Vertical Motif

Sometimes you can isolate elements in an environment that group naturally together—low clouds making horizontal lines over the horizon, a seaway or roads, for instance. Here, these palm trees make a vertical vanishing point symmetry with the Buffalo monument at Glenelg, South Australia, commemorating the landing place of the first European settlers in 1836. I cropped the image to exclude ground clutter and the overhang of a building to the left, which streamlined or de-cluttered the image, and the only detraction now is the wires strung between the posts. I could go in and remove them digitally, but that seems like kinda cheating. I took this shot on the 20^th of October, 2016, during an outing with my sister-in-law from across the water. The image is just as it came off the card, with the exception of some fine rotation and the cropping. Fuji FinePix S5600. Image by Mike.

The tall ship with the terrific menu

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You're driving down the beautiful road leading along the bank of the Patawalonga River, which flows out into the Gulf St. Vincent via the marina and "millionaire country" just to the north of Jetty Road, Glenelg ... and suddenly you see a tallship. A three-master, a square-rigger, parked on "the Pat" at Glenelg --? You pull over quickly and grab the camera, and you experience an "aha" moment. It's a replica of the HMS Buffalo, the ship which brought the colonists to South Australia in 1836. Treat yourself to lunch or dinner -- aboard, she's fantastic. As absolutely perfect replica of the original ship ... which is also a restaurant serving very good food at surprisingly good prices. The restuarant caters to the whole family, too, and (trust me on this!) their forte is the desserts. This is a scan of a shot I took back in the 1980s; I don't even recall when. I haven't been back to Glenelg is years now, since moving away. I always liked this picture, and since the print has started to fade with age, it was recently scanned in and enhanced. The camera was the Olympus OM-10, and I always shot on Kodak Gold in those days. Photo by Jade, about 1984.