Wittunga Botanic Gardens Part 2
On our recent visit to Wittunga Botanic Gardens in the Adelaide Hills I was on the lookout for both birds and flowers. The bird sightings I have dealt with on my birding blog. Since buying my digital camera last year I have had a renewed interest in photography and have recently added many photos on the family photo gallery. I attended a photography course at the Gluepot Bird Reserve soon after purchasing the camera.
Flowers in the Wittunga Botanic Gardens
The course I attended gave me many valuable hints about looking at subjects in a different light. The facilitator, professional photographer Craig Ingram, described photography as “painting with light”. Just this little snippet gave me a whole new way of looking at the subjects I try to photograph. I now see my subjects in an entirely new light – pun intended.
Photos of plants like the one above can be enhanced many times by shifting one’s perspective, angle of shooting and the angle of the sunlight falling on the flowers. The trunks of trees fascinate me, with their myriads of colours, textures, shapes and forms. Putting all these elements together can result in some pleasing shots.
Wittunga Botanic Gardens Part 1
Last week we had to travel to our capital city Adelaide, about an hour’s drive from home. On our way home we took a slight detour and visited the Wittunga Botanic Gardens near Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills. It had been quite a few yars since our last visit.
Wittunga Botanic Gardens
While this garden is set in the Adelaide Hills, it is now surrounded by suburbia, with houses on two sides, a transport corridor on another (complete with passenger trains every few minutes) and a large school on the other side. The main access is by means of a busy four lane highway. Despite being hemmed in on all sides, the park is surprisingly peaceful. The gardens have been established for many years and have been planted around existing old growth eucalypts. In the middle an artificial lake provides a beautiful water feature.
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Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
The lower part of the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens features a large artificial lake as shown in the above photo. Around this lake many people enjoy picnics and barbecues when they come to visit. A feature of this lake is the abundant bird life, especially the water birds.
Black Swan, Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
These beautiful gardens are a very pleasant half hour drive from the Adelaide CBD. It is worth visiting at different times of the year. Not everything flowers in the spring and summer months. In autumn the deciduous trees put on a magnificent display.
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Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
Parks and gardens are usually very relaxing places to visit. We are fortunate living in South Australia because we have many beautiful and well kept parks and gardens. Foremost amongst those are the various sections of the historic Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Featured in the photos here, however, are sections of the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens, an easy half hour drive from the CBD.
Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
On a visit last October we walked through the upper section of the gardens. We particularly enjoyed looking at the vast collection of rhododendrons in flower. They made a spectacular display on that magnificent spring day. In January of this year I had the delight of walking through naturally occurring rhododendron forests on my trek in the Everest region of Nepal. Unfortunately it was winter in Nepal, so I didn’t get to see them flowering.
Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
To read my journal written on my trek in the Himalayas go the Archives section of this blog.
Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens part 2
Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
A beautiful part of the Adelaide Hills near the capital city of South Australia is the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens. On several recent visits I have taken quite a few photos which I am featuring here on my travel bog.
Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
This garden is a part of the very historic Adelaide Botanic Gardens which are within ten minutes easy walk from the Adelaide CBD. A third section of the gardens is at Wittunga in another section of the Adelaide Hills.
Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens
To see more photos of this park and other places I have been visit my photo gallery here.