tiabunna's photos with the keyword: pink

Currently flowering in my garden.

Our Lilly-pilly trees are in full flower and the bees are loving it. Best viewed large. Like the bee, I'll be buzzing off for the coming week after tonight, so best wishes to everyone until then. Explored - and home again.

I was testing the "macro" (really a close focus) setting on a newly acquired (30 year old) lens. It did fairly well, I thought. And, of course, it needs a musical link. :-) Explored.

At the drying edge of one of the Pink Lakes. The water is extremely saline (up to 800 times that of sea water) and home only to an algae which coats itself in pink extrusions to protect itself from the sunlight. The intensity of the pink seems to vary depending on the light and, I gather, is most intense in mid-late summer (about February).

Across one of the Pink Lakes. The water is extremely saline (up to 800 times that of sea water) and home only to an algae which coats itself in pink extrusions to protect itself from the sunlight.

We were impressed by the hibiscus flowers growing in the settlement area on Lord Howe Island.

Lord Howe Island has a subtropical climate, helped by warm ocean currents. It was great to see these flowering as late as May, well into the southern hemisphere autumn.

We're heading away interstate for a while and, for a time, my visits will be "occasional". On our way, we shall pass the Braidwood Hotel, carefully restored as nearly as possible to its original 1850 form (shingle roof and all). HFF, everyone.

Best viewed large. Explored.

The camellias are making quite a display. Taken with the SMC 1:1.4/50mm open wide. View on black. Explored.

These flowers were growing on small shrubs in moist areas of the Tasmanian west coast and highlands. I'm fairly certain they are Pink Swamp Heath Sprengelia incarnata . [Edit] This ID has since been confirmed through discussions with a Tasmanian plant nursery.