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.

Cracked

The weather yesterday was absolutely beautiful, but at some point last night it turned very cold! I'm not very impressed, and nor are my goosebumps.

Broken gravestone at Toowong Cemetery:

I caught a glimpse of this old tombstone while I was wandering around looking for something in particular, and it just felt 'right', so I threw my camera onto its sepia setting and crouched down to bring my eye-level in line with the old stone. This one is of course part of the Suburban Life: Toowong Cemetery series but is also tentatively part of a separate series I'm putting together that I'd consider displaying eventually.

Still Life

Well, it's been another warm day here. My scrapbooking stuff arrived earlier than expected, too, so I'm looking forward to having a play with my new toys over the next few days. ;)

Bird on a birdbath at the cemetery:

I happened to turn around at just the right moment to catch this little bird on a birdbath last time I was off at the Toowong Cemetery. I just love the way the little bird looks - almost like he's part of the bird bath itself - and the juxtaposition of this obvious and vibrant life in a cemetery.

Photo was taken with the camera's sepia setting and, bar a resize to keep the file reasonable, is completely unedited.

Small Things

Good morning everybody! The sun's out, it's Melbourne Cup day and the horses are getting ready for their run! Meanwhile I am (or rather, I am supposed to be!) getting myself dressed and heading out to a Melbourne Cup function with Giraffe Hat!

A mushroom in the grass at Toowong Cemetery:

Grabbed this one at Toowong Cemetery one day. Sepia on a macro setting. (Sorry for the extremely short blurb, running late!)

Lean On Me

I'm thinking I might post in the mornings when I can, that way I start my days on a really good note.

A falling gravestone at Toowong Cemetery:

I love visiting places like Toowong Cemetery; because it's been around so long a lot of the graves are starting to deteriorate. There's a real sense of history in a place like that, and there's a lot of beauty. This photo, titled Lean On Me, is part of my Suburban Life: Toowong Cemetery series. Sadly, I haven't a clue what settings the camera was on, except obviously sepia, for this one that was taken in February 2009.