Peter Barnes

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Stunning pink sunrise clouds are reflected in the brisbane river just before dawn. In the middle of the river a coxed four is floating in the pink reflection, being instructed by a coach alongside in a tinny. The opposite bank of the river is a dark silhouette.
A kookaburra hoping along a railing
Several welcome swallows perched on the jagged stump of a dead tree.
An Australian coot moving but not yet flying... soon... running out of pond, running out of the pond
An ocean sunrise, moments before the sun bursts over the horizon in front of a low, horizontal cloud bank in an otherwise cloudless sky. The image is a series of horizontal bands of colour, black for the closest hills below, then a hazy grey for the coastal strip, then a light slate grey for the sea, darkening towards the horizon. Above the horizon, a glowing red-pink, increasing to a blazing gold near where the sun is about to emerge, then a further strip of pink tinged grey, and then the most delicate pale yellow above. A few branches of a nearby eucalypt in silhouette unbalance the horizontal symmetry.
A pair of gulls by night on a rooftop in Porto, the Douro river and night-time city lights behind them.
Monochrome close-up of a spiderweb in a fine drizzle, bedewed with tiny raindrops.
A pair of rainbow lorikeets showing complete disregard for gravity as they both hang upside down preening each other. Each bird has one wing spread for balance, making a lovely symmetrical couple.
A pale-headed rosella perched on a dead branch in a eucalypt. The bird is in profile, facing left, with white head, blue chest and belly, yellow nape, and yellow and black speckled back, with darker blue wings. There is a small red patch at the base of its tail.
Three king parrots arguing over perches on two hanging feeder bowls. One is perched, watching the action, while the second ir arriving at the second bowl, driving off the third who is departing. They chased each other round and round the two feeders for some time.
A blue-hour sky with crescent moon riding in the deepening blue. A last pink haze mixes with the light yellow tones on the horizon, while wispy high clouds are light grey and low cumulus has darkened almost to black. Below the land is dark, houselights and streetlights all that can be seen through the silhouettes of nearby trees.
Blue moon butterfly on a leaf, Changi airport butterfly garden
Leopard lacewing butterfly on cut pineapple
Orchard swallowtail on hoop pine
A black jezebel (Delias nigra) on bottlebrush blossom
Kookaburra taking flight
A hairstreak butterfly on a marigold
Head and "shoulders" profile of a kookaburra, facing right, feathers slightly fluffed against the cold and wet.
A hazy, streaky sky is lit burned apricot by the impending sunrise. Seen from height and distance, at the bottom is the dark silhouette of a coastal township, outlined against the dull blue of the sea and then the clear line delineating sea from ripe apricot sky.
A female scarlet myzomela perched in profile on a roughly 60° twig, Oxley Creek Common. Her plumage is predominantly brown, with small patches of red on cheeks and chin.
Agave americana flower spikes on the Brisbane river.
Sunrise over the Sunshine Coast plains and ocean. The sun is yet to rise, and the plains are dark apart from the thin line of lights on the coastal strip, and the sky reflecting from a large dam. The sea is still a dull slate blue, but above it two cloud systems are contrasting colours. High cloud is a dusky pink all the way down to the horizon against the lightest blue sky, while low over the sea a dense grey bank of cumulus is raining in places onto the ocean, clearly visible against the pink background behind. The view is framed by nearby tree silhouettes.
A grass tree with a flower spike starting to grow.
The astonishing flower spike of a grass tree, grown many metres in three weeks.
Looking up to the tops of typically tall and skinny rainforest trees, with only glimpses of blue sky where the trees have failed to capture every ray of light. In the centre of frame is a strangler fig that has surrounded its host.
Profile portrait of a Torresian crow, head tilted slightly towards us and beak open.
A sunrise. Drifting low clouds backlit by the bright rising sun cast long shadows on the underside of higher clouds, casting their elongated outlines upwards.
New Farm ferry terminal underwater
A Joe Cocker tribute band performing inside a jazz club. They're singing "You can keep your hat on", which clearly they are.
Abundant gold (or yellow...) wattle flowers, with some attendant bees.
View of the Eagle St precinct riverbank and buildings by night, seen from across the river at Kangaroo Point.
Wide view of Newfarm Park during the January 2011 floods. The park is bounded by the Brisbane River and all its low-lying areas flood when the river rises. City of Brisbane in the background.
Huge mature fig tree, October 2016
A mature magnolia seed head with bright red seeds ready to drop.
View through a picture window of a majestic mature eucalypt and surrounding smaller trees. Late afternoon light is gently catching some upper branches, the remainder of the trees are in gathering shadows.
A small strip of golden (or possibly yellow) sand with a walker and two dogs on it gives way to some shallows, then a broad expanse of turquoise sea stretching back to a hazy light blue horizon and sky. The tops of a few mangroves are peeking up at the bottom of frame.
From a guide "The high altar retable of San Marco - the Pala d'Oro - is universally considered to be the most precious and refined expression of Byzantine genius and the cult of light, understood as the raising of man towards God. It glorifies the evangelist and contains his relics. It is bascially a Byzantine altar screen of gold, studded with hundreds of gems. They include 1,300 pearls, 300 emeralds, 300 sapphires, 400 garnets, 100 amethysts, plus rubies and topazes."
A tidal mangrove flat at low tide. The ocean's water is just a distant streak of blue on the horizon, and the flat stretches out in front of us and side to side. The low shoreline of the bay is visible in the distance on the left. A shallow pool of remnant water stretches across the image, reflecting sky and clouds, and in the right foreground a sole, small pioneer mangrove tree has staked out its spot, a small cluster of breathing roots visible at its base. The sky is a deep blue, with puffy white cumulus marching across out to sea.
Sam Neil wearing a tumbleweed as a wig
A great cormorant with its wingtips just centimetres above the water on a powerful downbeat, flying right to left across the frame above a brightly reflecting, slightly rippled pond.
A colony of small, ping-pong bat shaped bright orange fungi growing on rotting wood. The upper surface is dimpled.
A small but beautifully coloured and patterned moth. Its ovoid wings are gold, with watermark like wavy orange lines across. There are four black spots on each forewing near the leading edge. The abdomen is also gold with alternating orange bands.
A yellow-tailed black cockatoo perched almost directly above in a tree, looking down inquisitively at the photographer.
A sulphur-crested cockatoo cheekily peering down over the edge of a roof at the photographer, just it's head visible.
A half profile picture of an emu's head, showing its beautiful large brown eyes, and its permanently frizzy head feathers.
A car "parked" at roughly 60° to the curb, blocking the bike lane in a street where parallel parking is required. It's parallel to something, but not the pavement / footpath / sidewalk... It radiates "Ah, f*** it!"
Sulphur-crested cockatoos at the seaside perched on a rail in a high wind
Rays of golden light stream out in all directions from the newly risen sun, which is partially obscured by a bank of low, ragged clouds over the coastal plains and sea below. The land is still dark, and the photo is bordered on three sides by the silhouettes of nearby eucalypts.
A sulphur-crested cockatoo on a rocky foreshore on a windy day, Darwin.
A sulphur-crested cockatoo, alone, in the middle of a large rocky foreshore, Darwin.
An Australasian darter perched on a stump in the middle of a pond with wings spread, drying, and head craned around to preen the middle of its back.
Two different varieties of dragonflies, one perched with white abdomen and slightly tinted wings, the other flying with dark abdomen and almost black wing bases.
A blazing orange sun shines fiercely through a gap in the clouds and throws broad beams of light upwards to set unshaded clouds on fire, and backlight the remainder with deep orange or brilliant yellow outlines. The sky is not completely filled, but numerous long streaks of cloud occupy more than half the space. Below, a dull slate-coloured sea and horizon can just be seen, and below that a darker coastline and plain. Nearby the silhouette of part of the canopy of a dense, rounded tree fills the bottom quadrant of the picture.
A dragonfly with green and black markings and a slender abdomen perched on a grass stalk. Orthetrum sabina.
An open eucalypt forest with tall, mature trees. The tree in mid distance in the centre of the shot has a koala sleeping in a fork of the tree on the right-hand side, not far above the first main fork.
A koala curled up in a typical pose in the fork of a tree, estimated 15 metres off the ground
The bin room in an apartment builing with several bins overflowing with cardboard boxes. The bin at the end of the room has a helium ballon tied to it, floating with incongruous gaiety above the rubbish.
A rainbow bee-eater about to plunge into lagoon waters for a very quick bath. Its wings are spread wide and its in a vertical dive about 30cm from the water, reflected in the gently rippled surface.
A rainbow bee-eater emerging from a power-dive into the billabong water, leaving a spray of water behind, and blurred from the speed of its bath.
A currawong standing in a terracotta bird bath, water streaming down its feathers, glaring at the photographer.