We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
Yeah, the one in Bermuda is a pretty good study of light, I would think.
ReplyDeleteI like the lines on the bottom of this runabout though.
Nice use of depth of field. The place looks idyllic.
ReplyDeleteI like this photo very much, as AB sad, DOF is nice. It feels a little bit melancholic to me, like, summer is over, no more boating on the sea. But that is clearly created by the temperatures around here ... .
ReplyDeleteThanks guys, it might not have been what I thought I might capture but as you say it didn't work out too bad.
ReplyDeleteMartina, it was taken several weeks ago during winter so perhaps it was pulled up on the shore waiting for the summer sun.