she's a speed racer (27)

i love riding my bike. it's my time. it's me. the end.

purity of mosaics (23)

continuing the religion theme, this is one of the pretty mosaics in the outside wall of the ukraine orthodox centre in canberra. i'm not sure who this dude is. some fundamentalist bible warrior no doubt. i have seen the top of the rooftop of this church from the bikepath many times. today i did a detour through turner to see it up close. it is actually very pretty - stark white walls, with colourful mosaics inset, and a distinctly eastern european bulbous rooftop. i did take a photo of the rooftop with a massive cross in the foreground and while i like the photo composition, on reflection i decided it's a bit too churchy for me to bring myself to make it a daily photo. today anyway :)

two seasons in one photo (17)

i upped the contrast with a heavy hand to accentuate/exaggerate the colours in this shot but believe me, it was dramatic enough even in real colour. i stopped to take this photo on my ride home from work along the bike path. i love the contrast of the foreground coloured by blasting summer heat and the background with the dark cool of the approaching storm front. what a relief the weather change was!! a cool wind noticeably dropped the temperature as i finished the last leg of my bike ride home, and the pelting rain started literally as soon as i stepped in the front door at home. it's been a strange summer with a lot of summer rain. belinda carlisle will surely love it when she comes through canberra next weekend.

me & a (sho)gun

tori amos cranked. clear clean crisp autumn day. solarised effect.

tour de canberra

when i first moved to the nation's capital a decade ago, one of the things canberrans raved about (still do, mind you, and i am now one of them!) and which became quite obvious after living here even a short time, was that bicycling is very popular here and that there are awesome bike paths throughout the spread of the territory. so i quickly bought a bike, but for some reason didn't use it much at first. it was just a few years back that i became a huge fan of the cycling commute. i loved not being beholden to sitting in traffic or using public transport, being green, and arriving at my destination clearheaded from my individual quiet time. not to mention the fastest way for me to get to work from home (all of 4.5km) is on my trusty shogun :)

grey concrete rainbows

and what's that there at the end? ain't no pot of gold. maybe a trough of gold. this is a shot of commonwealth avenue bridge shooting over lake burley griffin, which is our man-made lake here in canberra. it's a snap i took with the mobile phone camera on a lovely big bike ride mands and i did around the lake (well around a hell of a lot of it!) back in january. i like the strong symmetrical lines of the bridge lanes with the faint sight of parliament house at the end. it almost looks like it's fading away...