A long exposure image from the beach at Queensferry, Western Port Bay.

July 24, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, erosion, images, landscape, long exposure, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Queensferry, Sea wall, seascape, tree, westernport bay, winter | 4 Comments
Following are a series of long exposure images from the front and back beaches of Flinders on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

Pictured above – Flinders. 137 seconds f/13 ISO100.

Pictured above – Flinders back beach. 102 seconds f/20 ISO100.

Pictured above – Flinders beach. 141 seconds f/13 ISO100.

Pictured above – A Break from Fishing. Cormorants resting after diving for fish at Flinders back beach. 61 seconds f/11 iso100.

Pictued above – Flinders back beach. 56 seconds f/13 ISO100.


July 13, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, camera, excursion, filters, flinders, fog, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, sunset, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, flinders, fog, images, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, sunset | 1 Comment
A couple of images from a cool winter’s walk through Sherbrooke forest, Victoria, Australia.


July 6, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, bush, bush walking, excursion, images, monochrome, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, Dandenong Ranges, fern, forest, images, new life, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, sherbrooke forest | Leave a comment
Following are some images from my recent long exposure Facebook group excursion to Rye back beach. It was a great turn out considering a pre-dawn meetup in the middle of winter isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. 🙂



Following are a couple of images from under the London Bridge rock formation, Portsea, using my phone camera. My mate steadys himself ready to take some shots of the turbulent sea.


June 19, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, landscape, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Portsea, rocks, rockscape, Rye beach, seascape, winter | Leave a comment

A boat ramp at Coronet Bay creates leading lines to the setting sun.
June 18, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, camera, excursion, filters, flinders, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mangroves, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, storm, sunset, travel, Westernport Bay | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Coronet Bay, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, westernport bay | Leave a comment
A wild and stormy morning at Pulpit Rock, Cape Schanck.

June 15, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, clouds, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Cape Schanck, fog, images, landscape, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pulpit rock, rocks, rockscape, seascape, winter | Leave a comment
This is a commemorative post marking the drowning of my Canon 60D at Portsea beach last month. An outgoing wave pulled the sand out from under one of the legs of my tripod causing the whole rig to topple into the surf. The poor 60D was only 12 months old and was a replacement for my 40D which drowned in similar circumstances in early 2012. The event also marks the death of my Sigma 10-20mm, a true workhorse who managed to survive the first drowning in 2012.


June 1, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, camera, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Portsea, rocks, rockscape, seascape | 7 Comments
A dawn long exposure image from the Mornington Peninsula’s rugged ocean coastline.

May 26, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, storm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Cape Schanck, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, sunrise | Leave a comment
A long exposure image from Sorrento back beach, Victoria, Australia. The last rays of the day create a warm glow on the back of the Sphinx rock formation.

May 26, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, sunset, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, landscape, long exposure, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Sorrento, sunset | 1 Comment
A couple of long exposure images from the surf beach at Kilcunda.


May 20, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, camera, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, Kilcunda, landscape, long exposure, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape | Leave a comment
A couple of images from a dawn shoot at Pulpit Rock, Cape Schanck. Yes, I know, it’s not like me to be up before the birds. I don’t know what got into me. The images were taken during a welcome break between showers.


May 12, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Cape Schanck, images, landscape, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pulpit rock, rocks, rockscape, seascape | Leave a comment
Images from a pre-dawn trip to Seaford pier with friends from the ND400 Long Exposure group on Facebook. We arrived in the pitch black of early morning, ….a VERY unusual time for me, ….and waited for the sun to rise.

As the sun slowly rose behind us pastel colours appeared in the sky.

A long exposure image from under Seaford pier.

The morning was finished nicely with a civilized hot breakfast at the pier cafe. 🙂
May 12, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, Port Phillip Bay, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, night photography, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, Port Phillip Bay, Seaford, seascape | 1 Comment

This collection of images were captured during a couple of night time excursions by members of my ND400 Long Exposure group on Facebook. The patterns are created by igniting steel wool packed inside a metal kitchen whisk and then swinging the whisk in various ways to create the desired effects.
I recommend that if your interested in giving this a try you should wear protective clothing to prevent igniting your hair or clothes. Also stay away from areas of dry grass or bushes. A beach is a good place for trying this kind of photography. Have fun!!







February 17, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, beach, excursion, images, long exposure, low light, motion blur, night photography, photo website, photographer, photography | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, burning, fire, images, long exposure, mornington peninsula, motion blur, night photography, photographer, photography, pictures, steel wool | 1 Comment
A sunset image taken at Dog Rocks, Batesford, Victoria, Australia. It was the 21st December 2012 which was supposedly meant to be our “last day on Earth”. Thankfully it was all hot air as expected. 😉

January 27, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, bush, camera, excursion, images, landscape, landscape photos, low light, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sunset, travel, tree | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, Batesford, Dog Rocks, images, landscape, Melbourne, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rockscape, Victoria | Leave a comment
A long exposure image taken at Mentone beach just after sunset.

January 21, 2013 | Categories: Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, Port Phillip Bay, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, sunset, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, Mentone, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, night photography, ocean, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Port Phillip Bay, seascape, summer, sunset | 4 Comments
The beautiful Koonya beach at Blairgowrie. A favorite spot of mine to sit and watch nature at it’s best.

January 16, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Blairgowrie, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Blairgowrie, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape | Leave a comment


December 3, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, excursion, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, seascape, Tenby Point, westernport bay | 1 Comment
An image from Sorrento back beach, near the Sphinx rock formation.

November 27, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Sorrento | 1 Comment
A long exposure image at high tide from the picturesque shores of Tenby Point on Western Port Bay, Australia.

November 21, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, excursion, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel, Westernport Bay | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, seascape, westernport bay | 1 Comment
I went to shoot the Olinda Falls today but the light turned out to be a bit too patchy and harsh. The dappled light streaming down through the tree-top canopy did however provide the right conditions to make a feature of the ferns.



November 19, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, bush, bush walking, excursion, filters, green, images, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, bush, Dandenong Ranges, ferns, forest, green, images, Olinda, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures | 2 Comments
A marker on the outermost edge of the rock shelf at Ricketts Point beach in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.

November 18, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, Port Phillip Bay, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, long exposure, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Port Phillip Bay, Ricketts Point, rocks, rockscape, seascape | Leave a comment
November is a great time of year on the Mornington Peninsula back beaches. The warming water signals an explosion of bright green seaweed on the rocky plateaus all along the coast.




November 12, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, green, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, Sorrento, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, buy, images, landscape, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Sorrento | 1 Comment
Following are a couple of shots of the beautiful rock pools available to explore at Sorrento back beach during low tide. In these images I’ve used an ND400 filter to smooth the background waves and a polarizing filter to remove the sky’s reflection from the surface of the pools.


November 8, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, Sorrento, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, circular polarizer, cpl, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, polarizing filter, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Sorrento | 3 Comments
Firstly just a quick note to let you know that I’ve updated the blog to give it a whole new look and most importantly it will now allow me to display larger images on the page. Screen sizes and resolutions have changed dramatically since I first started the blog several years ago. I’m sure you’ll agree that larger images is a step in the right direction.
The following images are from a morning trip down to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.


Now for some fun shots. The two images below were taken by my friend Stephen. He managed to catch a couple of golden moments in time where the waves got the better of me.


November 4, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, Sorrento, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, buy, for sale, landscape, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, posters, seascape, Sorrento | 3 Comments

Sunset at Corinella. Taken near the French island ferry docking point.
October 30, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, excursion, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, skyscape, sunset, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, buy, Corinella, for sale, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, seascape, sunset, westernport bay | 3 Comments
It was a fine day with fluffy white clouds scooting along on the breeze. It didn’t take long for me to convince myself to go down along the coast and play with some dark ND filters.
Below – The old jetty remnants at Cat Bay, Phillip Island.

Below – The old jetty remants at Cat Bay, Phillip Island.

Below – Summerlands beach, Phillip Island. I was lucky to catch this one with no footprints near it since this is a popular stretch of beach for the locals to wander on.

Below – Red Rocks beach, Ventnor, Phillip Island.

Below – Red Rocks beach, Ventnor, Phillip Island.

Below – Red Rocks beach, Ventnor, Phillip Island.

Below – Some old jetty remnants at Grantville beach, shot at dusk on the way home.

October 23, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, camera, clouds, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, Phillip Island, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, grantville, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, Phillip Island, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Summerlands, Ventnor, westernport bay | Leave a comment
We had arrived just in time. The high tide was starting to recede giving us easy access to the beach yet there was still enough water covering the base of the jetty posts.
If you arrive at this destination at the wrong time you’ll find sticks in mud.
Below – Two images of the Tenby Point jetty remnants.


Pictured below – On the way back to the car park the water had receded enough to reveal the tangled root system on this Tenby Point icon.


October 8, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, excursion, filters, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mangroves, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel, Westernport Bay | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, mangrove, mangroves, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Tenby Point, tree, westernport bay | 4 Comments
A few images of the rock formations at the Number Sixteen beach at Rye.
Pictured below – The Dragon’s Head rock, initially named by a local with a fertile imagination.

Below – The Pod, ….well I had to call it something since all of the good names like Dragon’s Head had already been snapped up.

Below – Water flows off the rocky plateaus returning to the ocean.
Click to enlarge.

Below – A couple of images of my friend lining up his gear for the money shots.


October 7, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, camera, excursion, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, rock pools, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, images, landscape, long exposure, mini waterfalls, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, Rye beach, seascape | 2 Comments
In mid July I tried something new. I arranged a photography excursion to the Pinnacles at Phillip Island and posted the idea on Facebook as a public event. By August 4th, the day of the excursion, there were 16 people confirmed as going and a few more “maybes”.

I had a realistic expectation that perhaps half of those who had confirmed would actually show up on the day. Imagine my surprise when all who had confirmed actually DID show up at the meeting place.
It was the start of a wonderful excursion with like-minded people, most of whom I had never actually met before and I only knew via Facebook.

We couldn’t have asked for a better day in the middle of a Melbourne winter. Both the weather and tides worked in our favour and all of the participants seemed to come away from the day pleased with the experience.

Following are snapshots of some of the participants enjoying the day at the Pinnacles beach. If you have a Facebook account you can view more images from the event here.







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September 1, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, excursion, landscape, landscape photos, monochrome, ND filters, ND400, Phillip Island, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, Uncategorized | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, excursion, images, landscape, long exposure, monochrome, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, Phillip Island, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Pinnacles, seascape, winter | Leave a comment
Images from an abandoned house taken during an excursion to the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia.

The image above is available to purchase as a print here.



November 4, 2009 | Categories: abandoned, Australia, Australian, black and white, bush, bush walking, excursion, images, landscape, monochrome, mountains, photographer, photography, photos, prints | Tags: abandoned house, art, Australia, Australian, black and white, building, bush walking, Dandenong Ranges, dilapidated, haunted, hills, images, monochrome, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, run down | Leave a comment