Silver-eye

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no really, its called a "silver-eye" 🙂
and they love these wild tobacco plants with the fruit on them, however I did wonder whether they were going for the fruit or the insects that lived around them.

In any case, I was lucky to get this little guy, they move so very fast and are very wary of a unco bloke clumping around the bush 😉

I have much respect for birder's – the sheer time and patience you need to get a good shot is often mind boggling, then to try and get one with the light in the right angle, clear of branches..blah blah…hard work man!

Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with 300mm Nikkor f4 @300mm and a Nikkor 1.4X teleconverter which equals 630mm (1.5*1.4*300) on a crop sensor camera.
Aperture: f/6.7 and Shutter Speed: 1/750s
ISO 1100

I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed and I always appreciate the time people take to have a look, plus and/or comment.

Mysterious Fogalicious

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Step back, spread that browser to full width and click this pano open full size and see if you can see the pregnant lady laying down 😉 (ok thats a bit of stretch and ya gotta have some serious imagination.. but shes in there:) )

The surf was pumping this morning, even from way up in the dunes you could hear it crashing on the beach, but strangely, this layer of fog had settled on the bay meaning it was all sound and no visual!

Techie data:
8 shot panorama (each frame bracketed)
D7000 with Nikkor 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm – Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: 1/8s 1/30s 1/3s (bracketed)
ISO 100
out front – no filters, just fogalicious

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

Mysterious Fogalicious

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Step back, spread that browser to full width and click this pano open full size and see if you can see the pregnant lady laying down 😉 (ok thats a bit of stretch and ya gotta have some serious imagination.. but shes in there:) )

The surf was pumping this morning, even from way up in the dunes you could hear it crashing on the beach, but strangely, this layer of fog had settled on the bay meaning it was all sound and no visual!

Techie data:
8 shot panorama (each frame bracketed)
D7000 with Nikkor 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm – Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: 1/8s 1/30s 1/3s (bracketed)
ISO 100
out front – no filters, just fogalicious

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

 

Like sands through the hourglass

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These are the days of our lives
Life clings onto hope and preserves in even the harshest of conditions – and sometimes..just sometimes, like this little patch of succulents it just rip roars on thru, screw you sand dune, I am gonna grow on your ass 😉

I had to walk a fair way to find some virgin ripples, but i think it was worth it, just shame I was not here for sunrise, however I still like the contrast between the morning blue sky and the vegetation there… striking a blow for freedom!

Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 and Shutter Speed: 1/10s
out front – Screw in +HoyaFilters circular polariser

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

Sands of Time

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I have been burning to use that title for ages 🙂

Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 and Shutter Speed: 30s
out front – 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

The colourful knob

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In hindsight, I think a selfie with me out on the… rocky outcropping.. would have made for a cool shot, oh well, next time 🙂

But how neat are all these colours on the rock, from warm golds to fresh greens, top stuff nature, nicely done there and I'll be back for more 🙂

A nice little outcropping on the 'Little Gibber' – a strangely knob shaped out cropping in the otherwise bare smooth beach line..

Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 and Shutter Speed: 182.5s
out front – LEE graduated filter 0.9, LEE bigstopper and screw in circular polariser

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

Textured form of love

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big sky

Strangely enough one of my most complex images (bracketed panorama) but I am far from happy with the end result, I looked at this set of images (to become a panorama) on the back of the camera LCD and thought, yeah thats pretty sweet, but the processing and trying to get the final image to match my vision on the day proved impossible.

The scene actually has some brillant golden colours in the sky but I could not get it to work with the dark monotone of the foreground, finally I gave up and opted for a BW image, it retains and accentuates the main elements (texture and human forms) and that seemed like a pretty good starting point – I think it can hold its own without needing brilliant colour.

I welcome any suggestions, comments and thoughts about this image, ya gotta view large too btw.

Techie data:
4 shot panorama (each frame bracketed)
D7000 with Nikkor 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm – Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/125 seconds ISO 100
out front – a rauchy couple, some coffee and a camera.

Its a long way to the top

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if your a dinky little bit of Spinifex (or me for that matter, damn dunes are hard to climb)

I love this scene, there was such a contrast between the never ending dunes and the encroaching grass and succulent plant thingys. The way the clouds streaked across the frame mirroring the shadows on the ground from the glow of the sun (which had just lifted above the clouds to the right) just screamed, 'photograph me'.. so i did just that 🙂

now, I will also have ya's all know, dunes are very deceptive beings, the climb to the top looks easy enough from a distance, but once on the slope the calves are burning and your taking 4 steps to only go 1 step forward!
With that said, grab ya self a bit of cardboard, oddly enough I found one nearby discarded from some knobs who had left their beer carton there and put your bum on it and its a fast way to the bottom.. bit like life really.. hard slog to the top and one very fast fall from the top 😉

Techie love:
4 shot panorama
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with a Tokina (no sand in this baby anymore; nor any extra sand from this dune 11-16mm) f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/11 ISO 100 and Shutter Speed: 1/10s
Out front: +HoyaFilters Circular Polariser and plenty of sand

The underside A707J 32894/475

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natures studio, view this marvel of modern aero engineering full res, even count the access panels if you like 🙂

Some days the conditions are just right to get the perfect light on the heavies coming out of YSSY, a smattering of cloud cover after its rain gives a crisp clear frame with a natural softbox feel to it.

The poor old 777's have copped a pretty bad media rap in the last several months with the recent issues with the Malaysian airline ones and before that the Asiana one that kinda missed the runway .. nonetheless I reckon they are a great beast, just plagued a bad luck at the moment. Although one could argue that they have had some fairly consistent issues with the thrust reverser.. even the sultans 772 dumped half its thrust reverse out the back 😉 but then again what large aircraft manufactured in the US (or EASA i suppose) has not had issues with thrust revers 😉

Techie love:
D7000 with Nikkor 300mm f4 @ 300mm – Aperture: f/5.6 and Shutter Speed: 1/1000 seconds
ISO 100
out front – fresh sydney air

#777

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

Rolling Hills of Kurnell

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view large and smell that clean air 😉
Taken adjacent to a little old lighthouse perched on a hill near the cliffs of Kurnell , you can probably just see it in this shot: https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/TjrckK8cvha

I love the stark contrast of the scene, from the natural rolling hills to the oil refinery to the container terminal to finally the CBD of sydney, I do wish I had a lens with a longer focal length, but Rods 27-70 had to suffice.

3 shot panorama
Thanks to +Rodney Campbell for the loan of the 24-70 for this shot.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with a Nikkor 27-70 f2.8 @70mm Aperture: f/6.7 ISO 100 and Shutter Speed: 1/250s
out front – bushes..oil refinery botany bay some container terminals, mascot, randwick and somewhere behind that the city 😉

Windswept tones

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When you feel like you're out there on your own, know there is someone watching over you, When out at sea, feels love can let go
Oh sailor, we will blow the wind right

Damn I wish I could write like that 🙂 anway, they are not my words, but the part thereof the lyrics to a 2013 song by Mr Little Jeans, how cool is that band name by the way! 🙂 the song name is "Oh Sailor"

Those words to seemed to fit the image and as such here I find myself.

View this baby in full resolution goodness and feel the wave of clouds as the city envelopes the last of the warm sunlight rays.

3 shot Panorama
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 24mm – Aperture: f/6.7 and Shutter Speed: 122.8 seconds
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated Filter and Lee Fatstopper

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

I found your keys dad

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Not much stops Mayhem, even with being hit with her second bout of Bronchiolitis (which is pretty rare apparently) she is still motoring around, albeit wheezy-ing around :), this child has got one very fast crawl happening and is becoming very helpful when I misplace my car keys 🙂

Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 85mm f1.4 @ 85mm – Aperture: f/2 and Shutter Speed: 1/90 seconds ISO 400
out front – one of my beautiful girls! (the othe one is not far away 🙂

Golden Dilemma

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stay wide? crop? remove left headland? remove right headland? way too many choices, hence picked a middle ground.. literally 🙂

3 frame panorama, each shot bracketed.
frames blended in by +Nik Collection by Google
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 105mm f2.5 @ 105mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 6seconds and 20 seconds
ISO: 100

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

Railway to the centre of the Galaxy

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the next train is leaving platform earth in …

Following on from the previous night Star Trail session (https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/7dfL8PdWNbg), this time I opted for more data, like any engineer, more data is never a bad thing – this set of trails was over the space of 5 or so hours and included the moon rising in the early morning.

Its very interesting to see how the AutoWB deals with the scene as the light changes over the night, over the 5 hours there was about 4 really significant changes in the white balance, all which would have been easily sorted out if I had set a fixed WB. In the end it actually makes little or no difference to the actual trail set since alot of that data actually gets cancelled out.

Techie stuff
331 images stacked together using the statistics method in Adobe PS CC and yep it takes awhile
This time I shuffled the foreground shot to get things to line up and fullfill the iniital vision of the tracks leading right into the tip of the galaxy. This time I changed the shutter to a bit long 55 or so seconds, really this makes little difference but just meant things ended up pretty bright, I actually had to darken the sky considerably to get the trails to stand out the way I wanted.

D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm- Aperture: f/2.8 and Shutter Speed: 55.6 seconds (331 shots)
ISO: 3200
out front – long metal things commonly referred to as railway tracks.

Lovely jubbly and thanks for looking – I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed and always appreciate the time people take to have a look, plus and/or comment.