Lyn Mac

A brown fallen London plane tree leaf floating on water, on a cloudy day.

Leaf floating on by

#FebruArty #float #photography #leaves #water

Mangroves at water's edge, The water has ripples on the surface. A trunk is to the left of the frame, with branches to it's left and also top of the frame. Mangrove roots are seen poking through the water. Sunlight falls across the frame.

Sunlight falls across water's edge

That water being Brisbane Water, named in honour of Sir Thomas Brisbane, Governor of New South Wales 1820 - 1825

From my archives as I've not been up there for some time

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous #BlueSkyArtShow #sunlight #photography #mangroves

A bright orange flower growing on the plant, with petals in the process of closing as they do in the evening. One of the petals looks as if it has fallen into the centre. In the background are the green leaves of the plant.

Orange treasure flower closing up for the evening

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Clouds with the sun behind them. The sun is behind those at the top with crepuscular rays over those at the bottom. The clouds are mostly grey with blue sky towards the top of the frame. A large tree is to the right of the frame, in silhouette. At the bottom of the frame are houses, trees and power poles with lines, also in silhouette, smaller as they are further away.

Late afternoon sunlight through clouds

From my archives

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight #clouds #photography #crepuscular

A mostly black cat sitting on the footpath, head turned toward the photographer. The cat is beside a wooden fence, at the join of two fences, with different colours, one grey one naturel looking. A plant is growing through and over the top of the grey fence. The frame is not in focus as it is just after sunset and the photo taken quickly before the cat moved away, and was hand held.

Fuzzy, as in not in focus, feline

#FebruArty #fuzzy #feline #Caturday #photography #outoffocus

A tree branch with leaves appearing to glow with late afternoon sunlight behind them. A tree is in the background, blurred.

I'm over the harsh summer sunlight (have been for a while really), roll on autumn

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight #ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #leaves

Looking up at a group of people wearing overalls, hats and headsets. They are standing on the lower deck getting ready to climb a bridge. One person has their leg raised on the stairs as if to start climbing. The deck and people are in silhouette as the sun is overhead on a cloudy day.

Let's climb a bridge

Can't live in Sydney and not post this bridge, though it's getting harder to find different angles to photograph

#SensoryArt #bridges #photography #silhouette

A waterfall style fountain with three seagulls. One of the seagulls is sitting on the rim of the fountain, with water falling over it. Another seagull is in motion, flying above the other seagull and the rim. The third gull is sitting on a fence railing behind the fountain. This is the fountain that was seen in the Matrix movie, otherwise known as the Lloyd Rees Fountain, named for the Australian painter.

This is the Lloyd Rees Fountain, named after the Australian painter. It's also known as The Matrix fountain, as seen in the movie. It's in Martin Place, which is also eponymously named

Reposting as I kinda like the photo

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous #FlyDay #photography #fountains #gulls

Three yellow flowers growing on a plant. The afternoon sun is shining on the plant making the flowers look vibrant.

Euryops chrysanthemoides or Bush Daisies

#ColorADay #YellowThu #Threesday #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

Yes, as long as I 'm not rostered to work that day. I'm actively looking for employment now and a lot of libraries open on the weekend.

View of a train platform as seen from the other side, just after 7am. Part of the platform is in shade. The orange signs on the seat and awning say Marrickville. Behind the station is a high black fence, that runs the length of the station beside a laneway. A low white fence is at the edge of the platform, just in front of the black fence. A tree is visible behind the platform. Behind the tree is a laneway and a two story building.with shops below and residences above is on the other side. The ground floor shops now mostly covered in graffiti and are empty.

Marrickville, named from the subdivision of Thomas Chalder's Marrick Estate (the estate itself named after his home in England)
Photo from September 2020. The platform looks different now, (still) waiting for the Metro line to open

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous #UrbanGaze #photography

A plant with red flowers growing in a garden bed at the base of a street tree. The plant is a geranium, more plant than petals. There is a dead flower on a stem with a spider web running between it and live leaves above it. There is a flower bud yet to bloom seen in front of the dead stem. Sunlight is behind the plant, so most of the plant seems to be glowing, with some the lower leaves are in shade. Some of the tree root is visible at the bottom of the frame, and grey road fills the background.

Red: what was, what is and what will be (or what is to come)

#ColorADay #RedWed #flowers #bloomscrolling #geraniums

Looking out a window of an office building, at a wall of windows of the same building. The window being looked out of has a wire screen over the top to act as a sun shade. The window being looked at has reflections of the windows opposite. The window opposite is reflecting the office surroundings and the also window being looked at. The reflections are houses, water and boats, some trees, a building opposite with scaffolding, among other things.

Reflections on windows reflected on windows (or something like that)
View of Pyrmont around the building known as One Darling Island, Pyrmont, NSW.

From my archives, January 2019

#windowsonwednesday #wednesdaywindows #windowswednesday #photography #reflections #reflection

He wrote about the river in his journal on his east coast exploration, and it was apparently part of the thinking of Botany Bay as a settlement site. Cook mapped it as far as I think to Tempe or thereabouts.

A river at low tide. The water is muddy, with reflections of trees on the banks seen on the surface. Mangrove reeds peek through mud, and pieces of rubbish sit between the roots and the water. It is mid afternoon on a spring day so parts of the frame are in shadow. A tree is on the left of the frame, blurred.

Could be almost any river at low tide, but this is the Cooks River so named after the explorer James Cook who first saw it in 1770, along with some rubbish to reflect its history.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous #rivers #photography #WaterWednesday

View of Sydney CBD from Taronga Zoo in Mosman on a cloudy/showery day. The view is south southwest-ish, and The Opera House and just downtown past Centrepoint Tower is in view. In the middle of the water Is Fort Denison, a small sandstone structure on a small island. Trees are in the foreground, located in the zoo. The sky is filled with clouds, grey tinged.

Sydney, named in honour of Thomas Townshend who was elevated to the peerage with the title of ‘Baron Sydney’ and Home Secretary in the British Parliament at time of settlement

Possibly expected and obvious but I can't not post it 😀

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEponymous #Sydney #photography

Standing close to a tree trunk, looking up. The trunk is textured with bark that doesn’t reach the top. The bark is looser the higher up the trunk until the top trunk is smooth and silver looking. The leaves are green on the many branches visible. The sky is blue, and sunlight is falling on the trunk and leaves.

Looking up

#ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #TextureTuesday #photography

Blue sky with clouds and a circumzenithal arc. The clouds are cumulous tinged with grey, what looks to be a contrail, and light cirrus.

Sky with a bit of this and that

From my archives

#BlueSkyMonday #clouds #circumzenithalarc #photography #sky

I can see why, it's magnificent!

Swoon 😊

Purple fountain grass growing by the road, with feathery flower spikes and few leaves visible. The grass in in full sun, the road in the background in some shadow.

Purple fountain grass flowers in sunlight

#MinimalMonday #ColorADay #MagentaMon #MagentaMonday

Close up view of flowers growing on a tree. A branch is in full view, with flowers in several stages growing from it. Some flowers are orange, some are yellow. In the background are other branches. Sunlight falls on the flowers, making shadows on the branch.

Moreton Bay Chestnut flowers, back in November

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #SundayYellow #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography

A sunset with coloured clouds over silhouetted trees. The sky colours are muted purple and orange, maybe gold.

Not the most vibrant of sunsets but I do like the colour mix

From my archives

#BlueSkyArtShow #clouds #photography #sunset #sunsets

Dark clouds in the sky, looking as if someone is stirring them There is a lighter circle in the middle, with the rest of the clouds appearing to swirl round it, becoming darker towards the edge. Several buildings along with overhead train lines are at the bottom of the frame.

Stir the clouds to form the storm

From my archives

#BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds #photography

Close up view of a foxtail agave plant in afternoon sun. The light is making the plant appear as vibrant line green in colour. The view is from above, so the leaves are horizontal.

Agave sculpture, 2pm on Friday

#ColorADay #GreenSat #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #agave #plants

Close up view of Plumbago auriculata flowers, with a small spider on the lower end of a tubular calyx with petals just beginning to show. Part of a spider's web is visible between flowers on the right. The flowers are growing over a wooden fence.

Plumbago auriculata and a small spider

#FlowersFriday #FridayFlowers #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

Camera angle makes them look worse than they are. Most people do use the escalators though, that would be in the left of the frame if in the photo

A person walking up stairs, carrying an open umbrella to keep the morning sun off. The stairs are half in sunlight, the lower half in shade. A handrail runs up the middle of the frame, dividing the stairs. There is also a handrail on the right of the frame that breaks in the middle for a level of shops. This rail has glass frames that continue to be a fence/barrier on the shop level. The stairs lead up to the street from a shopping area under the tracks at a major transport hub: lights and CCTV cameras on the roof girders are seen at the top of the frame. At the top of the stairs a person's head and face is seen, along part of a traffic light, a building and also an awning.

Lone person walking up stairs with the late morning sun overhead.

#UrbanGaze #photography #stairs #steps

Close up view of a spider on a coconut liner of an unseen hanging basket, the back of the spider is seen. It had been an overcast day with the sun trying to peak out so the natural light is somewhat weird. The spider looks like it has a large ball of web held in its front legs. There is a bubble of what looks like a clear liquid on one of the spider's legs. The coconut fibre looks as though it is not what it is, thanks to the 4x zoom used to take the photo. One strand is in the foreground, seen across the spider, thicker than others in the shot and not in focus.

Spider on a coconut lining in a hanging basket

No idea how this photo turned out looking somewhat dramatic, though it is at 4x zoom. Nor how I even noticed the spider.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDramatic #photography #arachnids

Doesn't do to have a hedge that wilts in summer, which is where I see most of them