Deer Pool

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View Large and fill that 16:9 screen with what its meant to be filled with – panorama love 🙂 – if you can find a deer in there you win a prize 😉
Its very interesting story how deer ended up in the Royal National Park and their subsequent survival, decline and then expansion over the last 100 odd years. I would never had though it that difficult to eradicate the relatively small number from what is, really a pretty small park – I guess logistics, process and bureaucracy have played an important role here.

Anyway, whatever the case with the deer, there is still one place named after them, that is, Deer Pool, a nice serene pool with a small waterfall and beach, btw that waterfall looks like it would make a mad waterslide, pity about the big rock at the bottom to take your tailbone out 😉

It was quite a difficult set of falls to shoot for me, the size of the falls within the frame is quite small and I needed to zoom in quite a bit to really fill the frame, as such, when all else fails, pano it 🙂

3 shot panorama view.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 45mm – Aperture: f/13 and Shutter Speed: multiple ( 3 brackets) – however I did only end up using one image – the lighting was diffused and even enough that a single raw file had all the required dynamic range needed (for me)
out front -Hoya screw in circular polariser and Hoya ND8 Neutral Density filter

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.

Lead me to

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After nearly getting rick-rolled by a freak wave I was determined to wait for the next one so i could nail a sweet waterfall off this little rock face.. well, i wait… and waited…and waited, in the end the sea won, i gave up and took what I had and tried something else 😉

The waves did (well one of them) breach the rock face and flow over the edge into the channel which was very cool, nicely shaped a 'S' – well, next time i will get it.

On another side note – RIP for the French bloke (Fabien Ardoin) who died just north of here (cheese rock) the other week, very sad to see a young man with lots of potential have his life cut short.

As with all shots this morning, taken under the protection of a umbrella, with a barrel load of water on the filters and camera.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/9 and Shutter Speed: 1.5s
out front – a very wet 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.

Smoothness is

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Little Marley on Saturday morning 😉

I love the way a long exposure transforms a scene, it is the greatest tool to a tog for simplifying a seascape. Not only can it transform a raging sea into a mellow bed of fluff it can also create mad effects with the sky (not so much in this image)

Single frame
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @16mm Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 134.6s
out front – wet and miserable 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.

Little Marley

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Wet feet, unpredictable waves and deer

yep, you read that correctly, deer, whole herd of them in fact – I have been the to the Royal National Park a number of times and never seen a deer, however on this morning I saw a whole bunch of them, what does that have to do with this photo? nothing:) they where on the other side of the lagoon keeping a very safe distance from me 😉 well out of photographic reach.

A little channel leading down into the relatively sheltered beach that is Little Marley, a great spot and only a a relatively short walk (4.3 kms) from the carpark. This morning with the Focus group, or should a say a small fraction thereof, was a excellent reccy trip to really check the place out. The place is littered with excellent seascape compositions and you could go back a dozen times and visit a different portion of the seaside. I guess thats a pretty true statement for any of the main features in the Royal National Park.

Single frame, under the protection of a umbrella, sheesh that makes composing hard 😉 had a mess of spray on the filters anyway 🙁
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @11mm Aperture: f/3 and Shutter Speed: 2s
out front – a very wet 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.