Australian seascape and landscape photography

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Glide – the salt spray effect

This sunset image taken at Blairgowrie beach, Australia, turned out to be much softer than I expected but I like the final result. The softness of the image is due to a build up of ocean salt spray on the lens filter.
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Sirens – magic of sea and sunset

A sunset taken at Blairgowrie beach, Australia.
I never get sick of visiting this ocean coastline along the Mornington Peninsula. The rocky landscape remains as a constant, however the continually changing sky and tide never fail to create a new captivating scene.
Generally the best time to visit this area are when the sunset corresponds with a low tide.

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Spellbound – a Blairgowrie sunset

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A sunset at Blairgowrie ocean beach, Australia.
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Serpent’s Haven – a nocturnal river scape

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A nighttime river scape image taken at Port Douglas, Australia, using the Lumix LX3.
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The Last Post – a Sorrento sunset

End of day at Sorrento beach, Australia.

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Neptune’s Playground

A monochrome sunset shot taken at Sorrento ocean beach.

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The Shudder of the Touch.

A glorious sunset taken at Sorrento ocean beach, Australia.

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Afterglow Sorrento

A sunset shot taken at Sorrento ocean beach, Australia.
This is one of my favorite areas to photograph when the tourist season has finished.

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The Australiana Tree, SkyHigh.

The Australiana Tree is at SkyHigh on top of Mt Dandenong in Victoria.
The tree was apparently killed by a lightning strike several years ago then later sculpted by artist Leigh Conkie.

The two close up images of the carved tree were shot at night using the Lumix LX3 hand held at 1/30 and 1/20th of a second both at f2.8, ISO400. The tree was side lit by a large yellow spotlight.

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The Thought of True Angels

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Whisper the Night

The full moon pushes it’s way through clouds tainted by dust and smoke from Victoria’s bush fires.

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West of Mind

A monochrome HDR image taken at Blairgowrie beach, Australia.
The sun struggles through gathering storm clouds.

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January Prime

An afternoon shot, taken at Blairgowrie ocean beach.
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Cerberus Sunset

Sunset at Black Rock beach, Australia.
The Cerberus is the semi submerged rusting hull of a ship pictured just below the setting sun.
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Exploring the Kilcunda trestle rail bridge

Some HDR tonemapped images of the Kilcunda trestle rail bridge, Australia.
There’s a wikipedia page for Kilcunda here.

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Exploring the magical Powlett River

A rewarding excursion to the beautiful mouth of the Powlett River.

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Image above – The Rush of the Powlett.
Just prior to the Powlett’s water reaching the ocean, the shallow flow speeds up, rippling at the surface and dancing over low obstacles.
The dunes in the background and the river bank on the right glow yellow-orange as the sun sinks low on the horizon.
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Image above – Ripples.
Evening at the mouth of the Powlett River.
The foreground rock and background dunes lit by the setting sun.
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Image above – The Magic Hour.
The orange glow from the setting sun catches the tops of the foreground rocks and the distant dunes at the mouth of the Powlett River, Australia.
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Image above – Looking towards the end of the Powlett River as it meets the ocean.

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Image above – Last Rays at the Powlett.
Looking out across the river mouth to the setting sun.
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Image above – Near Journeys End.
The Powlett River nears the end of it’s journey as it winds it’s way through sand dunes towards it’s ultimate destination, the ocean.
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Image above – Powlett Sunset.
The sun sets as the Powlett River winds it’s way through the sand dunes.
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The Archway to Yesterday

The Archway to Yesterday – a seascape shot taken at Blairgowrie ocean beach as the sun drops below the horizon.
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Eclipsed

Eclipsed – a black and white seascape taken as the sun was setting at Rye ocean beach, Australia.
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Soldier of the Coast

A black and white shot of the Aireys Inlet (Australia) lighthouse.

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Koonya Sunset

Sunset at Koonya beach, Blairgowrie, Australia.

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Aqua Dynamics – the beauty of force

This black and white image demonstrates the explosion of forces as a Bass Strait wave strikes bedrock along the Victorian coastline.
I was using a 10-20mm lens here so the saying “objects are closer than they appear” applies here.
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A few minutes later I was hit by this sweet thing pictured below. You’ll need to excuse the motion blur as I panicked and tried to move the camera out of harms way as the wave hit us.
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We, (the camera and I), were both soaked by this Bass Strait “back hander”. At this stage, a couple of days later, both the camera (Canon 40D) and the lens (Sigma 10-20mm) are still working. I must be blessed by the camera gods because this isn’t the first time we’ve had a salt water soaking.


Wishful Thinking

A monochrome sunset photo taken at Rye ocean beach, Australia.

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A Trick of Time

A sunset seascape at Blairgowrie beach, Australia.
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The Reign of the Tranquil – night photography

This shot was taken at one of the many wonderful beaches along the Mornington Peninsula, Australia.
It’s a long exposure taken at night looking out at the ocean.
The long exposure smooths out the motion of the oceans rough surface giving it the appearance of a gentle mist. The rocks sticking out of the mist provide a nice contrast of texture.
The reflection of the rocks in the foreground water provides some additional interest.
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The background light comes from the sun which long ago dropped below the horizon. When looking through the viewfinder this glow isn’t visible to the naked eye but the camera’s long exposure picks it up without much trouble.

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Burst on High

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Light’s long Tightrope

A night on Blairgowrie beach.
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Snapper’s Revenge

A sunset on Sorrento beach.
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Sisters Three

Night time on Blairgowrie beach.
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Time’s Reflection

The silhouette of a rock at Blairgowrie beach partially hides the setting sun.

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Fun in the Dark – (Writing with Light experiment)

This was my first attempt at writing with light on a long exposure using an LED torch/flashlight, directly towards the camera. Of course I accidentally wrote a mirror image of what I actually wanted to write. 🙂
The actual “text writing” time during the exposure would have been about 10-15 seconds, ….out of the total exposure time of 120 seconds.
Notice my ghostly glowing face beneath the middle letter.
shutter – 120 secs
aperture – f8
ISO – 100
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This is my second attempt at writing with light on a long exposure using an LED torch. The actual “text writing” time during the exposure would again have been about 10-15 seconds, out of the total exposure time of 120 seconds.
shutter – 120 secs
aperture – f8
ISO – 100
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Give this technique a go, …you can get some very strange effects happening!   😉