Rest Stop.

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My favourite place to stop on the way home back to Sydney. I just snuck in before sunset and closing time. It is a popular place and i have a bunch of shots from here, but its like an old friend… always good to catch up for a sess.

I suspect the waters gonna be pumping here in the coming days, it was already pretty brown and smelling good

Somersby.

Pano shot, about 6 shots stitched together with the 24-70mm, some where around the 10 second exposure time with the Kase magnetic CPL, I really like this filter with the 24-70, the big hood protects the lens from spray and water and you can shoot in a pretty decent shower without having to clean the lens…
#kasefilter #somersby

Waves.

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There’s a rumour going around about two waves racing to the each. Can you guess which one won?
They Tide…

Now that I don’t have to home school with lockdown finishing, i can concentrate on finding the best quality dad puns – all that long division and apostrophe’s that contract and possess were doing my head in..

Kase Filters 1.2 soft grad with the circular polariser, f16 @ 0.4s. It only took me about 20 shots to get this, I had completely forgotten what controls were where on my camera;)

Freshwater

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Its been 2 years since I have done a sunrise session on the northern beaches, I gotta say, someone forgot to tell our rock orbiting the sun that sunrise before 6am is kinda not acceptable for the late shift crew

I got to use my Kase Filters which had certainly gathered plenty of dust during the lock down, Kase Wolverine ND1000 with the 1.2 grad.

#kasefilter

Seascraping.

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Its been awhile, actually I cannot remember the last seascape sunrise I did, luckily for me there was a prediction of zero clouds for sunrise, hence sunset it was….

Rodney Campbell really wanted to check out this nudie beach, clearly he has not been out in a awhile it did however have some nice and somewhat less traveled views on the Bare Island bridge. The sun was setting just over the bridge which actually looked really neat, not a scene I would expect to see in Sydney.

I have had the opportunity to try out the new version of Lightroom with the ‘game changing’ masks, lets not get too carried away here, certainly some nice features and the automatic masks seem to work well but I would not pay any extra for it…

A few images from the sunset.





Tipua

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With the demise of google+ a few years back there was a wonderful community born from the ashes of another failed google product (thats a rant for another day).. this started by a good ozzy bloke called Chris Sutton (who also has wisely avoided FB:) ). The community has certainly matured over the years and turned into a great bunch of people out to share art and art of all kinds, photography is just one element.

They also have a cool quarterly book they put together which is provided in digital format and also hardcopy, I am fortunate enough to have a good mate Al Chris who also is a member who kindly shared with me the one of the hard copies from last year. Its a wonderful read and so good to see a diverse range of images and stories from all across the globe. So if your looking for a great community of artists without all the gaff of FB or instagram be sure to check it out

https://www.tipua.com/


I had the opportunity to provide some feedback and judging on a local photo club

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I had the opportunity to provide some feedback and judging on a local photo club (Shoalhaven) monthly theme, it was a really great experience reminisce of the old days where competitions were about really getting good feedback and bettering your images and captures.

There are so many competitions now, some which i have entered and spent a not insignificant amount of money on (I did get some returns i suppose with a few prizes) however I have not really felt my photography has improved as a result. Hence I’m a bit dubious when people, especially those running a photo competition say you need to enter to better your photography

These monthly themes and local local clubs certainly hark back… More

The Annual General Meeting of the SPC followed by the October assessment meeting was held last night via Zoom. Bruce Williams is our new president and we have some new faces on the committee. Lois Sparkes, Peter Noakes and Dave Macquart have all stepped up.

The set subject for October was ‘Buildings’. This was a very popular topic which attracted a large number of diverse and interesting images.
We were very fortunate to have Gerard Blacklock as the judge for the evening. Gerard is a very keen and long time experienced photographer. His comments and assessment of the images entered was very interesting, informed and informative showing his expertise and appreciation of photography.
He awarded the Photo of the Month to Dave Macquart for his stunning abstract photo titled ‘the Confluence’. Congratulatiosn to Dave and many thanks to Gerard for the time and effort he expended on our behalf. He made it a very interesting night.

Bob.

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This is Bob, Bob is in his pond at the park, not in the sky. Bob is chilled, he has a girlfriend (could be a boyfriend.. actually Bob could be a bobette, we are not fish experts), we see them on dates late at night
We have no idea how Bob ended up at the park pond, but we do love to visit him along with the cranky owl that turns up occasionally.

Hey Lewis Fogerty, here’s that missing goldfish hes fat.

Skyline

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My favourite park for some skyline shots, great clouds as well.

Somewhat challenging conditions unit 1 child repeatedly telling me how fing boring and slow we are and that males are more likely to be hit by lightning…, the middle one demanding to know when the lightning will hit me and the little one determined to take off down the hill on a scooter with no brakes (really gotta fix that).

#sydneypark
#parklife