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 »
The beautiful Koonya beach at Blairgowrie. A favorite spot of mine to sit and watch nature at it’s best.
The image is available as a print at my Redbubble and Zazzle websites.
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 »
An image from Sorrento back beach, near the Sphinx rock formation.
Available as a print at Zazzle or Redbubble.
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 »
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 Pretty from Perfection Photography. 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 »
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 – Zig Zag.
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 »
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 | Leave A Comment »
Some afternoon long exposure images from Sorrento back beach on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia. The foreground rocks are submerged at high tide and are gradually revealed as the tide goes out. A long exposure time is used to smooth out the ocean waves into a mist.
Prints of these images are available at my Zazzle and Redbubble websites.
September 22, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, camera, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, prints, rock pools, sea, seascape, Sorrento | 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 | Leave A Comment »
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 »
The photography community seems to be polarized over the use of phone cameras and associated filter programs such as Instagram.
I must admit to being slow to travel down the “phone and filter” path and have only recently decided to give it a go to see what all the noise is about.
Since giving it a trial run I must admit that the use of Instagram and other similar programs has reintroduced a fresh and fun aspect to my photography.
Pictured below – Rye Pier.
I find it refreshingly simple to just pull out my phone, click, process and even publish the image so quickly.
I also enjoy being forced to rethink my compositions into a square format after being conditioned by years of using a 3×2 SLR format.
Pictured below – A foggy morning at Tooradin foreshore.
Admittedly I’ve had to resist the urge to “pixel peep” at the noise and visual anomalies created by some of the clunky filters.
This will never replace my SLR photography but I reckon it will complement it nicely. Phone photography has definitely introduced a fresh fun aspect to my photo life.
Pictured below – Mt Martha beach.
July 13, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, camera, compact camera, filters, images, jetty, landscape, landscape photos, mornington peninsula, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, pier, Port Phillip Bay, sea, seascape, sunset, Westernport Bay | Tags: photos for sale, winter, sunset, rockscape, mornington peninsula, Rye beach, ocean, beach, rocks, ocean beach, photography, pier, Tooradin, Australian, Australia, photographer, landscape, westernport bay, pictures, jetty, fun, art, images, Mt Martha, Mount Martha, Instagram, phone camera | Leave A Comment »
On the way back home from a recent excursion to Cape Liptrap we stopped off at the mouth of the Powlett River.
I had just enough time to catch this image before the rain started to pour down hard.
Storm at Powlett River
July 9, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, filters, images, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, river, rock pools, sea, seascape | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, beach, Gippsland, images, Kilcunda, landscape, long exposure, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, Powlett River, river, seascape | 2 Comments »
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 »
Following are a couple of images from Dalmeny beach in New South Wales.
The first image below was captured from the clifftop at Duesbury Headland, Dalmeny.
Below, a long exposure image taken amongst the rocks and surf at Dalmeny beach.
If you’re in the area around brekky time there’s a cafe on Dalmeny Drive called Anton’s just down the road at Kianga. I highly recommend their excellently presented eggs and bacon.
Have a look at this beauty below. Gorgeous isn’t it!
June 21, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, filters, HDR, 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 | Tags: Anton's, art, Australia, Australian, beach, Dalmeny, Duesbury Headland, images, Kianga, long exposure, mist, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, ocean, ocean beach, photographer, photography, photos for sale, pictures, rocks, rockscape, seascape, winter | Leave A 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.
High quality prints of this image are available at Redbubble and Zazzle.
High quality prints of this image are available at Redbubble and Zazzle.
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.
Cape Conran Jetty
Cape Conran Jetty
Mists of Cape Conran
Foam – Cape Conran
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.
A high resolution print of this image is available for purchase at my Redbubble site.
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 »
A long exposure image of the surf pounding away at Pulpit Rock, Cape Schanck, Mornington Peninsula.
This place is always a wonderful reminder to me of the power of the ocean. Visiting the rock shelves here is truly exhilarating.
Pulpit Rock, Cape Schanck.
The image is available to buy as a print at my Zazzle or Redbubble websites.
May 28, 2012 | Categories: art, Australia, Australian, beach, flinders, landscape, landscape photos, long exposure, low light, mist, mornington peninsula, motion blur, ND filters, ND400, photo website, photographer, photography, pictures, rock pools, sea, Sigma 10-20mm, travel | Tags: art, Australia, Australian, Bass Strait, beach, 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 »
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