A Grey Day

Today David and I were invited to the official opening of the Wanda Headland Maritime Heritage Walk. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a grey day.

David was invited because he'd worked on some of the pictures incorporated in the walk for the local Historical Society.

The two people you can see in the photo are the NBN television channel news team who were covering the event while trying to keep their expensive looking camera dry.

After filming all the official speeches etc they obviously thought the same as I did and tried to capture the greyness of the day.

You can probably see rather a lot of splashes on my lens and rain dripping from the end of my umbrella too.

[Helen Sanderson]

sure is!! but an interesting photo..

[Ethel]

You sure are a stayer, Babs. It sounds such great project and it is such a shame the weather stole the show at the official opening.

[Denise Wood]

FAVtastic capture Babs :)

[Catherine P]

Lovely shot, despite the weather!

[Yao RL]

A lovely balanced composition. Brilliant.

[Jenfurj]

Looks very stark & lonely. Sounds like an interesting walk.

[Eve Pulsater]

Wow! Very grim looking - almost like an English summer's day!

[sally agnew]

It certainly looks like a dreary day, love the solitary tree :)

[Valerie Chesney]

Great atmospheric capture Babs..

[*lynn]

grey day but lovely the way you captured it

[Jodie]

Like that solitary tree, nice shot.

[Gosia]

I like a composition and atmosphere.

[Ian]

I like the composition of this, cool shot!

[Caroline]

Well it makes for a beautiful moody shot, I love this!

[Danny G.]

I really like this shot, a candid of photographers and a well balanced composition. FAV

[Merrelyn]

Great shot, Babs, what a shame that the weather wasn't better for the opening :)

[gloria jones]

Super shot, tones, composition

[Joyce]

Very atmospheric shot Babs

[mittens (Marilyn)]

I love the mood of this shot. Excellent capture.

[Taffy]

Love this scene - a great composition with elegantly simple elements coming together.

[Hazel]

Fabulous composition, Babs!

[Sue Cooper]

That doesn't look like Australia, that looks like Britain! A nice atmospheric shot though.

[tony gig]

Shame about the Grey Day Babs .

[bkb in the city]

Nice shot. To bad the weather did not co-operate

[Ivan]

Interesting photo...fav

[Pat Knowles]

Oh dear it does look rather grim but it is winter after all. Striking photo Babs!

[ChristineL]

It may be grey but it's an interesting photo, I like the way those two are huddled under that very small umbrella.

[Masquerade]

You've made a really great composition despite unpromising, grey, weather

[Judith Johnson]

Looks windy too. Like the silhouettes

[Peter Dulis]

Love it ...fav

[Islandgirl]

Nice comp of a gray day!

[Pam]

Really nice photo!

[Jane Pittenger]

Nice composition

[Marnie]

Blooming heck, what crap weather for all concerned.

[Robyn]

Great composition. A pity about the weather

[Babs]

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I was thankful for our wood burner fire when we got home. I did feel sorry for the two girls under the umbrella from the TV channel who were reporting our event. They got soaked, but we did manage two minutes of news on TV last night.
Luckily we don't get too many days like this in winter here.

[Babs]

@ethelperry I was definitely a stayer Ethel. Pretty chilly too when I got home. Luckily we didn't have to stay too long and our event did appear on the news last night.

[Babs]

@creampuff Luckily we don't get too many days like this during our winter, but we do tend to complain when they do happen though.

[Babs]

@susiemc I can't really complain because it is winter and we do need the rain. Hasn't rained for over two weeks until now. Only a few more weeks until spring.

[Babs]

@golftragic It was pretty grim. I felt so sorry for the official speakers who got soaked. At least we could stay dry under umbrellas. I felt so sorry for the two girls from Channel 9 television too, they got soaked and had to carry those huge cameras around all for our two or three minutes of news last night.

[Marnie]

@onewing What a shame for all concerned.

[Chris K]

shame about the weather but you have captured it very well Babs

[Stephanie]

Aww, what a shame about the weather - did many people turn out for it Babs? Seems a funny time of year to have a walk opening really, I would have thought as spring was so close-by it would have made sense to way-lay it for a couple of weeks... Oh and great capture of the event, your picture kind of reminds me of a summers day here in the UK.

[Helen Jane]

There are quite a lot of grey tones on the horizon which I like very much. I don't know how anyone manages to carry those huge cameras around with them all the time!