Spot Color in a Grayscale Image

Here’s a relatively straightforward portrait of a young lad in Laos. He was a lovely kid with a very pleasant disposition. I very much enjoyed the interaction that the minute or so of photography time provided. And, of course, the photograph has allowed me to preserve the memory of that interaction for years to come.
After [...]

Bleached Rocks_Whisky Bay_Wilsons Promontory National Park

Wilsons Promontory National Park covers the southern most part of the Australian mainland. Located in southeast Victoria the park offers a range of short and overnight walks allowing the visitor to explore magical beaches, enchanting forests and wonderful mountain top views. A stay of between 3 days and several weeks will allow the visitor to [...]

Blackened Trees and Snow_Lake Mountain

This image was made at Lake Mountain in the Yarra Ranges. Situated around 90km from Melbourne, Victoria’s capital city, the Mountain offers 37km of cross-country skiing through the surrounding Yarra Ranges National Park.
Suffering significant damage as a consequence of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires the relatively deep blanket of snow provided a graphic contrast against [...]

Fallen Tree_Yarra Ranges

Here’s the first of a series of images I’ll post over the next few days from a day exploring and photographing between Healesville and Warburton, including the fire ravaged town of Marysville. My friends Ashley and Edna accompanied me on the adventure.
The day’s beginning was unremarkable: grey overcast skies and relatively flat light. While not [...]

Serenity_Hopetoun Falls_Great Otway National Park

Here’s an image featuring Hopetoun Falls in the Great Otway National Park in Victoria, Australia. A very slow 4-second Shutter Speed was employed to provide an ethereal quality to the moving water. I had to stop the lens’s aperture right down to f22 to achieve the desired Shutter Speed.
Interestingly the vibrant greens and blues of [...]

Pic of the Week_Aerial View_Cape Otway Lighthouse

The Cape Otway Lighthouse is an icon along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Nestled high on a cliff overlooking Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean it’s the oldest surviving lighthouse on mainland Australia and has operated continuously since 1848.
The image was made from a helicopter during a single pass over the lighthouse. I’m [...]

River Mouth and Sea

 
I made this image from a helicopter while taking a tourist flight along a section of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. It was a beautiful clear morning with very little wind, ideal for aerial photography. The expanded shape of the river’s mouth provided a visually strong shape from my elevated position above the [...]

Angel Statue

 
I’ve always enjoyed looking at beautifully crafted statues, both religious and secular, and have produced a relatively large body of work from my travels, particularly from Buddhist countries.
The angel is an important religious symbol in each of the major western monotheistic religions: Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. I love the luminous quality of the stone and [...]

Pic of the Week_Erskine Falls_Great Otway National Park

 
Here’s the final shot from last weekends Landscape Photography workshop near Lorne along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. It’s my favourite image with the falls as the major focal point of the scene.
I feel the 1/10 second shutter speed has provided the right mix of substance and flow for the falling water. I [...]

Photographing Waterfalls

 
Here’s the second image from last Saturday’s Landscape Photography Workshop I ran near Lorne on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Again I’ve chosen an image featuring Erskine Falls in the Great Otway National Park near the seaside township of Lorne.
The misty effect, often a hallmark of water-based photograph, is dependent on the shutter [...]