Mangroves on the Tweed River. by blondeblurr
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Description
Australia has the third largest area of mangroves in the world after Indonesia and Brazil.
Our island continent, is surrounded by approximately 11,000 km of mangrove-lined coast, being around 18% of the coastline. Mangroves are uniquely adapted trees and larger shrubs that inhabit the tidal sea edge.
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My son Jeff and I had to fill in an hour, waiting for the brakes on our Subi to be fixed ...
What better thing to do and filling in an hour, than going across the road, to the Tweed river (the local estuary and mangroves) and trying a spot of 'Mangrove Jack' fishing - and moi just taking pix!
(I haven't really got the patience, nor the inclination to fish - but I love seafood!)
There is something really fascinating and mysterious about Mangroves, especially for this former City-girl and with a little digifiddle, even more so!
Cheers Brigitte
(aka blondeblurr)
Comments (29)
Richardphotos
I hope you changed the color of the water. outstanding work
jayfar
Absolutely lovely BB and you didn't say whether Jeff caught a fish!!
clbsmiley
wow!! Love the digifiddle!! Cool you like Chihuly too.
Feliciti
beautiful color combination !! looks like a painting !!
dochtersions
What a wonderful image, dear Brigitte. Amazing art is the result of this splendid job you've done with this. Bravo, and keep on doing the good thing LOL.
EyeOfTheJen
Really gets your attention. Great work.
durleybeachbum
STRANGE after the Brigitte treatment!! I like the surrealness of this!
jif3d
No fish, but plenty of trippy views...hang on, oh right...better take off my rose coloured glasses !...LOL :o) Dig the postwork effects and the contrast of the original capture BB ! ~Cheerio~
npauling
I love your digifiddle here, the whole result looks stunning. A great way to wait for the brakes to be fixed, to take photos. I like the blue flower looking thingy in the front it gives a great focal point.
danapommet
Wonderful capture and amazing colors.
wysiwig
Very cool, Brigitte. Chip should see this. It has just the right amount of alien atmosphere that would inspire him. Spectacular post work and the addition of the flower is the cherry on top.
goodoleboy
11,000 km of mangrove-lined coast, you say? That's quite a stretch for sure. So, with time to kill waiting for your Subaru to be repaired, there's nothing like blithely sauntering into a mangrove, many of which are inhabited by dangers yet unknown, young lady. Anyway, a beautiful composition of textures and blue and pink colors in this sterling shot, BB.
netot
Beautiful shot and excellent PW. We have Mangroves here and they are a great ecological system. there is much life hidden in them.
VDH
Excellent work!
flavia49
wonderful image and work
Glendaw
Awesome display of Mangroves. Excellent digifiddle work. Very attractive,and attention getting image.
sandra46
GORGEOUS IMAGE
psyoshida
Fascinating shot! A wonderful way to spend you idle time. Excellent shot.
Rhanagaz
Looks like something been captured on Mars! ;o) Great, Brigitte! :o)
wonderworld
Magical mangroves and what a cool mind you have.
moochagoo
Amazing work on colors.
1358
this is so... so... cool...to heck with fishing, just hang about in the wild, looking for dragonflys, mudskippers, maybe the occasion starling....get your feet wet, enjoy the coolness of the ocean breeze.... near heaven for me... (I'm land locked in a frozen world...) seriously cool image!
Madbat
If you hadn't said what this was, I'd still be guessing! I've only been to the pacific once, and that was north of Prince George BC...no mangroves there, just driftwood and pine-conifer trees.
rbowen
Beautiful colors and shapes!!
jdehaven
I like the direction you took with the color- it has a very etherial feel to it!
tennesseecowgirl
Great way to spend an hour, I never could get the fishing thing either, my dad was a big fisher man so I did try but its rather part of you or it isn't. Nice work my friend.
pat40
So lovely.
aksirp
... almost summer? great and interesting work Brigitte, cool color, works great!!
anahata.c
are 'mangroves' like man-bags, and man-caves? (Yeah, probably not...) You did great postwork on this, bringing out the sharp linear detail on the mangrove stalks (or leaves, whatever they are) (I don't know much about mangroves!), and making a powerful contrast of deep greenish-blues against reds and pinks---almost orange pinks. (Opposites on the COLOR WHEEL! TA-DA!!!) (Complementary colors, in other words, the colors that naturally clash and create energies. The Impressionists, you may know, used them a lot to create a sense of 'light' and electricity in their paintings.) Really bold. Really eye popping.
And compositionally, you have that lone flower sticking up: This has an avant garde feeling, like it's part of an avant garde store window, or a concert poster or something like that. Really well done. And now I know what a mangrove is. Terrific job on this, Brigitte.