Archive for August, 2009
Welcome to my fifth photo blog post! Today I bring you a series of images that I took last night at a place named Mrs Macquarie’s Point in Sydney which offers stunning views across the bay to the city skyline, Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge.
Cinematic view of the Opera House
The two towers of the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Wide angle shot across the bay
Sydney’s CBD behind the Botanic Gardens
A closer look at the city skyline
Zooming in on the Sydney Tower
I adore city skylines, especially by night and this is probably my favourite location to view what Sydney has to offer with great views of three of the cities best known landmarks.
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For more info on this location, head over to the Discover Sydney website here
Welcome to my latest set of images taken at Manly beach and Shelly beach this week.
Manly is one of my favourite Sydney beaches and even though this was only my second visit there I am completely besotted with it. The beach is just beautiful, the sea so perfect – even surfable on a very calm day. I recently learned that this is one of the popular diving and snorkelling sites in the area due to its wonderful (and now protected) marine life.
The idea of this shoot was to catch some dusky shots of the tidal pool that sits half way between Manly beach and Shelly beach, but as things turned out I preferred some of the other shots I took while we were on our way to and from the pool. I’ve included my picks of the days efforts in this article.
Manly Beach, with Shelly Beach in the background
Shelly Beach
The setting sun over Manly, taken from the tidal pool
The tidal pool at sundown
Moments later, another shot of the pool
Manly beach by night
I was a little bit daring and climbed over a safety rail on the path between Shelly beach and Manly to get this last shot. It was a little bit scary being close to the edge so I was thankful it wasn’t very windy. This sky was almost black when I took this shot but a long exposure allowed me to capture the last hints of colour on the horizon. An interesting mix of warm lights in the distance and a greeny light illuminating the rocks from the path behind me made this one a bit of a challenge in post processing but I think I’ve got away with the few lightroom adjustments I chose.
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Here’s a set of images I captured at Coogee Beach last Sunday at around sunset. The beach is East-facing so we don’t get to see the sun disappearing off under the horizon from here but I quite like the warm glow that is created on the horizon nevertheless.
Those of you familiar with Coogee beach will recognise this tidal pool instantly by the distinctive blocks that line its edge. This location must have been photographed a million times but I had to get down there and have a go myself.
I think the pool must have been renovated recently as some of the shots I’ve seen on flickr here show the concrete blocks looking a little more worse for wear than they now appear.
According to a guy I met who was filling up some canisters with sea water as I was taking my snaps a large wave manifests once every 5 minutes or so and for reasons I don’t understand this theory seemed to work. The first image was taken as one of these waves combined with the swell to crash up against the pools edge spectacularly.
The 5 minute wave
A period of calm
The deep blue
Smoothing the beach
Sulpher lights
This final image was taken in near darkness and was only achievable by a 4 minute exposure. There is a street light up the steps to the right which floods the scene with the orangey tinge, I have chosen to embrace it here rather than try to eliminate it.
Each of the above images looks a little different to the last and that is due to a combination of small differences in post processing as well as the dramatic changes in lighting and colours that occurred as the sun moved lower and eventually said goodbye over the horizon behind me.
A lot of the best pictures of all Sydneys eastern beaches are taken at sunrise but I am hoping to show how you can still get an interesting photo at the other end of the day too. Hopefully these photo’s will give you an idea of the kinds of shot that can be achieved at sundown.
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