"Ethereal Beauty" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

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"Ethereal Beauty" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch 2012©Photography | Redbubble

It’s Zygocactus annual flowering time again. The cool southerly winter winds created some difficulty while attempting to photo up close this hanging little beauty. It was highlighted with sunspots from the afternoon sunlight creating some lovely effects. Taken at home near Innisfail, in tropical Far North Queensland, Australia!

Common name: Zygocactus, Christmas cactus, and Crab’s claw cactus
Botanic name: Schlumbergera truncata Hybrids



Camera/Shoot Details

• Handheld Pentax K10D, Prime Lens smc Pentax 55mm F1.2
  1/500sec, @F22, ISO 100, manual focus.
• Photo - Natural state
  

(This was taken with my very first SLR Lens which I forgot I had and recently rediscovered it in my black camera bag archives. It came with my first ever SLR (late 70’s), a Pentax K1000 also in good working order but ‘neglected in use’ since purchasing a DSLR in 2007.)

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"Multistory Shadow-Patterned Facade" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

An unexpected encounter with the Shadow Muse!

"Multistory Shadow-Patterned Facade" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble:

"Multistory Shadow-Patterned Facade" Photography by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012

I just had to go and grab my camera when I saw these strong contrast shadow patterns being cast/projected onto the tall multi-storey vertical wall one tropical winter’s June mid-afternoon.
Where? Behind my work place in Innisfail, Far North Queensland, Australia.

Building Information
Built between 2007-2009, this is Innisfail’s first Council approved (and last, so ‘the officials’ say) 6 multi-storey units building in a contemporary Art Deco style. It is positioned along the Innisfail Esplanade next to the Johnstone River.  It’s been reported that the building already has a small 5-6 degree angle lean, due to it’s proximity with the river bank that floods every wet season.

Then of course there is the whole psychological realm dealing with Shadow (psychology)
where the ground opens up to explore the shadow muse in the underworld!!! (Maybe best left for another time!)

 

 Framed print examples.

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"Dividing Line ~ Twilight Zone" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

Silhouetted against the twilight sky on a glorious tropical winter’s June evening is the well known landmark Broken Nose (on the right) – at the southern end of the range of Mt. Bartle Frere, Queensland’s highest mountain – along with many other hill lines while looking towards the Tablelands. A solitary rural home light shines out in the dark (seen further below the Broken Nose point). 

"Dividing Line ~ Twilight Zone" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble:

"Dividing Line ~ Twilight Zone" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012 Photography

Photo shot was taken from Belvedere, near Innisfail in Tropical Far North Queensland, Australia, approx. four months after Cyclone Yasi had passed through.

***If you look closely along the dividing line you’ll see it has a ‘spiky’ texture and is not smooth. This is evidence of all the stripped trees caused by the extreme forces of the cat.5 cyclonic winds!
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"Scorcher On the Rise, Innisfail, Far North Queensland" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

"Scorcher On the Rise, Innisfail, Far North Queensland" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble: