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Busselton Jetty Colours

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Merry Christmas and happy new year! Its been a busy month or so, but finally the stars aligned and I have something to share again.

We took a trip down to Busselton for Australia Day and to escape the heat of Perth for a few days. We spent the day relaxing at another fine OBF event at their lovely homestead.

Photos from the seaOnce again, I am reminded that getting a good shot is all about persistence and a fair bit of luck. We had dinner down at the Busselton beach, with storm clouds quickly passing over us and blotting out the setting sun. I resigned to leaving the camera alone and playing in the ocean with Archer, however the clouds passed and the golden sun lit up the jetty and highlights in the clouds.

I setup the tripod and waded out into the water to get this one.

Busselton Jetty Colours Long Exposure
– 25s f/10 ISO100

Cottesloe Beach Storm

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Took the family up to Cottesloe Beach on our Sunday-Night Photo shoot again, the sky was dark and lighting was flashing away on the horizon. I, was excited 🙂

After dropping the family off on one of the grassed area I trekked down the beach towards the groin. I’d seen some photos that looked down over the huts across to the Tea House and I felt that view would work well with the sky conditions. After finding there was no _proper_ way to get up to the lookup, I found a *cough* open path up the incline and located a nice viewpoint.

This is a panorama of the view I had, its stitched together from 16 shots from a 50mm prime lens (I do love to experiment!)

Cottesloe Beach Storm Panorama
– 1/30s f/10 ISO200

Beach Lines

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We were on our way back from an afternoon photo shoot in Mandurah, testing out some more daytime long exposures when this scene caught my eye for some reason or another.

I handed Archer over and ran towards the water, found a flat bit of sand and snapped this. At first I was not going to post it up here, I liked what I’d captured but it felt too simplistic for me.

However, upon seeing a photo being sold this week for a sweet $4.3M (Link) I figured I’d better cash in and post it up. Ill start bidding at $100K, any takers?

Mandurah Beach Lines - Long Exposure
– 4s f/10 ISO100

Cottesloe Beach

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Another week, another photo shoot! Thanks to no daylight savings sunset is happening around 6:45pm at this time of year so I was able to have plenty of light to play around with after collecting my wife from work. We headed straight up the coast to Cottesloe Beach for our near-regular Sunday evening photgraphy outing.

I’ve been having fun experimenting with day-time long exposures thanks to the Hoya filter I picked up. This photograph was taken around 6:30pm while there was still quite a bit of light around, the sky was overcast with some nice clouds heading east so we had this nice contrast as the late day sunlight made the beach and Tea House glow as the sun set behind us.

So here is my cliche shot of Cottesloe Beach done _just_ slightly different from the norm.

Cottesloe Beach Long Exposure
– 10s f/10 ISO200

Henderson Cliffs

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Took another run at finding a ‘good’ location at the cliffs, hiked north this time along the coast trying to find a spot to drop down to the water. By the time the sun was setting I had not found such a place, so I framed this one and dropped on my new Hoya ND Filter
to see what would happen.

I think it turned out alright, how about you?

Henderson Cliffs
– 20s f/9 ISO200

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

Snow on the Water

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Over the weekend I took the family for a drive down to Mandurah to scope out a few beach locations which looked to have some interesting subject matter.

The sky was really overcast and raining in patches, so we rugged up Archer and heading down. We arrived to gale force winds howling along the beach throwing up sand everywhere, Archer and Simone kept to the car from then on while I checked out the hopefuls.

Only one location worked out, and I plan to go back for more as I think this spot could yield many good images in the right conditions. It does however require de-shoe-ing, getting wet and lifting the camera out of the way when the big waves hit! (Yes they are big waves you can see towards the top of the image).

For your viewing pleasure (?) :

Point Peron

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Since its the location of the moment (and oh so conveniently located). Jamie Paterson and I dropped down to Point Peron for another sunset shoot.

It turned out that the cloud cover cut out nearly all the light and we were walking back in darkness at 6:30. However we did get a nice show of colour just before the sun went down so it wasn’t too bad in the end.

Quickly processed one after I got back and here is the result.

Point Peron

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Quick update as hopefully this weekend photo outings havn’t finished!

We did an afternoon hike(Baby Backpack works great!)  around the bushland so I could see if any of the old buildings were worth a shoot. Which without some inspiration I couldn’t see a photo in any of them, but its only 15mins from home so there is always another day!

There were more photographer at the point than tourists for once, we stopped to chat to a few just in-case they had some good spots I hadn’t found yet. One did point out a nice viewpoint which in the right conditions should be fruitful!

Anyway, on the the post for today.