Rain...

Today is the last day of the Square September Challenge. Thank you Ambling Camera for hosting the Challenge for the month.

See on Ambling Camera's blip a roll call of the people who have participated in the Challenge and either displayed 30 squared images or part thereof joining the Challenge as it progressed through September.

I wanted to contribute something that shows how different an image can appear from the original it is derived from when it is cropped into a square and as well altered and enhanced to communicate something in particular that takes the imagination of the bothered photographer. Sure thing that what you go out to photograph is not always what you finally get having to square images or it rains. :)

For an explanation of what is in the background of the photo that is local knowledge, please see below the link to the original

Please see the original here.

The background of the squared image isolates and enlarges the outline of some of the oldest and biggest gum trees that adorn the lagoon across the road from the supermarket car park.; my focus of interest is the top of the memorial gate comprised of two tall posts with on top of them a log as a roof and on top of that a wheel, but as well an object that represents a large gold nugget.

The gate decorates a walk bridge across the lagoon which is the Tatiara Creek where the horses pulling the gold escort coach and ridden by troopers were rested and watered in the 19th century ...and the original police station is a step away preserved as a tourist attraction. Gold was transported during the Ballarat gold rush in the 19th century, from Ballarat (in Victoria) to Adelaide (the capital of South Australia) because South Australia was facing bankruptcy. The transfer of the gold was an attempt to salvage South Australia from financial ruin.

It took my imagination to present the car park in stark contrast against that history and the gum trees ... almost as if it is superimposed on an aged photograph.

Hope you get some ideas you might derive from the blip ...and don't mind this final - radical - squared-up image for Square September.