Forgotten Flowers

Once again, I'm cheating and prescheduling. My day intends to include a trip into the city for the Craft & Quilt Fair, which I am quite excited about. I have plans to buy beads and scrapbooking things. None of which I need... ;)

Ah well, on with the post!

Plastic flowers in a decaying cage:

On a trip to the Toowong Cemetery, I spotted these plastic flowers inside a long-forgotten and unkept 'cage'. There was something so sad and yet beautiful about this arrangement that I knew I wanted to capture it on camera. It's just such a bittersweet realisation - this person was once so loved that someone added "forever" flowers to her grave, and it has been so long now that even the forever flowers are fading and drooping inside their broken prison.

Shot in black & white mode with semi-automatic settings, I most likely used Macro and zoom to grab this image.

My Cross To Bear

Well, good morning! I've been up for a couple of hours but hadn't yet got around to doing anything about posting this. Still, I'm within my timeframe (just), so hooray for me!

Today's thankfully much calmer than my last few days have been, with just a few things on the to-do list - including an appointment, pumpkin scones and, with hope that the weather holds, some washing.

A signpost in Logan Central:

On one of my many trips into Logan Central with my camera, I spotted this signpost and it felt like the perfect photo opportunity. I let the post extend slightly to the left past the photograph's boundary to enhance the air of mystery and moodiness that the black & white exposure brings.

I took this with my camera set to greyscale, and adjusted my focus length and exposure time slightly to increase the photo's ambience.

My Cross To Bear is part of my Suburban Life series.

Little Weed

Some days are hard, others aren't. I'm keeping an eye on the floods, they're rising and they're getting closer to me, but I'm still safe. My nieces are being affected, but they're also safe at the moment.

Another one I snapped outside the Mental Health clinic, I know I edited this a little to make the black and white effect more pronounced, but I can't remember exactly how. This is one of my favourites, but unfortunately I made the mistake of resizing it when I saved it and that makes it completely useless for printing in any form. Sad.

Snubbed

Good morning! I'm off to face some of the shops today to get some pins and sequins ready to make a few more ornaments.

No, you may not take a photograph of my face:

I was watching the wallabies at Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium for a while, and amongst the bigger ones was this little guy, not long out of his mother's pouch. Photo originally taken in full colour on general settings; swapping to black & white was the only editing I did.

City Fireworks

Man. I don't know if Blogger's been having issues this morning, or if it's just been my internet (which has definitely [also] been having issues). Either way, it's driving me nuts.

Fireworks over Brisbane, from South Bank:

 Erica and I were discussing the power of black & white photography one day, and after making the comment that "all photographs" looked amazing in black and white, she rethought that, then began to ponder whether certain topics would look better that way after all. Turns out, even fireworks have the potential to look awesome in black & white, sometimes.

This was taken in full colour, on the "fireworks" setting, and later converted to black and white.

Just Grate

Sorry I missed my post this morning; I had to rush out nice and early and didn't have time to post before I left. I'll probably have more luck posting in the morning tomorrow.

A street grate in Loganlea:

Sorry for the bad pun - but not so sorry I'm not going to use it. Part of the Edges series, I don't remember much about taking this photo except that it was on the black and white setting.

Beauty

The sky is grey, the clouds are heavy, and it's a day for curling up in bed with a movie and your comfort food. Not an option for me, but you should totally go and do it on my behalf!

My beautiful Rhi, at her favourite place in the world:

For a while now, I've wanted to try my hand at more portraiture. I'm not generally that good at telling people what to do, or where to be, so there's a pretty big barrier to that style of photography. However, when Rhi asked me if I would try and get some photos for a project she was doing at the time, it was the perfect opportunity to both help out a friend, and to get some practice. I warned her ahead of time that I could not guarantee I would get anything decent, but with a bit of luck and a lot of photographs taken, there were quite a few she was very happy with. This is one of my favourites of the day, and it is part of several series'.

I took this on general settings but in colour, and when I got home I edited it into black & white with coloured sections.

Dichotomy

Well, I feel bad, but at least I did give warning that I might not be able to post on time this morning. I've spent my afternoon and evening either writing my novel, or procrastinating the writing of my novel! However I did make my daily word count in the end, so hooray for that at least!

Daisies in a Logan garden:

This is a black & white version of some daisies in a little garden outside a community service building in Logan. I took this photo on the macro setting, with everything else fairly standard. This is part of my Nature series and is one of the ones I entered in a recent exhibition with/for CASV. The print is now up at Karakan.

Crutches

No babble today, I'm due to leave in a couple of minutes.

My crutches resting against the half-wall:

I don't have a proper title for this one yet; so any suggestions are welcomed! I set my camera to black & white and general settings, then took this shot at Southbank Parklands while waiting for Riverfire to start. This one is part of my "health" series.

Captured II

Welcome to From Another Angle! I've been meaning to get around to setting this up for a while now, so here it is. Here's hoping for one photograph every day!

Assuming I don't get a new camera, or borrow someone else's camera, all photographs on this blog will likely be taken using my trusty Kodak Z1012 IS.


A white lion waits for a snack at Canberra National Zoo & Aquarium:

This shot was taken during the ZooVenture tour, earlier this year. While they waited for the hand-feeding experience, the lion & lioness pair prowled up and down the fence.