After last Sunday at Cotter Bend, the Bullen Range Nature Reserve (sorry, there is no official page for this nature reserve) appealed to me as a place to ride my mountain bike while also taking my camera. Unfortunately, due to weight and size, I could not take my 100-400 telephoto lens, only my 18-55mm kit lens. As I was riding my bike, I was not really able to devote my attention photography so I missed a Wedge-tailed Eagle that landed on a tree beside the track before immediately flying off to the side. I could also hear so many other birds around me but could not spare the time to search for them. The weather was not great and I began to realise the track was rougher than expected so it took me longer to traverse the ridge line than I had planned. Between trying to avoid being away from my family for too long and not really having good lighting conditions I did not take many photos with my camera. I took some photographs of the scenery with my iPhone but I decided not to paste them here because they are really just point and shoot photos. I did take this photograph above with my camera because I really loved the single tree in the middle of the road. I do not know the back story to the tree’s unlikely location but initially, after laughing, I thought what a brilliant sign of compromise. What I mean is, either somebody saying the road needs to go along the ridge but we can split it for this tree or two people decided on having the road go around the tree because they could not agree as to which side of the tree the road should go. After pondering the tree while I photographed it, I decided to call it the ‘compromise tree’. Sorry, no other photographs today but I hope you enjoy the compromise tree.
Compromise - no matter the obstacle, there is always a path around it
(Canon EOS 7D Mk II with a Canon EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM [ISO 200, 20mm, f/8.0 and 1/25 SEC])