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This shot of Cronulla has been very popular.
Tony took it just after dawn looking across the pool to the point at Cronulla.He used the panorama setting on his camera.
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The soft golden and blue colouring of the light on the left of the image is in strong contrast to the bold, golden and blue colours of the railing and buildings on the right.
This colouring, combined with the mirror image reflection of the water creates a picture of such stillness and peace.
What a gift to find it so still.
As I mentioned in the blog on Coogee Pool… there are photos that are gifts… they just happen and you are lucky enough to be there to catch the moment.
This one of the Dandelion was not one of those… there is that moment in Nature, when the first seed leaves the flower… and it would be amazing and a privilege to capture that.
However, Tony saw the perfectly formed, yet-to be blown-away dandelions and conceived the idea of creating the shot.
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He gathered several dandelions… and he and I armed with a hair dryer and a camera, took about fifty shots to get this one!
We were looking for the first seed leaving, with the idea of capturing the sense of “letting go”, of “breaking free”.
But we also wanted to have the image resonnate with people’s childhood memories of gathering and blowing the dandelions as they made a wish.
In this shot the sun had just come over the horizon and hence the glorious and dramatic change of colour compared to image #649 shot a little earlier, a swimmer had entered the pool and broke the surface of the water, creating a beautiful rippled image of vibrant and extaordinary colour.
I enjoy looking at these three images #2959, #649 and #257 and marvelling at how dramatically the landscape can change in an instant and how something you had not planned or foreseen can suddenly present you with the gift of a beautiful shot. Call it luck, chance or serendipity…Tony and I are always grateful of these moments.
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The shot was taken just before the sun rose over the horizon, so the colours in the sky were muted and soft.
The water in the pool was still, creating a perfect mirror image reflection of the concrete bollards and the sky.