Sydney City skyline and the famous Sydney Opera house to the right.
I think i am pretty well new year eve'ed out already, I have seen so many amazing pictures of the event and its amazing to see all the different angles and nooks and crannies that people get to to take a picture of them.

Cremorne point had a good view onto the city skyline and there were some really sweet fireworks, my favorites were the multicolour star bursts, a pyrotechnics wet dream i reckon, i can only imagine the preparation it takes to make this stuff happen.

Happy New Years Day

Sydney Opera House is still there 🙂 they did not burn it down with the sparkles..

Located some very nice rock shelfs just off Thirroul Beach, amazingly easy to access and and have lots of diverse compositions, this morning however, the composition was chosen as the one in which the wind was on my back and the minimum amount of spray coming across the filter 🙂 Clouds doing interesting things, the ones out to sea were traveling north and the ones close to land traveling east.
I'll be back 🙂
151 seconds at f/11 horizon on the midline 🙂

There have only ever been a few times when i have found it nearly impossible to take a few shots at a sunny rise session – today was one such day. This shall serve as a reminder for future shoots at this location ,high tide and blowing a gale, not really optimum for getting that nice water flow over the rocks, especially with the swell as erractic and pretty lame as it was.

Anyway, it did serve a good morning for doing some recon on some potential spots and also some spots to avoid.

There was only two fools silly enough to be out in these conditions, me and a fisherman, who spent most of the time chasing his bucket down the beach as the wind swept it up. Although driving past Austinmer I did notice a gaggle of photographers braving the conditions at a proven location 🙂

Anyway, onto the image, what a cool set of double barrels 🙂 this is me perched precauisly on some slippery water treatment plant pipes holding the tripod to stop it moving, or was it to stop me falling off into the drink ? 😉

+Adam Lee i hope you enjoyed the sleep in – a very wise move.

Now who say men can't do this? 🙂 here is a prime example for the record, whilst editing this photo with one hand (mouse) i was rocking tickles (nearly 3 months old now) to sleep (which only took 30 minutes 🙂 ) and discussing the finer points of why chaos (4 year old) should go to sleep even though she was sleepy but her feet were wide awake, ie walking around at 8:30pm – this rates up there with some of the best of a 4 yro's logic.
Here another example:

chaos: 'dad, ya know what'
me: 'what?'
chaos: 'we should get a icecream'
me: 'no'
chaos: 'but it s really hot day and it will cool me down'
me: 'nope, drink some water.'
chaos: 'i'll share it with you'
me: 'no'
chaos: 'it will help me go to sleep.'
and it goes on 🙂

anyway back to the multi-tasking…

I liked this boat, definite renegades, headed straight for the cliffs whilst everyone else went out to sea.

I wish i had something to get a bit closer to this guy, he had some very cool water drops on his back.

you mean I get two boobies for christmas, no way man…

Perfectly illuminated by the diffused light from the stormcell above.

Also a very conveniently located concrete edge painting which was as fresh as spring daisies., thankyou northhaven council, probably one of the better breakwalls i have seen about the traps..

This was a morning of a 0.5 metre swell (as advertised), I can only imagine what it would be like in even just a mild swell.

The pin point of light you can see is a tunnel out into the ocean, the swell you can see is probably 1.5 metres, I was on a rock about 2 metres up (a very sharp one at that 🙂 ) and was getting splashed.