Soft valley morning and other bits

Today Fiona and I were heading to the city for the morning to do some business and pick up a few supplies. It meant getting up 'earlyish' to have breakfast and head down the hill to catch the train at 8am for the 1.5 hour trip to Brisbane. The morning and the valley greeted us with an amazing soft cloud filled morning as you can see from the grainy iPhone telephoto shots below; but beautiful soft greys and blues.

©2012 Barry Smith  - Soft grey-blue morning mountains

©2012 Barry Smith - Cloud wisps flood the valley

©2012 Barry Smith - Flowing across the hills

Of course the scene did not remain static - the clouds flowed and rolled across the hills and valley covering the mountains and eventually 'whiting' out the valley completely. There was not a lot of time in the city for sight seeing as we were scheduled to catch the return train at 1pm. But walking down the CBD mall we were amazed to see a installation (partial photograph below) on one of the store complex's front facade - about 50m long by 10m high. The work depicted trees, leaves, butterflies etc - very soft nature focussed but created from what appeared to be hard flat sheet metal with many layers.

©2012 Barry Smith - Facade - Mall Brisbane

And a few days ago the sun was streaming into the kitchen and creating gems of light by reflection off shiny surfaces. Very transitory - but captured with the trusty iPhone.

©2012 Barry Smith - Line of light on stone bench

©2012 Barry Smith - Fan of light on stone bench

On the train on the way home I altered a few of the shots.

©2012 Barry Smith - Fan of light - altered

©2012 Barry Smith - Line of light - altered

©2012 Barry Smith - Facade - altered - city streets?

The altered shot of the installation on the building facade almost looks like a linocut print of a city grid - fairly appropriate given it was in the CBD. As they say in the classics you are never without an artistic opportunity when you have your iPhone.