Featured Photo - Outside the Asylum

A new picture, Outside the Asylum, has been featured in the group Moody & Evocative.

Thank you, Anthony Mancuso!

I really do like the gloom and madness that I sense in this photo. Obviously, there is some post processing, but even without that it lent itself to this kind of feeling. I think it represents a kind of terror that exists at the heart of human existence but is rarely acknowledge, not fear of death or even madness, but our fear of truth. So we choose the asylum because we think it is safer.

Of course, it's not.

Plant life - Fern Art

Ferns are amongst my favourite plants. They are more ancient than the dinosaurs and beautifully primitive.

The first is the most recent photograph. Taken at Sydney Park in St Peters a couple of weeks ago, I saw this growing out amongst the rocks and loved the red colouring.

The second picture was taken at Darling Harbour. I was walking over a footbridge and just saw it beneath me. Such a great and unusual angle to see a tree fern from.

Click on the pictures to see them on RedBubble. I've only two fern pictures, much to my surprise - these two. Well, I must get some more, mustn't I.

Clean Lines get Featured

The picture, CLEAN LINES, has been featured!

It has been featured in the Shapes & Patterns group on RedBubble today. So thank you Maria! Very happy new year it's going to be!

Picture the Pitcher

Pitcher Plants are such wonderful things!! I should probably get some myself to eat the mosquitoes around here this time of year.

If you like them too but find them to much work to care for (like I did with my Venus Fly Traps, poor things: if only I'd known that they need special potting mix) maybe this is more useful for you...

These photos were taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia. The vine they grew on grew very high, climbing up the pillars to the second level in the tropical house.