I don't usually do black and white or take up challenges, but I'm so pleased that Paula's back in the blogosphere I'll give it a go this week. Two gos in fact: roadside mallee flower that is bright yellow in reality, and an attempt to capture morning light on the silvery bark of a eucalypt overarching our campsite beside the Murray River.
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Just love the light in that second image. I imagine it is hot light, but it’s ambiguous too. One can imagine it some cold northern climes.
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It wasn’t very hot, but it was early morning and the light was just right.
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Hoorah! 🙂 🙂 a) I got here, at last!
b) I’m in complete agreement the flower struck me as a proper abstract fire cracker too 🙂 Hugs, Meg!
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I’m glad you’re back. The blogosphere seemed to be emptying for a while, and my management of my notifications went haywire too.
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Management???? Does not compute 🙂 🙂 Looking for setting to turn snow off for my walk.
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I like snow – or at least the idea of it!
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Me too but it’s not in my personal settings where I thought I left it 😦 Have to be a sunny walk with snow, I think 🙂
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You’ve managed to do what I rarely can with black and white, good light and contrast. These are both perfect!
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Sheerest serendipity!
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The flower does it for me – fireworks! I don’t usually like flowers in B&W but this works very well.
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Fireworks was exactly what I thought too.
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This black and white rendition of mallee flower gives it an abstract quality. I LOVE it. The photo of the tree is just as exquisite but the first one catches my eye more. I am so very happy to have you play along, but more importantly I am grateful for your company. When you have a minute, please consider if you’ll be willing to appear as a guest challenger on my blog and with what theme 🙂 Big hugs, P.
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I’m so busy thinking “Thursday” or “black and white”. I forget the theme. Apologies, although I could probably verbal both posts into fitting! The tree was a landmark for two campsites twenty years apart.
Thanks for liking the flower. It was a stunner in colour too.
I’ve been avoiding committing to guesting: I’ll have a think, and contact you soon. It’ll be Thursday’s special.
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Tree is definitely a landmark, but anything growing on land marks it, right? 🙂 Thank you for accepting hosting. I am very happy and excited about it. Looking forward to hearing your ideas 🙂
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Stunning in black-and-white, especially the tree. My father, whose early photographic efforts in the late 30’s were all in black-and-white mode, would have been very impressed.
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An honour to impress your father! I was very surprised that the tree converted so beautifully.
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I am so happy that you remember him well. He thought the world of you.
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Of course I remember him well – and his mischievousness. I’m very glad he thought the world of me.
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