The remains of a windblown dandelion clock, photographed in my back yard, using the fantastic Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens.
The black background was achieved by stopping down the lens aperture to f/14, so ambient light wasn't contributing at all to the exposure. A Canon 580EX flash was attached to the camera's hotshoe, with a home-made flash reflector providing a diffuse source of light.

windblown

back yard, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/160 sec, f/14, ISO200

On Saturday afternoon, I spent some time in the back yard with my macro lens and home-made flash reflector, and captured these photos of industrious bees in the flowers.

busy bee

back yard, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/160 sec, f/16, ISO200

Here are some more photos from my trip to Sydney in May. While walking back from Wentworth Falls, we stopped at an interesting waterfall known as "Weeping Rock". It is quite obvious where the name comes from - with the waterfall cascading over the top of a flat rock, giving it a weeping appearance.

Weeping Rock

Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @19mm, 2.5 sec, f/18, ISO100

The photo above was taken from the walking track leading to Weeping Rock. For the phot below, I got a lot closer to capture the details of the water cascading over the edge of the rock, with the steps and hand railing in the background.

This is one of my favourite photos from a photowalk in South Fremantle last weekend.
This is a self-portrait as I'm standing on the rocks at the waters' edge. Despite what it looks like, I am not a smoker, and I'm not lighting up a cigarette. Instead, I am lighting up some steel wool to do some steel wool spinning.

lighting up

South Fremantle, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @13mm, 20 sec, f/9, ISO100

This self-portait was an accidental one. As I was lighting the steel wool with a lighter, I must have accidentally triggered my camera via the Phottix Plato remote shutter release transmitter that I was also hoding in my hand.

On the horizon at the right hand side are the remnants of the cloud that some people thought was a meteor hitting the ocean.

On Saturday evening, I was in South Fremantle with a group of fellow photographers, with the intention of doing some steel wool spinning once it got dark enough. We saw an interesting cloud formation, which some claim was caused by a meteor landing in the ocean.

Before sunset, some of us noticed what looked like a contrail just above the horizon. A contrail is long thin artificial cloud caused by condensation or vapour from aircraft engines. In Perth, we rarely see contrails in the sky, as aeroplanes do not normally fly at a high enough altitude over Perth to cause contrails (most aeroplanes flying over Perth are low, either landing or taking off, as Perth is a pretty remote city).

What we saw on Saturday night initially looked just like a normal contrail, starting below the horizon, and finishing abruptly a short distance above the horizon.
Once the sun disappeared below the horizon, just to the right of the contrail, the light of the setting sun lit up this cloud, as shown in the photo below.

a meteor? I don't think so

South Fremantle, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @22mm, 1/80 sec, f/9, ISO400

We weren't the only ones to see this interesting cloud formation. On the following Monday (today), I noticed numerous news articles on the internet, claiming the streak was caused by a meteor hitting the ocean.
Many of the news articles appear to focus on the fact that it was a "fiery trail". However, before the sun set below the horizon, it looked just like a normal white contrail, albeit with a somewhat abrupt ending. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of the cloud before the sunset.
This fiery streak was not caused by a meteor. It was just a contrail from a passing aeroplane.
Due to the location of this cloud, the setting sun caused the cloud to turn bright red and yellow, as shown in the photo below.