{"photos":[{"slug":"img-0253","title":"Where the Roof Was","alt":"Looking up inside a ruined stone tower with curved walls, broken battlements, moss and small plants in the joints.","description":"The remains of a round tower open straight to a blank white sky, its curved wall stepping up into broken crenellations. Stone corbels still jut where floors once rested, and moss and thin seedlings have worked into every horizontal joint. Warm ochre and grey blocks fill the frame from edge to edge, the flat overcast light leaving almost no shadow to soften the texture.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"22mm · f/16 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#605b4d","width":5472,"height":3648,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0253-f92e1875.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-0253-f92e1875.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"img-0248","title":"Through the Old Gate","alt":"A weathered medieval stone gateway with a pointed arch, flanked by thick limestone walls under a pale sky.","description":"Two eras of masonry meet here: a pointed arch with worn mouldings set into rubble walls of cream, honey and grey limestone, with a few red bricks patched in. Flat overcast light picks out every joint and lichen stain without casting a shadow. Looking upward from the pavement tilts the walls inward, so the arch opens onto a narrow slice of the street beyond, and a small green plaque sits quietly on the right.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/22 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#8e8475","width":4220,"height":3641,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0248-9c3562cf.webp","width":1024,"height":884},{"src":"img/2048/img-0248-9c3562cf.webp","width":2048,"height":1767}]},{"slug":"img-0242","title":"Rain on the Old Rampart","alt":"A wet stone parapet along a raised walkway curves past trees, with two distant figures on the path ahead.","description":"The parapet dominates the frame from the left, its capstones worn smooth and freckled with lichen, each block a slightly different shade of grey and buff. Rain has darkened the walkway to a warm amber, catching what little light comes through the heavy canopy above. Two small figures far along the path give the wall its scale and pull the eye down the receding line.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/22 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#454534","width":5472,"height":3648,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0242-badb4795.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-0242-badb4795.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"img-0228","title":"The Gentleman in the Top Hat","alt":"Hanging pub sign reading 'The Fat Badger', showing a badger in a top hat with pipe and glass, on a brick wall.","description":"The painted badger holds a pipe and a glass with the poise of a club member, his olive-green coat set against a mustard ground. Overhead a small lamp on the ironwork is still lit, throwing a warm point of light across the weathered brick. Below, a wicker basket of white geraniums hangs beside a sash window, and the whole frontage sits in the flat, even light of an overcast day.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"59mm · f/22 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#40382c","width":4141,"height":3641,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0228-74f8870f.webp","width":1024,"height":900},{"src":"img/2048/img-0228-74f8870f.webp","width":2048,"height":1801}]},{"slug":"img-0167","title":"Stone Against a White Sky","alt":"Gothic cathedral west front with twin towers, a large traceried window and pointed arch doorways, seen from below.","description":"Shot from close to the ground, the pale limestone front leans back into a blank white sky, its pinnacles and towers crowding the top corners. The great window's tracery holds panes of cold blue that repeat in the smaller aisle windows beside it. A few visitors at the doorways give the scale away, and a tree pushes green into the right edge, softening all that stone.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/22 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#666662","width":3648,"height":5472,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0167-d4709438.webp","width":682,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/img-0167-d4709438.webp","width":1365,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"img-0157","title":"Lamp, Stone, White Sky","alt":"A Gothic cathedral tower with pinnacles rises against a white sky, a black lamp post in the foreground.","description":"The pale limestone of the tower holds a warm ochre tone against a sky washed almost entirely white, so the pinnacles and tracery read as silhouette and texture at once. A black lamp post with gilded finials anchors the left edge, its glass panes catching a faint reflection. Looking up steeply tilts the whole facade, and at street level a few small figures in high-visibility jackets give the scale away.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"22mm · f/22 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#a49c8d","width":3648,"height":5472,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0157-2f32ee16.webp","width":682,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/img-0157-2f32ee16.webp","width":1365,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"img-0098","title":"Window of Hanging Owls","alt":"A person with an olive backpack looks into a dark grey shopfront whose gold lettering reads \"The Shop That Must Not Be Named\".","description":"Gold serif lettering runs across the slate-grey fascia, while behind the mullioned glass a flock of white toy owls hangs suspended above shelves of boxes and clutter. The window's interior glows warm and amber against the cool paintwork, and the single figure in navy and olive anchors the lower frame, back turned, caught mid-pause. A bundle of bristled brooms leans in at the right edge, just inside the picture.","date":"2025-09-18","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/7.1 · 1/15s · ISO 200","color":"#514e4c","width":5191,"height":3577,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0098-6177ef60.webp","width":1024,"height":706},{"src":"img/2048/img-0098-6177ef60.webp","width":2048,"height":1411}]},{"slug":"img-9159","title":"Grass to the Water's Edge","alt":"A coastal town of pale houses on green slopes above a rocky shore, with bare hills behind and dark blue sea in front.","description":"A cluster of houses steps down a green slope to a low rock shore, the larger stone building on the left holding the high ground behind its wall. Low evening light warms the sandstone and the grass while the roofs stay cool and slate-blue, and the bare hills behind fade into a soft pale sky. The dark blue water across the foreground gives the whole town a firm base to sit on.","date":"2025-09-12","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"100mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 125","color":"#575860","width":5469,"height":3050,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9159-eccb37cd.webp","width":1024,"height":571},{"src":"img/2048/img-9159-eccb37cd.webp","width":2048,"height":1142}]},{"slug":"img-9390","title":"Light Through the Break","alt":"Sunbeams break through heavy cloud over a dark low headland, with calm water in the foreground.","description":"A low ridge of land lies almost entirely in silhouette, its buildings and a single slender turbine reduced to notches on the skyline. Above, the cloud breaks in a narrow band and lets pale shafts of light fall in vertical streaks toward the horizon. The panoramic framing gives most of the space to sky, with the water below holding only a faint grey-green sheen.","date":"2025-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"56mm · f/5 · 1/1000s · ISO 125","color":"#4b4943","width":5469,"height":1604,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9390-77888338.webp","width":1024,"height":300},{"src":"img/2048/img-9390-77888338.webp","width":2048,"height":601}]},{"slug":"img-9593","title":"Rooms Open to the Wind","alt":"Excavated stone dwelling with upright slabs and turf-topped walls beside a wide loch under a cloudy sky","description":"An excavated stone dwelling sits open to the sky, its upright slabs and low turf-capped walls holding the outline of rooms long emptied. Midday light washes the sandy floor and picks out lichen on the standing stones, while dry grasses fringe the bank above the water. Behind, a wide loch runs flat and blue to a low, pale line of hills.","date":"2025-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/3.5 · 1/2500s · ISO 125","color":"#8f8964","width":5469,"height":2556,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9593-88395c50.webp","width":1024,"height":478},{"src":"img/2048/img-9593-88395c50.webp","width":2048,"height":957}]},{"slug":"img-9519","title":"Heather and Old Stones","alt":"Weathered standing stones in a row on a low heather-covered ridge above water and distant green hills.","description":"A scattered line of standing stones leans out of a ridge of rust-red heather, each slab lit on one face and grey-shadowed on the other. Behind them a pale strip of water separates the ridge from low hills, while the sky burns out almost white toward the right. The deep reds and browns of the foreground take up more than half the frame, pressing the stones up into the light.","date":"2025-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/3.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 125","color":"#a89f92","width":5469,"height":2557,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9519-7f6bfa33.webp","width":1024,"height":479},{"src":"img/2048/img-9519-7f6bfa33.webp","width":2048,"height":958}]},{"slug":"img-9489","title":"Wall at the Bay's Edge","alt":"A drystone wall topped with rounded stones beside a grassy bank overlooking a blue bay and low green coastline.","description":"A flat-stone wall capped with rounded boulders runs to the right edge, anchoring a wide view across a bay where turquoise shallows break white against a pale beach. Low green farmland stretches along the far shore, a single white building catching the light near the water. The sky is broad and busy with cloud, its brightness thinning toward the horizon.","date":"2025-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/3.5 · 1/1600s · ISO 125","color":"#858c82","width":5469,"height":1918,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9489-fb23043b.webp","width":1024,"height":359},{"src":"img/2048/img-9489-fb23043b.webp","width":2048,"height":718}]},{"slug":"img-9467","title":"Rooms Under the Turf","alt":"Excavated stone-walled dwellings set into grassy mounds near a coastline under a pale cloudy sky","description":"Low drystone rooms sit sunk into turf mounds, their walls dry and grey against grass that runs almost fluorescent under diffuse cloud. The flat green horizon and a thin strip of sea to the right hold the whole scene down, while wind-combed grass fills the foreground. Composition keeps the ruins in a broad band across the middle, so the dwellings read as one continuous settlement rather than separate rooms.","date":"2025-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/3.5 · 1/1000s · ISO 125","color":"#8c9264","width":4880,"height":2556,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9467-ba753e7c.webp","width":1024,"height":536},{"src":"img/2048/img-9467-ba753e7c.webp","width":2048,"height":1073}]},{"slug":"img-9404","title":"Capstones Facing the Sea","alt":"A dry stone wall with upright capstones runs across grassland toward a coastline under cloudy sky.","description":"The wall carries the eye from the lower left corner out to a distant headland, its capstones set on edge like a row of teeth, pale lichen catching what light there is. Beyond it the grass leans in one direction, rust-coloured at the seams, and a second wall repeats the line further back. The sea sits flat and dark between land and a bank of grey cloud, with a scatter of white buildings on the far slope.","date":"2025-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"29mm · f/4 · 1/1600s · ISO 125","color":"#6e6954","width":5469,"height":2581,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9404-bb9653a5.webp","width":1024,"height":484},{"src":"img/2048/img-9404-bb9653a5.webp","width":2048,"height":967}]},{"slug":"img-9599","title":"One Stone, Long Shadow","alt":"A tall thin standing stone in a grass field beside a wide blue loch under a partly cloudy sky.","description":"A single slab of stone rises from close-cropped grass, its angled top catching the low sun while the face turned towards us stays in shadow. Beyond a wire fence the water is ruffled and dark blue, backed by low green hills and a bank of cloud. The stone's long shadow reaches across the foreground, pointing away from the frame's centre.","date":"2025-09-10","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/3.5 · 1/3200s · ISO 125","color":"#838f8a","width":5472,"height":3648,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-9599-8f3d8b75.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-9599-8f3d8b75.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"img-8605","title":"Spire at the End of the Bay","alt":"Wide panorama of a sandy bay with a church spire on the headland, blue sea and scattered white clouds","description":"A long curve of pale sand empties into calm water, with a church spire marking the far end of the bay and low rooftops spread along the clifftop behind it. The afternoon light is bright but soft, leaving the grassy slopes in cool shadow while the beach holds its warmth. Cumulus clouds fill the upper two-thirds of the frame, their scale making the scattered figures on the sand look very small.","date":"2025-09-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#7293b4","width":5469,"height":1818,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-8605-5e39dfbe.webp","width":1024,"height":340},{"src":"img/2048/img-8605-5e39dfbe.webp","width":2048,"height":681}]},{"slug":"img-8849","title":"Mottled, Facing the Field","alt":"Black and white photo of a young gull with mottled plumage standing in rough grass.","description":"A young gull stands in profile among tall grass and low leaves, its speckled plumage breaking into a dark wing and tail. The soft, overcast light keeps the tones even, so the scalloped pattern of the feathers does most of the work. Set slightly left of centre, the bird faces out of frame, giving the grass behind it room to blur into texture.","date":"2025-09-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"100mm · f/14 · 1/25s · ISO 200","color":"#464646","width":3128,"height":3127,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-8849-fbeaf7a2.webp","width":1024,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/img-8849-fbeaf7a2.webp","width":2048,"height":2047}]},{"slug":"img-8768","title":"Where the Wall Ends","alt":"Broken stone wall and arch of a ruined abbey on clipped grass, with the sea and cloudy sky beyond","description":"A broken wall runs out toward the sea, its torn edge showing the rubble core behind the dressed sandstone facing. Overcast light keeps the stone warm and ochre against the grey-blue water, while the grass stays a flat, even green. The wall's diagonal carries the eye from the shadowed arch on the left out to two small figures sitting on the far bank.","date":"2025-09-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"18mm · f/22 · 1/25s · ISO 200","color":"#837959","width":4641,"height":3531,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-8768-ade1182d.webp","width":1024,"height":779},{"src":"img/2048/img-8768-ade1182d.webp","width":2048,"height":1558}]},{"slug":"img-8740","title":"Doorway to the Sea","alt":"A large sandstone archway in a ruined abbey framing a green lawn, low stone foundations and the sea beyond.","description":"Two concentric arches of warm sandstone frame a view out to low ruined footings, clipped grass and a thin band of grey sea. The overcast light keeps the stone soft and even, letting its ochre and rust tones sit against the cool blue of the sky. The arch fills almost the whole frame, so the distant horizon reads as a small bright window in a heavy wall.","date":"2025-09-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"35mm · f/22 · 1/25s · ISO 200","color":"#655a39","width":3648,"height":5472,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-8740-33e269b1.webp","width":682,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/img-8740-33e269b1.webp","width":1365,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"img-8634","title":"Grass Before the Ruin","alt":"Stone ruins on a headland seen through tall dry grass under a heavy grey sky","description":"Dry grass heads stand sharp in the foreground while the ruined walls behind them soften into haze, the eye pulled back and forth between the two planes. Storm cloud fills the upper half of the frame, its greys broken by a paler band of light that catches the standing stonework. The warm straw tones at the bottom sit against that cold sky with little in between.","date":"2025-09-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"112mm · f/36 · 1/25s · ISO 200","color":"#797165","width":4445,"height":3279,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-8634-bcfd497e.webp","width":1024,"height":756},{"src":"img/2048/img-8634-bcfd497e.webp","width":2048,"height":1511}]},{"slug":"jump","title":"Jump","alt":"A dark grey wallaby caught mid-leap past bare trees, its body sharp against a blurred, streaked background.","description":"The animal hangs mid-bound, hind legs tucked and tail streaming behind, while the trees and grass smear into long horizontal streaks. Light is flat and low, draining the scene to grey trunks, olive ground and a pale gap of sky, with one small flash of rust at the ear. Panning keeps the leaping body near the centre and lets everything else dissolve into speed.","date":"2025-05-31","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"135mm · f/11 · 1/25s · ISO 100","color":"#555452","width":5472,"height":3648,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/jump-abe6da1d.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/jump-abe6da1d.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"snack","title":"Snack","alt":"A dark-furred wallaby grazes on short green grass in front of tall clumps of tussock reeds.","description":"A wallaby leans low into the grass, head down and tail stretched out behind, its dark coat catching only a little light across the shoulders. Behind it, dense tussocks rise in a wall of straw and olive, with one small gap where pale water shows through. The low green strip along the bottom of the frame gives the animal a clear stage against all that tangled vertical growth.","date":"2025-05-31","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"135mm · f/11 · 1/25s · ISO 100","color":"#41432d","width":3974,"height":2384,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/snack-559f15e1.webp","width":1024,"height":614},{"src":"img/2048/snack-559f15e1.webp","width":2048,"height":1229}]},{"slug":"pond","title":"Pond","alt":"A still pond framed by tall reeds, reflecting sky, clouds and a line of trees along the far bank.","description":"A panoramic stretch of water holds the sky almost perfectly, with pale cloud and blue repeated in the surface. Reeds crowd both corners of the frame in dry golds and greens, leaning into the open water. Along the far bank, rounded eucalypt canopies and a few bare limbs sit low against the horizon in the soft light of late day.","date":"2025-05-31","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"24mm · f/18 · 1/25s · ISO 100","color":"#626965","width":5472,"height":2431,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pond-8eda68b1.webp","width":1024,"height":455},{"src":"img/2048/pond-8eda68b1.webp","width":2048,"height":910}]},{"slug":"colours","title":"Colours","alt":"Bare tree branches silhouetted against a red and orange sunset sky with streaked clouds.","description":"A leafless crown fills most of the frame, its twigs breaking the sky into hundreds of small openings. The clouds run in horizontal bands, from deep scarlet at the top to a paler wash near the horizon, with grey-violet streaks cutting through. Darker masses of foliage anchor the lower corners, leaving the thin branches to carry the detail.","date":"2025-04-05","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"78mm · f/5.6 · 1/100s · ISO 125","color":"#883729","width":2650,"height":2431,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/colours-db799c2d.webp","width":1024,"height":940},{"src":"img/2048/colours-db799c2d.webp","width":2048,"height":1879}]},{"slug":"2024-august-sky-1","title":"2024 August Sky 1","alt":"Pink and purple streaked sunset sky above black silhouettes of trees along the lower edge.","description":"Long streaks of cloud catch the last of the light, running pink and magenta across a sky that deepens to indigo overhead. Tree silhouettes crowd the bottom of the frame, a bare-branched one at the right reaching up into the brightest band of colour. A power line cuts faintly across the lower left, the only straight edge in a picture otherwise made of drifting horizontals.","date":"2024-08-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"35mm · f/4.5 · 1/50s · ISO 400","color":"#5c1a4d","width":5467,"height":2644,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/2024-august-sky-1-040e670c.webp","width":1024,"height":495},{"src":"img/2048/2024-august-sky-1-040e670c.webp","width":2048,"height":990}]},{"slug":"2024-august-sky-2","title":"2024 August Sky 2","alt":"Silhouetted trees along the lower edge of a sunset sky streaked with crimson, magenta and deep violet clouds.","description":"The sky carries most of the frame, its streaked cloud bands shifting from crimson near the horizon to a dense violet overhead. Trees form a dark, unbroken border along the bottom and up the right side, one bare branching crown standing out against the brightest red. Nothing is lit but the clouds, so shape and colour do all the work.","date":"2024-08-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"35mm · f/4.5 · 1/50s · ISO 320","color":"#3b0e28","width":5472,"height":2927,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/2024-august-sky-2-70f4ca86.webp","width":1024,"height":548},{"src":"img/2048/2024-august-sky-2-70f4ca86.webp","width":2048,"height":1096}]},{"slug":"moon-quick","title":"Moon Quick","alt":"A nearly full moon against a black sky, its grey maria and bright crater rays clearly visible.","description":"The moon sits almost dead centre in an otherwise empty frame, its disc filling just enough of the black to feel weighty. Grey seas spread across the lower left while a bright crater near the upper right throws pale rays outward. The surrounding darkness is total, leaving nothing to read but texture and tone.","date":"2024-05-23","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/11 · 1/125s · ISO 100","color":"#1b1b1d","width":951,"height":825,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/moon-quick-b4b71714.webp","width":951,"height":825},{"src":"img/2048/moon-quick-b4b71714.webp","width":951,"height":825}]},{"slug":"power-of-music","title":"Power Of Music","alt":"Overhead electrical wires crossing a clear blue sky, with short copper droppers looping between two of them.","description":"Lines cross the frame at shallow angles, dark against an unbroken blue, while three copper droppers hang in soft loops between the upper and lower cables. The clamps read as small notes on a staff, which is where the title comes from. Low sun warms the copper to a dull orange and leaves everything else in silhouette.","date":"2024-05-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"69mm · f/8 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#54749e","width":4876,"height":2499,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/power-of-music-f981f75e.webp","width":1024,"height":525},{"src":"img/2048/power-of-music-f981f75e.webp","width":2048,"height":1050}]},{"slug":"cocktoos","title":"Cocktoos","alt":"Five white cockatoos perched along a metal rail in warm evening light, with blurred green grass behind them.","description":"Five white parrots share a length of galvanised rail, one crest raised, another hunched and ruffled into a ball beside its neighbour. Low evening sun warms their feathers to cream and apricot while leaving the grass behind in cool, unfocused green. The horizontal pipe carries the eye across the frame, and the birds space themselves along it like notes on a stave.","date":"2024-05-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"135mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#594a22","width":4916,"height":1977,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/cocktoos-03f43b0c.webp","width":1024,"height":412},{"src":"img/2048/cocktoos-03f43b0c.webp","width":2048,"height":824}]},{"slug":"cockatoo-1","title":"Cockatoo 1","alt":"A white cockatoo with a raised crest and blue eye-ring standing on grass, with another bird's wing at lower left.","description":"Low warm light rakes across the grass, turning the dry blades amber while the bird's plumage holds a soft cream glow. The pale blue skin around the eye and a faint peach wash at the cheek are the only cool notes against all that green and gold. A second bird's wing enters at the bottom left corner, a quiet reminder that this one wasn't feeding alone.","date":"2024-05-07","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"135mm · f/6.3 · 1/200s · ISO 160","color":"#423b23","width":3648,"height":2431,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/cockatoo-1-3caf8aa7.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/cockatoo-1-3caf8aa7.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"sunset-spikes","title":"Sunset Spikes","alt":"Silhouette of a spiky, sword-leaved plant against a blue sky with orange and pink sunset clouds.","description":"The plant reads as pure black cut-out, its narrow leaves radiating like rays from the lower right corner. Behind it the sky moves from deep blue at the top to peach and gold near the horizon, with thin cloud catching the last warmth. A dark roofline sits low in the frame, anchoring the fan of spikes.","date":"2024-05-03","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"50mm · f/5.6 · 1/100s · ISO 100","color":"#695e63","width":2941,"height":2865,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-spikes-9953e52f.webp","width":1024,"height":998},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-spikes-9953e52f.webp","width":2048,"height":1995}]},{"slug":"sunset-paw","title":"Sunset Paw","alt":"A flowering plant stem silhouetted against an orange and grey sunset sky, with dark foliage at left.","description":"The stem's buds and narrow leaves fan out like fingers, held black against a sky still holding the last orange of the sun. Grey cloud drifts in from the upper left and cools the frame as it falls toward the bottom. A blurred mass of foliage anchors the left edge, leaving the open sky for the plant to reach into.","date":"2024-05-03","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM","settings":"64mm · f/7.1 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#7f5d42","width":2625,"height":3476,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-paw-91fb153a.webp","width":774,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-paw-91fb153a.webp","width":1547,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"puff-2024","title":"Puff 2024","alt":"Close-up of a dandelion seed head, its white seeds intact, against blurred green foliage.","description":"A dandelion clock sits slightly left of centre, every seed still attached, the white filaments catching light against a dark green backdrop. The blurred leaves behind fall away into shadow on the right, which keeps attention on the sphere and the tan-coloured seeds at its core. The pale green stem rises from the lower edge, a quiet vertical anchoring the round shape above it.","date":"2024-04-20","camera":"Canon EOS 70D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 320","color":"#4a6348","width":1962,"height":1620,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/puff-2024-da0f5d25.webp","width":1024,"height":846},{"src":"img/2048/puff-2024-da0f5d25.webp","width":1962,"height":1620}]},{"slug":"grass-landscape-2024","title":"Grass Landscape 2024","alt":"Panoramic view of dry golden grassland with a dead bare tree, fallen branches and dark storm clouds above.","description":"A wide band of dry, straw-coloured grass runs the length of the frame, broken by silvered fallen branches and one standing dead tree whose pale limbs reach into the cloud. Behind it a dense stand of dark green canopy holds the middle ground, with more scattered trees thinning away to the right. The sky carries most of the weight here, heavy grey-blue and low, pressing the warm grasses into a narrow, glowing strip.","date":"2024-04-07","camera":"Samsung Galaxy S23","lens":"","settings":"5mm · f/1.8 · 1/2000s · ISO 40","color":"#666d70","width":4000,"height":943,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/grass-landscape-2024-c7d03310.webp","width":1024,"height":242},{"src":"img/2048/grass-landscape-2024-c7d03310.webp","width":2048,"height":483}]},{"slug":"grass-field-2024","title":"Grass Field 2024","alt":"A field of tall golden grass seed heads under a wide sky of heavy grey and white clouds, with distant trees on the left horizon.","description":"Seed heads stand at eye level, a dense golden mass broken by taller stems that rise into the sky like small flags. The cloud bank fills two thirds of the frame, grey and layered, with a few gaps of pale blue letting light fall unevenly across the grass. A low line of dark trees on the left is the only fixed point in an otherwise soft, moving scene.","date":"2024-01-21","camera":"Samsung Galaxy S23","lens":"","settings":"5mm · f/1.8 · 1/3282s · ISO 25","color":"#90938e","width":4000,"height":1848,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/grass-field-2024-fb78d79d.webp","width":1024,"height":473},{"src":"img/2048/grass-field-2024-fb78d79d.webp","width":2048,"height":946}]},{"slug":"white-lily","title":"White Lily","alt":"Close-up of a white calla lily covered in water droplets, with a bright orange central spike against a dark background.","description":"The funnel of the bloom curls open to show its orange spadix, which throws a soft shadow across the inner wall. Water sits over every surface in beads of different sizes, each one catching a small point of light. Against the near-black background the white petal reads almost as sculpture, with a second flower resting quietly at the lower left.","date":"2023-10-02","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF50mm f/1.8 II","settings":"50mm · f/11 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#65635d","width":4583,"height":3022,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/white-lily-dedf3c49.webp","width":1024,"height":675},{"src":"img/2048/white-lily-dedf3c49.webp","width":2048,"height":1350}]},{"slug":"yosemite-valley","title":"Yosemite Valley","alt":"A wide granite valley with a tall waterfall on the right, green meadow and trees, and a river in the foreground.","description":"Yosemite Valley opens between two granite walls, a sheer pale face on the left and a darker, streaked cliff on the right where a thin waterfall drops into the trees. Midday sun keeps the rock bright and the meadow a vivid green, while thin cirrus streaks soften the deep blue overhead. The river runs across the bottom of the frame, giving the eye a cool, moving edge to start from before it climbs to the distant peaks in the gap.","date":"2023-07-02","camera":"Samsung Galaxy S23","lens":"","settings":"5mm · f/1.8 · 1/2094s · ISO 25","color":"#4e6d88","width":3408,"height":1795,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/yosemite-valley-951d170e.webp","width":1024,"height":540},{"src":"img/2048/yosemite-valley-951d170e.webp","width":2048,"height":1079}]},{"slug":"arches-bw","title":"Arches BW","alt":"Looking up inside a curving concrete structure of tall arched openings against a cloudy sky, in black and white.","description":"A ring of concrete piers and arches curves overhead, framing a bright bank of cloud at the centre. The low viewpoint stacks two tiers of openings, and through the lowest ones a line of distant apartment towers and a hillside appear, small and pale. Hard sunlight rakes across the stained surfaces, leaving one side nearly black and the other washed almost white.","date":"2023-06-25","camera":"Samsung Galaxy S23","lens":"","settings":"5mm · f/1.8 · 1/3363s · ISO 25","color":"#7f7f7f","width":4000,"height":2830,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/arches-bw-73fbf9e1.webp","width":1024,"height":724},{"src":"img/2048/arches-bw-73fbf9e1.webp","width":2048,"height":1449}]},{"slug":"golden-gate-bw","title":"Golden Gate BW","alt":"Panoramic black-and-white view across dark water to a suspension bridge, hills, and sunbeams through heavy cloud.","description":"Shafts of light break through a low ceiling of cloud and fall onto the bay, catching a single sailboat and a thin trail of glare on the water. The suspension bridge sits low and small on the left, its towers reduced to pale outlines against the ridgeline behind. 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Darkness swallows everything but the bloom and a soft suggestion of leaf in the lower left corner.","date":"2023-05-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF50mm f/1.8 II","settings":"50mm · f/4 · 1/80s · ISO 1600","color":"#121519","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/white-1-f05a81e3.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/white-1-f05a81e3.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"cloud-sun-blast","title":"Cloud Sun Blast","alt":"Wide view of clouds lit orange by low sun against a deep blue sky, with darker grey cloud beneath.","description":"A band of cloud stretches across the frame, its upper edges catching the last warm light while the undersides stay cool and shadowed. The blue deepens toward the top right corner, giving the orange all the more weight. Below, thin grey wisps trail off and dissolve into the paler sky near the horizon.","date":"2023-05-18","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#736560","width":5184,"height":1830,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/cloud-sun-blast-54e2f518.webp","width":1024,"height":362},{"src":"img/2048/cloud-sun-blast-54e2f518.webp","width":2048,"height":723}]},{"slug":"rainbow-sun","title":"Rainbow Sun","alt":"A faint rainbow crossing grey cloud, with orange sunlit clouds filling the right side of the sky.","description":"A short arc of rainbow surfaces in the soft grey haze on the left, faint enough that it could almost be missed. To the right, banked cloud takes the low sun full on and burns orange, its edges torn and bright against the cooler shadow. The diagonal split between the two halves gives the frame its balance, colour on one side, quiet on the other.","date":"2023-05-18","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/5.6 · 1/80s · ISO 125","color":"#81533e","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/rainbow-sun-f71158d6.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/rainbow-sun-f71158d6.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"sunset-tree-shaped","title":"Sunset Tree Shaped","alt":"Dense evergreen foliage lit gold by low sun against a dark grey storm sky, with bare branches at left.","description":"Late sun rakes across the conifer's dense sprays, turning every needle and twig a hot orange against a sky heavy with grey cloud. The bare branches at the left edge catch only a faint trace of the same warmth, giving the frame a quiet counterweight. The mass of lit foliage fills the right two thirds, its ragged silhouette pressing up into the dark.","date":"2023-05-18","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"70mm · f/5.6 · 1/100s · ISO 320","color":"#6a461f","width":5184,"height":1830,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-tree-shaped-d533c71a.webp","width":1024,"height":362},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-tree-shaped-d533c71a.webp","width":2048,"height":723}]},{"slug":"dark-clouds","title":"Dark Clouds","alt":"Towering storm cloud lit gold above deep blue shadow, with a dark tree silhouette at lower right.","description":"A tall bank of cloud catches the last warm light along its upper edge, while the mass beneath it stays in cold blue shadow, the two temperatures meeting in a soft seam across the frame. The panoramic crop leaves the cloud room to build upward and sideways. At lower right, the silhouetted crown of a tree gives the sky its only fixed point and a sense of how far away the weather is.</description>","date":"2023-05-18","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/5.6 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#404141","width":5184,"height":2196,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/dark-clouds-58325afd.webp","width":1024,"height":434},{"src":"img/2048/dark-clouds-58325afd.webp","width":2048,"height":868}]},{"slug":"dragons-breath","title":"Dragons Breath","alt":"Orange and violet sunset clouds fill the sky above the dark silhouette of a leafy treetop.","description":"The clouds break into scattered orange scales across a sky that deepens to violet at the top, lit from below by a sun already gone. A single treetop rises into the lower right, its fine leaves and twigs held as a flat black outline against the glow. Keeping the horizon low leaves almost the whole frame to the sky, so the colour does the work.","date":"2023-04-27","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"96mm · f/5.6 · 1/125s · ISO 640","color":"#875141","width":4174,"height":1872,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/dragons-breath-b4bbfb4a.webp","width":1024,"height":460},{"src":"img/2048/dragons-breath-b4bbfb4a.webp","width":2048,"height":919}]},{"slug":"sunset-shaped","title":"Sunset Shaped","alt":"Silhouetted power poles, wires, streetlights and trees against an orange and yellow sunset sky.","description":"Power poles and their crossarms stand as flat black cutouts, the wires slicing the sky into uneven panels. The colour runs from deep red at the top down through orange to a pale yellow glow near the horizon, with a few thin clouds catching the light. Trees crowd in from both edges, leaving the tallest pole alone in the brightest part of the frame.","date":"2023-04-27","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#7a3910","width":3545,"height":3093,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-shaped-cc1575f9.webp","width":1024,"height":894},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-shaped-cc1575f9.webp","width":2048,"height":1787}]},{"slug":"to-where","title":"To Where","alt":"A gravel track curves through a sloping grassy field past a red-flowering tree and a spreading green tree under a pale sky.","description":"A narrow gravel track enters at the lower right and slips out of frame before it can tell you where it goes. The grass runs from fresh green in the foreground to dry gold across the slope, with a tree in deep red bloom sitting against the darker line of scrub and a glint of water behind. Wide and low, the framing leaves most of the picture to the pale, overcast sky.","date":"2022-11-26","camera":"Samsung SM-A528B","lens":"","settings":"5mm · f/1.8 · 1/1992s · ISO 25","color":"#817f66","width":4624,"height":1389,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/to-where-97de3b29.webp","width":1024,"height":308},{"src":"img/2048/to-where-97de3b29.webp","width":2048,"height":616}]},{"slug":"cloud-red","title":"Cloud Red","alt":"Dark towering clouds frame a pale gap in a sky lit red and pink at dusk.","description":"A heavy bank of cloud rises from the left edge, almost black where the last light fails to reach it, while the upper right burns a deep coral. Between them a narrow band of pale lilac sky holds thin, drifting streaks. The composition leans on that contrast of mass and opening, with the darkest weight anchoring one side and colour spreading across the rest.","date":"2022-11-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"84mm · f/5.6 · 1/125s · ISO 320","color":"#5f2b2e","width":5183,"height":2431,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/cloud-red-0170082f.webp","width":1024,"height":480},{"src":"img/2048/cloud-red-0170082f.webp","width":2048,"height":961}]},{"slug":"moon-red","title":"Moon Red","alt":"A nearly full moon in a dark blue sky above and beside banks of cloud lit deep red.","description":"The moon sits just left of centre, pale and slightly veiled, its edge touched by cloud drifting in from the right. Below and around it, thick banks of cloud hold the last red of the sun while the sky above has already gone to deep navy. The contrast between the cool upper field and the burning cloud edge gives the small bright disc all the weight it needs.","date":"2022-11-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"225mm · f/6.3 · 1/160s · ISO 200","color":"#381a1b","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/moon-red-fb002ecd.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/moon-red-fb002ecd.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"morning-bloom-deep-red","title":"Morning Bloom Deep Red","alt":"A deep red rose covered in water droplets, seen from above against blurred green foliage.","description":"Water beads sit along every fold of the petals, some catching the light as small bright points, others pooling in the deeper creases. The red runs from bright crimson at the centre to an almost black burgundy at the outer edges, held against a soft wash of green leaves and stems. Placed just off centre, the bloom fills the frame while the background falls away into shapeless colour.","date":"2022-10-24","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"116mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 2000","color":"#4a6953","width":3663,"height":3176,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/morning-bloom-deep-red-afc3ea96.webp","width":1024,"height":888},{"src":"img/2048/morning-bloom-deep-red-afc3ea96.webp","width":2048,"height":1776}]},{"slug":"morning-bloom-bright-yellow","title":"Morning Bloom Bright Yellow","alt":"Close-up of a yellow rose with pink-tipped petals, covered in water droplets, against dark green leaves.","description":"The bloom fills nearly the whole frame, its yellow petals flushing to pink at the outer edges and scattered with rain that beads along every fold. Soft, diffuse light keeps the detail in the tightly wound centre while the background falls away into dark green, with a blurred red and magenta suggestion of other flowers at the edges. The symmetry of the open rose sits slightly left of centre, which leaves room for that quiet colour behind it.","date":"2022-10-24","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"100mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 400","color":"#514526","width":3668,"height":3054,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/morning-bloom-bright-yellow-295f2455.webp","width":1024,"height":852},{"src":"img/2048/morning-bloom-bright-yellow-295f2455.webp","width":2048,"height":1705}]},{"slug":"reaching-to-the-sky","title":"Reaching To The Sky","alt":"Dark thin branches with small white blossoms reach across a deep blue sky with white cumulus clouds.","description":"Thin branches climb from the lower left corner, their small white blossoms catching a low, raking light while the wood itself stays almost black. The sky deepens toward the top of the frame, and a bank of cumulus builds along the right side, giving the blossoms a soft edge to rest against. The diagonal reach of the twigs sets up the whole composition, leaving the upper right open and quiet.","date":"2022-08-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"74mm · f/10 · 1/500s · ISO 100","color":"#496b90","width":4638,"height":3150,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/reaching-to-the-sky-7af9fcb4.webp","width":1024,"height":696},{"src":"img/2048/reaching-to-the-sky-7af9fcb4.webp","width":2048,"height":1391}]},{"slug":"grr","title":"Grr","alt":"A grey tabby cat with green eyes crouches on a reddish wooden table, staring straight at the camera.","description":"The cat sits low and compact, weight gathered forward, white paws braced on the slatted wood. Warm afternoon light rakes across the table and picks out the long whiskers and the pale fur at the chin, while the brick behind falls away into soft shadow. The reddish-brown surround makes the cool greys of the coat and the green of the steady, unimpressed stare feel that much sharper.","date":"2022-08-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"65mm · f/4 · 1/100s · ISO 100","color":"#634e4e","width":3805,"height":3233,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/grr-f69a0205.webp","width":1024,"height":870},{"src":"img/2048/grr-f69a0205.webp","width":2048,"height":1740}]},{"slug":"white-one","title":"White One","alt":"A white calla lily with a yellow-orange central spike, surrounded by dark green leaves against black.","description":"The single bloom holds nearly all the light, its curved white spathe cupping a blunt orange spadix like a small flame. Water beads sit along the rim and on the broad leaves crowding in from the left, though the dark keeps most of that foliage in shadow. Set slightly right of centre against an almost black background, the flower reads as a bright shell opening in the dark.","date":"2022-08-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"135mm · f/5 · 1/250s · ISO 250","color":"#3c4236","width":4142,"height":3075,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/white-one-c3682259.webp","width":1024,"height":760},{"src":"img/2048/white-one-c3682259.webp","width":2048,"height":1521}]},{"slug":"sunset-tree-lines","title":"Sunset Tree Lines","alt":"A bare tree silhouetted against an orange and pink sunset sky with streaks of cloud.","description":"A leafless crown fills the frame, its twigs breaking the sky into hundreds of small pieces of colour. Bands of cloud run behind it, lit from below in orange and dusty pink, while the lower edge of the picture falls away into a solid dark mass of foliage and rooflines. The contrast is pushed far enough that the tree reads as pure black line work against the glow.","date":"2022-08-21","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"163mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 160","color":"#8a5a44","width":4515,"height":3278,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-tree-lines-5792cf43.webp","width":1024,"height":744},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-tree-lines-5792cf43.webp","width":2048,"height":1487}]},{"slug":"friend","title":"Friend","alt":"A white cockatoo with a blue eye-ring perches on a diagonal eucalyptus branch, dark foliage behind.","description":"A white cockatoo sits low on a bare diagonal limb, head tilted, the blue skin around its eye and a blush of pink at the beak the only colour on it. Sunlight catches the loose feathers of its breast and the pale tail hanging below, while the eucalyptus canopy behind falls away into dark leaves and scattered blue highlights. The branch carries the eye from lower right up to the bird, with a second white shape half-hidden at the top left corner.","date":"2022-08-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"187mm · f/7.1 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#2f3432","width":3456,"height":2304,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/friend-0fc7144f.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/friend-0fc7144f.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"sight","title":"Sight","alt":"Red-framed glasses resting on an open book with brightly striped pages, casting a sharp shadow.","description":"A pair of translucent red frames sits folded on a book whose pages are printed with thin stripes of blue, green, yellow and red. A narrow beam of light picks out the frames and throws a looping shadow across the stripes, while the rest of the scene falls away into near-black. The diagonal of the book's edge and the hard division between lit and unlit space keep the eye on that one small glowing patch.","date":"2022-06-04","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"65mm · f/7.1 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#525651","width":4098,"height":2857,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sight-179bbf05.webp","width":1024,"height":714},{"src":"img/2048/sight-179bbf05.webp","width":2048,"height":1428}]},{"slug":"good-morning-may","title":"Good Morning May","alt":"Silhouetted bare branches and a conifer against a cloudy sky lit orange and gold at dawn.","description":"Cloud banks catch the low sun and turn from grey to copper, while the gaps between them stay a cool, pale blue. The trees hold their detail only as outline — a tangle of leafless branches on the left, the stacked tiers of a conifer rising on the right. Almost the whole lower third is given over to darkness, which makes the burning strip of horizon feel all the brighter.","date":"2022-05-08","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/9 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#524434","width":3518,"height":3212,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/good-morning-may-8d75a16f.webp","width":1024,"height":935},{"src":"img/2048/good-morning-may-8d75a16f.webp","width":2048,"height":1870}]},{"slug":"img-0619-2","title":"Crown of Small Buds","alt":"A large pink waratah flower with a domed centre of tiny buds, surrounded by dark serrated leaves.","description":"The bloom opens like a hand, pointed bracts tipped in pale yellow curving back from a dome of tightly packed buds. Soft daylight picks out the ribbing in each petal and leaves the surrounding foliage in cool shadow, so the pink sits forward against deep green. Set slightly left of centre, the flower's weight is balanced by the long serrated leaf reaching in from the upper right.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"60mm · f/4 · 1/2000s · ISO 1250","color":"#5d3931","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0619-2-ac2803f6.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-0619-2-ac2803f6.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"img-0615-2","title":"Bristle and Ember","alt":"Orange cylindrical banksia flower spikes among fine needle-like grey-green foliage against a pale sky.","description":"Upright orange flower spikes push through a dense tangle of narrow, needle-like leaves, their bristled surfaces catching soft overcast light. The pale sky behind flattens into a plain wash, letting the muted grey-greens carry the frame while the blooms stay warm and insistent. One spike sits near the centre in sharp detail, with others repeating in softer focus toward the edges.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"65mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 1000","color":"#685846","width":5142,"height":3130,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0615-2-057fe5c2.webp","width":1024,"height":624},{"src":"img/2048/img-0615-2-057fe5c2.webp","width":2048,"height":1247}]},{"slug":"img-0607-2","title":"One Bloom Opens","alt":"Deep red fuzzy tubular flowers on hairy stems, with one open star-shaped green bloom at the centre.","description":"The clusters of red tubular buds are covered in fine hairs that catch the light along their edges, while a single bloom has split open into a pale green star with yellow tips at its centre. The background dissolves into soft bands of sand-coloured and green tones, leaving the stems and their velvety texture to carry the frame. Placing the one open flower slightly below centre gives the eye a quiet resting point among all the closed forms.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"146mm · f/5.6 · 1/2000s · ISO 1600","color":"#77624b","width":3948,"height":3300,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0607-2-1e3a19b0.webp","width":1024,"height":856},{"src":"img/2048/img-0607-2-1e3a19b0.webp","width":2048,"height":1712}]},{"slug":"img-0598-2","title":"A Hundred Pink Needles","alt":"A round pink flower head with many thin tubular florets tipped in yellow and orange, against blurred green foliage.","description":"The bloom is a dense sphere of slender pink florets, each one ending in a small hook of yellow or orange, so the whole head seems to bristle with light. Soft overcast light keeps the pink even and unblown, while the background falls away into deep green and shadow. Placed slightly right of centre on its short stem, the flower gets room to sit alone in the frame.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"135mm · f/5 · 1/2000s · ISO 1250","color":"#4c413b","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0598-2-c2b82787.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-0598-2-c2b82787.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"img-0595-2","title":"Two Red Candles Rising","alt":"Two deep red velvety cone-shaped flower spikes rising from wood-chip mulch beside serrated green leaves.","description":"Two velvety cones push up through a bed of pale wood chips, their deep maroon surfaces textured like close-packed bristles, with rust-coloured fringes splayed at the base. Soft overcast light keeps the mulch warm and shadowless, letting the red hold all the weight in the frame. Serrated leaves lean in from the upper left, and a leaning slab of bark divides the two, giving each its own space.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"146mm · f/5 · 1/2000s · ISO 2500","color":"#7e5739","width":4574,"height":2634,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0595-2-b75f81be.webp","width":1024,"height":590},{"src":"img/2048/img-0595-2-b75f81be.webp","width":2048,"height":1179}]},{"slug":"img-0590-2","title":"Blue Held in Shadow","alt":"Many small blue five-petalled flowers on thin stems with narrow leaves against a dark background.","description":"Dozens of small blue flowers crowd along wiry stems, each one showing a pale throat with a dark centre. The surrounding foliage falls away into near-black shade, so the petals seem lit from within, and the cool blue sits against the deep green like scattered sparks. The blossoms drift diagonally across the frame, densest at the left and thinning toward the right.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"187mm · f/6.3 · 1/2000s · ISO 800","color":"#27374d","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0590-2-2ea71b9a.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-0590-2-2ea71b9a.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"img-0588-2","title":"Violet Among Silver Leaves","alt":"Small purple five-petalled flowers with yellow centres among silvery-green felted leaves on a shrub.","description":"Violet flowers with bright yellow centres sit scattered across a tangle of pale, felted leaves, each one edged in soft hairs that catch the diffuse light. The silver-grey foliage cools the whole frame, letting the purple read as the only warm note. Depth falls away quickly into dark green shadow behind, so the clustered blooms in the lower left and upper left hold the eye.","date":"2021-09-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 160","color":"#4c4f4e","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/img-0588-2-51fbf2ae.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/img-0588-2-51fbf2ae.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"pink-flower","title":"Pink Flower","alt":"Close-up of a cluster of pale pink five-petalled blossoms with yellow stamens against a dark background.","description":"A single blossom holds the centre of the frame, its petals shading from white at the base to soft pink at the edges, with a crown of yellow-tipped stamens rising from a red throat. Sunlight catches only the near flowers, letting the rest of the cluster fall into shadow and blur. The dark green and mahogany background makes the pink read almost luminous.","date":"2021-08-22","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/2000s · ISO 400","color":"#5d4842","width":3606,"height":2916,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pink-flower-44ce5b44.webp","width":1024,"height":828},{"src":"img/2048/pink-flower-44ce5b44.webp","width":2048,"height":1656}]},{"slug":"gull-refelection-1","title":"Gull Refelection 1","alt":"A white gull stands in shallow water at the shoreline, head lowered, with its reflection below.","description":"A gull pauses in the thin sheet of water left by a spent wave, head bowed toward whatever it has found. Low warm light picks out the white of its back and the orange of its legs, while the rest of the surface holds cool blue shadow broken by gold ripples. Its reflection stretches down into the lower half of the frame, keeping the bird small and off-centre against a wide field of moving water.","date":"2021-08-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/5.6 · 1/2000s · ISO 640","color":"#45525f","width":4473,"height":3018,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/gull-refelection-1-536fb6c8.webp","width":1024,"height":691},{"src":"img/2048/gull-refelection-1-536fb6c8.webp","width":2048,"height":1382}]},{"slug":"gull-refelection","title":"Gull Refelection","alt":"A white gull with red legs stands in shallow water, its reflection below and two railings behind it.","description":"The gull stands in a thin sheet of water, low sun catching its white breast and red legs while the sea behind stays deep blue. Two horizontal rails cross the upper frame, lit along their length in the same warm gold. Below, the reflection stretches downward, softened and broken by ripples.","date":"2021-08-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/6.3 · 1/2000s · ISO 500","color":"#44505a","width":3775,"height":3275,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/gull-refelection-675d91cd.webp","width":1024,"height":888},{"src":"img/2048/gull-refelection-675d91cd.webp","width":2048,"height":1777}]},{"slug":"gull-little-wave","title":"Gull Little Wave","alt":"A white and grey gull with a red bill stands in shallow blue water as a small wave breaks behind it.","description":"A small wave curls in from the left, and the gull holds its ground in the shallows, lit warmly from low on the horizon. The water reads deep blue with fine ripples, while the wet sand in the lower corner picks up a soft amber cast. Placing the bird just left of centre leaves room for the wave to travel toward it.","date":"2021-08-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"229mm · f/6.3 · 1/2000s · ISO 640","color":"#465d77","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/gull-little-wave-3fa66ec8.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/gull-little-wave-3fa66ec8.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"close-pink","title":"Close Pink","alt":"Small pink and white five-petalled flowers with dark centres cluster along thin branches with tiny green leaves.","description":"Dozens of small five-petalled blooms crowd along slender stems, each one pale at the edges and flushed deep pink at the centre, with rust-orange buds waiting between them. The light is soft and even, letting the dark green shade behind the branches fall away into near black. Sharpness holds in a narrow band through the middle of the frame, so the flowers at the edges dissolve into soft blots of pink.","date":"2021-08-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/1000s · ISO 5000","color":"#534d42","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/close-pink-b92fe454.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/close-pink-b92fe454.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"many-pink","title":"Many Pink","alt":"Dense shrub covered in tiny pink and white bell-shaped flowers among fine dark green foliage.","description":"Hundreds of small bell-shaped blooms crowd the slender branches, each one pale at the rim and flushed deeper pink at the throat. The dark, needle-fine foliage falls away into shadow behind them, so the flowers seem to float in loose drifts across the frame. Soft, even light keeps the colour quiet, and the eye is left to wander rather than settle on any single point.","date":"2021-08-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"116mm · f/5.6 · 1/1000s · ISO 2500","color":"#575244","width":3535,"height":2363,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/many-pink-7c9ea725.webp","width":1024,"height":684},{"src":"img/2048/many-pink-7c9ea725.webp","width":2048,"height":1369}]},{"slug":"oragnised-flight","title":"Oragnised Flight","alt":"Gulls flying above a field of weathered wooden pilings jutting from the sea under a grey sky","description":"A loose scatter of gulls holds the upper half of the frame, each bird caught at a different angle of wing, while below them hundreds of broken wooden pilings crowd the water like a drowned forest. The light is flat and overcast, pushing the whole scene toward a cool blue-grey that flattens the horizon into a thin pale band. The contrast between the white birds and the dark, splintered posts gives the composition its two clear registers: motion above, ruin below.","date":"2021-07-25","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"84mm · f/10 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#899c9c","width":3683,"height":1698,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/oragnised-flight-33d78039.webp","width":1024,"height":472},{"src":"img/2048/oragnised-flight-33d78039.webp","width":2048,"height":944}]},{"slug":"exploding-ball","title":"Exploding Ball","alt":"Close-up of a round dandelion seed head with white feathery seeds against blurred green grass.","description":"A dandelion clock holds its full sphere intact, each seed radiating from a brown centre on a pale, threadlike stalk. Soft light catches the tips so they read as small white sparks against the deep green blur of grass blades behind. The head sits slightly above centre, its stem rising from the bottom edge to anchor the frame.","date":"2021-07-18","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/400s · ISO 1000","color":"#455e2a","width":3457,"height":2305,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/exploding-ball-78c542f1.webp","width":1024,"height":683},{"src":"img/2048/exploding-ball-78c542f1.webp","width":2048,"height":1366}]},{"slug":"little-white","title":"Little White","alt":"Dense mass of tiny white star-shaped flowers with pink centres above thick green succulent leaves and red stems.","description":"A succulent in full bloom, packed edge to edge with five-petalled flowers barely wider than a fingernail, each one blushed pink at the centre. The soft, even light keeps the white petals from burning out and lets the deep green of the paddle-shaped leaves and the red of the stems hold their colour. With no horizon or edge to anchor the eye, the frame becomes a field of small repeating stars, broken only by a single dried leaf near the top.","date":"2021-06-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/4 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#72744c","width":2407,"height":2340,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/little-white-d46a40c3.webp","width":1024,"height":996},{"src":"img/2048/little-white-d46a40c3.webp","width":2048,"height":1991}]},{"slug":"black-branch","title":"Black Branch","alt":"Looking straight up into a bare tree, its branches silhouetted black against a pale overcast sky.","description":"Seen from directly beneath, the trunk splits into heavy limbs that thin out into a net of twigs, each one reduced to flat black against a blank white sky. Small seed clusters still cling to the outer branches, reading as dark specks scattered across the brighter edges. The near-total absence of mid-tones turns the tree into pure line and pattern, filling the frame corner to corner.","date":"2021-06-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/5 · 1/1000s · ISO 100","color":"#727272","width":4608,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/black-branch-5c45cc12.webp","width":1024,"height":768},{"src":"img/2048/black-branch-5c45cc12.webp","width":2048,"height":1536}]},{"slug":"high-leaves","title":"High Leaves","alt":"Looking straight up into dark silhouetted tree trunks and branches against a pink and blue sky.","description":"Seen from directly below, several trunks lean inward and their branches interlock, leaving only narrow channels of sky between them. The light comes from behind the canopy, so the leaves read almost black while their edges pick up a reddish flush. Pale pink near the lower centre cools to blue at the top corners, and the grain in the shadows gives the whole frame a dense, woven texture.","date":"2021-06-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/4 · 1/1000s · ISO 160","color":"#402e35","width":4608,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/high-leaves-8841b582.webp","width":1024,"height":768},{"src":"img/2048/high-leaves-8841b582.webp","width":2048,"height":1536}]},{"slug":"pier-wave","title":"Pier Wave","alt":"A breaking wave churns brown and white foam in front of a long pier with white railings under a grey sky.","description":"A wave rises and collapses across the frame, dragging sand up into the foam so the water turns the colour of weak tea. Above it the pier runs flat from edge to edge, its white railing and dark pilings reduced to a graphic band, with a small red cross-shaped sign the only bright note. The sky is a featureless pale grey, which leaves all the movement and texture in the lower half of the picture.","date":"2021-06-10","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"163mm · f/5.6 · 1/250s · ISO 125","color":"#828c8b","width":4839,"height":2352,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pier-wave-435ff394.webp","width":1024,"height":498},{"src":"img/2048/pier-wave-435ff394.webp","width":2048,"height":995}]},{"slug":"sea-bird-flight","title":"Sea Bird Flight","alt":"A gull with black-tipped wings spread wide glides low over pale sand, with surf and a pier blurred behind.","description":"The gull holds its wings at full stretch, close enough to the sand that its shadow feels imminent, orange bill tipped slightly downward. Behind it, the breaking surf and the dark pilings of a pier dissolve into soft grey, leaving the bird as the only sharp thing in the frame. Warm sand fills the lower two thirds, its footprints and ripples echoing the diagonal of the wings.","date":"2021-06-10","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"154mm · f/5.6 · 1/2000s · ISO 1250","color":"#9b8971","width":3752,"height":2398,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sea-bird-flight-2c36ec3c.webp","width":1024,"height":654},{"src":"img/2048/sea-bird-flight-2c36ec3c.webp","width":2048,"height":1309}]},{"slug":"devils-mailbox","title":"Devils Mailbox","alt":"Rows of dark metal post office boxes with keyholes and numbered plates, including box 666.","description":"A wall of numbered mail boxes fills the frame edge to edge, their pebbled black doors broken only by small keyholes and white-bordered number plates. Faint light catches the brass of a few locks, warming an otherwise grey and charcoal grid. Box 666 sits near the centre, which is presumably where the title came from.","date":"2021-06-05","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"65mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 5000","color":"#282a32","width":1531,"height":957,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/devils-mailbox-66fd84ed.webp","width":1024,"height":640},{"src":"img/2048/devils-mailbox-66fd84ed.webp","width":1531,"height":957}]},{"slug":"flower-bird","title":"Flower Bird","alt":"A spotted dove stands on green grass beside a garden bed with magenta daisy-like flowers.","description":"The dove holds still on the lawn, its spotted collar catching the late light along with the warm wash of grey and pink across its back. Magenta blooms sit at the left edge, a soft counterweight to the bird on the right, with the darker shrubbery behind falling out of focus. The grass is bright and close at the bottom of the frame, low enough that we meet the bird at its own level.","date":"2021-06-05","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/6.3 · 1/2000s · ISO 2000","color":"#525b3f","width":3178,"height":2075,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/flower-bird-c3a39a78.webp","width":1024,"height":668},{"src":"img/2048/flower-bird-c3a39a78.webp","width":2048,"height":1337}]},{"slug":"focus-water","title":"Focus Water","alt":"Shallow rippling water over sand, with two red leaves and small twigs seen through the moving surface.","description":"Sunlight breaks across the surface of shallow water, drawing bright seams through the sand below and scattering thin flecks of colour at the edges of each ripple. Two red leaves sit half-submerged, their colour startling against the warm grey-brown bed. The frame holds nothing still — every line bends, and only the leaves and a few dark twigs give the eye somewhere to rest.","date":"2021-06-05","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"154mm · f/5.6 · 1/640s · ISO 1000","color":"#7b654f","width":2274,"height":1882,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/focus-water-8f86645c.webp","width":1024,"height":848},{"src":"img/2048/focus-water-8f86645c.webp","width":2048,"height":1695}]},{"slug":"hanging","title":"Hanging","alt":"A cluster of orange-and-green flower buds hanging from a pale grey stalk against dark green foliage.","description":"A single stalk lifts a crowded umbel of buds, each one tipped orange and fading to green where it meets its stem. Soft light picks out the waxy surfaces while the background falls away into deep green and near-black, leaving a second, blurred stalk as a faint echo at either edge. The downward tilt of the buds gives the whole head a weighted, pendulous feel.","date":"2021-06-05","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"100mm · f/5 · 1/2000s · ISO 1250","color":"#293b1c","width":3973,"height":3415,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/hanging-eaeb377e.webp","width":1024,"height":880},{"src":"img/2048/hanging-eaeb377e.webp","width":2048,"height":1760}]},{"slug":"brown","title":"Brown","alt":"A spotted dove with a black-and-white speckled neck patch stands on dry ground scattered with twigs and yellow leaves.","description":"A spotted dove pauses on a bed of dry twigs and wood chips, its rosy breast and scalloped brown wing feathers echoing the ground almost exactly. The one bright note is the beaded collar at its neck, picked out by soft light, along with the coral-red legs. Scattered yellow leaves lift the otherwise unbroken field of browns, and the bird sits just left of centre, facing into the open space to the right.","date":"2021-06-05","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/2000s · ISO 2500","color":"#5f4d3d","width":3457,"height":2305,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/brown-ecf9f69c.webp","width":1024,"height":683},{"src":"img/2048/brown-ecf9f69c.webp","width":2048,"height":1366}]},{"slug":"yellow-banksia","title":"Yellow Banksia","alt":"A tall yellow cylindrical banksia flower spike surrounded by dark green serrated leaves.","description":"A banksia spike stands upright against its own foliage, each tiny yellow style packed into a dense cylinder with a small rust-brown crown at the tip. Cool, even light keeps the yellow soft rather than glaring, and the dark blue-green leaves crowd in from the left to hold the frame. A second, blurred spike glows faintly behind it, echoing the shape without competing for attention.","date":"2021-06-05","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"90mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 800","color":"#423d18","width":2612,"height":2325,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/yellow-banksia-d56ece30.webp","width":1024,"height":912},{"src":"img/2048/yellow-banksia-d56ece30.webp","width":2048,"height":1823}]},{"slug":"port-melbourne-wide","title":"Port Melbourne Wide","alt":"A long low pier stretches across a choppy sea under a deep blue sky filled with white clouds, sand in the foreground.","description":"A low pier runs almost the full width of the frame, reduced to a dark silhouette with slender lamp posts standing along it. Above, towering cumulus break up a saturated blue sky, while below the water turns dark and restless with lines of breaking foam. The warm orange of the wet sand in the foreground sits in sharp contrast to all that blue.","date":"2021-05-15","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"11mm · f/10 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#355778","width":3979,"height":1978,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/port-melbourne-wide-b1c9b340.webp","width":1024,"height":509},{"src":"img/2048/port-melbourne-wide-b1c9b340.webp","width":2048,"height":1018}]},{"slug":"the-artof-leaves","title":"The Artof Leaves","alt":"Upward view of tree branches with rust and gold autumn leaves against a pale blue-grey sky.","description":"Looking straight up into a canopy well into its turning, the leaves run from ochre and amber to deep wine red, with a few stubborn greens still holding on. The overcast sky reads as a soft blue-grey, flat enough to let every twig and small seed ball register as a dark line. Darker leaves crowd in from the top and right edges, framing the open pocket of sky at the centre.","date":"2021-05-02","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#695447","width":4744,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/the-artof-leaves-c3d1b0e4.webp","width":1024,"height":746},{"src":"img/2048/the-artof-leaves-c3d1b0e4.webp","width":2048,"height":1492}]},{"slug":"more-yellow","title":"More Yellow","alt":"A single yellow daisy-like flower with an orange centre, seen head-on against dark green foliage.","description":"The bloom is turned squarely to the camera, its petals radiating out to fill almost the whole frame. Light falls evenly across them, picking out the fine ridges and the dense orange-tipped florets at the centre. Behind it, the leaves fall away into a blur of deep green and shadow, so the yellow has nothing to compete with.","date":"2021-05-02","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/5.6 · 1/3200s · ISO 640","color":"#646703","width":2843,"height":2821,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/more-yellow-911673db.webp","width":1024,"height":1016},{"src":"img/2048/more-yellow-911673db.webp","width":2048,"height":2032}]},{"slug":"more-yellow-fb","title":"More Yellow FB","alt":"A single yellow daisy-like flower with an orange centre, seen from above against blurred green leaves.","description":"The bloom fills nearly the whole frame, its fourteen petals spreading evenly from a dense orange-and-yellow centre. Soft light picks out the fine ribs running along each petal, while the background falls away into dark green and rust-red shadow. The saturation is pushed hard, so the yellow reads almost flat against the foliage behind it.","date":"2021-05-02","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/5.6 · 1/3200s · ISO 640","color":"#646704","width":1024,"height":1016,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/more-yellow-fb-a3cc8152.webp","width":1024,"height":1016},{"src":"img/2048/more-yellow-fb-a3cc8152.webp","width":1024,"height":1016}]},{"slug":"ball","title":"Ball","alt":"A small red, yellow and blue ball floating alone on rippled grey-green water with blue highlights.","description":"A single striped ball rides the surface, its red, yellow and blue panels the only saturated colour in a field of grey-green ripples. Thin rings spread out from where it touches the water, and slivers of reflected sky lie across the surface like scattered blue paint. Placing it just off centre leaves most of the frame to the restless texture of the water, which makes the ball feel very small.","date":"2021-05-02","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"131mm · f/5 · 1/3200s · ISO 640","color":"#716c5c","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/ball-7a67d81f.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/ball-7a67d81f.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"sunset-tree","title":"Sunset Tree","alt":"Silhouette of a round-crowned tree against an orange and pink sunset sky with thin clouds.","description":"The tree's dense crown reads as a single dark mass, its leaf edges still finely separated against the light. Behind it the sky moves from pale gold at the top through apricot to bands of coral and red near the horizon, with one small cloud drifting alone on the left. Placed off-centre in a wide frame, the silhouette leaves most of the picture to open colour.","date":"2021-04-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"70mm · f/5.6 · 1/100s · ISO 640","color":"#8c6148","width":5008,"height":2336,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-tree-1aea83a1.webp","width":1024,"height":478},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-tree-1aea83a1.webp","width":2048,"height":955}]},{"slug":"wind-clouds","title":"Wind Clouds","alt":"Red and orange sunset sky streaked with wispy clouds above a dark silhouette of rooftops and a tall apartment block.","description":"Streaked cloud fills almost the whole frame, brushed into long wind-drawn strands that run from crimson at the top to molten orange near the horizon. The city is reduced to a flat black band along the bottom, with a balconied tower rising at the right edge as the only interruption. Keeping the buildings small and dark leaves the sky to carry everything.","date":"2021-04-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"74mm · f/4.5 · 1/30s · ISO 100","color":"#833631","width":5184,"height":2621,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/wind-clouds-e9ec9017.webp","width":1024,"height":518},{"src":"img/2048/wind-clouds-e9ec9017.webp","width":2048,"height":1036}]},{"slug":"sky-orange","title":"Sky Orange","alt":"Sunset sky with a wide band of orange clouds above a dark silhouetted horizon.","description":"A long band of cloud stretches diagonally across the upper sky, lit from beneath so its edges burn orange against deepening blue. Below, the air cools to green-grey before another line of red embers marks the horizon, where faint towers and masts stand as small dark shapes. The frame gives almost everything to the sky, leaving the land as a thin, quiet base.","date":"2021-04-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/7.1 · 1/125s · ISO 100","color":"#815a31","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sky-orange-56f9aef1.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/sky-orange-56f9aef1.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"sunset-man","title":"Sunset Man","alt":"Silhouette of a person standing with a tripod on a waterfront path, facing an orange sunset over calm water.","description":"A lone figure stands at the edge of the promenade, tripod legs splayed beside him, reduced to a flat black shape against the burning sky. The cloud bands catch the last of the sun in layers of orange and gold, fading to pale green overhead, while the water below holds only a dull copper sheen. Distant pylons, light poles and a moored ship sit low on the horizon, small enough to keep all the weight on the standing man.","date":"2021-04-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"60mm · f/7.1 · 1/125s · ISO 100","color":"#7e593b","width":4855,"height":2496,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-man-9a62b001.webp","width":1024,"height":526},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-man-9a62b001.webp","width":2048,"height":1053}]},{"slug":"sunset-bars","title":"Sunset Bars","alt":"Two metal ladder rails rise from a jetty against an orange sunset over calm water and a low shoreline.","description":"Two curved handrails stand like a pair of parentheses in front of the setting sun, their polished tops catching the last of the warm light. Beyond them the far shore flattens into silhouette — pylons, masts, trees and a curved roofline — while the sun lays a soft broken path across the water. The banded orange sky and the dark foreground frame the scene into three simple horizontal layers.","date":"2021-04-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#815c41","width":4624,"height":2490,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-bars-e7657006.webp","width":1024,"height":552},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-bars-e7657006.webp","width":2048,"height":1103}]},{"slug":"wild","title":"Wild","alt":"Dark storm clouds over a choppy green-grey sea with breaking white waves and small markers on the horizon.","description":"A heavy bank of cloud presses down on the horizon, deep blue-black above a sea lit from somewhere off to the side. The water reads olive and slate, its surface broken into short, restless waves with white crests rolling toward the foreground. Thin silhouettes of channel markers and distant structures sit along the horizon line, small enough to give the whole scene its scale.","date":"2021-04-10","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/9 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#33414e","width":4429,"height":2514,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/wild-5aee5242.webp","width":1024,"height":581},{"src":"img/2048/wild-5aee5242.webp","width":2048,"height":1162}]},{"slug":"wild-pier","title":"Wild Pier","alt":"Choppy green sea breaking into white foam beside weathered pier pilings under a dark blue sky.","description":"The water churns in bands of bottle green and white, lifting and collapsing before it reaches the pier's weathered timber legs at the right edge. A deep, almost inky blue sky presses down on the horizon, where a few small markers and a distant vessel break the line. The contrast between that flat dark band and the restless, sunlit foam gives the frame most of its energy.","date":"2021-04-10","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4.5 · 1/1600s · ISO 160","color":"#4b5b64","width":4564,"height":2378,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/wild-pier-9996c38f.webp","width":1024,"height":534},{"src":"img/2048/wild-pier-9996c38f.webp","width":2048,"height":1067}]},{"slug":"beach-plant","title":"Beach Plant","alt":"A clump of olive-yellow bladdered seaweed lying on wet sand at the edge of a foaming shoreline.","description":"A tangle of seaweed rests where the last of a wave slides back, its air bladders catching low light and turning a warm amber against blue-grey water. The foam traces a soft diagonal across the frame, separating the coarse dry sand from the shallows. A thin red stem trails off to the left, a small counterweight to the heavy cluster at the centre.","date":"2021-04-04","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"163mm · f/5.6 · 1/3200s · ISO 500","color":"#67605a","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/beach-plant-d6dce395.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/beach-plant-d6dce395.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"melbourne-towers-bw","title":"Melbourne Towers BW","alt":"Black and white view of tall city towers rising above a dark band of trees and a still stretch of water.","description":"Two slender towers hold the skyline, their flat faces catching a low, even light while everything below sinks into shadow. The trees form a dense dark ridge across the frame, with a pale sliver of water at the bottom picking up the last reflections. In monochrome the city reads as flat grey shapes stacked against an almost blank sky.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#616161","width":3414,"height":3091,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/melbourne-towers-bw-79155a58.webp","width":1024,"height":927},{"src":"img/2048/melbourne-towers-bw-79155a58.webp","width":2048,"height":1854}]},{"slug":"falling-water","title":"Falling Water","alt":"Close view of water falling in vertical strands into churning white foam over dark rock.","description":"Falling Water holds the curtain at the moment it breaks, thin vertical strands unravelling into spray and foam against a near-black wall. The light picks out only the water, so the frame reads almost as monochrome, cooled by green in the upper streams and warmed to cream where the froth gathers below. A dark rock in the lower edge anchors the turbulence and gives the eye somewhere to rest.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/5.6 · 1/4000s · ISO 320","color":"#617172","width":5184,"height":2454,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/falling-water-6fd9602d.webp","width":1024,"height":484},{"src":"img/2048/falling-water-6fd9602d.webp","width":2048,"height":969}]},{"slug":"splash-of-yellow","title":"Splash Of Yellow","alt":"Yellow daisy-like flowers on tall leafy stems in front of deep blue water in shadow.","description":"Yellow blooms and tight green buds rise on slender stems against water that reads almost cobalt in the shade. The dark background pushes the petals forward, and the cooler blue makes the yellow feel warmer than it might in open light. Flowers scatter across the frame at different heights, with the fullest bloom sitting just left of centre.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/1600s · ISO 4000","color":"#373a2f","width":5184,"height":2561,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/splash-of-yellow-4660617a.webp","width":1024,"height":506},{"src":"img/2048/splash-of-yellow-4660617a.webp","width":2048,"height":1012}]},{"slug":"yellow-yellow-yellow","title":"Yellow Yellow Yellow","alt":"Yellow daisy-like flowers on tall stems glowing against a dark blue and black background.","description":"A cluster of yellow daisy-like blooms catches low, warm light while the water or ground behind them falls away into deep blue and black. The contrast is extreme: petals and a few leaf edges burn bright, and everything else sinks into shadow, leaving buds and stems as faint silhouettes. Flowers scatter across the frame at different heights, a loose upward drift rather than a single centre of attention.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/1600s · ISO 4000","color":"#1e1f1e","width":5055,"height":2861,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/yellow-yellow-yellow-438881e7.webp","width":1024,"height":580},{"src":"img/2048/yellow-yellow-yellow-438881e7.webp","width":2048,"height":1159}]},{"slug":"urban-walkway","title":"Urban Walkway","alt":"High-contrast black and white view along a narrow caged footbridge, with fence shadows striping the path and graffiti ahead.","description":"A narrow walkway hemmed in by mesh fencing on both sides, its perspective pulling hard toward a graffitied pillar at the far end. Hard midday light turns the wire into a ladder of shadows across the concrete, while the surrounding trees and overhead wires burn out into blank white. The heavy blacks of the fence press in from the edges, leaving only that bright central corridor to follow.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4 · 1/3200s · ISO 500","color":"#535353","width":4876,"height":3250,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/urban-walkway-8f95e335.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/urban-walkway-8f95e335.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"riviting","title":"Riviting","alt":"Close-up of a rusted riveted metal plate with rows of domed rivets, lit warm orange against black.","description":"A riveted steel plate fills the frame edge to edge, its domed heads marching in rows along the top and bottom borders. Warm orange light rakes across the surface, leaving the centre in mottled greens and deep browns where the paint and rust have argued for years. The band of metal sits on pure black above and below, so the eye has nowhere to go but the texture itself.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"79mm · f/5.6 · 1/125s · ISO 250","color":"#3b1a01","width":3456,"height":4174,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/riviting-6dc2a855.webp","width":848,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/riviting-6dc2a855.webp","width":1696,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"a-bridge-far-enough","title":"A Bridge Far Enough","alt":"Black and white view down a long caged pedestrian bridge, with lattice shadows falling across the walkway.","description":"A caged footbridge pulls the eye to a small bright opening of trees at its far end, the mesh walls and overhead trusses converging hard toward that point. Strong sun turns the steel lattice into a repeating pattern of diagonal shadows across the concrete deck, while the handrails run as two pale lines through the dark. In monochrome the structure reads as pure geometry, deep black frames against washed-out light.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4 · 1/3200s · ISO 400","color":"#4a4a4a","width":4439,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/a-bridge-far-enough-a4a1ff7c.webp","width":1024,"height":797},{"src":"img/2048/a-bridge-far-enough-a4a1ff7c.webp","width":2048,"height":1594}]},{"slug":"reflections-on-the-city","title":"Reflections On The City","alt":"Glass curtain wall reflecting a tower's wavy balconies, with one red and one green coloured panel, leaves at upper right.","description":"A flat grid of mullions holds a warped mirror image of a neighbouring tower, its balcony slabs bending into ribbons across the glass. Two saturated panels, one red high on the left and one green low on the right, interrupt the cool blues and pale pinks like stray signal lights. Dark out-of-focus leaves crowd the top right corner, the only soft edge in an otherwise ruled and repeating surface.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"60mm · f/4 · 1/3200s · ISO 800","color":"#47505b","width":3967,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/reflections-on-the-city-e885c33d.webp","width":1024,"height":892},{"src":"img/2048/reflections-on-the-city-e885c33d.webp","width":2048,"height":1784}]},{"slug":"beautiful-city","title":"Beautiful City","alt":"Close view of a modern building facade with brightly coloured panels in red, blue, green, yellow and orange between glass windows.","description":"The facade becomes a grid of saturated blocks, red and yellow pressing against green, blue and a single orange panel near the top. Mesh balcony railings run in diagonal bands across the frame, softening the hard edges of glass and metal. Shot from below, the lines converge upward, so the pattern reads more as flat colour field than as architecture.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"60mm · f/4 · 1/3200s · ISO 1250","color":"#5c6b59","width":4769,"height":2915,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/beautiful-city-c17a0d96.webp","width":1024,"height":626},{"src":"img/2048/beautiful-city-c17a0d96.webp","width":2048,"height":1252}]},{"slug":"angles","title":"Angles","alt":"Upward view of the glass corner of a modern office building against a deep blue sky, with green and yellow accent stripes.","description":"The corner of the facade splits the frame into two receding grids, each pane holding a slightly different tone of blue. Thin bands of green and yellow run horizontally across the glass, the only warm interruptions in an otherwise cool field. Cloudless sky presses in on both sides, flat and saturated, so the building reads almost as pure geometry.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4 · 1/3200s · ISO 320","color":"#1e478a","width":3882,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/angles-cd74b841.webp","width":1024,"height":912},{"src":"img/2048/angles-cd74b841.webp","width":2048,"height":1823}]},{"slug":"bridge-art","title":"Bridge Art","alt":"Curved timber and steel lattice forming a tunnel-like canopy, with a blue glass building behind it.","description":"A canopy of laminated timber ribs and pale steel plates arcs away from the frame, the crossing members building a dense basket of shadows and highlights. Behind it, a wall of blue glass flattens into bands of cobalt and turquoise, cool against the honeyed wood. A perforated metal balustrade runs along the bottom edge, anchoring the curves with a straight, grey line.","date":"2021-03-06","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/7.1 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#6d7989","width":5017,"height":2127,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/bridge-art-1c46a189.webp","width":1024,"height":434},{"src":"img/2048/bridge-art-1c46a189.webp","width":2048,"height":869}]},{"slug":"shell","title":"Shell","alt":"A single blue and cream banded clam shell resting on damp orange sand scattered with tiny shell fragments.","description":"A lone shell sits half-settled in the sand, its concentric bands moving from slate blue at the edges to pale cream across the middle. The surrounding grains read almost terracotta, broken here and there by small orange fragments and glassy quartz specks that catch the light. Placed low and left of centre, the shell leaves the upper right open to that field of texture, which keeps the eye returning to the cool curve against the warm ground.","date":"2021-02-16","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"100mm · f/10 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#9c643b","width":2750,"height":2773,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/shell-8aa26763.webp","width":1016,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/shell-8aa26763.webp","width":2031,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"rosella","title":"Rosella","alt":"A red and blue parrot with black-scalloped back feathers perched on a bare branch against a blurred thicket.","description":"A crimson rosella grips a diagonal branch, its scalloped black-and-red back turned to the viewer while the head angles just enough to show one dark eye and a pale bill. The blue of the cheek, wing and long tail reads almost violet against the muted greys and greens of the tangled background. Soft, overcast light keeps the plumage saturated without hard highlights, and the shaggy trunk on the left frames the bird's vertical pose.","date":"2021-02-15","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"232mm · f/5.6 · 1/160s · ISO 2000","color":"#5e6661","width":2388,"height":2515,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/rosella-14305cbd.webp","width":972,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/rosella-14305cbd.webp","width":1945,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"white-puff-flower","title":"White Puff Flower","alt":"A soft, fluffy pale grass seed head on a thin stem, with more blurred heads against bright green.","description":"A single downy seed head leans in from the left, its fine hairs catching the light and separating into individual threads at the edges. Behind it, a darker head and a second pale one dissolve into a wash of green, leaving the foreground tuft as the only thing held in focus. The narrow stem draws a thin, bright line down through the lower frame.","date":"2021-02-15","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 320","color":"#678034","width":2699,"height":3041,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/white-puff-flower-c073527d.webp","width":909,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/white-puff-flower-c073527d.webp","width":1818,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"black-swan","title":"Black Swan","alt":"A black swan with a bright red bill swims on rippling blue water, facing left.","description":"The swan sits low in the water, its curved neck catching just enough light to separate the dark feathers from the shadow beneath them. Against the cool blue chop, the red bill with its pale tip is the single warm note in the frame. Placed slightly left of centre, the bird leaves open water ahead of it, and the layered scalloping of its back feathers repeats the pattern of the small waves.","date":"2021-02-15","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 400","color":"#42648f","width":3060,"height":2135,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/black-swan-a74a9b08.webp","width":1024,"height":714},{"src":"img/2048/black-swan-a74a9b08.webp","width":2048,"height":1429}]},{"slug":"king-parrot","title":"King Parrot","alt":"A parrot with a red head and breast and green back perched on a thin bare branch among dim foliage.","description":"A male king parrot sits on a slender diagonal branch, head turned slightly so one dark eye catches the light. The scarlet of the head and breast reads almost hot against the deep green of the wings and the long tail dropping out of frame. Behind, grey twigs and shadowed leaves fall away into near-darkness, leaving the bird as the only bright thing in the tangle.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 6400","color":"#464640","width":3517,"height":2740,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/king-parrot-7778561c.webp","width":1024,"height":798},{"src":"img/2048/king-parrot-7778561c.webp","width":2048,"height":1596}]},{"slug":"gallah","title":"Gallah","alt":"Two pink and grey galahs perched on bare branches among dense green foliage.","description":"A pair of galahs sit a branch apart, one turned away with its back to us, the other leaning forward with its rose breast fully lit. Soft overcast light keeps the pink crowns and pale grey wings even, while the background falls away into tangled grey limbs and blurred green leaves. The diagonal branches cross the frame and hold the two birds in loose balance.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"194mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 6400","color":"#5e6050","width":3226,"height":2797,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/gallah-31c46f83.webp","width":1024,"height":888},{"src":"img/2048/gallah-31c46f83.webp","width":2048,"height":1776}]},{"slug":"large-pigeon","title":"Large Pigeon","alt":"A white-headed pigeon with dark wings stands on a grey ledge scattered with seed, facing the camera.","description":"A pigeon with a white head and breast and near-black wings faces the lens straight on, its red bill and pink feet the only warm notes against the cool plumage. Soft overcast light keeps the whites gentle and lets a faint green sheen show along the shoulder. Scattered seed on the grey ledge anchors the lower frame, while the background dissolves into blurred foliage and pale tree trunks.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"131mm · f/5 · 1/2500s · ISO 1600","color":"#50514d","width":1856,"height":1501,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/large-pigeon-35dcf0f3.webp","width":1024,"height":828},{"src":"img/2048/large-pigeon-35dcf0f3.webp","width":1856,"height":1501}]},{"slug":"double-wave","title":"Double Wave","alt":"Two green ocean waves breaking in parallel lines, white foam spilling toward a sandy shallow shore.","description":"Two waves break one behind the other, their crests tipping over into white foam that climbs almost the full height of the frame. The water holds a deep bottle green where it stands up against the light, fading to milky jade in the churn and to pale sand at the lower right. Stacked horizontal bands give the scene a quiet rhythm, the eye moving from the flat blue-green surface at the top down through each collapsing edge.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"131mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 160","color":"#72868e","width":5184,"height":3211,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/double-wave-8d72bfa1.webp","width":1024,"height":634},{"src":"img/2048/double-wave-8d72bfa1.webp","width":2048,"height":1269}]},{"slug":"waves","title":"Waves","alt":"A close view of a breaking wave, its green face topped with white foam and scattered droplets.","description":"A single wave caught at the moment its crest folds over, foam spilling left along the lip while spray hangs in the air above the face. The water reads deep bottle green where it thickens, thinning to a paler jade in the shallow water below. Sunlight comes from the front, flattening the foam to bright white against the darker swell behind it.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"179mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 320","color":"#5b8779","width":5184,"height":2303,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/waves-044ff09c.webp","width":1024,"height":455},{"src":"img/2048/waves-044ff09c.webp","width":2048,"height":910}]},{"slug":"lakes","title":"Lakes","alt":"A wide calm lake seen across sandy dunes with low shrubs, bushy headlands and a cloudy sky.","description":"A panoramic view across a broad inlet, where sandy ground and low scrub in the foreground give way to grey-blue water and a long wooded shoreline. The overcast light keeps the colours muted, the pale sand and soft greens holding more warmth than the water. A dark, tree-covered slope anchors the left edge, balanced by the small island of shrubs sitting out in the channel.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#888683","width":5184,"height":1789,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/lakes-369ba9eb.webp","width":1024,"height":354},{"src":"img/2048/lakes-369ba9eb.webp","width":2048,"height":707}]},{"slug":"bush-dunes","title":"Bush Dunes","alt":"Sand dunes with scattered shrubs behind a shallow wetland pool, with the sea and clear sky beyond.","description":"A shallow lagoon lies between low dunes and a band of grass, its still water holding the blue of the sky and the outlines of reeds. Dark rounded shrubs punctuate the pale sand, which rises just high enough to leave a thin strip of sea along the horizon. The layered bands — water, grass, sand, sea, sky — give the scene a quiet, almost diagrammatic order.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/9 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#67684e","width":5184,"height":2169,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/bush-dunes-2523ed0e.webp","width":1024,"height":428},{"src":"img/2048/bush-dunes-2523ed0e.webp","width":2048,"height":857}]},{"slug":"lama-2","title":"Lama 2","alt":"A reddish-brown llama faces the camera in a green pasture, with a pale hen blurred behind it.","description":"The llama holds its gaze straight down the lens, ears pricked forward, its dark muzzle the one sharp anchor in a frame otherwise built from soft curls of rust-coloured fleece. Behind it the hillside dissolves into flat green light, and a single pale hen wanders through the blur at lower left. Warm cinnamon against cool grass — a simple, direct portrait held slightly off centre.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/6.3 · 1/2500s · ISO 2000","color":"#989476","width":3456,"height":3172,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/lama-2-e3458396.webp","width":1024,"height":940},{"src":"img/2048/lama-2-e3458396.webp","width":2048,"height":1880}]},{"slug":"lama-1","title":"Lama 1","alt":"A shorn brown alpaca with a pale cream face and dark ears, looking at the camera in a green field.","description":"The animal's long neck rises straight out of the frame's lower edge, its cropped fleece still ragged from shearing, with a soft cream mask around the eyes and muzzle. Overcast light keeps the whole scene even, letting the warm russet of the coat sit against the cool green of the paddock. The blurred bank of scrub and a pale fence rail behind give the head plenty of quiet room.","date":"2021-02-14","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 1600","color":"#7a7968","width":3744,"height":3234,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/lama-1-2931406c.webp","width":1024,"height":884},{"src":"img/2048/lama-1-2931406c.webp","width":2048,"height":1769}]},{"slug":"bird","title":"Bird","alt":"A grey-blue pigeon with a pale head and red-tipped beak perched against a blurred green canopy.","description":"The bird holds a still, upright profile, its slate-blue wing feathers overlapping in neat rows against a paler cream breast. Soft light picks out the red of the beak and the ring around the eye, while the foliage behind dissolves into rounded green and white highlights. Placed low and to the right, the bird leaves the upper frame to that dappled, shifting background.","date":"2021-02-13","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"200mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 6400","color":"#516157","width":2348,"height":1671,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/bird-6a57c029.webp","width":1024,"height":728},{"src":"img/2048/bird-6a57c029.webp","width":2048,"height":1457}]},{"slug":"magpie","title":"Magpie","alt":"A young black and white magpie with mottled feathers leans forward, its pale grey beak tipped down.","description":"A juvenile magpie caught mid-lean, head tilted down and pale grey beak carrying a small crumb at its tip. The mottled brown-and-cream breast and ruffled white nape give away its age, still working towards the clean lines of an adult. Behind it the foliage dissolves into soft green circles of light, leaving the bird as the only sharp thing in the frame.","date":"2021-02-13","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"194mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 6400","color":"#5f7162","width":2881,"height":1609,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/magpie-63d03ad8.webp","width":1024,"height":572},{"src":"img/2048/magpie-63d03ad8.webp","width":2048,"height":1144}]},{"slug":"boardwalk","title":"Boardwalk","alt":"A long wooden pier with white railings and curved lamp posts running straight out into a blue sea under a clear sky.","description":"The boardwalk narrows to a single point on the horizon, its white railings and the shadows of the planks pulling the eye out over the water. Low sun scatters across the swell on the right while the left side stays deep green and shadowed, breaking into surf against the pilings. Above it all, the sky grades from pale haze at the waterline to a saturated blue overhead, with one thin brushstroke of cloud.","date":"2021-02-09","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/4 · 1/2000s · ISO 100","color":"#536987","width":5184,"height":2304,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/boardwalk-f57ba712.webp","width":1024,"height":455},{"src":"img/2048/boardwalk-f57ba712.webp","width":2048,"height":910}]},{"slug":"pier-side","title":"Pier Side","alt":"A wooden pier stretches out from the left over rocks and shallow water, with a distant ship on the horizon.","description":"The pier runs hard along the left edge, its white railings and barnacled pilings narrowing to a point where lamp posts curve over the deck. Below, a line of dark rocks divides wet sand from green water, and long shadows reach across the shallows toward the viewer. A ship sits small on the horizon under a broad blue sky brushed with thin cloud.","date":"2021-02-09","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/4 · 1/2000s · ISO 200","color":"#677880","width":3756,"height":1822,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pier-side-1f664fac.webp","width":1024,"height":496},{"src":"img/2048/pier-side-1f664fac.webp","width":2048,"height":993}]},{"slug":"pier-wide","title":"Pier Wide","alt":"A long white-railed pier stretches across shallow breaking waves under a deep blue sky.","description":"The pier runs almost the full width of the frame, its white railings and slim lamp posts drawn into a thin line against a sky that deepens from pale horizon to saturated blue overhead. Low waves fold over the sandbar in the foreground, their foam catching the light while the water beneath shifts between sandy brown and green. A few small figures walk the far end of the deck, giving the structure its scale.","date":"2021-02-09","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 125","color":"#43637a","width":5184,"height":1963,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pier-wide-b55fce6f.webp","width":1024,"height":388},{"src":"img/2048/pier-wide-b55fce6f.webp","width":2048,"height":776}]},{"slug":"beach-pier","title":"Beach Pier","alt":"View from beneath a wooden pier, its pilings receding over wet sand toward the sea under a blue sky.","description":"Looking out from under the pier, the timber deck frames the horizon and the double row of barnacled pilings draws the eye straight to the water. Hard midday sun leaves the underside in cool shadow while the wet sand outside glows warm ochre, streaked with reflections. The deep blue of the sky and the thin white line of breaking surf sit at the far edge of that dark frame, with a low shoreline of buildings just visible to the left.","date":"2021-02-09","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 320","color":"#66787c","width":5184,"height":2304,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/beach-pier-8e123506.webp","width":1024,"height":455},{"src":"img/2048/beach-pier-8e123506.webp","width":2048,"height":910}]},{"slug":"poles-wide","title":"Poles Wide","alt":"Hundreds of weathered wooden pilings standing in green-blue water, receding to the horizon under a clear sky.","description":"Rows of old timber pilings stretch away in converging lines, the remains of a pier reduced to its bones. Low sun catches the cut tops and the salt-bleached grain, while the water sits deep teal and lightly ruffled between them. A thin strip of distant shoreline and one drifting wisp of cloud keep the wide sky from feeling empty.","date":"2021-02-09","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"10-20mm","settings":"10mm · f/11 · 1/125s · ISO 100","color":"#61838e","width":4815,"height":2289,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/poles-wide-5b26baf0.webp","width":1024,"height":487},{"src":"img/2048/poles-wide-5b26baf0.webp","width":2048,"height":974}]},{"slug":"urban-forest","title":"Urban Forest","alt":"Looking up into smooth pale trunks and branches of tall trees with narrow green leaves against blue sky.","description":"Looking straight up, the smooth trunks divide and divide again, their bark peeling into patches of cream, ochre and rust. Narrow leaves hang in loose clusters, letting through slivers of hard blue sky. The branching fills the frame almost edge to edge, so the eye follows the pale lines rather than settling on any one point.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/6.3 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#44562d","width":3456,"height":5184,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/urban-forest-b3d0ef20.webp","width":682,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/urban-forest-b3d0ef20.webp","width":1365,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"back-lit","title":"Back Lit","alt":"Close-up of an open cream-white rose lit from behind, with glowing orange centre and dark blue background.","description":"Sunlight passes through the outer petals and pools in the centre of the rose, turning the cream tones to apricot and amber around a cluster of dark stamens. The deep blue and near-black background gives the bloom no competition, while a few leaves catch the light at the right edge. The flower sits slightly left of centre, its petals layered in loose, overlapping spirals.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"109mm · f/8 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#5d4d43","width":3957,"height":3326,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/back-lit-11b97cef.webp","width":1024,"height":860},{"src":"img/2048/back-lit-11b97cef.webp","width":2048,"height":1721}]},{"slug":"uncentered","title":"Uncentered","alt":"Dense stand of lavender with pale purple flower spikes on tall stems above silvery-green foliage.","description":"A thicket of flower spikes fills the frame edge to edge, each stem leaning a slightly different way so the eye never settles in one place. Strong sun picks out the pale mauve buds while the foliage falls away into deep green and near-black, and a few saturated blue-violet blooms gather near the middle. The lack of a single focal point is the point: the picture is all texture and repetition.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"96mm · f/8 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#324528","width":4493,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/uncentered-c9ad25b0.webp","width":1024,"height":788},{"src":"img/2048/uncentered-c9ad25b0.webp","width":2048,"height":1575}]},{"slug":"pop","title":"Pop","alt":"A white seed head beside a tightly closed green bud on a stem, against a black background.","description":"Two stages sit side by side: a fully opened seed head, lit until each filament glows white, and a green bud still sealed into its ridged case. The black background drops everything else away, leaving only the pale sphere and the small hard knot of green to answer each other across the frame. The stems cross low in the picture, a loose diagonal holding the two together.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/6.3 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#393b3b","width":1635,"height":1138,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pop-ce29ffa9.webp","width":1024,"height":713},{"src":"img/2048/pop-ce29ffa9.webp","width":1635,"height":1138}]},{"slug":"skyline","title":"Skyline","alt":"Panoramic view of a city skyline seen across a bay, with a pale beach and trees in the foreground.","description":"A long band of towers and construction cranes stands against a bank of grey cloud, the buildings rendered in cool blues and slate greys. Below them, a dark line of trees separates the city from a pale strip of sand and the flat water in the foreground. The wide format compresses the skyline into a single horizontal sweep, with slender lamp posts along the shore giving a sense of the distance involved.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#5f6878","width":5184,"height":1055,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/skyline-b2445c2c.webp","width":1024,"height":208},{"src":"img/2048/skyline-b2445c2c.webp","width":2048,"height":417}]},{"slug":"on-the-wind","title":"On The Wind","alt":"A wing foiler rides an orange board lifted above grey-green water, holding a yellow and black wing, with apartments behind.","description":"The board sits clear of the water on its foil, so the rider seems to hover above the chop with only a thin mast connecting him to the surface. The yellow and black wing is the one bright note in a scene otherwise made of grey-green water, pale render and dry coastal scrub. Placing him high in the frame leaves a wide field of ruffled water below, which gives a sense of how much open space he has to cross.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"232mm · f/8 · 1/500s · ISO 100","color":"#697074","width":3456,"height":2384,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/on-the-wind-e3b06513.webp","width":1024,"height":706},{"src":"img/2048/on-the-wind-e3b06513.webp","width":2048,"height":1413}]},{"slug":"wild-flower","title":"Wild Flower","alt":"Close-up of two rounded clusters of pale apricot flowers on stems covered in short needle-like green leaves.","description":"Two dense pompoms of frayed, apricot-tinged petals sit on stems packed with short needle-like leaves. Low light catches the pale filaments at the edges of each cluster, while the background falls away into soft green and warm brown. The two heads balance the frame on a diagonal, one near, one slightly behind.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"146mm · f/7.1 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#665d2c","width":2572,"height":1764,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/wild-flower-0589b42a.webp","width":1024,"height":702},{"src":"img/2048/wild-flower-0589b42a.webp","width":2048,"height":1405}]},{"slug":"flock","title":"Flock","alt":"A scattered flock of gulls in flight against a pale blue sky with thin streaks of cloud.","description":"Seventeen gulls hold the frame at once, each caught at a different point in its wingbeat — some banking, some gliding flat, one or two tipped almost vertical. The sky behind them is a soft wash of blue crossed by thin horizontal cloud, which keeps the birds crisp and dark-edged where the light catches their upper wings. The scattering feels random but spreads evenly corner to corner, so the eye keeps moving without settling.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"131mm · f/9 · 1/640s · ISO 100","color":"#8bb9ed","width":5184,"height":2564,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/flock-11689db3.webp","width":1024,"height":506},{"src":"img/2048/flock-11689db3.webp","width":2048,"height":1013}]},{"slug":"art-2art","title":"Art 2Art","alt":"A seated person holds a clipboard on their lap with a dense black pencil drawing of a building facade on white paper.","description":"A drawing board rests across denim knees, two black clips biting the edges of the paper while the artist's hand pauses at the top of the sheet. The graphite work is dense and insistent — a facade of repeated windows built up in hard vertical strokes — and it sits against the paper's brightness like a bruise. Soft grey pavement falls out of focus behind, leaving the white board and the beige sleeve to carry all the light.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"96mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 160","color":"#7f8487","width":1627,"height":1250,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/art-2art-07677aaa.webp","width":1024,"height":787},{"src":"img/2048/art-2art-07677aaa.webp","width":1627,"height":1250}]},{"slug":"godess-artist","title":"Godess Artist","alt":"A woman with long red hair sits on a pier bench drawing pilings on a large sheet of paper on a board.","description":"Seen from behind, she leans over a clipboard where a dense pencil drawing of timber pilings is taking shape, a pen still in her hand. The pale concrete walkway and the white bollards repeat into the distance, echoed by the weathered grey posts at the water's edge. Her beige coat and blue denim are the warmest notes in an otherwise cool, overcast palette.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"96mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 160","color":"#7e726c","width":4738,"height":3051,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/godess-artist-8cf68b2e.webp","width":1024,"height":660},{"src":"img/2048/godess-artist-8cf68b2e.webp","width":2048,"height":1319}]},{"slug":"godess","title":"Godess","alt":"A woman with long red hair in a pale pink coat sits on a pier bench facing rows of weathered wooden pilings and teal water.","description":"Seen from behind, she becomes a single warm note against a field of grey timber and cold green water. The rows of broken pilings recede in soft focus, leaving her hair and coat as the only sharp, saturated elements. The low horizontal bands of bench, walkway and sea hold her upright figure almost exactly at centre.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 250","color":"#5e5e5d","width":5184,"height":2648,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/godess-63b3a988.webp","width":1024,"height":523},{"src":"img/2048/godess-63b3a988.webp","width":2048,"height":1046}]},{"slug":"chilli","title":"Chilli","alt":"Dense clusters of papery lantern-shaped seed pods in red, orange and yellow among green leaves against a pale sky.","description":"Hundreds of papery, inflated pods crowd the branches in every shade from butter yellow to deep chilli red, each one lit softly enough to show the translucent skin. The flat white sky behind flattens depth, so the mass of colour reads almost as a tapestry, with green compound leaves threading through as the only cool note. Thin dark stems draw diagonals up through the frame, holding the sprawl loosely together.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"154mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 640","color":"#856634","width":3881,"height":2173,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/chilli-0555572d.webp","width":1024,"height":574},{"src":"img/2048/chilli-0555572d.webp","width":2048,"height":1147}]},{"slug":"pink-pink","title":"Pink Pink","alt":"Close-up of bright pink geranium blossoms in clusters against rounded green leaves.","description":"Two clusters of magenta-pink blossoms stack up the frame, each flower loosely ruffled with a darker vein running to its centre. Soft daylight keeps the colour saturated without washing out the petals, and the rounded leaves behind fall away into a green and brown blur. A pale stem arcs across the lower right, cutting a diagonal through the density of blooms.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"187mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 1000","color":"#9c4144","width":3035,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pink-pink-2fce3c61.webp","width":900,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/pink-pink-2fce3c61.webp","width":1799,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"blaze","title":"Blaze","alt":"A sunflower in bloom, tilted slightly, with yellow petals and a dark orange centre against a blurred green background.","description":"The head leans a little out of the frame, petals opening unevenly so the ring of florets shows as a rough copper disc. Soft daylight keeps the yellow bright without flattening it, and the background dissolves into pale green and dusty grey. The thick stem and one broad leaf anchor the lower left, balancing the weight of the flower above.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"154mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 800","color":"#939140","width":3670,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/blaze-f21b0d9f.webp","width":1024,"height":964},{"src":"img/2048/blaze-f21b0d9f.webp","width":2048,"height":1929}]},{"slug":"sunflower","title":"Sunflower","alt":"A sunflower turned slightly away from the camera, its yellow petals and dark centre against blurred green foliage.","description":"The head is caught in three-quarter view, so the ring of petals opens unevenly and the green bracts still curl in from the left like fingers. Light rakes across the seed disc, picking out its texture in browns and rust while the petals hold a flat, saturated yellow. Behind it, the garden dissolves into soft bands of green and pale earth, leaving the stem and broad leaves to anchor the lower corner.","date":"2021-02-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"154mm · f/5.6 · 1/2500s · ISO 800","color":"#8a963c","width":3789,"height":3455,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunflower-88026452.webp","width":1024,"height":934},{"src":"img/2048/sunflower-88026452.webp","width":2048,"height":1867}]},{"slug":"fireworks-maybe","title":"Fireworks Maybe","alt":"Cluster of pale starburst blossoms with fine radiating stamens and green centres against a black background.","description":"A tight cluster of blossoms opens into pale starbursts, each made of hundreds of hair-fine filaments tipped with tiny pink and gold heads. Between them sit unopened buds, their caps still capping deep green cups. The surrounding darkness swallows every stem and leaf, leaving only the cool white and lime of the flowers suspended in the black.","date":"2021-01-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"135mm · f/5 · 1/2000s · ISO 2500","color":"#393633","width":4118,"height":2851,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/fireworks-maybe-c886b12f.webp","width":1024,"height":709},{"src":"img/2048/fireworks-maybe-c886b12f.webp","width":2048,"height":1418}]},{"slug":"impressions","title":"Impressions","alt":"Close-up of a cast metal cover with a raised tree design and arcing text about manufacturing standards.","description":"A cast tree spreads its branches across the lid, its raised outlines catching a cold blue-white light while the recessed background stays dark and grainy. Stamped lettering follows the curve of the rim, half-swallowed by shadow and wear. Filling the frame edge to edge, the pattern reads less like street furniture than an engraving pressed into metal.","date":"2021-01-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 100","color":"#3a4e54","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/impressions-58348005.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/impressions-58348005.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"x-what","title":"X what","alt":"Close-up of a weathered concrete wall painted with bold red and black lines meeting in an X shape.","description":"Red and near-black bands cut across a slab of weathered concrete, narrowing to a pinch at the centre before opening out again. Warm, low light picks up the grain of the surface and the dust and stains settled into it, turning the grey wall a dull gold. The strong diagonals hold the frame from edge to edge, with the crossing point sitting just left of centre.","date":"2021-01-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4 · 1/2000s · ISO 160","color":"#754b1e","width":3090,"height":2229,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/x-what-0a1430fd.webp","width":1024,"height":738},{"src":"img/2048/x-what-0a1430fd.webp","width":2048,"height":1477}]},{"slug":"corona-maybe","title":"Corona Maybe","alt":"Close-up of a round yellow button-like flower head on a slender stem against a blurred green background.","description":"A single spherical flower head crowds hundreds of tiny yellow florets into one dense dome, with curled outer filaments radiating like a corona. Soft, even light keeps the yellow clean and saturated against a background dissolved into muted grey-green and dusty pink. The stem enters from the lower left, tilting the bloom just off centre and giving it room to sit in the frame.","date":"2021-01-31","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"214mm · f/5.6 · 1/2000s · ISO 1600","color":"#66613e","width":2109,"height":1592,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/corona-maybe-034bea9b.webp","width":1024,"height":773},{"src":"img/2048/corona-maybe-034bea9b.webp","width":2048,"height":1546}]},{"slug":"red-green","title":"Red Green","alt":"Dense mass of small shrub leaves in bright crimson and green, filling the whole frame.","description":"A shrub photographed straight down, so the leaves pile into each other with no horizon to steady them. Crimson and magenta sit against pockets of green, and the shadows between the stems drop away to near black, which keeps the reds looking lit from within. The colour shifts leaf by leaf, some fully turned, others still half green along the midrib.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/2000s · ISO 3200","color":"#5a191d","width":2762,"height":1904,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/red-green-585758f3.webp","width":1024,"height":706},{"src":"img/2048/red-green-585758f3.webp","width":2048,"height":1412}]},{"slug":"green-up","title":"Green Up","alt":"Blue-green pointed leaves on slender red stems rising against a dark, blurred background.","description":"A young shoot lifts its blue-green leaves out of deep shade, each blade turned at a slightly different angle so the light catches some faces and leaves others in shadow. The reddish stems thread upward through the cluster, a warm counterpoint to the cool grey-green. Behind, the ground falls away into soft brown and near-black, with one pale band of sunlight crossing the upper right.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/3.2 · 1/2000s · ISO 400","color":"#2a2c26","width":2655,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/green-up-bbf697e1.webp","width":786,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/green-up-bbf697e1.webp","width":1573,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"middle","title":"Middle","alt":"Close-up of a yellow daisy-like flower with a deep purple-blue centre dotted with small orange florets.","description":"The frame is filled almost edge to edge with petals, each one ribbed with fine lines that all point inward to the dark eye. Yellow gives way to a bruised ring of violet and near-black, where a scatter of tiny orange florets sits like sparks. Soft green and shadow at the corners keep the background quiet, so the centre holds all the attention.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/3.2 · 1/2000s · ISO 2000","color":"#a7b828","width":1743,"height":1647,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/middle-9aacaa0b.webp","width":1024,"height":968},{"src":"img/2048/middle-9aacaa0b.webp","width":1743,"height":1647}]},{"slug":"flower-of-the-sun","title":"Flower of the Sun","alt":"A single orange marigold bloom photographed head-on against a solid black background.","description":"The bloom fills the frame like a small sun, its ruffled petals layered from soft yellow at the edges to a dense, deeper orange crown at the centre. Light falls only on the flower, so the black surround gives no hint of stem or leaf. A few petals at the lower left drift slightly out of focus, the one clue to depth in an otherwise flat, symmetrical arrangement.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/2000s · ISO 2000","color":"#582900","width":2812,"height":2157,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/flower-of-the-sun-b7258b04.webp","width":1024,"height":786},{"src":"img/2048/flower-of-the-sun-b7258b04.webp","width":2048,"height":1571}]},{"slug":"visitor","title":"Visitor","alt":"Close-up of dense clusters of bright red gum blossoms with a honeybee resting among the stamens.","description":"A honeybee has settled low in the frame, its striped body warm against the crimson thicket of stamens. Sunlight catches the pale pollen tips, and small gaps open to blue sky and soft green leaves behind. The blossoms crowd the frame from every edge, leaving the visitor as the one still point.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/2000s · ISO 200","color":"#b83d40","width":2264,"height":1663,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/visitor-ffbffbe2.webp","width":1024,"height":752},{"src":"img/2048/visitor-ffbffbe2.webp","width":2048,"height":1504}]},{"slug":"thick","title":"Thick","alt":"Dense shrubs with blue-green leaf rosettes, yellow-green flower heads and rust-coloured spent spikes in sunlight.","description":"A wall of growth with no gaps left in it: blue-green rosettes of narrow leaves layered over each other, lit yellow-green bracts pushing through, and the rust-brown remains of older flower spikes standing above like small brushes. Sunlight rakes across the front while the interior stays almost black, which makes the mass read as deep rather than flat. Only a thin wedge of blue sky at the top edge admits that this is a plant and not a whole landscape.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/2000s · ISO 100","color":"#566033","width":2517,"height":2958,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/thick-da8030b9.webp","width":872,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/thick-da8030b9.webp","width":1743,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"the-sun","title":"The Sun","alt":"Extreme close-up of a yellow daisy-like flower, its orange centre ringed by broad golden petals.","description":"The frame is filled almost edge to edge with petals, each one veined in deeper orange where it meets the crowded disc of florets at the centre. Light comes through the petals rather than onto them, so the yellow reads as warm and slightly transparent, with a few small white highlights caught near the middle. Only a hint of dark green at the lower corners breaks the colour.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/1250s · ISO 100","color":"#f8bc06","width":755,"height":787,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/the-sun-e87cb0c0.webp","width":755,"height":787},{"src":"img/2048/the-sun-e87cb0c0.webp","width":755,"height":787}]},{"slug":"the-journey","title":"The Journey","alt":"The word DESTINATION carved in raised serif letters on a dark red painted surface, cropped tightly.","description":"A single word, cut into a panel and painted over so many times that the letters have almost dissolved back into the surface. The light falls flat and even, leaving only faint shadows along the serifs to lift the type from its ground. Everything sits in one narrow band of oxblood red, with small chips and scratches near the base of the letters as the sole interruption.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/3.5 · 1/800s · ISO 100","color":"#481c24","width":2080,"height":364,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/the-journey-560aa279.webp","width":1024,"height":179},{"src":"img/2048/the-journey-560aa279.webp","width":2048,"height":358}]},{"slug":"australis","title":"Australis","alt":"Close-up of a metal plaque engraved with the words AUSTRALIS 1965 in serif capitals.","description":"The engraved letters cut deep into brushed metal, their edges catching a warm bronze glow while the grooves hold onto shadow. Light spills in from the right, thinning the surface to near-white at the corner and leaving the left end cooler and more muted. Cropped tight to the lettering, the frame gives the inscription nothing to compete with but the grain of the metal itself.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4.5 · 1/800s · ISO 100","color":"#a17f6f","width":2774,"height":410,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/australis-2714e5da.webp","width":1024,"height":152},{"src":"img/2048/australis-2714e5da.webp","width":2048,"height":303}]},{"slug":"waiting-to-fly","title":"Waiting To Fly","alt":"A flock of white and grey gulls resting and standing on golden sand beneath a deep blue sky.","description":"A scattered flock of gulls holds the narrow band where sand meets sky, some standing alert, others settled low against the grain. The sky deepens from pale horizon to saturated blue overhead, pressing the warm ochre of the beach into a thin, bright strip. Kept low, the viewpoint gives the foreground sand its full weight, so each bird reads as a small white mark on a wide, open field.","date":"2021-01-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/8 · 1/800s · ISO 100","color":"#61758a","width":2139,"height":950,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/waiting-to-fly-7c54dedc.webp","width":1024,"height":455},{"src":"img/2048/waiting-to-fly-7c54dedc.webp","width":2048,"height":910}]},{"slug":"white","title":"White","alt":"Close-up of a rounded cluster of white trumpet-shaped flowers and buds on green stalks against a black background.","description":"A single umbel of white flowers opens outward from a knot of green stalks, some blooms fully flared, others still tight cream buds. Strong sunlight catches the petals and the small yellow anthers while the background falls to near black, so the cluster seems to float. The radiating stems give the composition its structure, drawing the eye back to the centre again and again.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"179mm · f/7.1 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#646657","width":3894,"height":3256,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/white-d30cf142.webp","width":1024,"height":856},{"src":"img/2048/white-d30cf142.webp","width":2048,"height":1712}]},{"slug":"lilac","title":"Lilac","alt":"Close-up of a cluster of blue-violet trumpet-shaped flowers with dark anthers and green stems.","description":"A dense cluster of blue-violet flowers opens outward, each petal striped with a paler line down its centre and tipped with small dark anthers. Strong sunlight catches the nearest blooms and leaves the green stems behind them in cooler shadow. The crowded arrangement gives no clear edges, so the eye settles on the two fully open flowers near the middle.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"131mm · f/6.3 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#524a75","width":1690,"height":1740,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/lilac-38c50689.webp","width":995,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/lilac-38c50689.webp","width":1690,"height":1740}]},{"slug":"in-the-field","title":"In The Field","alt":"Close-up of golden dry grass seed heads leaning diagonally, with green stems and a dark background.","description":"A dense stand of dry grass fills the frame, every seed head leaning the same way as if pushed by a steady breeze. Low light catches the husks and turns them pale gold, while rust-red florets and a few green blades break up the warmth. The dark, unfocused ground behind lets the pale stalks stand out cleanly, and the diagonal sweep carries the eye from the lower left to the upper right.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"123mm · f/9 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#996b39","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/in-the-field-54b73633.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/in-the-field-54b73633.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"red","title":"Red","alt":"Dense shrubs covered in pointed red bracts rising above narrow green leaves, with a blurred garden behind.","description":"A thicket of upright stems, each tipped with a cluster of pointed bracts that run from deep wine to bright scarlet where the sun catches them. The green foliage beneath holds the colour in place, while the background falls away into soft blurs of leaf and sky. Filling the frame edge to edge, the planting reads as texture more than individual plants.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"70mm · f/6.3 · 1/125s · ISO 100","color":"#6d472e","width":4412,"height":2158,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/red-70a8d369.webp","width":1024,"height":501},{"src":"img/2048/red-70a8d369.webp","width":2048,"height":1002}]},{"slug":"snow-flower","title":"Snow Flower","alt":"Close-up of bushy white bottlebrush-like flower spikes on shrub branches with small dark green leaves.","description":"Dozens of soft white flower spikes crowd the frame, their fine filaments catching sunlight so they read almost as frost against the deep shade behind. Small dark leaves press tight along the stems, giving the pale blooms something solid to sit against. Focus settles on one cluster near the centre, letting the rest dissolve into a bright, snowy blur.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"240mm · f/6.3 · 1/320s · ISO 100","color":"#65684c","width":4074,"height":2692,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/snow-flower-f4ac776d.webp","width":1024,"height":676},{"src":"img/2048/snow-flower-f4ac776d.webp","width":2048,"height":1353}]},{"slug":"impressionist","title":"Impressionist","alt":"Grainy, saturated sunset sky with yellow and pink clouds framed by dark trees on both sides.","description":"A band of cloud catches the last warm light, turning butter yellow along the top edge and rose underneath, while the sky above cools from violet into deep blue. Trees crowd in from both sides and along the lower edge, their foliage flecked with coral and rust where the light reaches. Heavy grain softens every edge, so the whole frame reads more as pigment than as detail.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"109mm · f/9 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#808394","width":5184,"height":2112,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/impressionist-4fcb93a9.webp","width":1024,"height":417},{"src":"img/2048/impressionist-4fcb93a9.webp","width":2048,"height":834}]},{"slug":"impressionist-real","title":"Impressionist Real","alt":"Blue sky with low white clouds framed by dark trees and silvery, rust-coloured shrubs along the bottom edge.","description":"A band of flat-bottomed cumulus drifts across the middle of a deep blue sky, with a single small bird just below. Trees crowd in from both sides, dark and almost silhouetted, while the foreground shrubs break into silver-grey and rust, the colours sitting side by side like brushstrokes. The wide, letterbox framing leaves the sky to do most of the work.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"109mm · f/9 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#597f98","width":5184,"height":2112,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/impressionist-real-b306c7ef.webp","width":1024,"height":417},{"src":"img/2048/impressionist-real-b306c7ef.webp","width":2048,"height":834}]},{"slug":"cloud","title":"Cloud","alt":"A single flat-bottomed white cloud floating in a deep blue sky, with smaller wisps below it.","description":"One cloud holds the frame almost entirely on its own, its top lit bright and its underside flattened into soft grey. The blue around it deepens toward the upper corners, leaving the pale scraps drifting along the lower edge as quiet company. Placed high and slightly left, the cloud gives the empty space beneath it room to breathe.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"194mm · f/8 · 1/640s · ISO 100","color":"#2674c8","width":4823,"height":2515,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/cloud-8344c31d.webp","width":1024,"height":534},{"src":"img/2048/cloud-8344c31d.webp","width":2048,"height":1068}]},{"slug":"look-at-me","title":"Look At Me","alt":"A white and grey gull glides head-on with wings fully spread against a clear blue sky.","description":"The gull holds a steady glide, wings stretched from edge to edge of the frame, head tipped slightly down as if meeting the lens. Sunlight comes from above and behind, catching the pale breast while leaving the underwings in soft grey shadow with darker tips. Set high in an unbroken blue sky, the bird has nothing to compete with — just the clean line of the wings and the empty space beneath.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"109mm · f/10 · 1/500s · ISO 100","color":"#5a97ce","width":3971,"height":2043,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/look-at-me-c0103b2b.webp","width":1024,"height":527},{"src":"img/2048/look-at-me-c0103b2b.webp","width":2048,"height":1054}]},{"slug":"city-bird","title":"City Bird","alt":"A gull glides straight toward the camera with wings outstretched against a clear blue sky, above trees and shipping containers.","description":"The gull comes head-on, wings held in a shallow arc, its face and dark bill sharp against an unbroken wash of blue. Below and softly out of focus sit stacked shipping containers in red and rust, a line of light poles and pylons, and a low band of scrubby green trees. The bird floats almost dead centre, with the industrial edge of a working harbour pressed into the lower third.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"100mm · f/9 · 1/320s · ISO 100","color":"#64abc3","width":1709,"height":2001,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/city-bird-290c7c04.webp","width":875,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/city-bird-290c7c04.webp","width":1709,"height":2001}]},{"slug":"gull-flight","title":"Gull Flight","alt":"A white gull with black-tipped wings gliding overhead against a clear blue sky.","description":"The gull holds its wings fully outstretched, red bill and tucked red feet catching the light as it banks. Sun comes from above and behind, leaving the underwings in soft grey shadow against crisp white. An unbroken field of deep blue gives the bird the whole frame, placed low and left so the wingtips reach toward the edges.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#2f79c5","width":1947,"height":1766,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/gull-flight-b89a4395.webp","width":1024,"height":929},{"src":"img/2048/gull-flight-b89a4395.webp","width":1947,"height":1766}]},{"slug":"melbourne","title":"Melbourne","alt":"Black-and-white panorama of a city skyline with construction cranes, seen across a stretch of water.","description":"A long, thin slice of skyline, read entirely in greys: high towers clustered at the centre and right, several still ringed by cranes, while low apartment blocks and a shoreline of trees hold the foreground. The sky is bright and almost blank, which flattens the buildings into overlapping silhouettes and lets the water below sit as a quiet dark band. The extreme horizontal format turns the city into a single ridge of edges and window grids.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/10 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#909090","width":5184,"height":1133,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/melbourne-3a62c165.webp","width":1024,"height":224},{"src":"img/2048/melbourne-3a62c165.webp","width":2048,"height":448}]},{"slug":"yellow-water","title":"Yellow Water","alt":"A slender stem of small yellow flowers and seed pods against blurred blue water and a rock.","description":"A single wiry stem rises from the lower right, its seed pods still green and its four-petalled flowers held high, with a second bloom out of focus at the left edge. Behind it the water is reduced to soft bands of teal and deep blue, and a sunlit rock breaks the frame along the bottom in warm brown. The narrow band of sharpness holds only the plant, which makes the yellow read all the brighter against so much cool colour.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"229mm · f/7.1 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#405f6c","width":3067,"height":2303,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/yellow-water-9ac8b10f.webp","width":1024,"height":769},{"src":"img/2048/yellow-water-9ac8b10f.webp","width":2048,"height":1538}]},{"slug":"intent-gull","title":"Intent Gull","alt":"A white gull with a red beak and red legs stands on wet sand beside dark seaweed and shallow water.","description":"The gull holds its stance at the waterline, head turned to the left, red bill and legs the only warm notes against a body of white and pale grey. Behind it the shallows run dark and glassy, broken by small flecks of sunlit foam, while strands of seaweed lie in a loose band across the sand. Placed slightly right of centre, the bird reads clearly against the cool water, its shadow pinning it to the beach.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/5.6 · 1/4000s · ISO 400","color":"#383e48","width":4037,"height":1940,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/intent-gull-842dbbb5.webp","width":1024,"height":492},{"src":"img/2048/intent-gull-842dbbb5.webp","width":2048,"height":984}]},{"slug":"sail-boat","title":"Sail Boat","alt":"Rows of weathered wooden pier pilings stand in blue water, with a white-sailed boat passing beyond them.","description":"Two ranks of old pilings, cut off at uneven heights and bleached grey by salt, lead the eye out to a single sail on the horizon. The water sits in deep blue bands behind them, and the sky above thins to a pale green-blue in the midday haze. The gap between the rows works as a corridor, placing the boat almost exactly where the pilings run out.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"225mm · f/7.1 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#5f8c98","width":3352,"height":3057,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sail-boat-44fec712.webp","width":1024,"height":934},{"src":"img/2048/sail-boat-44fec712.webp","width":2048,"height":1868}]},{"slug":"blue","title":"Blue","alt":"A pale metal railing and weathered wooden posts along a dock edge, with bright blue rippled water beyond.","description":"Water fills almost the entire frame, its small ripples breaking the blue into bands of navy and pale turquoise. The pale metal rail cuts a long horizontal line across it, interrupted by the grey, split tops of old wooden pilings that rise from below. Strong midday light flattens the scene into colour and geometry, with only the corner of the boardwalk anchoring the viewer in place.","date":"2020-12-29","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"60mm · f/10 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#1b74b8","width":5184,"height":2577,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/blue-0458d567.webp","width":1024,"height":509},{"src":"img/2048/blue-0458d567.webp","width":2048,"height":1018}]},{"slug":"home-grown","title":"Home Grown","alt":"Close-up of bright green leaves with deep red-purple veins branching from a central midrib.","description":"A single leaf fills the frame, its dark red veins spreading across the green blade like a map drawn in ink. Soft, even light picks out the puckered texture between the veins and keeps the colour saturated without glare. Neighbouring leaves fall away into blur at the edges, with a warm terracotta tone behind them.","date":"2020-12-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"194mm · f/5.6 · 1/320s · ISO 500","color":"#3c6b1c","width":3986,"height":3256,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/home-grown-5bd8bee4.webp","width":1024,"height":836},{"src":"img/2048/home-grown-5bd8bee4.webp","width":2048,"height":1673}]},{"slug":"close-up-beauty","title":"Close Up Beauty","alt":"Close-up of an orange lily with dark anthers and a pale stigma against a blurred green background.","description":"The bloom is lit from the side, so the petals glow from translucent apricot at their tips to a deeper ember where they meet at the throat. Six dark anthers stand out as near-black strokes against that warmth, with the pale pink stigma rising just behind them. A soft green and near-black background keeps all the attention on the flower's centre.","date":"2020-12-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"179mm · f/5.6 · 1/320s · ISO 125","color":"#6b250b","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/close-up-beauty-a0450263.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/close-up-beauty-a0450263.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"surfs-up","title":"Surfs Up","alt":"Street mural of a grey cartoon surfer in sunglasses holding a board with a yin-yang symbol, on a teal and pink wall.","description":"A stocky cartoon surfer, painted entirely in greys, tucks a yin-yang board under one arm against a backdrop of teal, magenta and a deep red sun. The wall itself interrupts the drawing: angled slabs and chipped edges jut forward, slicing the figure into shifted planes. Flat daylight keeps the colours even, so the broken geometry of the surface does most of the talking.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"84mm · f/5 · 1/2000s · ISO 200","color":"#6f7173","width":2788,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/surfs-up-d9d1961f.webp","width":826,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/surfs-up-d9d1961f.webp","width":1652,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"rooster","title":"Rooster","alt":"Spray-painted mural of a bird's head in red and blue with a large pale eye on a rough wall.","description":"A bird's head fills the frame in layered reds and blues, the plumage broken into angular strokes that overlap like cut paper. The single pale eye holds the calmest tone in the picture, cool against all that heat. Thin drips run down the grey wall below the beak, and the rough render shows through the paint wherever the light catches it.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000s · ISO 6400","color":"#6a5054","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/rooster-de93a494.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/rooster-de93a494.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"bubbling","title":"Bubbling","alt":"A small wave breaking into white foam on wet, pinkish sand, with green-grey shallow water beyond.","description":"A single low wave collapses along the shoreline, its crest shredding into bubbles and thin spray. The water behind holds a muted green-grey, while the wet sand in the foreground turns a warm pinkish brown, so the foam sits between two quiet fields of colour. The horizontal banding keeps the frame calm even as the middle of it churns.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/6.3 · 1/2000s · ISO 250","color":"#9c9695","width":5184,"height":1252,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/bubbling-1650710c.webp","width":1024,"height":248},{"src":"img/2048/bubbling-1650710c.webp","width":2048,"height":495}]},{"slug":"water-flight","title":"Water Flight","alt":"A gull lifting off from calm green water with wings raised, while three other gulls float nearby.","description":"One gull takes off with wings held high, feet still trailing at the surface, leaving a thin wake behind it. The water carries the green of the bank in soft vertical smears, broken only by pale reflections beneath the floating birds. The low, grassy shoreline and its scattered stones sit as a blurred band along the top, keeping all the attention on the white shapes below.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"208mm · f/5.6 · 1/1600s · ISO 320","color":"#6a5c1d","width":3456,"height":1566,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/water-flight-48446e44.webp","width":1024,"height":464},{"src":"img/2048/water-flight-48446e44.webp","width":2048,"height":928}]},{"slug":"not-a-chicken","title":"Not A Chicken","alt":"A rust-coloured pigeon walking across grey asphalt beside white road markings, with grass at the top edge.","description":"A single rust-orange bird crosses an expanse of grey asphalt, its warm plumage the only strong colour against the speckled road surface. Overcast light keeps the shadow soft and close beneath its pink feet. The white lane markings and the band of grass at the top give the frame its diagonal structure, leaving the bird alone in a wide field of grey.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"194mm · f/5.6 · 1/1000s · ISO 160","color":"#73726a","width":4166,"height":2263,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/not-a-chicken-71baa6a6.webp","width":1024,"height":556},{"src":"img/2048/not-a-chicken-71baa6a6.webp","width":2048,"height":1113}]},{"slug":"steel-web","title":"Steel Web","alt":"Dense silhouetted scaffolding poles and braces criss-crossing against a sky of blue, cream and amber.","description":"A tangle of scaffolding tubes and diagonal braces reduces to flat black against the sky, the layers stacking until depth collapses into pattern. Behind them the light graduates from cool blue at the top through pale cream to a band of amber near the middle, with faint rust tones bleeding into the panels. The frame is filled edge to edge, letting the lattice read as texture rather than structure, and a blurred foreground bar cuts down the left side.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"79mm · f/5 · 1/1000s · ISO 100","color":"#3f4547","width":4870,"height":2489,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/steel-web-cb4afd81.webp","width":1024,"height":524},{"src":"img/2048/steel-web-cb4afd81.webp","width":2048,"height":1047}]},{"slug":"green-window","title":"Green Window","alt":"A wrought-iron grille set in a dense ivy-covered wall, framing a view of bright green lawn and a red surface","description":"A window of scrolled ironwork sits almost swallowed by the climbing leaves, which crowd in from every edge in flecks of green and red. Through the opening the eye finds cooler, simpler shapes: a band of vivid lawn, a red wall, pale stones resting at the base. The saturation is pushed hard, turning the foliage into a restless mosaic against the calm rectangle it surrounds.","date":"2020-12-23","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/4.5 · 1/1000s · ISO 1250","color":"#37441c","width":5184,"height":2560,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/green-window-5dbf5d31.webp","width":1024,"height":506},{"src":"img/2048/green-window-5dbf5d31.webp","width":2048,"height":1011}]},{"slug":"gulls","title":"Gulls","alt":"Four gulls stand on a dark rock ledge, including a brown-mottled juvenile, against a blurred golden background.","description":"Four gulls share a dark rock ledge, two in crisp adult white and grey with red bills, one still wearing the brown scalloped feathers of a young bird. The background dissolves into warm ochre and green, which throws the cool tones of the plumage forward. Sunlight rakes across from the right, catching bill tips and legs while leaving the rock in deep shadow.","date":"2020-12-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"250mm · f/6.3 · 1/2000s · ISO 125","color":"#605137","width":4549,"height":2205,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/gulls-521cbcb5.webp","width":1024,"height":496},{"src":"img/2048/gulls-521cbcb5.webp","width":2048,"height":993}]},{"slug":"rust","title":"Rust","alt":"Close view of a weathered grey-green concrete or metal wall crossed by dark diagonal seams edged with rust.","description":"Two rust-lined seams cut across the surface at converging angles, splitting the frame into broad bands. The wall itself holds a cool wash of grey, green and pale blue, streaked with vertical stains and faint scratches. Against that muted field the orange bloom along each seam reads almost warm, and the black gaps between give the picture its structure.","date":"2020-12-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"55mm · f/5 · 1/2000s · ISO 100","color":"#6f7f68","width":2860,"height":4872,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/rust-56da5575.webp","width":601,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/rust-56da5575.webp","width":1202,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"industry","title":"Industry","alt":"Three tall gantry cranes tower over stacks of red, blue and green shipping containers at a port across water.","description":"Seen from the far side of a channel, the container terminal stacks up into a wall of red, teal and white boxes, with three gantry cranes standing over it like raised arms. Afternoon light picks out the crane booms and the pale hull of a ship half-hidden among the containers, while a low strip of scrub and a dark band of water hold the bottom of the frame. The clouded blue sky leaves just enough room above for the machinery to breathe.","date":"2020-12-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"171mm · f/7.1 · 1/1000s · ISO 100","color":"#566372","width":5184,"height":2546,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/industry-05ab0933.webp","width":1024,"height":503},{"src":"img/2048/industry-05ab0933.webp","width":2048,"height":1006}]},{"slug":"look-right","title":"Look Right","alt":"A grey-haired man in a checked jacket sits with his back to us on a timber beam facing rows of old pier pilings.","description":"Rows of weathered pilings recede into soft focus, the water between them catching flashes of blue. The man's checked jacket and silver hair hold the only sharpness in the frame, and his turned head sends the eye off to the right. Carved letters on the beam beneath him, reading \"S.S. Chitral\", anchor the foreground.","date":"2020-12-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"187mm · f/5.6 · 1/800s · ISO 125","color":"#6b6c6d","width":5184,"height":2912,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/look-right-32c0ec0d.webp","width":1024,"height":575},{"src":"img/2048/look-right-32c0ec0d.webp","width":2048,"height":1150}]},{"slug":"reaching-out","title":"Reaching Out","alt":"Cluster of fuzzy green and brown tubular flower buds on a dark red branching stem against blurred greenery.","description":"A branching stem of deep maroon holds a crowd of fuzzy tubular buds, each one tipped in rust and curling outward like small beckoning fingers. Low sun catches the fine hairs along their length, turning the pale green almost translucent. Behind, the meadow dissolves into soft bands of green and straw, leaving the cluster to stand alone in sharp relief.","date":"2020-12-20","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"131mm · f/5.6 · 1/500s · ISO 100","color":"#777119","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/reaching-out-9cfe572a.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/reaching-out-9cfe572a.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"tri","title":"Tri","alt":"Close-up of an orange lily covered in water droplets against a blurred green background.","description":"Three broad petals open outward, each holding beads of rain that catch small points of light along the ribbed surface. The orange runs from deep to almost yellow where the petals thin, set against a soft wash of green leaves and pale out-of-focus blooms behind. Dark anthers curl at the centre, the one sharp contrast in an otherwise warm, saturated frame.","date":"2020-12-19","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS","settings":"123mm · f/5.6 · 1/500s · ISO 400","color":"#744d12","width":3176,"height":2428,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/tri-af7b8d80.webp","width":1024,"height":783},{"src":"img/2048/tri-af7b8d80.webp","width":2048,"height":1566}]},{"slug":"its-grey","title":"Its Grey","alt":"Black and white close-up of a backlit lily flower, its petals dark against a bright, blurred background.","description":"A single lily leans out of deep shadow, its petals edged with thin lines of light where the sun catches them from behind. Most of the bloom stays in darkness, the stamens barely visible inside, while the background dissolves into pale rounds of light and soft grey leaves. The flower's curved silhouette fills the left and centre, leaving the right side open and luminous.","date":"2020-12-11","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/800s · ISO 100","color":"#424242","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/its-grey-f71e04b9.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/its-grey-f71e04b9.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"red-white","title":"Red White","alt":"Small white star-shaped flowers on tall stems among strappy green leaves, with blurred red blossoms above in darkness.","description":"A clump of narrow, strap-like leaves fills the lower frame, each thin stem holding up a small white flower with a faint violet blush at its centre. Above and behind, red blossoms dissolve into soft blurred dots against a near-black ground, so the two colours sit apart without touching. The light falls hard from the side, leaving the deep shadows empty and letting the green blades read almost as if lit from within.","date":"2020-12-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/60s · ISO 1600","color":"#273007","width":2512,"height":2109,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/red-white-71afc71b.webp","width":1024,"height":860},{"src":"img/2048/red-white-71afc71b.webp","width":2048,"height":1719}]},{"slug":"static-reflection","title":"Static Reflection","alt":"A row of glass panels reflecting an orange sunset sky, silhouetted cranes, a palm tree and pale buildings.","description":"A run of glass panels holds the whole sunset at once, the orange and grey cloud bands repeating panel by panel with thin mullions cutting them into strips. Along the lower edge, silhouettes of distant cranes and poles sit almost black against the glow, while the reflection of a pale building and a palm crowds in from the right. The long horizontal framing keeps the eye travelling sideways, reading the sky as a sequence rather than a single view.","date":"2020-12-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/1000s · ISO 1600","color":"#423321","width":3220,"height":1000,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/static-reflection-5e62a73c.webp","width":1024,"height":318},{"src":"img/2048/static-reflection-5e62a73c.webp","width":2048,"height":636}]},{"slug":"monolith-to-capitalisim","title":"Monolith To Capitalisim","alt":"Silhouetted port skyline with a tall tower and row of cranes against an orange and dark cloudy sunset.","description":"A row of container cranes stands in profile along the horizon, dwarfed by a single narrow tower that rises like a needle into the last of the light. The sun has just dropped behind the industrial line, throwing two faint vertical shafts up through heavy cloud, and the colour shifts from deep blue-grey overhead to molten orange at the skyline. Everything below is reduced to flat black, so the picture reads almost entirely as sky and edge.","date":"2020-12-07","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/400s · ISO 100","color":"#2f1f1c","width":5184,"height":1997,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/monolith-to-capitalisim-16676400.webp","width":1024,"height":394},{"src":"img/2048/monolith-to-capitalisim-16676400.webp","width":2048,"height":789}]},{"slug":"lily","title":"Lily","alt":"Cluster of orange and yellow lilies with two closed green buds against a very dark background.","description":"Two upright green buds rise between open blooms, their petals shading from lemon yellow at the edges into deep orange at the throat, freckled with small dark spots. The background falls away into near-black, so the flowers seem lit from within, with only a few blades of leaf catching enough light to register. Water still beads on one petal, and the pale stamens arch out like fine wire against the darkness.","date":"2020-12-02","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/400s · ISO 640","color":"#4e3702","width":3125,"height":2741,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/lily-8648469c.webp","width":1024,"height":898},{"src":"img/2048/lily-8648469c.webp","width":2048,"height":1796}]},{"slug":"micro-world","title":"Micro World","alt":"Ground-level view along worn paving stones, saturated in red, violet and blue, with green blur above.","description":"Taken from almost the height of the stones themselves, the paving stretches away in long slabs, their pitted surfaces catching light while moss gathers in the dark joints. Colour has been pushed hard: magenta and violet wash across the stone, with a bright red pool at the right and a band of vivid green foliage dissolving into black at the top. The low viewpoint turns an ordinary path into a receding landscape of ridges and crevices.","date":"2020-12-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/30s · ISO 200","color":"#534346","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/micro-world-94db13d3.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/micro-world-94db13d3.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"green","title":"Green","alt":"Extreme close-up of a green leaf showing a network of yellow veins, mottled patches and small water droplets.","description":"Filling the frame edge to edge, the leaf surface becomes a map: yellow veins branch from a central rib, dividing the green into irregular cells edged with pale violet. Tiny beads of water sit in the hollows, catching just enough light to read as glassy flecks. The deep shadows at the corners push the eye toward the branching junction slightly below centre.","date":"2020-12-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/40s · ISO 640","color":"#2e4c24","width":3893,"height":2032,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/green-873ef5de.webp","width":1024,"height":534},{"src":"img/2048/green-873ef5de.webp","width":2048,"height":1069}]},{"slug":"hunt","title":"Hunt","alt":"Extreme close-up of a tabby cat's face in profile, green eye narrowed, looking off to the right.","description":"Filling almost the whole frame, the cat's head is turned so that only one narrowed green eye holds the light, with a warm rust tone gathering at the inner corner. The fur reads as thousands of individual hairs, grey and brown banded, with whiskers arcing out into the softer dark red and green behind. Cropped tight at the top and left, the composition leaves just enough space at the right for the gaze to travel into.","date":"2020-12-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/30s · ISO 1600","color":"#494746","width":4406,"height":2895,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/hunt-ce5d8e79.webp","width":1024,"height":673},{"src":"img/2048/hunt-ce5d8e79.webp","width":2048,"height":1346}]},{"slug":"xray","title":"Xray","alt":"Black and white close-up of lily petals seen from below against a bright, pale sky.","description":"Shot from underneath, the petals curl outward like fingers, thin enough that the light passes through and reveals every vein and rib. The pale sky flattens into a near-white ground, so the flower reads mostly as silhouette, with an unopened bud and stems massing into deep black at the lower edge. A few out-of-focus leaves crowd the top right corner, the only hint of anything beyond the bloom itself.","date":"2020-12-01","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/80s · ISO 100","color":"#6c6c6c","width":4687,"height":2891,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/xray-24241699.webp","width":1024,"height":632},{"src":"img/2048/xray-24241699.webp","width":2048,"height":1263}]},{"slug":"checkmate","title":"Checkmate","alt":"Chess pieces silhouetted in dark red against a glowing orange and yellow background.","description":"The king, queen, bishops and a knight stand as near-black shapes against a wash of amber light, their edges catching thin red highlights. Grouped close together at eye level, they read almost as a skyline or a crowd. The warm gradient falls away to deep shadow at the right and along the bottom, leaving the figures to carry the frame.","date":"2020-11-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/40s · ISO 2500","color":"#7e683e","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/checkmate-dab5321b.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/checkmate-dab5321b.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"not-quite-banksi","title":"Not Quite Banksi","alt":"A dark tabby cat with a white chest patch sits in profile against a white painted brick wall.","description":"The cat sits very still in profile, its dark tabby coat catching low sun that picks out rust and amber along the edges of the ears and flank. Against the cool white of the painted brick, the silhouette reads almost like something stencilled onto the wall. Placed to the right of the frame, it leaves a wide expanse of mortar lines and brushmarks to look at, with a narrow strip of ledge holding the bottom edge.","date":"2020-11-28","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/5 · 1/125s · ISO 100","color":"#85848a","width":1997,"height":1732,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/not-quite-banksi-dd551eb0.webp","width":1024,"height":888},{"src":"img/2048/not-quite-banksi-dd551eb0.webp","width":1997,"height":1732}]},{"slug":"score","title":"Score","alt":"A rugby ball in mid-air against a deep blue sky, above white goal posts framed by trees.","description":"The ball hangs high and alone in a wall of saturated blue, well clear of the white crossbar below. Trees crowd in from both edges, their leaves darkened almost to silhouette, which leaves the empty sky to do most of the work. A small subject given a great deal of room, caught at the top of its arc.","date":"2020-11-26","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/9 · 1/320s · ISO 100","color":"#1f5c8f","width":2790,"height":2425,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/score-efda6456.webp","width":1024,"height":890},{"src":"img/2048/score-efda6456.webp","width":2048,"height":1780}]},{"slug":"bolt","title":"Bolt","alt":"Black and white close-up of four bright bolt heads sunk into recessed holes in weathered timber planks.","description":"Four bolt heads sit in countersunk hollows, their pale hexagonal faces catching the light while the drilled sockets around them fall to solid black. The weathered grain runs in long horizontal splits and checks, crossed by a single vertical seam between two boards, which sets the bolts into a loose grid. Stripped of colour, the frame becomes a study in texture: soft fibrous wood against small points of hard machined metal.","date":"2020-11-26","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/2000s · ISO 100","color":"#7f7f7f","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/bolt-7c0bebf9.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/bolt-7c0bebf9.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"sunken","title":"Sunken","alt":"Rows of weathered pilings under a pier recede into darkness as foaming waves wash over wet sand.","description":"Sunken — Beneath the pier the pilings run away in ranks, each one banded with rust-red paint, ochre and a green wash of algae near the waterline. Low light slips in from the right and sets the wet sand glowing amber, while a line of white foam curls through the middle of the frame. The converging rows draw the eye to a small pale opening at the far end, the only break in the darkness overhead.","date":"2020-11-26","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/30s · ISO 200","color":"#412b25","width":4354,"height":2183,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunken-28579498.webp","width":1024,"height":514},{"src":"img/2048/sunken-28579498.webp","width":2048,"height":1027}]},{"slug":"bars","title":"Bars","alt":"Silhouetted vertical railing bars casting long parallel shadows across a sunlit yellow floor.","description":"Low sun pushes a row of railing bars into pure silhouette, then repeats them as long diagonal shadows across the ground. The concrete reads as hot yellow and rust orange against the black, with the only cool note in the pale wash of light above the rail. The two sets of lines meet near the upper third, splitting the frame into a dense band of verticals and a wide fan of diagonals.","date":"2020-11-26","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/8 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#72693a","width":2658,"height":2412,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/bars-741b49b5.webp","width":1024,"height":929},{"src":"img/2048/bars-741b49b5.webp","width":2048,"height":1858}]},{"slug":"link","title":"Link","alt":"Close-up of a rusted iron chain stretched horizontally against blurred blue and green water.","description":"Link holds the chain tight across the frame, each weathered oval passing into the next in a rhythm that fills the whole width. Low sun catches the rust and pitted metal, turning it orange and copper against the deep blue-black of the shadowed steel. Behind it the water dissolves into bands of green and blue, with a pale wash of foam or stone along the bottom edge.","date":"2020-11-26","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/6.3 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#403c38","width":5184,"height":1939,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/link-8a5955cb.webp","width":1024,"height":383},{"src":"img/2048/link-8a5955cb.webp","width":2048,"height":766}]},{"slug":"swing","title":"Swing","alt":"An empty wooden swing seat on braided ropes, lit by a narrow band of sunlight against darkness.","description":"A single shaft of low sun catches the pale timber slats and the twist of the ropes, leaving everything around them in flat black. The warm honey tones of the wood, and the thin shadows the ropes cast across the seat, are the only detail the light allows. Hung slightly left of centre with empty dark beneath, the swing reads as recently vacated.","date":"2020-11-26","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/8 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#17130c","width":3455,"height":2723,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/swing-e74d27ce.webp","width":1024,"height":807},{"src":"img/2048/swing-e74d27ce.webp","width":2048,"height":1614}]},{"slug":"shadow","title":"Shadow","alt":"Close-up of a pink lily in sunlight, its dark anthers casting shadows across a petal.","description":"Sunlight rakes across the open bloom, turning the anthers into dark punctuation marks and throwing their silhouettes onto the lower petal. The pink runs from deep magenta at the petal edges to a pale green-white throat, with the filaments drawing thin lines toward the centre. A blurred bud and green leaves crowd the right edge, keeping the frame tight on the flower.","date":"2020-11-25","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/1600s · ISO 100","color":"#9a4150","width":5184,"height":3456,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/shadow-7bb32165.webp","width":1024,"height":682},{"src":"img/2048/shadow-7bb32165.webp","width":2048,"height":1365}]},{"slug":"flight","title":"Flight","alt":"A pale white butterfly in flight above pink-purple lavender flowers against a sunlit wooden fence.","description":"A small white butterfly hangs mid-wingbeat over a stand of lavender, its wings caught half-folded and slightly blurred while the flower spikes stay sharp. Low sun rakes across the fence boards behind, splitting the frame into warm honey-toned grain and cooler shadow. The magenta bracts read almost fluorescent against that plain backdrop, with green stems crossing at loose angles through the lower half.","date":"2020-11-25","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/320s · ISO 100","color":"#a48b75","width":1558,"height":1359,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/flight-0d06e9b3.webp","width":1024,"height":893},{"src":"img/2048/flight-0d06e9b3.webp","width":1558,"height":1359}]},{"slug":"water-fountain","title":"Water Fountain","alt":"An arc of water leaps from a drinking fountain spout, with blurred green lawn and trees behind.","description":"Water rises from the fountain's chrome spout in a single frozen arc, breaking into separate beads that hang in the air. The lawn behind dissolves into bands of green, with darker trees and a pale car shape above, so nothing competes with the water's glassy edges. Sunlight catches the stream from the side, picking up amber and blue where it bends.","date":"2020-11-17","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/8 · 1/250s · ISO 100","color":"#48572b","width":3455,"height":2254,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/water-fountain-d29032e5.webp","width":1024,"height":668},{"src":"img/2048/water-fountain-d29032e5.webp","width":2048,"height":1336}]},{"slug":"explosion","title":"Explosion","alt":"Close-up of a bright orange-red nasturtium flower with a yellow throat among round green leaves.","description":"A single nasturtium bloom holds the centre, its five petals flared open around a yellow throat streaked with fine red lines. Sunlight rakes across the round, ribbed leaves behind it, turning some to pale veined discs and leaving others in deep shade. Further blooms dissolve into soft orange notes at the top of the frame, so the eye keeps returning to the one flower in focus.","date":"2020-11-17","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/4 · 1/640s · ISO 100","color":"#75531c","width":4768,"height":2698,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/explosion-ef6bf6f8.webp","width":1024,"height":580},{"src":"img/2048/explosion-ef6bf6f8.webp","width":2048,"height":1159}]},{"slug":"carpet","title":"Carpet","alt":"Forest floor of reddish wood chips and bark litter scattered with small green leaves in dappled sunlight.","description":"A bed of shredded bark and wood chips, mostly rust and amber, with a handful of glossy green leaves dropped across it like stitches in a weave. Patches of hard sunlight burn out to near-white at the right edge while the left corners fall away into deep shadow. Seen straight down, with no horizon to orient by, the ground reads as pure pattern.","date":"2020-11-17","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/3.5 · 1/50s · ISO 100","color":"#5f3d26","width":5184,"height":2912,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/carpet-eefa1596.webp","width":1024,"height":575},{"src":"img/2048/carpet-eefa1596.webp","width":2048,"height":1150}]},{"slug":"dragon","title":"Dragon","alt":"Spray-painted mural of a red serpentine dragon against a yellow sun on a grey brick wall.","description":"A dragon coils across the brickwork in layered reds and rust browns, its ribbed spine picked out in white so the body seems to twist forward off the wall. Behind the raised head, a flat yellow sun sits high and bright, with a drip of black paint running down from the jaw. Cool blue forms crowd the left edge, and the mortar lines of the brick stay visible through every colour, keeping the whole thing tied to its surface.","date":"2020-11-17","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/7.1 · 1/200s · ISO 100","color":"#654743","width":4691,"height":2632,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/dragon-d5b7ecc0.webp","width":1024,"height":574},{"src":"img/2048/dragon-d5b7ecc0.webp","width":2048,"height":1149}]},{"slug":"forgotten","title":"Forgotten","alt":"A black television remote control lying on a pale glossy surface, with a blurred bookshelf behind it.","description":"A single remote rests at the centre of a pale, reflective surface, its four coloured buttons the only saturated notes in an otherwise grey frame. Behind it, a shelf of books dissolves into soft vertical streaks of cream, amber and blue, so out of focus that only the rhythm of the spines remains. The shallow shadow beneath the remote and the wide empty space below it give the object a stranded, set-aside quality.","date":"2020-11-08","camera":"Canon EOS 650D","lens":"EF-S24mm f/2.8 STM","settings":"24mm · f/2.8 · 1/30s · ISO 160","color":"#7d7b78","width":1903,"height":2444,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/forgotten-18b54de3.webp","width":798,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/forgotten-18b54de3.webp","width":1595,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"light-house","title":"Light House","alt":"A slender white beacon tower on piles stands in dark blue water, with a pier and cloudy sky behind.","description":"The beacon catches the last warm light of the day and throws a long broken reflection across the ripples, leading the eye straight down the frame. Low cloud spreads in bands above a flat horizon, where a pier and a few distant ships sit almost as silhouettes. Everything else is held in cool blue, which makes that single pale tower and its gold trail feel quietly isolated.","date":"2020-06-15","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/201s · ISO 50","color":"#45505b","width":2411,"height":2268,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/light-house-addbe38a.webp","width":1024,"height":964},{"src":"img/2048/light-house-addbe38a.webp","width":2048,"height":1927}]},{"slug":"sunset","title":"Sunset","alt":"Two metal ladder rails rise from rippling water toward a low sun setting behind a distant shoreline of buildings.","description":"The sun sits just above a low band of silhouetted rooftops, laying a broken column of gold across the ripples. Two curved handrails break the frame from below, their polished metal catching the same warm light and framing the reflection between them. Above, the sky moves from amber at the horizon to a cooler grey-blue streaked with thin cloud.","date":"2020-06-15","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/2825s · ISO 50","color":"#5b4b38","width":3199,"height":1909,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sunset-e9549c82.webp","width":1024,"height":611},{"src":"img/2048/sunset-e9549c82.webp","width":2048,"height":1222}]},{"slug":"pier","title":"Pier","alt":"A long timber pier with white railings stretching out over deep blue water toward a distant horizon.","description":"The boardwalk runs almost the full diagonal of the frame, its weathered planks warmed to amber by low sun while the railing posts throw a steady rhythm of shadow across them. To the left, the water shifts from near-black to a hard cobalt, ruffled by wind, with a small vessel just visible on the horizon line. Cloud sits heavy along the top edge, pressing the eye back down the vanishing point where a few figures gather at the far end.","date":"2020-06-15","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/1748s · ISO 50","color":"#585d64","width":3624,"height":1755,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/pier-e404a0a9.webp","width":1024,"height":496},{"src":"img/2048/pier-e404a0a9.webp","width":2048,"height":992}]},{"slug":"blue-1","title":"Blue (1)","alt":"A long wooden pier with white railings and curved lamp posts stretching over calm blue water at dusk.","description":"The pier runs from the left edge deep into the frame, its pilings and lamp posts repeating until they dissolve into the far shoreline. Cool blue dominates everything here — the water, the sky, even the timber railings — with only a pale band of cloud near the horizon to break it. The water is almost still, holding soft inverted copies of the posts and lamps in its surface.","date":"2020-06-11","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/308s · ISO 50","color":"#3c5d88","width":4032,"height":2268,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/blue-1-1b6dd837.webp","width":1024,"height":576},{"src":"img/2048/blue-1-1b6dd837.webp","width":2048,"height":1152}]},{"slug":"sea-splash","title":"Sea Splash","alt":"A concrete pier with metal railings runs straight out into choppy grey sea, a wave bursting into spray at its end.","description":"The pier draws the eye straight out to the point where a wave breaks over the far railing and throws white spray into the air. Overcast light flattens the sky into layered greys and blues, leaving the water dark and restless with foam. Wet stains and rust on the concrete deck hint at how often the sea comes this far up.","date":"2020-05-24","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/558s · ISO 50","color":"#6a707a","width":4032,"height":1296,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/sea-splash-0d0e4057.webp","width":1024,"height":329},{"src":"img/2048/sea-splash-0d0e4057.webp","width":2048,"height":658}]},{"slug":"coffee-in-venice","title":"Coffee In Venice","alt":"A tray holding an espresso, a small teapot, creamer, glasses, wrapped chocolates and biscuits on a printed paper mat.","description":"A crowded tray of small pleasures: a crema-topped espresso in a garlanded cup, a matching pot and jug, a glass carafe of water, and biscuits pushed to the edge of the frame. Warm interior light picks out the amber of the coffee and the red printing on the paper mat, while the background falls away into darkness. Shot from above and close in, the composition lets the espresso sit lowest and largest, the rest of the setting crowding in behind it.","date":"2018-12-17","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/50s · ISO 250","color":"#8d654b","width":4032,"height":2268,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/coffee-in-venice-5681aea4.webp","width":1024,"height":576},{"src":"img/2048/coffee-in-venice-5681aea4.webp","width":2048,"height":1152}]},{"slug":"venice-2","title":"Venice 2","alt":"A green-domed church with a columned portico across a canal at dusk, with a motorboat passing and lamp posts on the near quay.","description":"A wide green copper dome rises above a columned portico on the far bank, dwarfing the ochre, red and cream houses that line the water either side of it. The sky has gone soft and hazy, with a low band of gold behind the dome and a small motorboat cutting a pale wake across the still canal. On the near side, dark lamp posts and a lone figure in red anchor the foreground of the panorama.","date":"2018-12-16","camera":"Samsung SM-G965F","lens":"","settings":"4mm · f/2.4 · 1/1242s · ISO 50","color":"#706d67","width":3874,"height":1537,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/venice-2-71e737be.webp","width":1024,"height":406},{"src":"img/2048/venice-2-71e737be.webp","width":2048,"height":813}]},{"slug":"tas-sunset","title":"Tas Sunset","alt":"Vivid red and purple sunset clouds over a calm sea, with dark silhouetted trees, a house and distant hills.","description":"The cloud bank breaks into bands of scarlet, coral and bruised violet, with the last clear light pooling low on the left. Below it the water holds only a dull pink sheen, and the foreground ridge — trees, scrub and the corner of a house — has gone completely to silhouette. Distant hills sit as flat grey shapes along the horizon, keeping the eye on the sky above them.","date":"2018-01-06","camera":"Apple iPhone 7","lens":"iPhone 7 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8","settings":"4mm · f/1.8 · 1/33s · ISO 25","color":"#703540","width":4032,"height":3024,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/tas-sunset-979cf9b3.webp","width":1024,"height":768},{"src":"img/2048/tas-sunset-979cf9b3.webp","width":2048,"height":1536}]},{"slug":"tas-cave","title":"Tas Cave","alt":"View from inside a sandstone sea cave through an opening onto a pebble shore, calm water and distant hills.","description":"The cave mouth frames the view like a keyhole, its sandstone walls ribbed with cracks and warmed to rust and ochre by the light outside. Beyond the threshold, a pebble beach gives way to pale silver water and a low headland under a bank of broken cloud. The heavy darkness of the rock on either side makes the small patch of sky and sea feel unusually bright.","date":"2018-01-01","camera":"Apple iPhone 7","lens":"iPhone 7 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8","settings":"4mm · f/1.8 · 1/1100s · ISO 20","color":"#5d4638","width":3225,"height":2635,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/tas-cave-74599ba1.webp","width":1024,"height":836},{"src":"img/2048/tas-cave-74599ba1.webp","width":2048,"height":1673}]},{"slug":"tas-cliffs","title":"Tas Cliffs","alt":"Towering vertical sea cliffs streaked with orange and rust colours, with white surf breaking at their dark base.","description":"Columns of rock rise straight out of the water, their faces stained in rust, ochre and near-black, with small patches of green clinging to ledges high above the swell. The light falls unevenly, leaving deep shadow in the fissures while the sky behind burns out to white. A thin band of breaking surf and kelp-brown water anchors the bottom of the frame, giving some sense of the scale overhead.","date":"2017-12-31","camera":"Apple iPhone 7","lens":"iPhone 7 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8","settings":"4mm · f/1.8 · 1/375s · ISO 20","color":"#372c1e","width":3980,"height":1857,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/tas-cliffs-4bb9d41c.webp","width":1024,"height":478},{"src":"img/2048/tas-cliffs-4bb9d41c.webp","width":2048,"height":956}]},{"slug":"mt-wellington-tas","title":"Mt Wellington Tas","alt":"View from a rocky summit over forested slopes to a wide blue estuary under heavy grey cloud","description":"Lichen-crusted boulders fill the foreground in warm orange and grey, giving way to dark forested ridges and the broad blue sweep of the water beyond. A thick bank of cloud presses down on the far hills, leaving the distance in cool shadow while a thin band of brighter light catches the shoreline. The tumbled rocks anchor the right side of the frame and lead the eye down and out across the bay.","date":"2017-12-30","camera":"Apple iPhone 7","lens":"iPhone 7 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8","settings":"4mm · f/1.8 · 1/4808s · ISO 20","color":"#50575e","width":4032,"height":2183,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/mt-wellington-tas-f82c200d.webp","width":1024,"height":554},{"src":"img/2048/mt-wellington-tas-f82c200d.webp","width":2048,"height":1109}]},{"slug":"cool-gate","title":"Cool Gate","alt":"Dark silhouetted metal gate with radiating bars and a circular motif, framing sunlit paving and yellow flowers beyond.","description":"Seen from deep shade, the gate reads almost entirely as silhouette, its fanned bars radiating from a small circle near the top and settling into wave-like rows below. Beyond it, sunlight falls flat and warm on pale paving, with a cluster of yellow flowers and dark foliage pressing in at the right. The near-black frame closes around the opening, so the bright gap becomes the whole subject.","date":"2017-11-19","camera":"Apple iPhone 7","lens":"iPhone 7 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8","settings":"4mm · f/1.8 · 1/1842s · ISO 20","color":"#33332e","width":3024,"height":4032,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/cool-gate-3fa45176.webp","width":768,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/cool-gate-3fa45176.webp","width":1536,"height":2048}]},{"slug":"tas-shaped","title":"Tas Shaped","alt":"Close-up of a rosette succulent with fleshy pink and green leaves holding clear water droplets.","description":"Seen from directly above, the rosette opens in overlapping spoon-shaped leaves that shift from deep wine red at the tips to pale green at the centre. Soft light sits on the waxy surfaces and gathers in a few round water droplets, each one clear enough to catch its own small highlight. Neighbouring plants crowd the frame edges, and pale pebbles show through in the lower corner.","date":"2017-11-05","camera":"Apple iPhone 7","lens":"iPhone 7 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8","settings":"4mm · f/1.8 · 1/110s · ISO 20","color":"#80545a","width":3024,"height":3492,"images":[{"src":"img/1024/tas-shaped-d21a2629.webp","width":887,"height":1024},{"src":"img/2048/tas-shaped-d21a2629.webp","width":1774,"height":2048}]}]}