be a common trait in humans that normal feels comfortable so I just kept on using it! Sadly, I didn’t graduate to a Hasellblad
Also posted in Abstract, Architecture
Tagged Corrugated, Steel
Hyalosperma cotula, the smallest of the everlastings…
Olympus EM-5 OMD ƒ11 1/5s ISO 200 Lumix 12-42 pancake zoom
There are about a half a dozen species of everlasting daisy like flowers in Western Australia this is the smallest at about 12 – 18mm in diameter. Its a real pleasure to to see thousands of these delicate little flowers growing out of little more than gravel.
Also posted in Flora
Tagged Asteraceae, Everlastings, Hyalosperma cotula
