Before the summer of 2017/2018 choked us all in endless dreary sunlight and humidity, there was a grey day with high surf…
Christmas weather
The storm clouds of Christmas Day weren’t quite in Mike Olbinski’s or Marko Korošec’s league, but the ongoing drought in central and eastern NSW means that these small storms on Christmas Day are most of the clouds I’ve seen in half a year:
London in autumn
New York in autumn
Goodbye granite?
We’ve had a snow holiday in Thredbo four years in a row, and are talking about a change. But saying goodbye to the hour of road near it will be hard:
Late afternoon
Sunlight
Challenging myself to leave the house with just one lens, in this case a 27mm pancake lens.
Autumn photography 2017
I switched camera systems in May this year to a mirrorless system, specifically a Fuji XT-20 body with various lenses. Its first big expedition was to New York but soon enough it was time for the much closer to home annual trek around the autumn foliage. The camera body failed around mid-day (had to go in for repairs as it was unable to detect lenses connected to it), very poor timing since Andrew’s niece was born that day, but we had some adventures first.
I remain fascinated by the ludicrous, alien, ornamental pear that is planted in such profusion around here:
But eucalypts can hold their own:
Autumn photography 2015 & 2016
Last year, inner west autumn in the rain:
This year, in the wake of one of the heaviest couple of days of rainfall I’ve ever experienced, and after such a warm autumn that the leaves in fact turn in winter, inner west autumn in the sun:
