Dave's V8

Met the owner of this sweet ride (1949 Ford) the other day when I dropped in at Bindoon Heritage Museum. I hope I've done your ride some justice David! 

Guildford Fire Station

Was driving home the other night and had to stop and take some photos of the old Guildford Fire Station, a fabulous piece of WA's history.

Unfortunately WA lost a beautiful piece of our history this week with Southampton Homestead becoming a victim of fire started by lightning on Tuesday. Really feeling for the property owners who are currently in the UK on business and have lost everything. Thankfully, as far as I know, no loss of human life. 

Brian & Paint-Balling

I think my hubby was having a good time paint balling with our nephew Ben for his 13th birthday!

UWA Archway

Taken at the University of WA

Happy Friday everyone!!

Crawley Boatshed

One of Perth's iconic buildings The Crawley Boatshed

Haven't posted in a few days due to being sick but feeling good again today!

Hope you have a great week!

Adding textures to photos

What can I say ... I don't like to manipulate or over edit photos as I think it turns a photo into a piece of art ... however in saying that sometimes I think it just works!

Gulls taken at Bibra Lake.

Landscapes with filters

Added texture & treatment

Well, after 20 days of trying to keep up with the daily challenge I folded ... just couldn't do it any longer. I was finding that I was just taking photos for the sake of the challenge without really putting my heart & soul behind it so I decided that I would rather concentrate on taking better photos even if it means not using my camera on a daily basis. I could cheat and catch up with the challenge now as it's only 6 days late but I feel that is not what the challenge was about. 

So ... yesterday I had some new 'toys' arrive! 2 packs of 12 square filters, some graduated and some solid colours so took a few shots of the paddock behind the house using different filters to try them out and these are the end results. What one is your favourite? As usual they all look better enlarged. 

using a graduated Neutral Density Filter - gives a richer sky colour at the top

using a graduated blue filter - even sky colour

using graduated blue and green filters - greener grass & even sky colour

January 20 - Something you saw

The something I saw today was a fire. This is the view taken from our southern paddock late this afternoon. This fire is approx. 40 kilometres away but we were still getting light ash fallout from it due to the awesome seabreeze blowing our way. 

January 19 - Delicious

Again ... so many opportunities with this challenge and I know it sounds weird to some but I find the smell of freshly cut hay/grass/lawn as one of the finer things in life so that is my delicious!

January 18 - Shadow

Had fun with this one ... the 2nd photo is 'inverted' turning white to black & black to white hence my 'bleached' shadow ... love it!