Kevin's Pixel Bits

Yesterday I bought a book on Australian Birds. It reminded me of some photographs I took on Kangaroo Island in 1991. Funny how brains work.

  Any fool can be uncomfortable !!!

Fog - Canon PowerShot S5 IS

It’s a very grey day today as it has been, seemingly, for weeks so I thought I’d look at some photos with colour. My motto is “images with impact” which makes me think of bright colours, but it doesn’t have to be. I think that photography is a selfish hobby in that amateur snappers like me only take snaps to suit themselves. I came up with a few different looks which I like and which I think fits my motto. See what you think:

Canon EOS 350D, EF-S 17=85 mm lens.

Canon EOS 450D, EF 70 300 DO  USM  Lens

Canon PowerShot SX IS

Canon PowerShot SX1 I

Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
 

In May 2008 I showed some Sturts Desert Pea flowers under the heading Beauty in Harsh Places. Another one of my favourite flowers is Naked Lady (Amarygia Parkeri) which deserves a mention for its beauty in harsh places. The flowers I have photographed have been around for untold years in old gold mining areas, totally untended yet have continued to flower right through the drought.

On 7 Feb 2009 Victoria had the most severe bushfire on record and the Naked Lady flowers were some of the first colour to appear in the fire blackened areas; seems they will survive almost anything including heat that melted car engines.

The first photo is from the PowerShot SX1 IS and the next two are from an EOS 350D with EF-S 17-85mm IS USM lens. The reason the cameras are different is that the photos were taken a year apart and the cameras happened to be the ones I was carrying at the time. All photos taken with handheld cameras.

At the moment it’s hard to get good colourful photos so I’ve delved into the dusty old files of 2007 for one of my philosophical moments. I’ve titled the photo Modern Civilisation; the photo was taken with camera set for about 300mm to telescope things a bit. Given that the silos are no longer used and are sitting alongside railway lines, unseen, also no longer used, you may wish to apply your own interpretation to it all.