Fishing on carpet of green and gold

Some very sensible fishermen out on this particular morning, all decked out with life jackets and proper footwear. It was also a magnificent morning to be out, fresh, cool and plenty of colour.

2 frame Manual Blend.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 13 mm Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 1/2 of a second and 1.5 seconds (foreground)
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser

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

Salvation - (c) 2014 gerard Blacklock

Salvation lies from within

Clarity comes from moments alone
Welcome to the Little Bay 😉

Little Bay is one of those little gems of locations in Sydney, a relatively large stretch of coastline dominated by the Golf Course (s) which has it all from rock shelves, to cliffs to sheltered beaches and most importantly of all, pretty darn quiet, for Sydney anyway 😉

Single frame.
Exif/setup data:
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 13 mm Aperture: f/9.5 and Shutter Speed: 1/30 of a second
out front – LEE 0.9 Graduated filter and Screw in HOYA circular polariser

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

Last man tree standing

View large, its a crime to only look at the thumbnail 🙂

Pretty much the first shots of the morning, as you clamber over dead wood dodging spider webs laid out over night this is the first isolated tree out in the bay. The tide was coming in, which I noticed very quickly since between the first shot and last shot of this pano the tripod was being inundated. The second issue was after the first shot the mozzies tracked me down and proceeded to make a meal of my legs..and it was certainly a serious meal ;(

It was only about 30 minutes before sunrise but the subtle hues of the blue night sky and the golden horizon were disappearing fast, this image was made from 3 landscape orientation images stitched together in PS CC.

techie stuff:
D7000 coupled with 17-55mm f2.8 @ Aperture: f/16 and Shutter Speed: 30s
out front – LEE bigstopper, LEE graduated filter 0.9 and screw in circular polariser

I do appreciate all the feedback people leave and do very much appreciate those who go out of their way to critique and provide suggestions to my images.
I 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 🙂 ) even when I don't directly respond 🙂

boating around the harbour

I never thought I would do it, in so many aspects..
+Rodney Campbell made me do it.

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The full circle

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Whilst hiking into the Royal National Park at some ungodly hour I had plenty of time to think, in particular I spent alot of time thinking about what I enjoy about photography and why I have continued to do it. I started photography when we used to do lots of bushwalks and it (photography) was just a supplement to the actual walk, over the years it has kinda swung all the way around, I now do locations for photography sessions 🙂 . Today was different, the walk and the location was much more oriented around my old ways, just heading out for a walk to see another piece of awesome aussie landscape. Admittingly, it was timed for sunrise and in the past I would not be doing it in the dark, but hey, the best part of the day is sunrise right ;).
Anyway, I can't remember the last time I treked nearly 10kms just to take a bunch of photos, what awesome spot hopefully more of them – Curacurrong Falls and the Curra Moors Trails.