A few more holiday photos... :-)>

Now apart from giving the above photo a border, I haven't done anything to this pic but download it from the camera and reduce the file size for posting. Can anyone tell me why I get the greenish cast in the clouds? I'm pretty sure it wasn't there in real life...is it just one of those digital camera thingies? (that's a technical term ya know)

I made this one sepia-ish (another technical description) This shows a distant view of one of the many lighthouses on the west coast of Victoria. It was called the "Shipwreck Coast" for good reason!

A different view of the same lighthouse. The structure on the left is sitting up about 50 metres above sea level on a single support pillar. It's some rich person's beach outlook *sun-room* thing...and you get out to it from their cliff-top house via a gang-plank arrangement. Gives me vertigo just thinking about it!

First one sure is pretty! Are those hill in the background forested or (green) fields? It looks like enough light is getting through in patches to bounce off those fields back to the clouds. The brain often compensates for colors it does not expect. Then again, it could be a strange digi-thingie. From a lot of the digital pictures I've been seeing, the results work pretty well under daylight, incandescent, flourescent, etc., lighting. Even pictures taken with a lot f bounce light off of colored walls do not look too strange. Unlike the films which needed to be specifically balanced for different light. Could the digi's be trying to guess some sort of color balance, and in this case just guessed a little wrong? In any case, very pretty. If you were trying for the green affect it would be difficult to achieve. Sometimes just get lucky.

Absolutely beautiful Punky! It's got that late summer feel to it. Interesting how different it looks from our beaches here. Many clouds there...it adds a lot to the mood. Must have been hard to leave! I think I'll put together a few pictures of mine from our coast and give you a look at what I mean by the different look.

Nice Punks - man, some people have wierd ideas for summer houses, huh? 2 words for them; Coastal Erosion! lol (",)

Nice photos Punkclown, looks like a beautiful place. I like the lighthouse in sepia, seems to suit the subject.

Hi there, dear PunkClown, how are you..? Nice to see you and your photos back again... :) I find the third one to be very beautiful... ...for its rather minimal style. ...for its very diynamic perspective, where nearly all the lines (even the speckles of clouds) converge towards the white lighthouse (?) in the horizon. ...for its color and tonal variations. Regards... :)

these are extremely lovely Punk!

Thanks all, Misha you could be right! The area is quite densely forested, so perhaps it was just reflection on the clouds after all...and the clouds above the water? Maybe reflecting the "sea green" also...

Well............... I am not going to tell you how nice these are, because it is freezing here right now, and I am jealous ;-p

I agree Alpha. And say no more either. .n