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
An night time image from semi rural Devon Meadows. The foreground is lit by the long exposure picking up light from a neighbour’s house. Stars are apparent in the night sky.
March 11, 2013 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, bush, camera, clouds, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, night photography, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, Sigma 10-20mm, travel, tree | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, Devon Meadows, images, long exposure, night photography, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures | Leave a 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 couple of long exposure images from the groyne on the beach at Mentone near the pub.
November 21, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, Port Phillip Bay, prints, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, groyne, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, Mentone, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Port Phillip Bay, seascape | 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
Jetty remnants at The Dell at Clifton Springs in Victoria, Australia.
November 7, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, 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, Clifton Springs, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, seascape, The Dell | 1 Comment
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
The groynes at Balnarring Beach serve to reduce erosion at the water’s edge. Most of the groynes are simply a line of posts connected together by planks creating a straight sea wall.
I was struggling to find something interesting on the beach then stumbled across this baby zig-zagging out into the bay.
Below – The usual straight groyne.
Below – The making of Zig Zag.
October 11, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, filters, images, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel, Westernport Bay | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, Balnarring, beach, black and white, erosion, groyne, images, long exposure, mist, monochrome, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, seascape, tidal, 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 couple of images taken as the sun disappears below the horizon at Tooradin foreshore, Western Port Bay.
Pictured below – At high tide a mangrove sits semi submerged in the foreground as day gives way to night.
Below – A view from the Tooradin jetty looking back upstream towards town.
August 16, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, low light, mangroves, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, prints, river, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel, Westernport Bay | Tags: Australia, Australian, beach, glow, images, jetty, mangroves, photos, pictures, pier, sunset, Tooradin, Western Port Bay | Leave a comment
Exploring Cape Liptrap turned out to be one of the most physically punishing excursions of recent times. The excitement of climbing up and down steep coastlines and rock hopping around the breaking surf tends to distract one from the punishment that the old leg muscles are receiving.
As I write this blog post, three whole days have passed since the excursion and my legs are still a bit wonky. 🙂
Pictured below – A long exposure black and white image of Cape Liptrap Lighthouse.
On the day we visited the cape, mother nature provided us with a sky full of interesting fast moving cloud, great for long exposure work.
If you’d like to see an alternative colour version you can see one here.
Pictured below – Cape Liptrap lighthouse captured with a 10-20mm wide angle lens. When I was processing the image I initially corrected the wide angle image distortion but then the image seemed to lose something so i decided to leave the distortion in.
Pictured below – A long exposure image of surf crashing onto rocks along a section of the Cape Liptrap coastline.
Pictured below – A view from along the west coast of Cape Liptrap.
And now for some snapshots –
John sitting on the cliff contemplating his next shot.
Me sitting on the cliff overlooking the pointy end of Cape Liptrap.
CSI officer John investigating the mortal remains of unspecified creature.
Me struggling up the steep banks of the coastline at Cape Liptrap.
July 4, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, Cape Liptrap, excursion, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, winter | 2 Comments
A few images from the beautiful Lake King at Metung in Victoria.
The silence of the motionless lake waters only occasionally broken by the sound of a cormorant diving for fish.
Serenity at it’s best. I’m coming back here again!
June 23, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, images, landscape, landscape photos, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, travel, tree | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, black and white, cormorant, images, lake, Lake King, landscape, Metung, monochrome, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, serenity, silence, winter | 1 Comment
When visiting Mystery Bay in New South Wales I found this wonderful cove full of dark rocks. The cove is open to the ocean and is constantly hammered by incoming waves.
A long exposure here creates a nice contrast of textures between the rough jagged rocks and the softness of the mist created by the motion of the waves.
June 20, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, filters, fog, HDR, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, cove, HDR, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, motion blur, Mystery Bay, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, winter | 2 Comments
The beach at west Cape Conran offers an almost alien landscape populated with a huge array of highly eroded rocks. The jetty and boat ramp look out of place in this environment and so they tend to become the feature subjects of photographers who visit the site.
If you cant visit this site at sunset I’d recommend visiting during a day of high surf activity. The large waves crashing into these rocks create a really impressive scene.
I’m definitely going to revisit this location when I get the chance. There’s a lot to explore here.
June 17, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, HDR, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, sunset, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, Cape Conran, coast, images, jetty, landscape, long exposure, Marlo, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, pier, rocks, rockscape, seascape, sunset, winter | Leave a comment
A series of images from Marlo in Victoria where the mighty Snowy River meets Bass Strait.
The softening of the ocean waves in the background is achieved by the use of heavy ND filtering.
June 14, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, river, sea, seascape, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, images, landscape, long exposure, Marlo, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, river, seascape, Snowy River, winter | Leave a comment
I was fortunate to stay in the town of Narooma in New South Wales for a couple of days on a recent trip up the coast.
Narooma is home to some interesting natural rock formations along the ocean beach. When combined with some great surf the photo opportunities are plentiful.
And finally, a man made rockscape in Narooma, the Wagonga Inlet.
June 13, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, HDR, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, HDR, images, landscape, long exposure, mist, motion blur, Narooma, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, sea, seascape, Wagonga Inlet, waves, winter | Leave a comment
Following are a couple of long exposure images from Mossy Point near Broulee in New South Wales.
The images were taken in bright daylight using heavy ND filtering to slow the camera’s shutter speed.
June 7, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, filters, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, rock pools, sea, seascape, storm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, Broulee, landscape, long exposure, mist, monochrome, Mossy Point, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, New South Wales, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, winter | Leave a comment
A few images from Walkerville South beach at low tide.
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June 3, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, filters, HDR, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, black and white, HDR, landscape, long exposure, mist, monochrome, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, Walkerville, winter | 1 Comment
The splendid view from Bushrangers Bay looking west just a few minutes before a drenching downpour.
Cape Schanck’s Pulpit Rock is on the horizon near the center of the image.
Click on the image to enlarge.
May 29, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, flinders, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sigma 10-20mm, storm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Bushrangers Bay, flinders, landscape, long exposure, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape | 1 Comment
