Day 293... climbing

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
William Lyon Phelps

Across the road from home is a beautiful display of white standard roses and I thought it would make a lovely photo, instead I ended up seeing this little guy and going for a close up of him... I wonder if he enjoys the view from the top   

Day 292... on the way home

The days are longer, and today the sun was shining, the temperature was up... but yet I was unable to get a photo until I was on my way home.

This is the International Rose Garden and the Bicentennial Conservatory.

FYI.... The International Rose Garden's overall structure and geometry includes a sunken garden, a circular garden and several pergolas, in perfect visual counterpoint to the adjacent Bicentennial Conservatory.

The garden displays over 5,000 roses, including areas devoted to Australian bred roses, single roses, heritage roses and pillar roses. A walkway in the garden highlights roses selected for specific Australian causes (Olympic Gold, The Children's Rose). Mixed companion plantings add lots of seasonal colour

The Bicentennial Conservatory was built in celebration of Australia's 1988 Bicentenary. Designed by South Australian architect, Guy Maron, it is the largest single span conservatory in the southern hemisphere.

The building is curvilinear in shape; 100 metres long, 47 metres wide and 27 metres high. An elegant steel superstructure supports the 2,434 metres2 of toughened glass which forms the roof, walls and doors. Its glistening and distinctive shape is a landmark, particularly for visitors flying in to Adelaide

Day 291... blossoming

“Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature”
Gerard de Nerval

The weather today was amazing, the sun shining and the skies were blue and then the brightness of the bottlebrush caught my eye...

FYI...
Bottlebrushes (Callistemon spp.) are among the hardiest of Australian native plants. They are long lived, require minimal maintenance and are almost impossible to kill. The flowers attract native birds, especially honey eaters, and reward the gardener with extraordinary amounts of colour.    

Day 290....

A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses."

Roses fill the streets of Adelaide at the moment, it would be quite easy to take a shot of them every day... most days I resist, but as I left work today the shape of this rose caught my attention

Day 289... never too old

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis

'The Forest of Dreams' is a public art work by Anton Hart erected in 2003 in Hurtle Square. Each of the letters stands at the 'entrance' to one of four parks in the square; at the intersection of Pultney Street and Halifax Street.

At the time of its construction, Lord Mayor Alfred Huang explained that the words 'The Forest of Dreams' are drawn from a quotation from French philosopher Gaston Bachelard; and the phrase was chosen to evoke a sense of the landscape which existed before white settlement.

Day 288...

A camera has interesting ideas of its own. - John Szarkowski

This camera was given to me in a bag by a friend, it had belong to his father.

The Contaflex series is a family of 35mm leaf-shuttered SLR cameras, produced by Zeiss Ikon in the 1950s and 1960s. The Contaflex I, launched in 1953, was equipped with a fixed Zeiss Tessar 45mm f:2.8 lens with front-cell focusing. The very first Contaflex I had a Synchro-Compur shutter with the old scale of shutter speeds (1-2-5-10-20-50-100-200-500), but very soon it adopted the new scale 1-2-4-8-15-30-60-125-250-500.

The Contaflex II, introduced the following year, was the same camera with an uncoupled selenium meter added to one side of the front plate.

Both had a fixed lens but to the front of which could be attached a supplementary lens, called the Teleskop 1.7x

Day 287... rock

Ferrero Rocher is a spherical chocolate sweet made by Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA.

Introduced in 1982, the chocolates consist of a whole roasted hazelnut encased in a thin wafer shell filled with hazelnut cream and covered in milk chocolate and chopped hazelnuts.

The sweets are individually packaged inside a gold-coloured wrapper. Rocher comes from French and means "rock".   

Day 286... folklore

Bonython Hall is the "great hall" of the University of Adelaide, located in the university grounds and facing North Terrace, Adelaide. It is primarily used for University graduation ceremonies, examinations, expositions and public lectures and meetings likely to draw large audiences

Bonython Hall is opposite Pulteney Street, the only one of the city's north-south thoroughfares which does not continue north through the parklands. Folklore has it that the Bonython donation was made on the condition that a hall be built opposite Pulteney Street, thus blocking any future path through the parklands and preventing the division of the campus by a major thoroughfare.

Folklore also maintains that the Bonython family were very conservative and did not want the building used as a dance hall. Hence, the hall was designed and built with a sloping floor rather than flat floor

Day 285... busy as

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard

Day 284... fairies

Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels. But their magic sparkles in nature. ~Lynn Holland

You can't see them but I am sure this little group of toadstools, located on the edge of the CBD of Adelaide and close to the parklands is the latest resort for the fairies....   

Day 283... in the city

I feel very lucky to live in Adelaide, where the wildlife comes right in to the city...   

Day 282... Port Inhabited

Headlining the 2011 Port Festival is extraordinary animated building projection depicting the rich stories of Port Adelaide. The stunning colonial buildings of Lipson Street came alive in animated imagery and soundscape that transformed this renowned heritage environment into a kaleidoscope of form, colour and movement.

 

Day 281... reasons

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet

This is a lovely quote, I can't say that I became a photographer because of flowers but I know that thanks to this project I see the beauty of flowers a lot more... so much so when I walked past the florist on Thursday and I saw these flowers I had to have them so I could capture their beauty.

For me, I started taking photos and went into my choosen career of television because it was a way of capturing the moment, remembering the past... I was influnced by the moon landing, something that happened before I was born but something I grew up seeing due to the magic of television.

Day 280... zig zag

Day 279... bright

A rosella is one of five to eight species of colorful Australian parrots in the genus Platycercus. Platycercus means "broad-tailed" or "flat-tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe. Their diet is mainly seeds and fruit.

Day 278... Normanville

Day 278... Second Valley

Day 278... Blowhole Creek beach

Day 278... Deep Creek Conservation Park

Day 278... Demare Uniting Church

Day 278... Fisheries Beach