A ride on the Gibb River Road is a dusty affair. This can be a challenge for the photo equipment.
Away from the road there are vast eucalyptus forests, shady gorges with tropical plants and extensive savannah landscapes. Whenever possible, I stopped and the colours of the light hugged me.
this gives the sense of journeying and adventure, sunbeams do wonderful things to dust - as long as you aren't allergic to it! I can see the challenge for the photographic equipment would be severe. I like the framing in this very much - the trees and plants as a hugging surround.
I love the softness and the light. So much like the fog we experience here on the West coast of Canada. I also really like the sepia colouring - augments the 'dustiness'. Lovely shot. Fave.
@hrs Thanks for your nice acceptance, Helen! I came as a stranger to your country and collected my impressions on the Gibb River Road. I do not want you to shake your head about my report, becaus it is wrong. And I do not want to use only clichés.
@dkbarnett Dear Delwyn, thank you for your nice comment! I wish my English would be better at style and richer in words. I always feel my words in English very unsatisfactory, awkward and ungainly. I would very much like to add more words to my pictures, but very often I feel my shortcoming in this language. Then I write only a few sentences or nothing.
I am very happy when my phrase "let the light hug me" appeals to you. In fact, I can actually feel embraced by the light and its colours, lovingly accepted... It can be like a tender, even passionate kiss... This feeling can overwhelm me and flow into me deeply...
And Jerome, reading your words to Delwyn, above, I must say I see you having no difficulty at all with the English language! You choose your words as carefully as a writer/and author and they become poetic! You're clearly a deep thinker with a romantic choice of words and you do far better than many who spend so much time texting, they'll sadly never rise to your level!
@Weezilou
You are so warm-hearted, kind and generous, Louise...
I formulate my thoughts in German and it is often hard for me to translate. I have to leave unsaid very much. I need a translator for half-way sentences in English. And even then I must endeavor, because a translator has a restricted sense of language. A lot of nonsense is possible. Checking and improving is often necessary.
It is very nice that you mention poetry. Looking sensitively at the world I find so important. Poetry is something that makes us humans.
Thank you all for your nice comments!
These dust clouds on the road - maybe silly, but a little bit of freedom swirls with them. The Gibb River Road is not a "tamed" street like the tarred in the city, just sand and gravel, which must be leveled several times in a season. Maybe it is this unregulated that attracts people on such an incommodious road.
I greatly appreciate your visits.
I am very happy when my phrase "let the light hug me" appeals to you. In fact, I can actually feel embraced by the light and its colours, lovingly accepted... It can be like a tender, even passionate kiss... This feeling can overwhelm me and flow into me deeply...
And Jerome, reading your words to Delwyn, above, I must say I see you having no difficulty at all with the English language! You choose your words as carefully as a writer/and author and they become poetic! You're clearly a deep thinker with a romantic choice of words and you do far better than many who spend so much time texting, they'll sadly never rise to your level!
You are so warm-hearted, kind and generous, Louise...
I formulate my thoughts in German and it is often hard for me to translate. I have to leave unsaid very much. I need a translator for half-way sentences in English. And even then I must endeavor, because a translator has a restricted sense of language. A lot of nonsense is possible. Checking and improving is often necessary.
It is very nice that you mention poetry. Looking sensitively at the world I find so important. Poetry is something that makes us humans.
Our emblems are very similar...