fire fire

A couple of weeks ago I started playing with some photos I've taken of native flowers and succulents. This one above is a little sample of where my play took me. As I look at it tonight the bright colour in the wildflowers remind me a lot of the fires still burning nearby. These wildflowers are from the beautiful Grampians area in Victoria.

And then I stumbled upon this post by the red thread and it made me think even more about the cool things you can do with photography.

what fires bring

We've had a long, hot firey, summer here in Victoria. Bush fires burned for something like 6 weeks (possibly longer?) in many of the national parks and it was a smokey, scary time even for those of us who live in the city. The wonderful thing about fire in the bush is that it generates life and does so remarkably quickly. Banksia seed pods like the ones in this print of mine (seed pod in black) burst open and drop their seeds to the ground due to the intense heat that fire brings, and so the process of life can continue. Two Canadian friends have just been cycling in the Alpine National Park area (northern Victoria) and say it is starting to spring back to life now. The beautiful green of new growth pushing through, almost phosphoresecent in colour, glows against the charred black ground and trees surrounding it.