I could count 4 people on this one.

and a opera house and its very cliche, but still fun.

Apparently the better time was yesterday evening, but work got in the way of that 🙂

400mm taken just over near the harbour bridge

From the Pool of Siloam you can follow the creek down to the cliff edge and stand at the top of falls. Its a nice view out into the valley and I’m sure all those peeps who love a good shot in a fedora hat sitting in the water on a cliff edge have this on their bucket list.

The creek down here has some really nice features, this spot was one that I really liked, cool moss on the sides, lovely oranges and browns in the rocks and some nice light to boot.

Watch that moss tho, or wear proper shoes, me and my crocs danced a fine dance here.

I gotta say this FB alogrithm really sucks now, all i see is posts from people who I don’t follow and don’t really want to see their crap, typically just someones video of them talking crap into a camera. They (one particular example) are probably some hotshot solo camper/influencer or some crap, but geez it seems all a bit MCS (Main character syndrome).

So here’s a picture of the Pool of Siloam in the Blue Mountains, same falls from a bunch of different foreground views, clearly the falls has a MC issue, everyone else is a support actor

I spend alot of time with aircraft, occasionally i will even wander out the back and watch them punch off whilst having my chai, sometimes I even take pictures of them if the conditions are nice.

Occasionally you see some odd things, the odd go round, the awfully low approach (prolly pilots practicing their old landing carrier touch downs 🙂 ) and then you have this… leaving the gear down well after the takeoff and initial climb is done.

I have only seen it twice in several years, the last was a Air India aircraft, this one was a Air Canada one. I do wonder whats going on here, whether its delibrate or they forgot, if so that raises some post takeoff checklist issues 🙂

Its pretty easy to pick since they struggle to get it up and they are still below 2000ft at haberfield which would certainly be giving those residents a buzz 🙂

Two other aircraft for reference.

The ultimate treasure map, written in silver ink across the night sky.

I’m available for more corny useless captions for boats and stars 😉

This shot is a single frame, 25 seconds at f2.8 and ISO 2500. There is however one trick with this picture, at that high ISO and shutter speed the boat and the lights would normally blow out the scene. Yep you could bracket it with a couple of shots and merge them together, but guaranteed things like the boat wires and mast would not line up (been there done that).

So I manually blacked out the bottom part of the image for about 15 seconds, basically using my holden car manual (which is black) and positioned it on the bottom of the frame and ‘jiggled’ it to avoid a hard line where the manual ended. It took a few frames to get it work well and not have a line or reflections etc. Certainly made for processing the shot much easy.

Gotta watch those waves at this little spot, there is no easy way outta here, well no fast dry way anyway

Sometimes.

I love the way the sky here just opened up enough to let a bit of blue thru and shaped it all nicely as a S-curve

I found this little jetty whilst trawling over google maps, it was just a tiny little platoon one, but on the map it look big and clearly a while back when there was less trees 🙂

Still a cool spot and it lined up with the Milkyway on this particular night. The trees turned out ok too i suppose. I could not get further out since that part was floating and would have been bouncing up and down with me on it 🙂