Old Owl's photos

Perth, WA (Please press Z to make it shine more brightly.)

A detail of the Bell Tower in Barrack Square, Perth WA. (Large is probably better. Please press Z to find out.)

HFF to all. Keep safe and warm (or cool depending on your location). Have a great and enjoyable weekend wherever you are. This is yet another building under construction in Elizabeth Quay, Perth, WA. The fences are temporary for the safety of the workers. Soon there'll be nothing left to see here but glimpses of sky. Ah well, I suppose it is progress ... sigh.

This is Koombana Bridge in Wardandi Boodja ("saltwater country", now known as the city of Bunbury) in Western Australia. The shape represents the ribs of a wooden ship’s hull, many of which are buried in the sands which surround Koombana Bay. HFF to everyone. I hope you are all well and keeping safe. Have a lovely weekend.

Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth.

St. Kilda Beach, Melbourne (Please press Z for large and more detail.)

Happy Fence Friday, everyone. Keep warm (or cool, depending on your location), but above all, keep safe.

Busselton Jetty, WA (Please press Z. It is a big jetty, after all.)

Farm pond, Palgarup, Western Australia

Swan Valley, Perth, WA. Evening. So many different greens. Best viewed big.

Today, May 1st 2022, is International Workers' Day. Let us celebrate those who labour by hand and by brain and who are the true heroes of the capitalist system. The image is from the IWW newspaper "Solidarity" in 1917, shortly before its demise. Here's some Billy Bragg to celebrate: Power in a union . There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hand of the worker But it all amounts to nothing If together we don't stand There is power in a Union Now the lessons of the past Were all learned with workers' blood The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for From the cities and the farmlands To trenches full of mud War's always been the bosses' way, sir The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters From many far off lands There is power in a Union Now I long for the morning that they realize Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us? Money speaks for money The Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone? What a comfort to the widow A light to the child There is power in a Union The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters Together we will stand There is power in a Union

HFF to all. I hope you are safe and have a fine and dandy weekend. Enjoy every moment. A wing of Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth WA.

Happy Fence Friday to all. I hope your day and your weekend are all delightful. Keep safe in these strange times. Artwork on the new carpark at Mandurah rail station in WA. Black cockatoos, eucalyptus leaves, fish from the nearby Peel Inlet. (Press Z for full screen.)

The old Commonwealth Bank building reflected in the glass of Forrest Chase in Perth. A collision of the old and new, of traditional service with commercial aggression, facing off across Forrest Place, a pedestrian precinct. The two sides of the precinct are quite far apart both physically and metaphorically, although the march of time has meant the bank business is no more and neither is the large post office which took over. Instead there are merely more chain stores selling the same tat as everywhere else but housed in a heritage building. Sigh. (Bigger is undoubtedly better. Please press Z.)

Bunbury, WA (Big on black is best. Please press Z)

Busselton jetty, WA

Bunbury, WA.