I initially turned to my garden to source inspiration from nature but was reminded of two facts.
1. Our garden is significantly lacking in interesting plant life
2.
Winters a comin' so any lovely little flowers we may have in there are
now hiding from the cold and don't want to be inspiration for me.
So
the
next place I turned to for inspiration was the beach, and although I
definitely would not consider myself as a 'beach babe' I do spend quite a
lot of time down there be it an early morning swim or a stroll along
the bike track, which is sand on one side and gorgeous wildlife on the
other.
One
morning in the holidays when mum and I were going for a walk along the
bike track I grabbed my camera in hopes of finding some form of nature
which inspired me and that I could envisage turning into one of the
awesome prints featured in my last post.
bird of paradise
I
stumbled across (literally had to crawl through some scrub to get to
these beauties) this little cluster of 'Bird of Paradise' flowers. They
immediately caught my attention with their vibrant orange and their
incredible bird like silhouettes which naturally made them shine out
amongst the other scrubby native plants as textile print candidates.
the boat sheds
At the end of the bike track there are these decapitated old boast sheds which I discovered are actually really interesting to photograph with all their rusty, shell encrusted bits and pieces. I think my favorite subject to photograph would have to be the pippy stick. It was a piece of timber about 2 meters long which had little miniature pippys clustered all the way along the sides, kind of reminding me of a delicate string of beads.
