A group of us went off to the city the previous night to have dinner at a rather nice and classy French bistro in a laneway in central Sydney, followed by attending the Sarah McLachlan concert at the Sydney Recital Hall. Which is a nice looking hall with decent acoustics, good lines of sight, and awful air conditioning.

The up sides of the night were most of the concert, the bistro (the meal was suuu-poib), good company and conversation. The down sides were getting stuck in a traffic jam leading to a One Direction concert in Moore Park (isn't their 15 minutes up yet?) and thus travelling at 14 in an 80 zone, the car park which Theseus would have had trouble finding his way out of, and the fact that when you come home to the Illawarra after a night out in the city you ain't gonna get here before 01:30.

Consequently the morning shot just wasn't going to happen since that would be pushing even my "almost no sleep" envelope to its limits.

The solution? Just as when you're short of food and haven't had a chance to get to the shops you reach into the back of the cupboard and find a can of black beans, when you're short of time and don't have a PAD you whack on the macro lens and go out into the garden. After enough years of following other people's PADs you even learn that backlighting is good.

I believe that this is a variant of a rock fern; the dimples would be part of the spore distribution system. But I may be wrong; botany's not my thing.

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