I'm still well behind on posting many of my PADs but I'm going to do something a little different today and put up today's one.

I had an idea of where to go this morning, though I didn't actually get there. We'll come back to that in a future PAD. Instead I swung back to the north to the old fortifications near Port Kembla. The concrete structures are of course tank traps left over from World War II. At the time they had been placed on key beaches to prevent amphibious landing of heavy vehicles. They've since been relocated to this area which once held two gun emplacements to defend the entrance to the harbour.

By the time I got here the sun was still relatively low on the horizon but had lost the intensity of its early red light allowing the white paint of the tank traps to stand out with only the vaguest hint of colour from the sun. With the grass so neatly manicured and the sharpness and stark whiteness of the concrete I could feel my old friend (the sadly recently departed) Jeffrey Smart calling me again.
The fact that the woman in the red cardigan made an appearance on the periphery of the road was just a happy coincidence, although she is obviously a much more prominent figure than she would have been in a Jeffrey Smart painting.
I figure that she won't be too upset about making a cameo appearance in this image since she did ask me as she went past whether I had obtained any good shots that morning. Well, I have now in my humble opinion.

I will admit that I did add a levels adjustment layer to boost the contrast fractionally, and also applied an unsharp mask at 150% and a radius of two pixels to make the image look even sharper and more like a painting (or, at least, one of Smart's paintings) than it originally did but the essence of the image remains largely unaltered.