Perceptive Light

Olympus Pen EP-2  f6.3  2.5s ISI160

This Queensland box tree has been in the Midland Railway car park  for as long as I can remember. Its huge root bulb has been paved over on numerous ocassions so much so the paving has grown up and around with the tree. Two weeks the tree was cut down and the area was paved over…

Olympus Pen EP-2 f8 2.0s ISO100

Olympus Pen EP-2 f11 1/200s ISO100 14-42mm

Olympus Pen EP-2 f5.3 1/500s ISO 400 14-42mm

When the new State reference library was  in built in Perth I remember seeing small creepers planted around the foundations and I made a mental comment that the plantings would soften the concrete mass. This decision by ’somebody’ was different. not good nor bad just different. Yes, it is fairly common in Western Australia to see ivy or Virginia creeper on the some of the older buildings but seldom in buildings constructed in the last thirty years or so. Looking at the residue of the skeletal growth of this plants life it is easy to understand why from a building maintenance perspective plants are undesirable, but ideas are changing. There are several new buildings in Perth that now have as part of their construction ‘green’ walls or roofs. To be continued…

Olympus Pen EP-2 f8 1/80s ISO125, 14-42mm lens.

Plane trees (Platanus hispanica) must be the most popular urban tree on the planet. The species has a huge climatic range I have seen them in cities as far apart as Moscow and Perth (Australia) although I can’t remember seeing any in tropical zones. In Perth they are one of the few common decidious trees even when badly pruned for telephone powerlines they still provide the sense of wellbeing that only trees can offer.

Olympus f6.3  1.65s ISO200

Olympus PEN EP-2

Canon 5D f8.0 1/1000s ISO200 Lensbaby composer
In wet darkroom days, exposing prints through tissue paper was a nice technique, sometimes hit and miss depending very much on the qualities of the tissue. This digital equivalent has been made by adding a layer of noise and adjusting the intensity and the levels of sharpening.

Canon 5D f8.0  1/40s ISO100 Lensbaby composer.

Canon 5D f8.0 1/30s ISO 200 Lens Baby Composer