Faces

I don’t really take photographs of people unless I am a long way away, it feels intrusive to me, though I do admire other photographers’ street photography. Faces are so fascinating.

I needed to be more to the right to get this face full-on, but then the tree got in the way!

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The Rocks area in Sydney is a very interesting area to explore on foot. There are a lot of little cobblestone streets and alleyways in The Rocks and a lot of references to the past era around, in information panels, plaques and art. Each helps explain the site’s history and evoke the past. At the opposite end of The Nurse’s Walk to Suez Canal, the route ends at Globe Street, where you’ll find some amazing street art by contemporary artist Vhils on the stairs up to Harrington Street. He has painted a portrait of Sydney environmental activist, Jack Mundey, who worked to preserve some of Sydney’s built environments too, like Victoria St, Potts Point and other areas in the inner city.

Oh what a tangle

Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla)

The Moreton Bay fig tree with its powerful buttresses and long dangling, intertwisted aerial roots creates a sense of awe and wonder. The characteristic “melting” appearance is due to its habit of dropping aerial roots from its branches, which upon reaching the ground, thicken into supplementary trunks which help to support the weight of its crown.

WPC: Symmetry

symmetry
noun

  1. the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis

    “this series has a line of symmetry through its centre”

  2. correct or pleasing proportion of the parts of a thing

    “the overall symmetry makes the poem pleasant to the ear”

  3. similarity or exact correspondence between different things

    “the political symmetry between the two debates”

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Magnolia Grandiflora
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The Sydney Opera House

I could have gone for architecture for this week’s challenge, but as I have only recently written a post about that I thought I would try for something different. My choice is to represent the third definition of symmetry.

My question to you is, “have I pulled it off?”