Jacaranda and a glass canopy…
2012.01.12
Canon S70 f8 1/180s ISO100
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Light woodland…
2011.12.26
Leica M9 f11 1/250s ISO160 Voigtlander 35mm f1.4
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Death Disco…
2011.12.07
Leica M9 f4.9 1/1500s ISO320 Voigtlander 50mm f1.5
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Old and not so old
2011.12.04
Leica M9 f9.5 1/1000s ISO320 Voigtlander 50mm f1.5
How things change, when I first arrived in Perth this was a Victorian pile was known as the Palace hotel. It was built in the days of the first gold rush and over the years develop something reputation. By the 1980′s it was a bit run down and only slightly residential… The rooms were not expensive and there was a topless bar in the basement. While wondering through the foyer one was likely to be propositioned, need I say more. A few years later the site was purchased and proposals of development by Alan Bond of Americas Cup fame flowed thick and fast. At one point the whole site was to be levelled but a ‘friends’ pressure group negotiated a torturous path of preservation and the result we have today is thanks to their efforts, a worthwhile balanced combination of old and new.
Western Australia generally has a terrible record of preservation of its past architectural glories, at one point W.A. had a wonderful collection of real 1930′s Art deco buildings but sadly some of the best have fallen to the wreckers ball. On the other hand we have real estate agents who will revel in a single architectural detail and proclaim a whole house to be ‘a fine house in the art deco style’ even though it might be a bungalow have been built in the 50′s…
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City Gum tree…
2011.11.30
Leica M9 f6.7 1/750s ISO320 Voigtlander 50mm f1.5
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Blue Spike Milkwort…
2011.11.06
Canon 5D f5.6 1/50s ISO160 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
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Fringe Lily…
2011.10.31
Canon 5D f11 1/60s ISO320 EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
It is a debatable point but one of my observations is that most Western Australian flowers tend to be quite small even the huge Banksia flowers are not really a single flower but many hundreds rolled into one. Unlike many of the really well known large colouful splashy varieties that originate from places like China, roses, peonies and rhododendrons or central Asia, tulips daffodils and gladioli or the hundreds that emanate from north central and south America. We have a few notable exceptions several wonderful native Hibiscus (Alyogyne huegelii) which yours truly can’t grow for toffee and then there are the Kangaroo paws, there are a few more but generally after that most people are scratching their heads… What we don’t have as splashy single flowers we make up for in the sheer number of varieties and the volume in which they come. South Western Australia in spring is a remarkable place. The above is one of three varieties of fringe lilies that grow in the forests around my home – Thysanotus scaber
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