Light Painting – Apple Harvest

I was setting up to make some apple pies and thought I might grab some Light Painted images of the apples before I peeled and cut them up, they just looked so good. I had not done any Light Painting for awhile and felt like some fun in the studio… P.S. The apple pies were…

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Spring Outings – Princes Pier Sunset

It feels like so long since we did a photography group outing, but Spring means longer days and better weather, so we decided that a lovely warm Spring day may bring us a really nice sunset down at Princes Pier in Melbourne. It turns out not enough cloud and not much colour (there had been…

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Our New Zealand Adventure – Day 3

Day 3 dawned bright and sunny, barely any clouds and we headed out to the Bay of Islands (approx 90min drive). Stopped at Historical Waipu Cove – It was founded in the mid-19th century by Scottish settlers from Nova Scotia, led by the charismatic preacher Norman McLeod. Facing economic hardship in Canada, the group went…

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Summer Outings – Summer Nights, City Lights

The first outing with our Photography group we have been able to attend in 2018, I think there were one or two while we were in Brisbane, and they also now run a few during the week, that we cannot get to, due to work. So on a balmy, but much cooler Saturday night we…

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Summer Outings – Webb Bridge

Weather in Melbourne is a little funny at the best of times before we hit December 1st (Summer), we had something like 10 days over 30 in a row, it hit the first day of Summer and it was cold wet and miserable, we had a 100 year storm that battered every corner of the…

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Summer Outings – Exhibition Buildings

I feel like it’s been forever since we just went out with photography friends and shot, chatted and just hung out. I know it’s really only been a few weeks, but still it’s good to relax and have a few laughs. This is the old Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne, not the new Exhibition Centre…

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Summer Sunsets…

January 1st, 2017, let’s go to the iconic Melbourne Bay Princes Pier and shoot sunset, shall we? Asked a guy in one of our Photography groups…….sure we said. Not much of a sunset, skies turned stormy and it drizzled on and off while we waited for the sky to clear. This is as good as…

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52 Week Challenge – Week 11, Long Exposure

This week’s challenge was long exposures, after some technical difficulties I ended up with this shot

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Spring Outings – Enter The Dragon

Finally managed to locate and visit a unique ‘secret’ location for ND Long exposure the Dragon’s Head

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Creating Long Exposure Photographs with ND Filters

I can honestly say that long exposures of silky waterfalls, with dappled sunlight and mossy rocks, was what inspired the birth of my photographic journey. I thought only the most amazingly talented photographers in the world could do this. This wonderful invention the internet, has been a vast plethora of information and instructions on virtually…

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