Some Photographs Entered in a competition titled, “Through the Lens”

This month I present some photographs that I have entered in a yearly photographic competition titled “Through The Lens”. This competition allows South Australian Seniors’ Card holders to enter up to four photographs per year for judging and displaying in a special exhibition of finalists.

The photographs shown here are from three years of entering this competition, and I am very proud of the photographs I have entered. The photographs don't need to have been taken during the previous 12 months, so I can look back through all of the photographs I have ever taken, to try to come up with some good ones that others will also find interesting.

I present smaller versions of each of the photographs on this page, but you can enjoy larger versions with more details of each by clicking on these smaller versions. Alternatively, you can view all of the larger detailed views of the photographs by going to the next or previous links once you are viewing the detailed views of one of the photographs.

Showing part of the Adelaide CBD, photographed from an aircraft.

These cliffs, that stand above a wave-cut platform, are made of buckled, layered rocks that geologists have found to have formed around 600 million years ago. The Hallett Cove Conservation Park is a fascinating and inspiring place to visit and walk around in. It contains many ancient geological structures, and yet every surface is part of the immediate moment.

The Nelumbo Pond is one of the most popular features of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. It is sometimes entirely covered with large water lilies, but not at the time of this photograph. Here, much of the surface of the pond reflects the sky and the plants growing behind it. I am reminded of the paintings of French Impressionist, Claude Monet, with the overall brightness, along with the combination of floating water lily leaves and reflections of mauve clouds.

A bee enters a flower that is part of a fabulous display of healthy plant life growing on the edge of Nelumbo Pond in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The Adelaide Botanic Gardens is a marvellous place to walk around in. It generally has a calm, quiet atmosphere that radiates a sense of ‘earthy health’. It contains plant specimens from all over the world. It is a genuine treasure, freely available to every person in Adelaide.

Two herons stand quietly on the statue of a mythological 'cherub' (in the form of a young boy with little wings) holding on tightly around the neck of a large swan, in the middle of Nelumbo Pond, in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

The Nelumbo Pond is one of the most popular features of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. It is often entirely covered with large water lilies. At the time of this photograph, in Autumn, most of the water lilies are in the process of withdrawing their vital fluids.

Ficus trees growing by the edge of a small lake in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. All of the plants here looked very healthy, having plenty of water available from the small lake.

These cliffs, that stand above a wave-cut platform, are made of buckled, layered rocks that geologists have found to have formed around 600 million years ago. The Hallett Cove Conservation Park is a fascinating and inspiring place to visit and walk around in. It contains many ancient geological structures, and yet every surface is part of the immediate moment.

These cliffs, that stand above a wave-cut platform, are made of buckled, layered rocks that geologists have found to have formed around 600 million years ago. They stand in the Hallett Cove Conservation Park, a fascinating and inspiring place to visit and walk around in.

I came upon this little scene as I walked up one of our local streets. The dead bird and dry leaves were piled up on the road, in the gutter. The dead bird looks like it is made of just dry matter that is slowly breaking down, similar to the fallen leaves. The colours captured by the photograph are realistic, and subtle.

My wife and I travelled to Europe in 1998. We visited The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Germany. We enjoyed our visit to Oostende (for a little more than half a day). It was a short 15 minute train journey to the coast, from the city of Bruges (Brugge), where we were staying at the time. Oostende is a fishing village/town with sea links to England. The wharf areas of Oostende in particular were fascinating. We enjoyed watching and hearing a number of large ships coming and going.

This view of highly eroded channels and forms of rocks and clays is near The Sugarloaf, in the Hallett Cove Conservation Park. The Hallett Cove Conservation Park is a fascinating and inspiring place to visit and walk around in. This precious conservation park has been kept as a living record of natural coastal landscape which was typical of this region of South Australia. It contains many purple-brown rocks that geologists have dated at being formed at about 600 million years ago.