blood red
Two of my self-portraits - one from my wallflowers series, the other from my plush series - are included in Issue #123: Color 2024 of F-Stop Magazine, and both feature floral motifs: the wallpaper in one and my dress in the other.
This photograph, which I took in my parents' garden in Redland Bay in 2009, of a Cordyline fruticosa (commonly known as a ti plant) doesn't include a floral motif. But the leaves are so vibrant with the backlighting that they fit the colour theme I submitted to.
Since I've already shared the two photographs included in F-Stop Magazine, I thought I'd share this one alongside the news.
ochna serrulata
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 21 May 2022].
Technically, these are the fruitlets and sepals of the Ochna serrulata, not the flower, but sepals are part of the flowers, so I'mma let this one pass through because they're damned purty.
Taken during a photo walk around Redland Bay in Queensland back in 2009.
They're designated as an invasive species in Australia despite their attractive appearance.
silky oak
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 14 January 2022].
I thought this year I'd change things up a bit and share some of my vast quantity of floral images on Fridays, with the odd fungi image making an appearance.
The change is driven by my supply of fungi images running low for now. Many of my fungi photos were taken on my iPhone and shared on social media soon after.
But also because I want to share the many beautiful images of flowers I have taken over the decades. And they don't really quite fit into the travel category (though often taken while travelling), and, unlike my late bloomers series, these flowers are real.
So, I'm kicking off my new series of #FloralFriday posts with two photos I took back in 2009 of the striking yellow-gold flowers of a silky oak tree in Redland Bay, Queensland.
During my childhood, my parents and my grandfather tracked down various items of furniture made from the silky oak tree.
They sanded them back, varnished them and furnished our homes with them. Two sideboards and a dining table and chairs I grew up with were lovingly restored, among other items. And more furniture in my grandparents' home in Canberra.
Growing up, I never realised these flowers grew on the same trees the furniture I was surrounded by during my childhood were fashioned from.
I've decided to call this curated series a floral tribute.
amongst the mangroves
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 7 July 2021].
It was a busy day today once I surfaced.
Plenty of photo editing. Some client work. Exchanges with a potential new flatmate.
I had hoped to post this around midnight then binge the last three episodes of season one of 'Vikings'. But I was slightly sidelined at the last minute, and now I'm too tired for TV.
I took this at Redland Bay in 2009. My parents lived a short walk from here, and I had moved to stay with them not too long before.
I took it during a photo walk with another local photographer I met through RedBubble (whose name I don't actually recall now!). Earlier on the same day that I'd met Mel Brackstone to visit the abandoned house in Eight Mile Plains, where I took 'van life', which I shared with you last week.
Mangroves and their pneumatophores (or "breathing tubes") really are bizarre but quite clever.
untitled #149
[I originally posted this image as early access for my Patreon patrons on 2 May 2021].
summer lovin'
Day twenty-two of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Lions kissing while a monkey entwines their tails by Wilhelm von Kaulbach from Reineke Fuchs