Sydney Again and Pizza Night

Went down to the Pizza night Mark from the True North so kindly held . Was good to put some faces to names from the Blog community and have a few drinks have to say they did a great job on the pizzas as well went back for seconds  . Thanks to Mark and Christian for organizing the night .

Christian and Mark also made an announcement that they would be organizing a photo tutorial day over at Rottnest Island on the true North ship , if any one else is intrested you can find the details here http://truenorthmark.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/announcement/#comments on Marks blog

Found some time to go through some more RAW files today , found this 9 image stitch taken recently of Sydney . This shot was taken the evening before the big dust storm hit Sydney .

 

Cape Le Grande National Park

Hi all ,

Sorry been a bit quite for the last few weeks have been flat out at work , have barley had any time to surf the net let alone get any new shots .

Hopefully by the end of this month things at work should turn to a bit more normal hours , and be able to get some more trips in . Have recently bough a few extra camping things for when i go away taking photos and should make life a bit more comfortable while Im away .

Did have some free time today before work to go through some more images this was an 8 image stitch of one of the Bays at Cape Le Grande National Park just outside Epserance .

The Beach’s here are meant to be have the whitest sand and bluest water of any beach , from my experience of beach this would have to be true .

 

Sydney Harbor

Was sorting out my external hard drives yesterday and cleaning up some of my old images , found this other edit I did of one of my Sydney Harbor shots I took last year  .

Kinda liked the dark look to the image so finished of editing it . Was about an 8 image stitch taken on the old 400D .

Geraldton Light House

Had some free time this afternoon and went through some more of my raw files in anticipation for the website launch . Found a this quick shot of the Geraldton Light house I took recently this year . Like the boldness of the colors against the blue sky so though would upload it .

Matilda Bay Boat House

Went down to the Matilda Bay Boat House the other day to have a play around with my my ten stop Singh ray filter and polarizer havent used it that much and want to get some practice with it  . Was a nice evening and got some great light .

Played around with the filter for a bit while it was still fairly light and got some pretty cool results with it . Was getting over 2 min exposures during the day with it , could have got even longer ones if I turned down the iso and increased the appuature . The only problem I found is that been such a big filter that would get vignetting even at around 24mm focal length . Did take some practice judging the exposure time to get correct expsosure but came away with a few shots . This was one of the shots I took I think it was around a 90 second exposure , did get a little bit of blown high lights but was hard to avoid with no grad filter on .

Other news I have been busy working on my website getting it all ready for launch  , Lot of work getting all the data into a website but can see the light at the end of the tunnel .

Have also been editing a lot of photos from recent trips lately so there will be a lot of new unseen images for the launch .

Back From Sydney

Well just got back from Sydney early this morning , had a pretty engoyable time there and the weather was a lot nicer then Perth most the time it even reached 30 degress on day . I also found out that Tamarama bay is a lot further away from Coogee then I though after walking after sunset it with all my camera gear lol . I did finally make it to Coogee but and got a much need drink and feed .

I was all so over there durring the big dust storm , woke up early to the sound of sirens going and looked out the window of my appartment and the whole sky was bright orange . though there must have been a big fire close by at first , also nice to see the people getting use out all them face mask they would have bough for the swine flu that morning

This is one shot I took while I was over there really like the angle on this composition , would like to shot this one again under better light . This was a six image shot taken shortly after the lights turned on .

Stirling Ranges

Sorry been a bit quite on the blog post for a few weeks .

Havent been out photographing much the last few weeks as been too busy plus the weather here in Perth hasnt been great , but did find some time to go through some old images from the South West this afternoon . Found this 12 image stitch of the Stirling Ranges taken early this year . Hoping to head back down that way soon as really enjoyed photographing this location .

St Kilda Pier

Went to go out for a shoot this morning but this rain wont just stop lol .

Woke up had a look out side and didn’t look to bad outside so got dress packed up my gear and head out to check a local spot off my list . While driving I though we could be in for a nice sunrise and there was still lots of gaps in the clouds and not to much heavy clouds . got to my location and started setting up took a couple of test shots while waiting for sunrise and then the next thing you know the sky is gone completely dark grey its starts raining came out of nowhere and wasn’t going to let up . So packed up and head home with no shots this  is morning . Hoepfully will get a break in the weather soon .

Finished off editing a couple of shoots from Melbourne this morning though .

Went down to the old Pier in St Kilda was hoping for a colorfull sunset that eveing but got a grey cold windy one instead lol .

Did two versions of this image a color shot and a hi key black and white .  Cant really decide which I prefer .

Thistle Cove Esperance

Got back late last night from a night shift and though would go through some old RAW images . found this two image stitch of Thistle Cove I think lol , in the Cape La Grand National Park in Western Australia .

Melbourne

Just got back from Melbourne this week , went there for a short trip to visit some friends , some shopping , watch the egales play and the food . I also toke my camera along as well as was hoping to get some photography in while the wife was shopping . Unfortunately the weather and light was wasn’t great while we were over there but still went out most mornings and afternoons to see what I could get . Didn’t come away with many photos so the photography part was a bit of a let down however the food we had while we over there made up for it . I think while we were over there we ate out every night and most breakfast the food and customer service was great over there compared to Perth .

We even went to one of Geroge Calombaris (Judge from Master Chef Australia ) restaurants the Hellenic Republic http://www.hellenicrepublic.com.au/ for breakfast and would have to say it would have been one of the best breakfasts I had had in a long time .

Also went to a couple of restaurants in China town for dinner a few times one of them was the Longgrain Restaurant http://www.longrain.com/melb_INTRO.htm which is a modern Thia restaurant . The food there was amazing with lots of fresh herbs and spices used , the cocktails were also great .

One one of the days I took the tram down to St Kilda to try and get some shots of the old St Kilda Peir at sunset , there was a lot of grey over cast clouds hanging around that day and the weather was bloody freezing with wind . But I rugged up and though I would stick it out till for the sunset hoping there might be a break in the clouds to get some color in the sky unfortunately it just went from light to grey to dark , disappointed I started  head back into St Kilda to get something to eat and choose the elbowroom http://www.elbowroomstkilda.com/ must say the service there was exceptional ordered there house special of beef fajitas and would defiantly be eating there again next time I’m over there .  Perth restaurants could really learn a lot from Melbourne the food and service was just blew Perth standards away . Now will just have to work off all that food now I’m back in WA , hopefully heading down to Pemberton shortly so will defiantly work the food off will all the hiking down there .

The top image I took is of the Melbourne skyline just before sunrise on the first day I was there . Probably the best light I had all trip and it didn’t rain that day either . Was an 8 image stitch taken from near the Crown Casino .

I also noticed at night time they have these huge gas flames that come out along the river bank of Melbourne was amazed at they really did these fireball shows every night on the hour as must be a huge waste of gas . As we were staying right next to the Crown Casino decide to go down and get a few shots of these monstor fireballs going off . The below image was a 8 image stitch again taken around 10 pm .