May Photo Challenge – May 06

Day six had me out for another long walk, starting a half hour earlier than on Wednesday. My initial inclination was to only take my (Canon) G11 out because I had a planned stop at the grocery store on the way back and that would have been much easier to carry. I’m glad I changed my mind because as good as the G11 is, the (Canon) 500D worked out a lot better for these photos.

My walk this afternoon took me down through a parkway that runs through much of our suburb. I haven’t been the whole way through it for many years, following a particular distressing incident where a magpie swooped at me four times while I cycled through. I’ve generally taken other roads to avoid this last section of parkway since but today ventured into the area for the first time in ages. It was this tree that motivated me today. I’m sure I’ve seen it many times before but it was only now that I paid much notice to it. It’s tall with long, gnarly limbs reaching out from up high and further down.

It was quite dark below the tree even though there was still considerable daylight available. I found it tricky working out the light settings I wanted so tried out all sorts of combinations, hoping some would do the trick.

It felt a bit like peering up into a secret area while standing under the branches here. I was reminded somewhat of The Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton (a very famous English writer of children’s books from early last century). The faraway tree reaches up into the clouds and magical adventures happened there. Obviously that tree couldn’t have been a gum tree, being set in England, but this tree does look as though it could reach up into the clouds.

Just a slightly different take on the previous one. It almost feels as though one is in a pit, peering out the opening here.

I found these climbing down from a fence along with a few other varieties further along on my walk. I might have used my G11 with its macro mode for this one but I couldn’t be too bothered pulling it out at this point in time. I don’t think it came out too badly.

This last photo was taken along a footpath that I have walked through quite often and sometimes have felt as though there was nothing new to see. After this long absence, much of it seemed rather fresh and interesting again. I have some notions of walking along this road again soon, but in another direction. An extension of the road opened several months ago that leads to a major road and has some interesting views. Normally I am driving on the road so don’t have opportunities to use my camera. I almost ventured down that way today but thought better of it due to the quickly setting sun.