Posts Tagged ‘bare island’

September 21st, 2009 Photo Blog 006 – La Perouse photowalk

La Perouse is quickly becoming one of my favourite local places to shoot.  A couple of weekends ago Sonia and I headed off on a walk from Yarra Bay, along Frenchmans Bay and onto La Perouse and Bare Island. It took about 1 1/2 hours at a leisurely pace and we got some nice images along the way. Here is a small selection of my shots as we followed the route south.

Yarra Bay – with Bare Island off in the distance

A natural looking breakwater at Yarra Bay

Some mossy rocks between the two beaches

La Perouse Tower

Bare Island

On the rocks below Bare Island

Facing south under the bridge

Capturing the last of the red glow of sunset

It makes a change for me to post some landscapes that were taken in the daytime, I always seem to find myself taking long exposures at night but I really should get out more in the daylight hours as I had a really nice time on this photowalk.

In case you are reading this and would like to follow the walk yourself, please see this google map for the location:

Click here (until I find out how to stop wordpress stripping out the google maps embedding code)

We travelled by public transport mainly because we are currently car-less but it is actually quite convenient for begining the walk in one place and ending it in another. The 309 bus (which goes from Circular Quay) will drop you at the bottom of Military Road, just a short walk from the northern tip of Yarra Bay beach. Then once you have completed the walk south to La Perouse you can catch the 394 back to Maroubra Junction from which you can  head off anywhere you like.

Thanks for visiting and see you next time

July 9th, 2009 La Perouse – Bare Island sunset

Here is a panorama stitched from 4 shots of the view back towards Sydney airport from the bridge in La Perouse that takes you to Bare Island.

The sunset itself was a disappointment with such thick clouds obscuring it for the most part. This was the last shot(s) before I packed up, almost an afterthought as I walked back across the bridge after some unsuccessful sunset shots from the rocks down below.

I’m not really convinced that this is a great photo, one time I will look at it and think so, but then half an hour later I’ll completely change my mind. It’s lacking in some foreground interest and parts of the sky are a bit blown out… I’m just not sure… In hindsight I would have preferred to get the camera low down on the rocks to get more of them in the frame, so maybe next time.

This is definitely a good location for a sunset seascape when the weather conditions would be ideal as it affords some nice opportunities to shoot some slow moving water over the rocks whilst getting the setting sun in your image, so I hope to do better next time.

Steve