One of my favourite places to drive to is Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges (around an hour out of Melbourne). I take lots of photos when I go and I've been trying for a while to work out how to get the forest into my paintings. I've been finding it difficult because I'm not sure how much realism and how much abstraction to use, I also know it will make my paintings take much longer to create with so much detail. I might make it one of my goals for the year to figure it all out.
Here are a few photos I've taken. The tall misty trees in the background are Australian Mountain Ash (
Eucalyptus regnans) which according to wikipedia is the tallest flowering tree species in the world.
These two photos were taken on the edge of Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens/Sherbrooke Forest.
13 comments:
these are great
wow, beutiful photos!
Oh... looks magic!
Like something from a fairytale.. gorgeous!!
it really is magical, like a fantasy world! what a beautiful place to be able to visit! thanks for sharing!
beautiful! looks quite haunting
wow it looks like the kind of place, where you could just go and get lost for a couple of hours, its amazing.
I love the fog, I presume that hides the background and how it emphasises the foreground... I can just imagine myself dancing in the scenary :)
Magical!
I used to live in victoria. Iworked with the wildernwss society dor awhile to protect these forests. They are very magic like. I am also trying to icorporate the magic of forests into my paintings at the moment. It is triky as they are so complexs and special, but worth it I think.
These are beautiful! I want to go theree. It looks so magical :)
I have some similar shots on my blog, under waterfalls, check them out!
http://blushingtulips.blogspot.com
is that real? it looks like wonderland
May be just the foreground in detail and diffuse color for the background, like your beautiful photo: suggestion, ambiance.
Let us dream what's behind...
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