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How do you know it’s a female, Paul?

Thank you m, Paul. The eyes make me smile.

This large cactus stands as tall as me and was putting on a show with this magnificent flower.

One of our Kaytdid species. I think it's one that eats only eucalyptus leaves. Side on it looks exactly like a gum leaf.

Great captures of early morning atmosphere.

Brilliant colour.

I always love your photos, Clicker, and your backstory.

Good to see your street photography as always. I imagine the scooter may make it easier to get candid photos of people. Could be wrong….

Great results with your new gear. Sharp. Love #1 subject and colour.

My immediate response when looking at your photos was that they depict a place that is unmistakable as New York. So well known even if we’ve never been there.

Lovely, Ryewolf.

This sculpture is new to me so I looked it up and was moved by its symbolic meaning. Your photos of it are beautiful. Do you always carry a camera and several lenses with you when working?

The Dept of Justice has built a new Law Court in Bendigo to replace the old one which was built with the wealth of the gold rush. I merged several photos into this HDR: a new process for me. I merged RAW files and ended up with a huge file which Photoshop wouldn't save as a jpeg except using the export for the web function.

I was pleased to see Ryewolf posting lots of photos this week from varying genres including Intentional Camera Movement, macro, mono/transport, creative floral and a traditional landscape. Bravo, Ryewolf! Two of these took my eye for photo of the week. The first was "Rain Shower", a photo of a bank of clouds raining down on a valley from the vantage point of Pendle Hill. As I love this type of landscape photo, it would have been an obvious choice for POTW (especially if there'd been a shaft of sunlight adding some more drama) but I'm going with "Experimental" instead. I kept returning to look at this image so decided to choose it for POTW. The use of ICM in street photography has created a surreal feel which is enhanced by the mono processing. I can imagine the image on a book cover of some dystopian novel.

Lovely soft landscape with the clouds leaking across the scene.

I love this photo and would have chosen it too. Well done, vanguard!

Thank you,Gareth, and everyone for their positive feedback.

The beautiful purple bloom is classified as a noxious weed in Australia. Prolific after rain, it is called Patterson's Curse or Salvation Jane depending on your perspective (farmers call it Patterson's Curse and Beekeepers call it Salvation Jane). Pepper moths (Utetheisa Hübner) are quite small and have a knack of disappearing by wrapping themselves around a stem of grass like the one in the second photo. This one is feeding on the nectar and not bothering with camouflage.

A pair of Plumed Whistling Ducks - northern Victoria after very wet spring.

At first glance I thought it was dead dog. Very dead. Decomposing dead.

Very interesting processing. I like second one best. I like it in mono too. Minimalist composition works well.

I like this set especially the first two for the shapes.

Oh wow, just saw this. Thank you, Ryewolf and everyone! My "pet" Praying Mantis is about 2cm long. After a shaky start when I couldn’t figure how to feed it, it has lost its Twiggy figure and it is looking almost portly. Macro-photography is a slippery slope.