The week’s second trip to Launceston involved an earlier start and later finish than Monday’s trip. There are lots of hills to either side of the highway (and underneath it!) which means that silhouettes are soft targets for photographers with limited imagination, and so it’s cows on the skyline again (admittedly it was was only one […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
What had been an overcast day yielded a spectacular sunset as the clouds cleared a little, and this was followed by the setting of a crescent moon, showing “the old moon in the new moon’s arms”. The full Moods of the Mountain collection […] These photos come from the first of two day trips to Launceston this week: “snail bales” from my northward journey, and a misty hillside from the […] On the second day of the writing retreat I managed to get up early enough to fit in a quick walk to nearby Tarraleah Falls, which is about a 3.5km return journey. After crossing the pipeline near Tarraleah, the track heads into the bush, which was alive with the sounds of lots of different birds … […] This month the 12th began nearly two hours before I went to bed for the night of the 11th. I got back from a trip to Launceston, set up my computer, and it decided to have what looked like a terminal meltdown (this may have had something to do with the fact that it almost never […] This one doesn’t exactly fit the rules (which are in my head, and are negotiable in any case), but it was taken on this week’s trip to Launceston. I headed up on Monday, and although the late evening light was lovely I was rather tired, and I didn’t have the energy to decide to stop! I […] Way too tricky for getting the right exposure with one shot, but you get the general idea. And with bonus “crepuscular rays”! 🙂 The full Moods of the Mountain collection […] |
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