Monthly Archives: October 2011

Fire in the West

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After discussing some seascape locations with Jamie Paterson I decided to drop down to the coast near Henderson as there were some nice clouds forming. The tide was high so there was no easy spots to drop down to the waters edge but It did make for a nice hike down and back the coast line as the sun set to the west.

I lucked out and the sun put on a show just before signing off and I caught this one after climbing down to the waters edge and balancing on a small rock ledge. I really should have taken a behind the scenes shot to scare the wife 🙂

Fire in the West - Cottesloe Beach

Ocean Waterfall

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Over the past two weeks I took some time off work to look after my wife and son, I had hoped that photo trips would be aplenty and I could get a lot of landscapes (or seascapes!) uploaded for you to view. However this was not the case, instead I have spent the past week or so gardening, concreting, fencing and ponding(?). All to a good result of course, I’m pretty proud of the progress we’ve made around the house.

Anyway, I did manage to drag us all up to Burns Beach on Friday to checkout the location for photography and was pleased to find it had lots of sites to see and places to go. The sunset we had was not great, but I made do with what was on offer as its not a place that is easy to get to from my home (Unlike Point Peron).

This shot I struggled with, the sunset overpowers the scene but I don’t feel it is nice enough to make the focal point (What do you think?). I did however love the infinity pool kind of effect the pools in the rock made with the ocean and focused on that.

So here is my shot from Burns Beach, Western Australia:

Ocean Waterfall - Burns Beach

Sailors Delight

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The photo that almost got away; I left home to collect Simone with no doubt in my mind that it was not going to be a good sunset evenin, I racked my brain for ideas to take a easterly facing sunset photo as there were dramatic storm clouds forming on the eastern hills outside Perth.

However, by the time I had picked Simone up clouds had moved in from the north and it was off to Cottesloe we went. After a brief stop in at the main beach we moved up to the same spot as last week, the clouds were turning pink/purple and I ran down to the beach… only to find the rocks I was shooting from last time were completely gone. Replaced by a young couple romancing in the sand which I just about ran over 🙂

A quick sprint along the beach, passing joggers and dog walkers. Much surprised to see me running flat out down the beach lugging a big tripod with a camera mounted on it. I stopped at some more rocks in the water, turned around to setup to find three other photogs already there and shooting. Must be a good spot! While they were all up on some rocks in safety, I did my usual thing; Took off my shoes, rolled up my jeans and got wet.

Here is the result:

Cottesloe Beach