Trying to find the fairies and elves at the secret falls 🙂
Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/13 Shutter 30, 10 and 6 seconds
Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed
and Chaos will rein supreme 🙂
and nothing will make us happy, especially a bow in our hair 🙂
Tickles – its not all goos and ohhhs.. this is the face about 5 seconds before I lose another level of hearing… 🙁
check out those bags under those eyes..pretty well match mine and mums 🙂
This could be the scene of some hollywood blockbuster, this place is like a time capsule from some early 19 something era war, the only thing out of place is me doing a – i should have donned something more appropriate 🙂 #gp-5 gas mask maybe 😉
Single image with only a fraction of desaturation since things were pretty bland with the fog.
I don't think I need any words for this one. Simply view and let the desolation flow over you. View Large
After emerging from the Iron Ball, have they finally found a home?
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This is from a spot which I refer to as the fair-weather photographers spot 😉 if your looking for a quiet accessible waterfall then this is your location, a short walk down some steps and there is a nice sheltered spot to setup your tripod and take in the beauty of this small final waterfall in the Leura Cascades.
I have taken photos of this waterfall a total of 3 times now and each time I have come away with differing images do the conditions but also due changes in the way I view a scene and compose it. To be honest I don't think I have necessarily improved on previous attempts, moreso just generated different images 🙂
The falls are quite small and required quite a wide angle lens, in this case, rather than run with a single image I decided to try and encapsulate the scene pretty well in its entirety, well as much as my pano format would allow! As always a scene like this, even on a rainy overcast day has quite some dynamic range in the light, as such i bracketed each shot in this panorama, this meant I had alot more control of those shadowy areas 🙂 There was quite a few portrait orientation shots (about 8) taken for this and then it was cropped fairly heavily from the top and bottom.
Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 20, 6 & 30 seconds
ISO 160
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed
I can only imagine what this place looked like 50 years ago, all those other mangroves would have looked awesome when still standing.
Hopefully I will get to revisit this location at low tide soon which will create an entire different feel to the images.
techie stuff:
D7000 coupled with 17-55mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 185.5s
out front – LEE bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser
Suggestions, comments and improvements? they are always warmly welcomed!
Rear end of YSSY, taken with D7000 and 300mm f/4. I could spend all day sitting there watching planes and vortices 😉
An alternative view to the recent Cecil Hill series, rather than de-saturate the frame in this case i have accentuated the natural colour of the cracked dry earth and very recently bulldozed embankment.
Thanks to +Ian Browne for some great feedback on the previous shot which made me revisit a similar shot from the evening.
As with the previous image, this could be mistaken for being out west somewhere, not in the heart of western sydney a mere hour drive (pending traffic chaos) to the beach.
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 @ 17mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 30 seconds
out front – LEE Graduated Neutral Density Filter
Suggestions, comments and improvements? they are always warmly welcomed!
cheers to +Rodney Campbell for providing some extra light on the subject tree.
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed
Many years ago I graced the skies above this pond, back then there were no houses, no M7 freeway, nothing but a quiet little airfield called Hoxton park. I remember the large old trees to the north of the runway which made life very interesting during crosswinds – what happened….development and housing happened and subsequently the closure of Hoxton Park airfield, a real shame 🙁 I can't remember how many times I eased back on the yoke to clear the hill behind where this photo was taken whilst looking down at what was a sparse western Sydney.
Enough nostalgia 🙂 +Rodney Campbell joined me for sneaky sunset session after work (well only one of us was working 😉 ) at this changing location. I'll definiely be back when there are more favorable sunset conditions.
Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 16mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 3seconds
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and LEE Graduated Neutral Density Filter
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed
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Welcome to lush, taken during a early morning stroll through the Blue Mountains, I am not entirely convinced about the big fern on the left… 🙂
3 image panorama with D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8
Flow to me
Sometimes to achieve that composition there is only one way to do it – wet feet and bum out over the edge of the next waterfall, whilst confident that a missplaced step would send me over the edge i had some comfort in the fact it was only a few feet down 😉 not like the falls below that 🙂
Anyway, itsa great little spot Leura Cascades and whilst you can go for the fair-weather positions there is plenty of scope to reach out and pull a composition of the cascades that has some originality to it 🙂
Techie data:
D7000 with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm Aperture: f/8 Shutter 10 seconds
ISO 160 (don't ask me why 🙂 ) this was one of the first shots so the old brain was a bit fuzzy 😉
out front – Hoya screw in circular polariser and neutral density filter (3 stops)
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed
Hang on to the green stuff man! it only takes a well placed sizeable water drop to knock any one of these little fungi for six 🙂 There were several casualties whilst i was there ;( rip.
Its been awhile since I have chased any fungi and there is something disturbingly refreshing about getting your knees dirty whilst your head is 3 inches from the wet, mossy ground!
Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 55mm micro (with missing focus ring 🙂 ) @ 55mm Aperture: f/22, Shutter 1/60 seconds
ISO 800
SB600 on top and foldout diffuser wandering out there from somewhere 😉
I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed 🙂