Drifting rain (on the plain) mostly obscures the early-morning sunlight, producing soft, uneven lighting and turning the large dam on the plains into a silver mirror. The scene is framed left and bottom by tree silhouettes. Yin and Yang, light and dark, happy and sad.
Good Morning!
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#ohotography #landscape #monochrome #BaldKnob #gift #ECK
Not long after sunrise the morning sun is partly obscured by low cumulus over the ocean, but its golden light perfuses the entire scene, backlighting the clouds and filling the image with a golden glow.
Good Morning!
May today be glorious for you!
#photography #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #ECK
The sun fills an apricot and yellow sky will light from horizon to zenith, faint beams everywhere from cloud shadows. It's shining through extensive banks that stretch the same distance. Below the sea is a light slate blue, while the land is still dark.
Good Morning!
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#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #ECK
View from the Bald Knob deck, with bonus kookaburra
Good Morning!
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Come and greet the day with me
#photography #landscape #BaldKnob #gift #ECK
An almost cloudless sky is turning gold on the horizon as dawn approaches. Above the vault is blue and high in the sky a crescent moon rides above it all. The silhouette of a large mature tree dominates the central foreground, with a further tree to the left and hints to the right.
Good Morning!
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Have a peaceful day...
#photography #landscape #CrescentMoon #dawn #BaldKnob #gift #ECK
Multiple cloudbanks are spread across the sky, with varying textures and structures. All are lit bright orange by the impending sunrise, filling the sky with glorious light. The shot is framed left and right by nearby tree silhouettes.
Good Morning!
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Every day is a new day, I hope this one is wonderful
#photography #landscape #cloudscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #ECK
The sky is covered in broad, unstructured sweeps of pink and yellow cloud alternating with blue sky. Below, the plains are still dark with the notable exception of a large lake which reflects the sky, forming a bright patch in the darkness. Eucalypt silhouettes frame the picture across the top and to the left and below.
Good Morning!
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May your light and happiness be reflected 🧡
#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A restless flycatcher launching itself from a tree trunk, its wings spread wide. The bird is strongly lit from above and behind, casting a sharp shadow onto the tree trunk immediately in front of it.
@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay is #PerfectLighting a bird capture in good lighting
The good lighting for this flycatcher wasn't the bird itself, but the beautiful shadow cast on the tree trunk at Bald Knob
#photography #birds #nature #wildlife #flycatcher #shadow #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
The beautiful blue of low clouds just as dawn is breaking pink, gold and yellow on the horizon. The scene is framed top left and bottom right by large tree silhouettes.
Good Morning!
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Have a wonderful day...
#photography #sunrise #landscape #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
Sunrise over sea from Bald Knob
Good Morning!
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#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A full moon floats serenely over cloud layers in a soft blue evening sky. The moonlight brushes the tops of lower clouds, and fills the peaceful wooded landscape with gentle blue light. Two eucalypts frame the picture left and right, in silhouette.
Good evening!
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Wishing you a peaceful evening and a quiet night...💙🤍
#photography #landscape #moon #blue #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
An apparently wooded island, floating in the mist (Jade Warrior fans) in the Mooloolah Valley. However it's not really an island... No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. MEDITATION XVII Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.
Good Morning
#Stunday #ClassicMono #ImageAndVerse
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
—John Donne
...It is Margaret you grieve for
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
(whole of both in ALT)
#photography #BaldKnob #landscape #gift #EastCoastKin
Heavily timbered south gully at the Bald Knob property. At various times I saw foxes, cows and wallabies down there...
Good Morning
South gully, Bald Knob
#photography #landscape #scape #ForestFriday #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
alectura-lathami, alisterus-scapularis, black-headed-cuckooshrike, brown-cuckoo-dove, cacatua-galerita, chalcophaps-indica, columba-leucomela, coracina-melanoptera, cracticus-tibicen, currawong, dacelo-novaeguineae, dicrurus-bracteatus, eastern-yellow-robin, emerald-dove, eolophus-roseicapilla, eopsaltria-australis, forest-kingfisher-incintus, galahs, grallina-cyanoleuca, green-catbird, king-parrot, kookaburra, lewins-honeyeater, macropygia-amboinensis, magpie, magpie-lark, meliphaga-lewiniii, myiagra-inquieta, myzomela-sanguinolenta, pacific-baza, pale-headed-rosella, petroica-rosea, pigeon, platycercus-adscitus, rainbow-lorikeet, rainforest-pigeon, restless-flycatcher, rose-robin, scaly-breasted-lorikeet, scarlet-honeyeater, scrub-turkey, silvereye, spangled-drongo, strepera-graculina, sulphur-crested-cockatoo, tawny-frogmouth, todiramphus-macleayii-incinctus, trichoglossus-chlorolepidotus, trichoglossus-moluccanus, wampoo-fruit-dove, white-headed-pigeon, yellow-tailed-black-cockatoo, Zanda-funerea, zosterops-lateralis,wedge-tailed-eagle,
@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BackyardBirds
These were all taken in the Bald Knob backyard...
Partial list in the ALT
#photography #birds #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
The rising sun obscured behind a large low cumulus on the ocean horizon creates a symphony of rays onto the sea below, while lighting the sky above with a burst of light. The scene is framed top and bottom by eucalypt branches, while almost unnoticed, like Icarus' fall, a single gum leaf is caught in its final descent to the ground.
"Falling gum leaf"
Who's to say which is more beautiful — the subtle, erratic spiral of the single falling leaf, or the burgeoning day behind it?
May your tomorrows be better than your yesterdays.
#photography #sunrise #LeafFall #landscape #BaldKnob #gift #GetWell #EastCoastKin
Trees shrouded in mist. It's sunrise, but absolutely no way of telling, even in the colour original. The light is even, diffuse, only slightly brighter higher up, and even close tree outlines are softened by mist. More distant trees are losing definition, and beyond a few hundred metres is just a wall of white.
Good Morning!
Play misty for me...
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#JanuArty2026 #season #Stunday #ClassicMono
#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A blazing orange sky with multiple cloud systems on the left of the frame forms a dramatic backdrop for both sparse and dense tree silhouettes in the right half of the frame.
Good Morning!
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Have a joyful day
#photography #landscape #sunrise #cloudscape #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A golden sun lies only partly risen on the horizon, managing to shine through low clouds, and illuminate above it for some distance with a lambent golden orange. Higher still the clouds are tinged with yellow, and patches of light blue sky are visible. The horizon is a dull slate blue ocean, and below that again a dark plain. Tree silhouettes form a border on the right, with some straggly branches lower left.
Good Morning
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Love over gold
#BlueSkyMonday
#photography #sunrise #landscape #gift #BaldKnob #EastCoastKin
A clouded blue-gray sky intermittently lit by bands of pink sunrise, alternately masked and revealed by low clouds on the ocean horizon. The picture is framed left and top by eucalypt silhouettes.
Good Morning!
Solis interruptus
Sometimes you have to wait...
#photography #sunrise #BaldKnob #landscape #gift #EastCoastKin
A lone cloud floats higher above a dense lower bank of layered cumulus. The bank is grey, the lone cloud lit rosy pink by the approaching sunrise.
Good Morning
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The neurodivergent cloud...
#MinimalMonday #ColorADay #PinkMon #ArtYear #smArtist
#photography #landscape #cloudscape #ND #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A heavily clouded, dramatic sunrise over the ocean, the sun obscured by banks of low cumulus but filling the sky with deep apricot and orange hues, backlighting the clouds.
Good Morning!
Have a splendid weekend!
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#Stunday
#photography #sunrise #landscape #cloudscape #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
High view down over the crowns of close trees out over a series of ridges and valleys all shrouded in seas of early-morning mist. An ocean horizon is just visible through branches at the top of the picture.
Good Morning!
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#photography #landscape #mist #Mooloolah #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A blazing orange and gold sunrise lights up the lower horizon over the distant ocean and part of the upper sky, long shadows cast by some blocking cloud. The scene is framed top and right by tree silhouettes.
The same scene as the previous picture, about an hour later, with delicate pastels on the horizon with the last pink and dove grey traces of sunrise, and textured grey clouds above. A flight of rainbow lorikeets is seen through a gap in the same trees, now given three dimensions by the light, as well as the ocean, now clearly delineated from the coast.
Good Morning!
Same day, an hour apart, each their own beauty
#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A golden morning sun is about to disappear for a while behind a low cloud bank over the ocean. For now, it bathes the sky and clouds below in golden light. The plains below are dark and hazy, and the scene is bordered on the left and bottom by nearby eucalypt silhouettes.
Good Morning!
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May Monday be bearable...
#BlueSkyMonday
#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
Pinks and greys before sunrise, the greys low puffy cumulus over the ocean horizon, the pinks much higher partial banks quite deep in colour. The sky above is the palest blue, while the sea is just visible as a light grey line above the dark plain, its timbered ridges and valleys just sensible as changes in dark density. A lake shines bright in that darkness. The whole scene is half covered by the dark silhouettes of two nearby eucalypts, left and right.
Good Morning!
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#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
The sky about half an hour before sunrise, a line of gold beneath dark blue in a cloudless sky. The two colours silhouette several large mature eucalypts, their foliage black against the sky.
Good Morning!
May your day be golden
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#photography #landscape #BaldKnob #sunrise #gift #EastCoastKin
The sky is filled with clouds all ablaze with the pinks and oranges of a sunrise over sea. In the foreground the silhouettes of eucalypts also include two kookaburras perched, because we don't have turtle-doves.
Good Morning, and Merry Christmas to those celebrating!
#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
A golden sun blazes through multiple cloud layers over the ocean horizon, backlighting some and illuminating others. A bird wheels higher in the sky against still-grey cloud, and a eucalypt frames the right of the image in silhouette.
Good Morning!
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May you fly free today...
#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
The just-risen sun shines brightly over the ocean's horizon, and through the lowest branches of a nearby eucalypt. The horizon immediately above it is apricot and gold, we can't see much higher as most of the shot is taken up by trees and shrubs backlit by the orange-red light, leaves outlined and glowing as a sort of halo or penumbra.
Good Morning!
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#photography #landscape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
The sun peeks through a small break in an otherwise almost unbroken bank of low cumulus over the ocean. The sky above is blue, while in the small gap between the horizon and the cloud base it's a beautiful apricot, with brushes of dusky blue telling of showers out at sea. The treed plains below are still dark, a lake shining out with a small golden reflection. while the leaves of a large eucalyptus framing the left of the image are dark in silhouette.
Good Morning!
Peek-a-boo...
#photography #ForestFriday #landscape #scape #sunrise #BaldKnob #gift #EastCoastKin
