Australia
The second leg of our road trip began in Melbourne, where we enjoyed a couple of comfortable nights’ sleep in a proper bed and eating out in restaurants, and carried on to Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road. I only got my camera out of its bag once in Melbourne, to make a photo [...]
Our first sunrise of the trip at Batemans Bay. I know it’s a little late to be “blogging” about my December road trip, I can’t seem to get the hang of travel blogging and always end up making my posts retrospective rather than while I’m on the go. At least I get to edit [...]
Just a quick one today to share some photo’s I took at Cathedral Rocks near Kiama on the South Coast this morning at sunrise. As always I enjoyed the morning photographing with my partner Sonia – see her blog post here to take a look at her photos and read a little more story about [...]
I took a short drive down to Bald Hill on the NSW South Coast after work this week with the intention of scouting the location for some night time time-lapse video and ended up coming home with a pretty decent shot that stands on it’s own merits. The sky was clear when I arrived but [...]
I’ve been fascinated with the universe and the night sky for a number of years but I suppose only passively, until a couple of months ago when I watched a number of documentaries back to back that really ignited that fascination, converting it into a what might be described as an obsession! So I started [...]
{EAV_BLOG_VER:110a47331c4f2206} Just a quick post today to show you some shots from the Vivid festival, Sydney 2011. For two weeks of the year Sydney is lit up like a christmas tree and the pinnacle is the laser light show on the Opera House.
Sonia and I just got back from watching the sun coming up at Wollongong and I was that inspired by the awesomeness of the sky we found there that I downloaded my shots straight away and prepared them for the blog! There are a couple of lighthouses down there so to give some variety to [...]
Hey everyone, just a short post today to show you a video I compiled from a bunch of short clips I made over the last few weeks whilst out shooting various sunrises and sunsets. I made these clips just kinda on the side, with the photos being my main focus on my recent outings but [...]
Sonia and I have been making a special effort to get into the habit of getting up early for at least one dawn photo shoot per week for the past few weeks. Spending quite a lot of time using Flickr and seeing what other photographers in Sydney are doing had left me yearning to be [...]
The next stop on our Western Australia adventure was The Pinnacles Desert. These wonders of nature have been gradually emerging from the land over centuries as the winds blow the sand away from around them grain by grain. The nearby visitor center tells us that scientists are not quite sure how exactly these calcite formations [...]
Next stop on our trip was Shark Bay, home to the famous village of Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia is often one of the first places people think of when pondering Western Australia. For over 50 years dolphins have been visiting its shores, getting up close and personal with the local people. The history of this [...]
Things have been a little quiet on this blog for a few weeks but for a very good reason! Sonia and I have been working hard on getting our new web site off the ground – Oz Travel Gallery. The web site features galleries of our best photographs from our travels around Australia and New [...]
The next 4 days of our trip were spent in absolute relaxdom (did I just invent a word?). Coral Bay was a couple of hours drive from Exmouth and was probably my favourite stop on the whole trip. We parked up in the camp site and didn’t drive a single km for 3 days. Everything [...]
After around 9 hours of driving we arrived at Exmouth on the North West Cape. The journey was mostly uneventful after we actually hit sealed road… Our good old sat nav took us through a “short cut” out of Tom Price which comprised of around 50kms of dusty and bumpy dirt tracks, but we were [...]
So! Off we set for Karijini National Park, fully stocked up on food and drinks, a little weary from a long couple of days driving but raring to go. We arrived at the park around 10.30am and as we got out of the van to pay our visitors fee we noticed just how alone we [...]
It turned out that our Tom Tom disagreed with Google Maps over which way we should go, which was a little worrying but we stuck with it as we were still generally pointing “up”. A few hours of driving and we were well off google’s idea of our course, but Tom Tom took us through [...]
Welcome the first blog post of my Western Australia road trip series! Sonia and I have spent the past few weeks traveling around WA and in lieu of being able to get online whilst on the road to chronicle our trip along the way, I will be doing so now and over the coming days. [...]
Driving around Sydney this weekend around the golden hour Sonia and I stopped off at Cremorne Point to get some shots of the city skyline from across the river. Here is a couple of similar shots in terms of subject and composition, the only real difference being the 45 minutes (ok so an hour sounded [...]
Hello Internet! I recently spent a couple of days at the Hunter Valley, New South Wales’ famous wine region. It’s a short and scenic 2-3 hour drive north of Sydney and is well worth a visit whether you like your wines or not. Here is a small selection of photo’s I made over my visit. [...]
Heres a new set of images that I took from Cremorne Point, just a 10 minute ferry ride across the river from Circular Quay. The weather had been tempremental all day but the rain held off for long enough periods to let me get some nice shots of the brooding clouds over the city skyline. [...]
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 [...]
Here is a panorama I put together whilst holidaying in the Whitsunday Islands last December (08). Many of the shots I took that day did not turn out as well as I would have hoped but somehow the colours really came through and with this panorama and created a good representation of what I saw [...]