Random shots...

[brianvds]

Evening clouds

Fiscal flycatcher

Flower power

Gecko on the other side

Machine

 

[txomsy]

The gecko is a real finding. The clouds have plenty of drama.

 

[brianvds]

Leaf litter lizard

Mammatus clouds after a storm

 

[txomsy]

The clouds are a wonderful shot, and with a crop, an incredible abstract picture. Wow!

 

[brianvds]

Red-eyed dove

Aloe flowers with bees

Aloes in bloom

Autumn, 2021

Autumn leaves

 

[Jade]

Wow. The aloe flowers particularly drew me eye.

 

[Bongo]

Aloe against the sky:

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all good. The Aloe grabs me special for some reason.

 

[brianvds]

Thanks for all the kind comments. Here's a bunch of cellphone pictures:

Cloudscape over Pretoria:

Colorful mugs at a flea market:

Coral tree:

Electricity:

Cape glossy starling on a roof:

 

[Triduana]

Glad I looked into this thread! Fantastic selection of photos Brian. Love the gate in the first batch.

 

[Jade]

Beautiful

 

[brianvds]

Not particularly interesting as a photograph, but this jumble of rocks on a sidewalk caught my eye because of the ripple patterns in the rock: millions, perhaps even billions of years ago, that rock was a sandy riverbed, with who knows what marvels swimming past just above:

Miniature toy cars made from old tin cans; they're about the size of a matchbox. Seen at a flea market:

I pass this window on my morning walk every day. On this particular day, it was overcast, and the window poking through the branches in the gloomy atmosphere struck me as wonderfully atmospheric. I later even loosely based a painting on it (which, predictably didn't sell). Unfortunately the very gloom that made the scene so nice also meant that my humble cellphone camera couldn't focus well, so the photo came out rather blurry, with the sky overexposed. I had to shrink it down a lot to make it a bit sharper!

Something completely different: an ant and its shadow:

Saw these attractively backlit orchids at my sister-in-law's house, and had a cellphone at hand:

 

[Jade]

You have a photographers eye

 

[brianvds]

You have a photographers eye

Thanks. Not always too sure. Looking through my folders pf photos now, most of them are pretty unremarkable. But with digital photography, one can simply take a million photos and pick the best three.

 

[Jade]

We're our own worst critics, Brian

 

[brianvds]

Come autumn, I can't help myself:

Morning sunbath

Bees sharing a drink

Black-eyed bulbuls on a street light