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.

*Where's wally i mean Rodney +Rodney Campbell *

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and bonus points if you can find our pushbikes 🙂

From a recent stormy session at the RNP, this image was taken between some minor shows and ducking in and out of cover on a precarious little ledge.

8 odd portrait orientation images stitched together.

Techie data:
D7000 with Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 hanging off the front @ Aperture: f/8 and Shutter Speed: 1.5s
out front -Hoya screw in circular polariser.

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

On the Edge

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Perched precariously on a small and loose overhang which was sheltered by another larger overhang that seemed to defy the natural forces of gravity, +Rodney Campbell and myself watched the clouds roll in and felt the thunder of the surf vibrating thru the rocks 10's of metres below.

The view is across the Curracurrong Falls which, today was nothing more than a pitiful trickle even after all the rain we have had in Sydney. Further south of this point is Garie Beach, another prime location for photography.

Panorama image with a few dodgy stitching errors 🙂 made from 7 vertical images taken at f8 @ 8seconds shutter using the 17-55 mm f2.8 on D7000

Thankyou to you all who comment and plus my posts, I do appreciate it and do try and at respond to everyone 🙂 Rest assured I am always checking out my commenters streams (when i probably should be doing something else 🙂 )

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

Scale

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Unknown Falls – the waterfall into the ocean.

On this particular day I was standing on the edge of some impressive rocks with the nearest civilization over 15 kilometres away, my thoughts cleared with the ocean wind that came close to blowing me over, nothing left between the ears after that 😉

Another amazing location which is situated a short drive from Sydney and provides countless locations for the aspiring nature photographer and outdoor types, i shall return, shortly 🙂

I appreciate the comments that people leave and I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed!

Natural Frame

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After spending quite sometime wandering around the lower part of the falls looking for a darn tree to frame the lower falls, this tree just jumped out and said frame me 🙂 Pure gnarliness – its like nature just knew what to do to make a nice image.

Once again, nature, 3.5 stars for you!

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Green Balls

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A small rugged section of coastline in the Royal National Park just 40 minutes south of Sydney. The RNP (Royal National Park) has an almost unlimited number of great locations from clifftops to rockshelfs to scrub and of course waterfalls.

This particular spot, Garie Beach is a very popular with keen Surfers and Bushwalkers – it is on the route for the Coastwalk which travels pretty much the full length of the park.

This sweet green mossy rocks jumped out at me and was perfectly timed as some nice cloud swept across to add some interest to the sky.

Note, Garie beach surf club and facilities are great, for something that has no connected power, water or sewerage its got damn good facilities, nicely done.

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