Crazy

Sydney and much of the coast was hit hard yesterday with high winds, rain, branches and leaves everywhere.  I had to drive to the city in the early evening.  Crazy?  However, because of the severe weather warnings, people actually stayed off the roads so I had the "crazy" good trip into town. Who would have believed it?

Don't know why I thought about putting my old camera in with the lensbaby on??  Good idea!  The bookbinding class I have been attending @ Amazing Paper, http://www.amazingpaper.com.au/ was called off because others couldn't get there.

Good fortune occasionally shines in bad weather.  I was then able to spend a great hour wandering the back streets of Redfern, lensbaby in hand, dodging the weather, umbrellas flying across the street, looking at a sort of ghost town environment as traffic on usually busy streets stayed away.

This guy ran out of a terrace with his dog lead in one hand and his scooter in the other.  Caught a couple of fun shots as he set sail down the street on his scooter and dog running behind.

Edited in Nik - do so love Nik Silver!!

Enjoy!

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I had the best day out photographically yesterday!!

Didn't necessarily get the image to beat all images but just being out in the bush, a different season every 30 minutes from soft overcast light to howling winds and rain and the most amazing billowing mist swirling up through the cliff tops.  I took far too many images and have been working the delete button pretty hard.  However what I did get was some time to be outdoors with a couple of other crazy women with our cameras and tripods and I had time to look at the landscape and think about what I want to take over the next few weeks.

It was the best practice session I could have imagined.  I was telling a friend today how much Len Metcalf's (http://lensschool.com.au/) insistence that we know our camera inside out and back to front has paid off.  I gave my camera a really good work out and with it blew a lot of the cobwebs from my own mind.  I came back quite exhilarated.  Fresh air, exercise, creativity, good company, laughter ...

A great day.

But today isn't a blogger's day.  It's not coming, so instead, a few images from the upper Blue Mountains on the 1st of June 2011.   Today I'll let the images speak.

I'm trying to sort out a bit of a new style to show these gums.  (above) It'll take a while.  I can see it, I just have to make it happen.