Photo/s of the day.

[moonvoice]

Sacred Place






Rose Mallee





Types of Well-Known Eucalyptus Trees in WA





Green





Suffrage





Perth City and Swan River





Path





Life





28





Thryptomene





The City





Resting by the Trees





Grevillea

Comments

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photos! I've yet to hear a 28, and would love to!

[wolftale.livejournal.com]

A lot of nice pictures :D

[toeknuckles.livejournal.com]

You take THE BEST photos. EVAR

[amhrantine.livejournal.com]

That first one is very cool. It's reassuring that people still hold that sentiment.

[makhsihed.livejournal.com]

Your trees are so big! and your birds are all so brightly colored. <3

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

You know, I've spent my life not being particularly interested in visiting Australia. There's far too much to see in Europe (plus it's cheaper, and easier to get to).

But...

Your photos are really beautiful and are really helping to change my mind. The exotic plants & wildlife are particularly awesome!

Wow...

[aleia-kali.livejournal.com]

wow, beautiful, thanks for sharing.

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Love these photos!

[bodylove.livejournal.com]

beautiful!

[amethyst-clan.livejournal.com]

So, so pretty. Thank you for sharing! <3

[shimmerhawk.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, looks like the kind of place where I would like to rest in the grass. The Rose Mallee photo is amazing. It's always fun to see these!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The rose mallee was amazing! So awesome. I think they may also be called Gungurra, but I might be thinking of another ornamental, wicked eucalyptus tree...

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Hee. They're awesome. And different calls in different areas too. The 28s up here sound different to the ones in King's Park.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking I'm a total amateur. Seriously. Mum was like 'no, Pia, have you ever thought about exploring photography as a career?' and I'm like pfft no I take happy snaps.

Also it's hellaciously competitive. I'm already in enough hellaciously competitive artistic industries as it is.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It's really awesome, the whole area where that is printed / laser cut into the rock is really awesome.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, eucalyptus can get reaaaaally big. No redwoods, but Bill Bryson once made the observation that they might not be redwoods in height, but they tend to look prettier in terms of bark / canopy.

I always liked that.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

That's one of my favourite things to hear. When people who previously had no real interest in Australia start to get a budding, 'hm, maybe.' I mean, that's humbling for me.

I love this country, but even people who live here think it's boring sometimes. :) We also lack a lot of... I guess... history? I mean there is a rich history of nomadic Indigenous Aboriginals living here, but settlement of the nation was just over 200 years ago so there's little rich architectural history, or anything like that. So for people like me and Glen, who love architecture and temples and so on; there's *nothing* here that even comes close to that.

Whereas Europe is kind of a mecca for that sort of thing. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked! :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

:) Glad you like them!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Aw glad you enjoyed them. Thanks for looking! :)

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

But it really sounds like they're saying "28"? :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Well. Loosely. Like a loose translation of 28. A lot of bird calls are like that though. People hear them and try and apply human words to them to remember them, so it does have the beat and metre of saying 'twenty eight, twenty eight.' It kind of sounds like 'ee-ee ay, ee-ee ay.'

But you can get variations. The ones in King's Park can be more like 'ee-ee ee-ee ee-ee.' Which I suppose would sound like 'twenty twenty twenty'!

[leelastarsky.livejournal.com]

:~D

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I think what I find really fascinating is how you manage to capture the alien nature of the Aussie landscape. The imposed cityscape almost feels like something out of science fiction.

I agree that Australia's aboriginal cultures are really, really interesting, but I just can't make the connection with my own culture that easily. Visiting Greece, for example, makes me feel that in some way I'm going home to the birthplace of a great-great (to the power hundred) grandmother. I know this a failing on my part, because we're all human beings on this planet together, and in that respect, everyone's histories are interconnected (to the misfortune of the indigenous Australians...) Their oral history and material culture is so rich and relatively well-preserved that it's really worth exploring, too.

Maybe some day we'll get to visit... I'd love to see Uluru, but I'm scared that I'll be herded along in a crowd like so many sheep and so I won't make the spiritual connection with the site that it so richly deserves...

In the mean time, I'll stick to watching your blog!!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Their oral history and material culture is so rich and relatively well-preserved that it's really worth exploring, too.


It can also be hard to connect to. I've noticed, for myself, that the Australian landscape - and by default perhaps, it's spirits or cosmologies - can be quite forbidding, even to the people who have always lived here. I don't know how to explain it. And I could be completely wrong.

I would also love to see Uluru, though like you, I wouldn't want to be dragged along on a tourist group having guides badgered about why it's so unfair that they can't climb it. I'm sure they offer more private tours. And it's soooo remote, I'm sure people just go walkabout around there on their own too.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

You've got scary spiders, too... I wouldn't like to have deadly fanged fiends lurking in my shrubbery!!

[redsixwing.livejournal.com]

Hooray, pretty colors! I love coming back after a weekend and catching up on lovely photo posts.
The one with the bronze book on the rocks is compelling. I could stare at that for a while.

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh gods...these are so amazing, I'm speechless. Holy wow~ <333333

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The bronze book on the rocks is a printed account of woman's suffrage from the times. There are also leaves of paper, and eucalyptus leaves cast in bronze all around that area. It's really cool.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thank you!