Time stands still for no man (or woman)

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Time stands still for no man (or woman) - (c) 2014 Gerard Blacklock

Time stands still for no man (or woman) – (c) 2014 Gerard Blacklock
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 32mm Aperture: f/10 and Shutter Speed: 243.9s
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x), Hoya CPL and LEE bigstopper

Summer brings with it very early sunrises, like in the order of 5:30am kinda early, this does make it a challenge to get up, travel to a location and get there in time for some sweet light. Throw into the mix the variable weather and of course the prospect of non-sweet light and its one more factor for staying in bed 🙂

I have been trying to get back to this location for some years now and finally I had the opportunity to do so, with no regard for weather or sunrise time I made the venture out, noting that the weather radar indicated showers, just my luck. There is always trepidation arriving at a location (alone), even one with I have been to before, in pitch blackness armed with a torch, a pair of shorts and camera gear, even moreso when its a hike in through the bush, things can look very different in the day 🙂
But, today was different, i had a freshly purchased mozzie repllant spray 😉 which I applied in excess amounts to my bare skin, which consisted mostly of my legs 🙂 I thought.. yeah this will thwart them f’ing mozzies 🙂 and it did… for the first 15 minutes :(…but they were the least of my worries, battling my way thru the dark with one tripod leg held high i was doing hard battle with another forest fiend.. .. the mighty spider that hangs across the path waiting for the unsuspecting walker to face slap..now these are probably pretty harmless (or not who knows?) but the fact that they are fat.. hairy and large and on your face will make even a grown man squeel 🙂

Anyway enough of the bush bashing stories, just imagine me arriving at this stunning location with remnants of spiders on my head and a swarm of mozzies in tow and you get the picture… segway, speaking of pictures, this cool rock formation and some sweet cloud action provided some very nice atmospherics for a short time, all of which screamed at me to be photographed.. so I did.

Single shot
Exif/setup love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 32mm Aperture: f/10 and Shutter Speed: 243.9s
out front – Lee Graduated Filter (0.9x), Hoya CPL and LEE bigstopper.

54 thoughts on “Time stands still for no man (or woman)”

  6. Haha what a adventure! 😀 Fortunately I do not fear the insects and I'm one who does not like screaming but rather to smile! 🙂 I believe that such a situation I would have so much amused! While you hear everywhere the lure of beauty, splendor to immortalize..and you +Gerard Blacklock, you did divinely….:) Thank you so much for sharing.

  12. AMAZING photograph no wonder it is the most excellent share, it is pure brilliance 🙂 As a beginner in DSLR Photography after many yrs of using film cameras this photo inspires me to keep striving and shoot all things with my new Nikon D3200!!! 😀

  18. Some nice streakage there mate – and it's even thoughtfully moved in the right direction for you 🙂
    Some sweet looking rocks down there – even those smaller ones down in the water on the right

    Re the spiders – you know you will take the lead for the bush bashing – I guess given your vertical challenges even if I was to go first you'd be in line for them anyway 🙂

  21. +Mykal Hall
    The way I see it when comparing my D7000 to the D750 there are two (among other numerous smaller ones) differences 1) the dynamic range is very much more noticeable (without any in camera shadow recovery too) 2) the sensor noise is significantly reduced, for example if I took this on my old crop sensor there would be a whole stack of blue hot pixels..
    all in all the frames are much crisper and punchier (yep that's not a word)

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