Rock Pools and Sky_Great Ocean Road

Here’s another image from the Great Ocean Road, this time from the beautiful and often wild Johanna Beach. The image was made with a Hasselblad X-PAN II camera, up close, to place extra emphasis on the foreground rock pools.
I’ve included two versions of the image, a pretty accurate rendition of the original color transparency and [...]

Looking Seaward_Port Campbell National Park

The above image was made along the Great Ocean Road in the Port Campbell National Park. The image was made during twilight at the end of a wonderfully long day of travel and photography. I remember the mood being quite eerie as the approaching gloom of the blue, stormy sky began to overcome the last [...]

Pic of the Week_Salt and Sky_South Australia

In the arid north of South Australia I photographed this scene situated on the edge of a huge saltpan. I was attracted to the vivid sky and the textural similarities between the clouds and the salt encrusted ridge in the foreground. A narrow aperture (e.g. f16) produced the large depth of field (DOF) required to [...]

Turmoil_Chewton Lake_Central Victoria

Here’s another image I made last weekend while running a workshop in and around the town of Chewton in Central Victoria. This image is all about the power of water as it cascades over rock and cuts its way through the landscape on its downward journey to the sea.
My starting point Shutter Speed when photographing [...]

Pic of the Week_Bay of Martyrs_Great Ocean Road

The Bay of Martyrs is an interesting and scenic location just outside the town of Peterborough along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. While less grandiose and considerably less visited than the famous Twelve Apostles, the Bay of Martyrs can be a sublime location, given the vagaries of weather and light.
The above image was made under late [...]

Evening Comes_Point Roadknight_Great Ocean Road

This image was made with the wonderful Hasselblad X-PAN II camera. I remember feeling how well suited this location, just outside the Great Ocean Road town of Anglesea, was to the panoramic format.
The image was made just after sunset. I was happy to be able to make use of the warm sunset light, shinning up [...]

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 [...]

Duck at Sunset_Chewton Lake_Central Victoria

 
Here’s the first of a series of images I plan to post over coming days made last weekend during a photography workshop I was running in Central Victoria. The location is Chewton Lake, situated about half way along Golden Point Road and around 2 km out of the small township of Chewton.
The group and I [...]

Pic of the Week_Serpentine Gorge_Central Australia

 
Here’s a favourite image that I made a number of years ago and, except for one exhibition, has remained relatively unseen until this post. I came across it while hunting through images for a recent talk I gave on my life, thus far, in photography.
It’s great to think that the talk, and the work associated [...]

Quiet Amidst the Turmoil_Sri Lanka

 
Situated on a rocky outcrop, just 11km north east of Anuradhapura, Mihintale is of enormous spiritual significance to the Sinhalese as the place where Buddhism originated in Sri Lanka. It is here where, in 247 B.C., King Devanampiya Tissa was converted to Buddhism after an encounter with Mahinda, the son of an Indian King and [...]