Posted on March 22, 2017
This well-weathered cartwheel was spotted in the grounds of a hotel in the wine country of New South Wales:

Tuesdays of Texture
Category: Texture Tagged: Australia, Texture, TuesdaysofTexture, weatherbeaten, Wheel
Posted on April 19, 2016
We’re having what the French call a pause pour reflexion in Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge this time around. A time to think about the ground we’ve covered already and also an opportunity to show some images that didn’t quite make the cut for posting under the various topics that we’ve dealt with in the past months. Here’s a selection of mine:
Perspective
Now, what is this a picture of? Is it the building on the right (the apartment block in Abu Dhabi where we lived for ten years)? Or is it the glass-plated building on the left? Or perhaps it’s the reflection of the former in the latter?

Diagonal Lines
I used an image of two giraffes in my first posting on the topic of diagonal lines, but I could equally have used this profile of a horse – one of many in the fields around here.

Now two images that cover more than one aspect of the various topics we’ve looked at so far:
Leading Lines & Analogous Colours
A hillside vineyard near the village of Ay, in the Champagne region shows blue and green together, as well as leading lines

Geometry and Contrasting Colours
Orange and blue dominate this image of a seal at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. Obviously the balanced ball is one geometric shape but the curve of the seal’s body is like an arc of a circle.

Category: Composition Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Architecture, Australia, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, colours, Composition, France, Geometry, Horse, Reflections, Seals, Taronga Zoo
Posted on March 28, 2016
For the latest step in Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge we are asked to consider the geometrical shapes within our images. Unusually, I had no problem finding potential candidates for inclusion in this selection. Quite the reverse, in fact, which is why, as an extra challenge, I confined myself to photographs that I took in Australia – mostly in and around Sydney – a few years ago.
This first image – of an upturned boat on the beach at Watson’s Bay, across the harbour from the city – contains multiple geometric shapes, in terms of both subject and composition:

Below are pairs of images featuring the most common geometric shapes. Hover over any picture for a (slightly) fuller comment.
Circles
Triangles
Rectangles
Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Geometry
Category: Composition Tagged: Architecture, Australia, Cee's Compose Yourself Photo Challenge, Geometry, Sydney, Sydney Opera House
Posted on February 18, 2016
Weather has come around again for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. Last time I put up a picture of freezing fog close to home, but on this occasion here is an image taken on the other side of the world, in the Hunter Valley in Australia.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Weather
Category: Black & White Tagged: Australia, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Clouds, Hunter Valley, Rain Clouds, Storm clouds
Posted on June 21, 2014
A piece of flotsam lies between two clumps of seaweed on Manly Beach, Australia.
Category: Abstract, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Abstract, Australia, Flotsam, Manly Beach, Seaweed, Weekly Photo Challenge: Between