325: New camera old camera

This evening, just as the sun started to go down I got out my new, old camera. A Ricohmatic 35, a nice little pressie I got for my birthday, and I sat it on the window ledge. Looking out across the jacaranda laden treetops I set about doing a little experimenting. My best shot (above) has just about captured the tree branches ever so close to clearly, while the actual trees in the background have been beautifully distorted and faded. The black of the camera softy suggests the image's frame. Quite cool.

300: Violet sheets capeting our streets

Today's pic marks the success of reaching photograph 300 of 365! I'm super excited by this achievement and can't believe I'm barrelling towards the end of the project. How the year flies when you take each day photo by photo.

I've been noticing Brisbane's signature jacarandas each day on my way to and from work and dying to take some pics. They are very much out in bloom at this time of the year, so today I got too it and captured some of the gorgeous violet sheets that are carpeting out streets.