Perceptive Light

Plympus Pen EP-2 f8 1/5s ISO100 17-42mm

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   f3.6 1/80s ISO 200 14-42mm @ 15mm

Olympus Pen EP-2 f7.1 1/25s ISO 200

This Caster oil plant is one tough plant… A few meters from the road some bitumen had been dumped with some tires and had set solid, make that rock hard and yet the a seed has germinated and has grown through the bitumen. The only other plant that I have come across that is this determined is a West Australian puff ball mushroom. These maniac mushrooms have spores which can last a long time under tarmac and then when only they know spring to life. They crack a hole as large as 150mm through the tarmac then once they have completed thier life cycle leave a pot hole in the road. I will make the this the subject of a future post.

Olympus Pen EP-2 f7.1 1/320s ISO400 14-42mm @16mm Converted to mono using channel mixer.

Canon5D f7.1   1/2500s ISO800 Voigtlander 40mm

Canon5D f7.1   1/640s ISO200 Voigtlander 40mm Ultron

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 f4.5 1/60s ISO 400 14-42mm lens.

Olympus Pen EP-2  f8 6.0s ISO 125 14-42mm