New growth on a lilly pilly hedge. The new leaves various shades of pink, the newest of the new are bright and shiny in the sunlight. Older, green leaves are in the background.
Pink: the bright and shiny through to dull and fading soon-to-be-green
From September 2025
#ColorADay #PinkMon #plants #photography #leaves
An incoming southerly storm over the city of Sydney. The sky is dramatic with grey clouds to the right and bright light and lighter clouds to the left. The south end of the city buildings are seen as almost in silhouette, as are some of those in Pyrmont. One of the tall buildings to the right has reflected light from the city buildings reflected on one side of it, facing away from the incoming storm giving the impression the sun is shining directly in it. In the foreground is water, a bay, with boats and yachts moored at a jetty.
The dark and light of an incoming afternoon storm
From my archives, June 2018
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition #photography #clouds
Two gum trees next to each other, the left in an unseen garden, the right on the unseen street, Their tops only are seen above other smaller unidentified trees. In the background are clouds, darker towards the horizon. The sun is out, making shadows on some of the trees.
Interesting afternoon light, before the gloom then later rain
#SilverTrunkSunday #trees #photography
Looking down on two orange treasure flowers growing in a garden bed, The light is din=m as the sky is cloudy. The flower of the right is in focus, that on the left is not, nor is the background.
Trying to focus in the early afternoon gloom
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling
Afternoon peak hour traffic on a multi lane road. There is construction work on both sides of of the road, though only one side is mostly in view.
Afternoon peak hour on the ever-changing Warringah Freeway, as viewed from Miller Street Cammeray
September 2025
#BlueSkyArtShow #Flowing #traffic #peakhour #photography #roads
Inside a Sydney Metro carriage, looking forward towards the front. The sign for the next station indicates Waterloo with exit to the right of the frame. The seats are along the sides of the carriage facing in, people can be seen sitting throughout the carriages, mostly their lower torso. Hand rails are silver with lime green where hands would be holding them, and can be seen the length of the metro.
Taking the Metro home
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors #publictransport
A bench sitting on a concrete slab in a local park. The bench is green with black feet and hand rails. On the side facing the frame the name of the park is seen in capital letters on the black part of the bench, Louisa Lawson Reserve. Around the slab is green grass, seen at the right of the frame. Behind the bench is a garden bed, with agapanthus plants at the top left of the frame. A path runs along the top of the frame, made of unidentifiable pavers.
Not sure which local park you're in? Look to the bench.
#ColorADay #GreenSat #parkbench #photography
Two buildings with trees in front of them. The building on the left is new, 39 stories with the outside consisting of glass panels. The building on the right is state heritage listed, completed in 1957 with fewer stories. London plane trees are in the foreground, Clouds are in the sky, that can also be seen between the buildings, Buildings across the street are reflected in both the buildings in the photo.
Windows in North Sydney, in a 1957 heritage listed building along side brand spanking new.
#windowsonwednesday #wednesdaywindows #windowswednesday #photography #reflections #architecture
Haha! It’s part of a bank’s logo. I didn’t want to give them free advertising but I wanted the reflection, and also something red.
Looking at the windows of a building from street level. The ground level is retail, this particular space that of a bank, NAB, with part of its logo visible on the right of the frame. The logo is a many pointed red star with a line and the letters n a b in white lower case below. Reflections on the window show the MLC building and a tree across the road. On the footpath outside the building is a power pole with plant pots around it with green plants, also reflected in the window.
A building window behind a bus stop that I've spent rather a lot of time at in the last year or so, on the weekend finally took a photo.
#ColorADay #RedWed #photography #reflections
A full moon, not quite in total eclipse but close to. A sliver of white is seen a the bottom of the moon, red for the rest. Photo taken 8 November 2022, hand held in Sydney.
Memories are close as I may get to seeing tonight's eclipse with my own eyes, because of course, cloud cover. There is still time, she says, wishfully thinking
It will be streamed but it's not the same
From November 2022, hand held on my balcony in Sydney
#photography #moon #lunar #eclipse
I will. I go most years, and always bring gumboots just in case.
Indeed, that is the biggest task now crossed of the list. A day or two of 'me' than back to smaller, far more manageable, and less urgent tasks. And a week or so in the mountains for the music festival, and friends and much merriment.
Looking into an empty room with a kitchen at the end. Windows are seen above the kitchen bench. The front door is at the left of the frame, open, from where the photo was taken. Both rooms are empty. The carpet in the front room is brown, the walls beige. A smoke alarm is on the white ceiling along with a curly energy lightbulb.
A final interior, the end of my mother's tenancy. Done and dusted, also cleaned, wiped and vacuumed.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors
Leaves growing on a tree, turning the colours of autumn being oranges and yellows,with some still green. The sun is shining through the branches, lighting some of the leaves.
Hooray! it's autumn, none of that waiting until the equinox for us thank you very much 😆
From June 2025
#ColorADay #OrangeSun #leaves #autumn #photography #seasons
A wet citrus branch with a raindrop at the end. The raindrop is reflecting the surrounding trees. In the background is the rest of the plant, blurred, The frame is mostly shades of green.
With rain comes raindrops
#ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #raindrops #reflections #BlueSkyArtShow #Round
Several white flowers growing on the plant. They are Gaura lindheimeri or Whirling Butterflies. Green branches are seen in the background, as is a blurred brick from fence that the plant is growing over. The flower has a pink base, the sepal.
Gaura lindheimeri, or Whirling Butterflies, growing over a front fence
#ColorADay #WhiteFri #FlowersOnFriday #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling
A puddle on the street, with a driveway, kerb and gutter, and road in view. Reflected on the puddle is a street tree with a garden in pots at the base. A geranium with a red flower stands out among the brown. Other trees growing on the street are also visible in the reflection on the puddle, along with a power pole. The sky is grey with rain clouds so the scene is also a bit grey, as it's in between rain showers.
We had a bit of rain yesterday
#photography #puddles #reflections #reflection
A plane emerging from low cloud, on approach to land. The sky is full of grey cloud. In the foreground in silhouette are trees, with a palm on the right of the frame.
Low flying cloud or should that be flying through low cloud?
Looking up between showers this afternoon.
#photography #sky
Close up view of a yellow hibiscus flower growing on the plant. The flower is seen from side on. In the background is a garage and trees, all blurred. Leaves of the tree are seen in the lower left of the frame.
Hibiscus flower in the the gloom just before the downpour
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs #ColorADay #YellowThu #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling
A stair and escalator combination at a busy travel intersection. A person is walking down the stairs at the left of the frame.The escalators are at the right of the frame, with people seen going both up and down. It is around midday so the sun is roughly overhead, making shadows.
A cat is looking from behind a wooden fence with a metal pole at the end, staring intently at something in the distance. In the background is a water meter with something like a black box behind it. Convrete driveways are on either side of the fence.
Multitasking challenges today
#UrbanGaze #HumansOfBlueSky
and adding to the stair/stare photos for #AlphabetChallenge #BonusHomonym
#photography
Thanks June
There has to be some benefit to leaving home at 6am 😀
A view of the entrance of a 'mixed Gothic' style church from a distance but some zoom used, showing the door, and sandstone surrounds and open black gate. The door is red. Officially it is The Holy Trinity Anglican Church, but known as The Garrison Church as it was the first military church built in colonial Australia.
I see a red door
Holy Trinity Anglican Church at The Rocks, Sydney. It's known the Garrison Church, being the first military church built in colonial Australia.
#ColorADay #RedWed #photography #doors
Three tall office buildings at 7am in the morning, with with sun shining through clouds. One closest to the camera on the left of the frame has reflections of the sun on its glass windows. The building on the right is older than the other two, not having glass windows that are also external walls.
High rise
At the bus stop early on a Sunday morning in North Sydney
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs #windowsonwednesday #wednesdaywindows #windowswednesday #photography
Clouds in blue sky. One of the cumulus clouds looks like there could be two eyes and two ears that could be interpreted as some sort of creature's face looking down.
Two eyes in the clouds? Some sort of creature looking down?
(It's been a looong day mostly spent talking with various customer services, who were very helpful so bouquets to all of them and now a lie down for me I think)
#Twosday #ColorADay #BlueTue #photography #clouds #pareidolia #sky
Looking from above at three pieces of litter lying beside a tree in grass in the mid afternoon sun. The piece in the foreground is a takeaway coffee cup, orange and pink in colour with a white lid. To the right is a plastic zip lock style sandwich bag containing something unidentifiable. At the back is another takeaway coffee cup, white lid with black body and part of a logo visible.
Litter catching mid afternoon light
#SensoryArt #OutofPlace but unfortunately not an unfamiliar sight
Great natural lighting on the front cup, which is what caught my eye
#photography #litter
Close up view of part of a flowering gum tree. On the left are leaves of the tee. On the right are the flowers, with hot pink stamens. Some of he stamens have fallen off those towards the back. One of the flowers at the front has an ant on it.
Flowers with no petals, and an ant
#ColorADay #PinkMon #flowers #photography #gumtrees #bloomscrolling
Four teenage boys and a shopping trolley on a suburban street. One boy is sitting on the trolley being pulled up the street by another. One boy is talking to the boy on the trolley. The fourth is walking away to the left, he may or may not have seen the police car at this stage. A police highway patrol car is driving by at the top to the street. Trees are growing on the street to the left and the leaves are in the sunlight, and cover the top of the frame.
Hijinks, what could possibly go wrong?? Also at a stretch hats or head coverings.
Faces edited
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHs #photography
A size 5 training football and a rusted metal pipe abandoned in the gutter, along in amongst many brown fallen leaves that are blocking an unseen drain to the left of the frame. The ball is orange with black markings, and small gold lettering. Some roots of the tree on the street, along with some of the street, are seen st the top of the frame.
Too hot for outdoor ball games today, so instead we cleared the furniture and white goods from my mother's house, and made excellent use of tomorrow's council cleanup for other stuff 😅 😅 😂
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGames #ColorADay #OrangeSun #photography
