Night lights

I'm kinda going through a faze at the moment of trying to catch the late afternoon (early evening) dark blue/purple sky. Unfortunately i didn't actually succeed with these pics, but you can kinda see what i was trying to do. I was a bit too late tonight so it was a bit too dark and black. The first pic is looking over the soccer field where my DD plays. You can just see the outline of the trees against the sky. These are Norfolk Pines and Warrnambool has rows of them down all the main streets. The second one is my car - notice how the bumper is now fixed after DS's little accident.


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Road to nowhere

Well actually it is a road to a place called Mailor's Flat, but trust me, there isn't much at Mailor's Flat. It certainly is flat though. Over the last few days we have had rain on and off and the clouds have been fabulous. I couldn't resist taking yet more pics of them.

iso 400, f 18, ss 1/200

Rain

Last night it finally rained. It was lovely. Unfortunately today the rain moved to the south and most of it fell over the sea.

This is an old pic of my agapanthus when they were in flower. Don't you see these much in the US? They are very, very common here. They come in either white or purple. Have a nice weekend.

Old flowers

This is the remains of my Agapanthus flowers. i usually chop them off, but I want to collect some seeds.

iso 100, f 5, ss 1/80

This is one from a few days ago. It was taken after sunset, with just the last remaining light in the sky. You should all give this a try, it was heaps of fun. I had no idea how it would turn out, but I'm thrilled with the result. The light on the island was from cars driving down the road behind where I was set up.

iso 200, f 5, ss 30 sec, tripod, noiseware

Yesterday was the first day i have missed since the POTD started - kinda a bit sad, but I had to get my BAS (tax) done. I'm sure it won't be the last day i miss. Thanks for the comments about the car pics. It was one cool car - and in such good condition - I wish my body looked that good.

MGB MKII

As luck would have it, this car parked next to me when I was in town today. I just googled and found out that these cars were first made in 1967 - OMG it's as old as I am. I only had my 70-200 lens, so i had to stand out on the road just to get this much in. The cloud reflections looked kinda cool IRL, but I'm not sure if they work in the photo.

Thanks for the comments about yesterdays pics. The tree with the roots is a Morton Bay Fig. They have the most incredible root system. I'll try and take a pic of the whole tree to show you.

Trees

This afternoon I went to the botanic gardens to take some pics. It's really more like an arboretum, than a botanic gardens, coz its mainly just lawn and lots of big old trees. Fabulous place to take the kids when you need to run some energy out of them.

The Old Woollen Mill

This is part of the old Woollen mill - it used to be quite a big industry here, but this one closed down years ago and it is now being pulled down and turned into housing. I wish I could get close to it to take some pics, but it has a thumping big fence around it. I had to use my 70-200 lens to get this shot.

iso 400, f 9, ss 1/400