Meet Raffie

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Poor little tickles has been beaten down by a nasty bout of Bronchiolitis, which is different to Bronchitis, dunno why its different and I don't really wanna know (thats why I am a engineer not a doctor lol ), but what I do know, is that it's damn painful for all involved 🙁

With some luck she should be back to her normal raffie chewing self before I know it, or hopefully before my eyes fall outta my head..

Raffie is one of favourite high-chair toys and is often the last toy standing ie not thrown off onto the floor – which means Raffie has some use, I suspect hes great for getting right into all those spots in the mouth 😉

Custom Job

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gif'ed animations seem to be the flavour of the vivid festival and also provide a pretty good way to display the dynamic nature of the light displays.

The lightning displays are nothing short of amazing and it never ceases to amaze me the creativity that these people have to visualise and produce the displays.

87 frames, bashed over the head in LR, resized and produced into a packaged gif in PS CC.
The last session of the night/morning with +Rodney Campbell
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 1.5s
ISO: 250
out front – sweet fa.

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Circus of Light

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There nothing quite like just finding a great bit of cool art then plonking oneself infront of it – introspective some may say…but truly, its a glorified selfie 😉 and as such I have embraced the selfie.
Yep its certainly a circus out there 🙂

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Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 1s
out front – sweet fa.

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Flat Jumping Spider

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Its always great to have a quick scout about the garden for some macro subjects and even better when Chaos can help, although it does often end with a traumatized insect, only through too much love and handling 🙂

This was a little jumping spider we found, Chaos enticed him out from under the leaf with a twig and as such found a nice pose for a shot.

Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 55mm f2.8 .5 mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 1/125s
out front – sweet nothing 😉
up top: SB-600 flash with extra diffusion screen.

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Rooted Dreams

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Towra Point v2

Rarely do I revisit a location twice in the space of a couple of weeks, however I really wanted to check out this place at high tide, thus it called me for another quick visit and the tidal times worked out nicely – it did however result in very wet feet since the only way to get there was to wade thru calf deep water – alittle disconcerting when its dark and navigating by torchlight. I even walked right past my little subject tree since i did not recognise it with all the water around!

The previous shot of a similar composition is here : https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/GQxovkJ7CzR

Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11.5mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 297.1s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Dragons Footsteps

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Predawn blue bliss
I never ceases to amaze me the planet that we live on and how stuff just happens and sometimes so beautifully (well beautiful in a human perspective sense). Whilst its all just atmospherics and physics it is still amazing (for this lowly human) to watch the predawn colours develop from the night blue to light up the sky like a painter covering a fresh dark canvas – or in the words of my daughter, like the easter bunny has just painted the sky.

Sunrise is by far the best time of day.

2 frame Manual Blend.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11.5 mm Aperture: f/6.7 and Shutter Speed: 121.5s (foreground) and 15 seconds (mid-sky)
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Fishing on carpet of green and gold

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Some very sensible fishermen out on this particular morning, all decked out with life jackets and proper footwear. It was also a magnificent morning to be out, fresh, cool and plenty of colour.

2 frame Manual Blend.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 13 mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 1/2 of a second and 1.5 seconds (foreground)
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Salvation - (c) 2014 gerard Blacklock

Salvation lies from within

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Clarity comes from moments alone
Welcome to the Little Bay 😉

Little Bay is one of those little gems of locations in Sydney, a relatively large stretch of coastline dominated by the Golf Course (s) which has it all from rock shelves, to cliffs to sheltered beaches and most importantly of all, pretty darn quiet, for Sydney anyway 😉

Single frame.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 13 mm Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 1/30 of a second
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Colour or BW

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Fallen

Thoughts? I like the colour, however I feel the BW version simplifies the image and concentrates more on the composition and tree roots which for me was the main anchor poitn of the image. Note, the composition is not that terribly good in my opinion 😉 The intention was to try and utilise the roots to lead up thru the image to the waterfall.

3 shot blended image.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 4s, 1s and 15 seconds
out front – HOYA ND filter and screw in HOYA circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

Texture – smooth vs bumpy

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Just like where there is a light side, there is a dark and cold side – where there is smoothness, roughness is nearby.

There was difficulty tracking down a interesting foreground to match the sky here, however, one must always make do with what is there – watch for the next one with a dinky little oyster, high and dry 🙂

Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 17mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 248.3s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.

A continuation of the Midday Seascapes – Coalcliff

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Following on from a midday long exposure (see here: https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/cM1zHFriUgD)

I thought a seascape with only a second or so of shutter was appropriate, to achieve this I stancked the LEE graduated filters (0.9 and 0.6) with the 0.6 pulled over the entirety of the lens, thus providing some extra stoppages. This with the circular polariser was enough to get me to 1 second.

Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/19 and Shutter Speed: 1s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and 0.6 and screw in circular polariser

As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed.