Happy birthday your majesty

  

This is an enhanced picture of the horizon above the clouds at sunset. I rotated it 90o to the right and added a twirl filter in ArtStudio for iPad. Today Australia celebrates the Queen’s birthday with a public holiday (except Western Australia). 

High tea

  

Located on the 19th floor, the Club Lounge awaited, offering a modest afternoon tea with assorted scones, jams and cream. The evening drinks served from 6 pm, was accompanied by delicious hot and cold canapés, cheeses, fruit and artisan breads. 

Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

http://melbourne.park.hyatt.com

Garish combination



Hard surfaced distinction

Clean lined definition

Metal undulation

Golden decoration

Soft form reflection

Bright colour selection

Garish combination

Ballister detail, Park Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Australia 

Tropical Spring

  

This metal lighthouse makes an impact as we enter a clearing. We have walked through dense bush, from one side of the Isand to the other. It is Spring on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, the only human inhabitants of this tropical paradise is the lighthouse keeper and his family. 

Coral

  

Coral, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. I’m in awe of the quality of the pictures taken with a Kodak disposable underwater camera. My snorkelling and flippering skilled left a lot to be desired. 

Underwater selfie

  

We had a pre-wedding holiday with our family in October last year. The underwater disposable camera was an impulse purchase for our snorkelling trip to the Barrier Reef, Australia. A lack of film processing shops and moving house contributed to a delay in getting the pictures developed. Of course I had forgotten that this was one of the shots. 

Twilight

  

I took this picture from a pedestrian bridge over the Paramatta Road connecting Petersham and Leichhardt. I’m still pondering the simile of twilight as a transition from day to night.