With only the Moon to watch over you – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D7000 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 20mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/6s
lets see who notices that funky combo 😉
Out front: Lee graduated filter (0.9x)

time to contemplate your position in the world
i’ll save you some time 🙂 …your one in about 7 billion odd people, be thankful for what you have and not what you don’t 🙂

My favorite park bench – for which one must be patient and wait for a moment of solidarity since its so damn popular with the dog walkers..runners… walkman junkies (yeah thats for you over 30 peeps)…and the rest of the park lovers 😉

This is Sydney Park, my often ‘go to’ location when I have little or no time, its always a wealth of compositions and the rolling hills give me a sense of being somewhere else than in the middle of the inner west of Sydney, which as great as it is…can be a drag some days ..

view this full size, viewing guaranteed 🙂

5 shot panorama, just as the sun was blazing down amongst the western suburbs
Techie exif data love..
D7000 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 20mm Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/6s
lets see who notices that funky combo 😉
Out front: Lee graduated filter (0.9x)

Kite – (c) Gerard Blacklock
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 38mm – Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/350 seconds
out front – no filters

Some very hot weather resulting in the first few bushfires of the season meant the sky was lookign a bit hazy, I ducked off to the park on the way home just to see what the sunset would do.

Sunset behind the Sydney Park – St Peters Brickworks.

5 shot Panorama – don’t ask me how I got with the kite stings in there and aligned 😉

Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 38mm – Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/350 seconds
out front – no filters

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

Park Life – (c) 2014 Gerard Blacklock
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 24mm – Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/60 seconds

and apartment living
One thing I do love about the Inner West of Sydney is the number of parks especially given that we all have to live in shoe boxes, well most of us 😉 Parks do feature pretty heavily for most people in the area, whether your a dog lover and taking your ball chasing guard dog for a run or getting some exercise or getting the kids out for while…

Sydney Park is one of my favorite parks, mainly since its such a great example of what councils/governments can do with a refuse site if they put their mind and money to it, its also pretty photogenic, with lots of nice spots for all kinds of stuff, lightpainting, landscape, airport, city views.. etc..

Its hard to believe that this park only come into existent in 1993, checkout these old photos!

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0011/154973/050926-380.jpg
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0003/136380/Sydney-Park.jpg

I really like the single lone highrise (well medium rise i suppose) apartment block adjacent to the park, it has featured in my pictures before and in this particular case I did set myself up in waiting for the perfect lot of people to walk on thru the frame!

3 shot Panorama
Timed to get the people in the centre frame only 🙂
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 24mm – Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1/60 seconds
out front – no filters

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