Category: Photography

  • The Bridge and Opera House

    Distant memoriesFrozen in timeRemind me ofMy harbour home I was going back through some of my archives earlier for another collage and I found these photos from about four years ago. I took them during a trip to Taronga Zoo and didn’t do much with them at the time… I think I gave them a quick…

  • Sydney Photo Collage

    I finished the first of my Sydney photo collages earlier and thought I’d share it after sharing the Newcastle one yesterday. I like how it came out, particularly the way the photos stand out from each other but also how the repetition of colours and styles gives it a feeling of consistency too. I was…

  • Newcastle Photo Collage

    I’ve been busy moving over the last few weeks. I’ve been thinking about moving for a while and after the break in a few months ago and some other safety issues, I finally decided I’d had enough and needed to get out. So I’ve put most of my possessions in storage for now and I’m…

  • An Afternoon at Fort Scratchley

    Cannon outside the fort I went on a group photowalk around Fort Scratchily in Newcastle yesterday afternoon. I’ve not done that many group photowalks before and I enjoyed it. It was nice being with other photographers and I think other people seemed a bit more comfortable around us as well which was nice. The weather…

  • Painterly Sunset

    I took this image a few evenings ago near Belmont wharf. It was a lovely sunset but I’ve shared several similar photos recently so I thought I’d try one of my more artistic edits with this. Basically what I did was edit it normally, then I edited it again to strip out most of the…

  • The Lake at Night

    At night The world seems different Quiet and still Like a calm ocean I took this along the lakefront in Belmont the other night. It was dusk and the streetlights had just come on, creating this beautiful foreground glow with the last light of the sun dying over the lake. It was actually so well…

  • Sitting by the Window

    Each morningI look in the mirrorAnd fix my maskTo face the day I took this photo yesterday. I wanted a photo for a new profile pic for my social media sites and possibly for an about the author photo. I’d been meaning to practise taking more self-portraits as well (mainly to experiment on myself first so…

  • From the Archives

    Time is like water: ShapelessIt winds and flows Changing all it touches I was going back through my archives earlier tonight and found this photo amongst them. It’s from October 2013 and I took it near Tamarama while exploring the Sculpture By the Sea exhibit. I’m not sure why I never processed it… the composition…

  • Sunset on the Lake

    Birds calling, the wind Blue sky, clear water, salt air – Life’s simple pleasures This is another photo from around Belmont from a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful sunset and a nice way to end the day. Photo and haiku © CJ Levinson 2016

  • Beautiful Bag End

    In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. ~ JRR Tolkien, The…