They’re spiky and they’re spiny
The flowers are quite tiny.
They’re altogether shiny,
The Hakea family.

They’re spiky and they’re spiny
The flowers are quite tiny.
They’re altogether shiny,
The Hakea family.

There are strange machinations, buried deep in the forest…*

*Completely plagiarised from Tim’s post.
The water pours over the rocks like tears.
It’s been that kind of day.

I’m a long way from the cold and greyness of Melbourne … but this flower reminds me that there is sometimes warmth there.

I’m a long way from the cold and greyness of Melbourne … but this image takes me back there.

This image speaks of mystery: the rocks close in, the sky darkens, the figure leans in, searching the light.
There is story here: what is he searching for? What is left that he could find? What questions plague him, all these years later?
He searches, then turns and simply walks away.

The trees dropped their bundle …

I generally don’t take landscape images, but when there’s a lake and it’s sunset and the water is still and the reflections are sharp, I figured … why not?

I generally don’t take landscape images, but last weekend I had a hankering to capture flowing water using a filter to slow down the shutter speed, and hence slow down the water.
Here is my first attempt.

To finish the Melbourne icon series we have decided to focus on what is perhaps the most iconic mode of transport in the city: the tram.
Over time, the trams have changed, but here’s one of the older types.

Here are two other photos … one more abstract than the other.
Tim’s image of the new-look Melbourne tram is here.