In celebration of those expensive royals visiting our great country I thought I would tribute a image to them, appropriately located at Queens lake
Heres to you baby george…
techie love:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 85.5s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, 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.
Ironically, I went out this morning to get me some tasty bread for a some homemade Bruscetta – after the usual run to the airport on a saturday morning I noticed this dinky little old CASA 235 pottering into YSSY. Now what is the le-french airforce doing in australia? They are often a regular visitor to the various airshows, god only knows why, those CASA eads aircraft don;t really ring my bell 🙂 plus, i know all to well how they great the civvie version 212 is 🙂 these are the ones they run – or used to with the Australian Antaractic Division.
anyway, to the correlation.. CASA aircraft and my CASA bread for my bruscetta 🙂 which was very tasty btw.
I tracked this little old mangrove tree from a aerial shot from +Google Maps , it was a gamble trying to find it and see if it would make a half decent image, at first I missed it all together, however on the walk back found it (things look pretty different from up there 🙂 ) – I really wanted to see it at high tide, but timing did not allow me to be there – next time.
Often I will spend a few minutes browsing maps and checking out locations to find interesting nooks and crannies., good on ya +Google Maps 2 thumbs up, I dunno what i would do without google maps now.
Towra Nature Reserve.
techie love:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16 mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/11 and Shutter Speed: 158.2s
out front – LEE Bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser
Hopefully the last of them 😉
Somebody drained all the water outta botany Bay this morning 🙂 That was the lowest tide I have seen in quite a while.
Made for quite the challenge for finding some interesting foreground action, especially considering more than a few minutes in any one spot meant your shoes were being swallowed by the mangrove..
Towra Nature Reserve.
techie love:
D7000 coupled with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 279.8s
out front – 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.
Searching for the right Path
I reckon we are gonna see sweet nothing in Sydney due to the clouds 🙁
Anyway, from the last one 🙂
plus you can always watch it live from +NASA
This afternoon there was absolutely beautiful light coupled with low lying clouds being funneled up the ravine (i think I can safely call it that – pretty serious depth and very narrow). I had traveled to these falls (Carrington) to try and find a nice location with the fall back option of just taking a cliche shot of the falls, which usually the common lookouts provide, noting that this was a first time I had been here.
The steady wind was flowing around the trees and the mist coming through the scene sporadically, the light last a few minutes and I tried a different composition to try and capture the light, mist and surrounding foliage.
3 shot landscape orientation panorama.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55 mm f2.8 @ 17mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 1 seconds
Hoya screw in circular polariser out front.
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.
Head to head with a millipede
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 55mm f2.8 Micro @ 55mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 1/60 seconds. ISO 1250
SB600 with diffuser and also another diffuser in front of that 🙂 just to make sure things were diffused 🙂
Some days ya just have prickly walls that you need to get over (or sneak around the side 🙂 ), the tangled roots of reality are there to bring you back down.
escape.
I need some inspirational words +Leslie Stockton to go with the image.
So once again, its a friday night and one hands rocking the tickles to sleep which means it must be time for some more image processing, I mean, really what else can i do 😉
I took several images from Adelina Falls in Lawson and I spent quite some time walking around the falls (which incidentally are not very large) to try and find that sweet composition. I even got up around the trees off to the right of this frame to try and encapsulate the entirety of the falls, however it was not to be and as such I opted to chop off the upper part of the falls and work with the lower part at a particular angle where the light created a glow over the veil of water coming down.
This image was a series of vertical portrait orientation shots stitched together, i did actually end up cropping pretty heavily to achieve the composition I wanted, however given the large number of frames this was not a problem (from a resolution POV anyway).
I have been saving this one up trying to work out the best way to process it and capture the rocks on the left and the delicate water flow. A interesting side note, here is another good example of the polariser in action, not so much in a positive sense though. The ferns on the left are nicely 'polarised' and the reflected light removed, however the ferns on the right are not and as such come across more white and washed out..
Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm- Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 8s, 1.5s & 30s
out front -Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops).
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.
They may need some more investment in their jetty facilities 🙂 however in the meantime, it makes for interesting photo compositions
techie stuff:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 281.1s
out front – LEE bigstopper and LEE graduated filter 0.9
Up close and personal with the Weeping Rock Falls in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia.
Where has this location been all my life 😉 ? what a great little set of falls, I could spend all day here, some many great little compositions and angles, from detail to wide angle it has it all and… the big and.. its out in nature and part of a really sweet walk at leura.
Techie data:
4 shot (landscape orientation) panorama.
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 20 seconds. – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)
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Mental note for next time – old sneakers with no grip are not the most suitable footwear for traversing a mossy slippery set of falls such as these, how I got to this spot without going arse over tits is beyond me 🙂 I think booties with nails in the bottom would be more useful.
Nonetheless the beautiful deep colour in the rocks and the texture and veins made it worthwhile, not to mention the veil of wispy water flowing over the edge.
Techie data:
4 shot (landscape orientation) panorama.
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 8, 2 & 30 seconds. – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)
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.
A difficult little set of falls to shoot, the time of day and the light made things a bit tricky and as such I opted for a really close tight panorama view to try and convey the scene with its many over hanging ferns, branches and water seemingly dropping from the bright clouded sky.
I could almost reach out and touch the fern on the right, a bracketed panorama to achieve the desired dynamic range and encapsulate the pool and surrounds.
Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 8, 2 & 30 seconds. The bright frame was only used to bring a fraction of detail to that really shadowed overhang to the side of the falls
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)
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.