The Return

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I keep coming back to this rock, it was such a awesome find, the tide was at a perfect level, the sky overcast and ominous, it just said photograph me… lots 😉

I have a whole bunch of compositions of this rock, from horizontal panos (yet to be edited) to vertical ones and straight portrait orientation shots, this particular one grabbed me due to the dinky little orange rock in the foreground, seemingly so dwarfed by the monster rock but also sheltered.

Exif love:
single image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm Aperture: f16 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL

https://blog.avernus.com.au/the-return/

Big Berther

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I feel for all those stuck in Bali as a result of the Volcano ash cloud, especially those poor souls who elected to fly with Jetstar…. and… not have travel insurance,…you will have learnt two very valuable lessons from that trip. 1) do not fly with Jetstar, you will get what you pay for 😉 2) always get travel insurance 🙂

Remember the British Airways flight (9 i think from memory) that flew thru the ash cloud in da middle of the night then everything went awfully quiet, ie all the ponies stopped, yep all four ! they were damn lucky that they could restart one engine and limp to a airfield. Thus, why airlines are sensible about not trying to flight thru these clouds, volcanic ash + plane = scrap aluminum 🙂

I was having a nice stroll in the park when the Singapore Airlines A380 lumbered overhead, a slight mad dash to swap lens and I was in time to get this nice ass view 😉

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 300mm f4 +1.7 TC @ 508mm Aperture: f10 and Shutter Speed: 1/1600s
ISO 320

Selfie Stick

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I have been meaning to get back to this location for quite sometime, under the right conditions of course. It was only when I looked at the date when I went here last time did I realise that its been 1 year and 6 days, sheesh, time goes waay too fast!

This is the shot from last time:
https://goo.gl/photos/kB9FgQpzSZovLR2v7
and I vowed to go back and plant myself next to that fisherman's stick of death 😉

+Kitten KaboodleInc , this one is for you, no Britney boobies and pole dancing was a little difficult 'cause it was so fing cold.

A h/t goes out to +Phottix, i have the Aion wireless remote which at the time seemed expensive, however its usefulness and also its convenience has by far paid for itself. The only pain in the rear thing is when I stick it in my pocket and accidentally bump it I end up with all these random shots at the end of the day ;). Here i triggered the shot from about 20 odd metres away..

So, it was around dawn, i watched the waves for a while, picked my interval and made a dash for the stick, dodging the incoming wave, barnacles, slippery ass rocks and the golf ball from the nearby golf course.. ..yes whoever that ball belonged, your a freaking terrible shot, give it away… 😉

and there it is, single shot, no composite funny-buggers here, no added waves and no photochopping my ass in 😉

Stick of death -> check.

Exif love:
single image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35mm f4 @ 35mm Aperture: f11 and Shutter Speed: 2s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL

https://blog.avernus.com.au/selfie-stick/

Bean there

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beanscape

Just another variation on this rather large paddock with a lonely tree in it, oddly enough there are several trees in the same paddock but there are not really within walking distance if you know what I mean 🙂

This image was one of the first I took when hitting the field of beans, it was just as the sun was about to dip below the horizon and you can see the final shadows being cast on the beans. It started off as a much bigger panorama with another two full shots on each side, however at what was quite a wide angle there quite a bit of distortion in the bean rows and also the tree seemed to get lost. Thus, a judicious crop was in order, which left this frame, which is about 3 1/2 landscape orientation images stitched together.

Exif love:
single image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f10 and Shutter Speed: 1/3s
ISO 100
Out front – 0.3x Graduated filter (i think) i am pretty sure I had that graduated filter on there, the light was very subtle since this was at 90 degrees to teh sun.

https://blog.avernus.com.au/bean-there/

Black Fish

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These fairly elusive fish certainly attract the keen fishermen and one big bonus is that you don't need to carry around stinky bait. On the flipside ya gotta get your ass out in places like this, noting the abundance of 'cabbage' on the rock, which the blackfish or luderick feed on.

It was just before dawn when this bunch of dudes passed me on the rock shelf, politely saying hello 🙂 one bloke was wearing shorts and a hoodie which I thought was nuts, even I was not wearing shorts ! whilst only 7 or 8 degrees the wind chill was crazy….

anywho's… after getting bored of taking pictures of the sea I wandered over to see how they were going, sure enough they had already nailed a couple of really nice sized fish and one bloke nearly got washed away so with the cool clouds hanging around I thought why not..

Exif love:
single image
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 32mm Aperture: f8 and Shutter Speed: 1/8s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL

https://blog.avernus.com.au/black-fish/

Look Tickles

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Getting a picture of Chaos nowadays is pretty tricky, she has learnt my ways and is the artful photo dodger… or bomber, depending on the mood.

Sometimes, tho, and only sometimes, dad gets one for the win, like this one 🙂 the girls did very well this day, it was a long walk in the bushland and they both did it without complaint – I think they actually really enjoyed it, especially seeing the huge flock of bats (which Chaos is showing tickles here) hanging up in the trees..

The view from Kirribilli

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view large .. or go home 😉

I think I stood at this very spot almost to the day, 2 years ago! I was looking at a picture I took in mid 2012 from the exact same spot and its very interesting to see how much things have changed in the way I take a photo…not very much 😉
The city skyline on the hand, its really taking some change, over on the right at the Barangaroo site there are some serious skyline protrusions appearing 🙂

ya gotta view this one full size .. and zoom in, its not quite full res, but you can read the writing on the buildings 😉

6 landscape orientation images stitched together – the polariser really gives the sky a kick here, whilst its has created a slight dark area in the middle which had ot be adjusted in post, I think the overall deepening of the sky colour worked nicely.

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 70mm Aperture: f10 and Shutter Speed: 1/1.6s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL

https://blog.avernus.com.au/the-view-from-kirribilli/

Watching, waiting

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This young lady came prepared, she had two cameras and was pumping out some panorama images, probably be a darn sight better than mine 🙂

It was a chilly evening, however it certainly did not deter the tourists and photo enthusiasts down on the northern side of the harbour, i was cruising over the bridge on the regular sunday run with the girls and noted that the sky was looking potentially photo worthy 🙂

It is hard to get something different here, well i think so anyway, there are so many awesome shots of the city skyline which are hard to compete with – so after taking the usual panoramic shots I thought I would go for the vertical panorama style instead…not overly different, however the human element and the pretty wicked sky gave it a little extra kick in my books.

I hope ya'all had a great weekend

Exif love:
D750 coupled with Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 @ 24mm Aperture: f9 and Shutter Speed: 1/1.3s
ISO 100
Out front – Lee graduated filter (0.9x) and Hoya CPL (this really helps draw out that deep colour in the sky.

+Landscape Photography

https://blog.avernus.com.au/watching-waiting/

Hygrocybe lanecovensis

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Found in pretty well only one place… listed as endangered in 2002.

I really needed a few extra frames in the focus stacked image (front focus) , however these little red 'shrooms grow in really tight areas and it was a struggle to even get the camera near them without doing any damage.

even with these at f22 and 15 images it was a struggle to capture the full depth of field… these are really tiny by the way.

Exif love:
15 frames focus stacked.
D750 coupled with Nikkor 55mm f2.8 @ 55mm Aperture: f22 and Shutter Speed: 1/60s
ISO 500
Lightning goodness : SB600 off to the right triggered thru onboard flash bounced off the dirt 😉