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Thursday, 09 September 2010 00:10 |
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Located in the Cantebury Plains, the Rakaia Gorge has been carved by the Rakaia River which origins from the melting ice caps of Mt. Sommers. The Gorge itself comes to a dramatic opening at this point on the Cantebury Plains where one can see the braided rivers that course through its floor and provide a dramatic opening to a picturesque welcome to New Zealand's South Island. |
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Tuesday, 07 September 2010 18:36 |
Located at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, Frankston falls within the Greater Melbourne Area and offers one of the more subdued yet very well developed beaches around Melbourne's coastline. Kananook Creek empties out into Port Phillip Bay as it meets the Tasman Sea under Landmark Bridge pictured here shot in the dying hours of the day as another weather system began to roll in. Generally a residential suburb, Frankston is in the process of reinventing itself as a tourist destination, and for what its worth, offers an excellent weekend getaway for the residents of inner city Melbourne - not too close, yet not too far away. It is seen to be one of the next major commercial hubs around Melbourne. |
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Monday, 06 September 2010 23:09 |
My heart goes out to the people of the South Island of New Zealand, after the devastating earthquake that measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. Thankfully, there was no loss of life. The scene above was one of my last glimpses of New Zealand as I made my way back from the land of the great white cloud just over a year ago (it feels just like the other day); and yes, I will return... |
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Sunday, 05 September 2010 23:23 |
This location probably needs no further introduction from me. Its the Cape Otway Lighthouse in Victoria along Great Ocean Road, and one of my favourite spots to stop for some tea and scones at 3pm just before the weather systems invariably seem to find their way into the cape. |
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 22:41 |
St. Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne is another one of my favourite subjects to shoot. For one thing, its really close to where I live, but for another, its structure has a lot for a photography enthusiast to capture. This is one the more simple shots of the ornate front doors after 6pm when the church closes its main entrance. The ironwork beautifully complements the grain of the wooden doors and set it apart from the very artistic facade of the structure. |
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Friday, 03 September 2010 22:37 |
The Bay of Islands lies further west of Port Campbell and is another area with a concentration of limestone pinnacles jutting out of the water in the ocean just off the mainland. This stretch of sandy beach is one of the few places where you can get close to these limestone stacks without getting your feet wet. |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 23:57 |
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Cities are nice to live in, but there is something charming about leaving it all behind to visit a smaller town close by. Melbourne is blessed with Geelong. Perth in Western Australia is blessed with among the prettiest of them all - Fremantle.
Known among the locals affectionately as "Freo", and named after the English naval officer Captain Charles Fremantle who first pronounced the possession of WA, it is a port city located 19 kilometres southwest of Perth at the mouth of the Swan River on Australia's western coast, and the first settlement of the Swan River colonists in 1828. Fremantle has an important place in sporting events, having hosted the Americas Cup in 1987, hosts two major football teams and will host the 2011 ISAF sailing world championships. Pictured above is the town hall of this charming little city that formed the first western settlement in WA. |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 22:53 |
Something a little different today... located along Clarendon street in South Melbourne, this door appears to be an entrance to the non-business areas of a popular pub and sports bar. What caught my attention about this door was the weatherbeaten wooden sign above the ornate door that sported an engraving in Chinese characters that were mostly faded away. The cantilever just above the entrance had been adorned with grafitti which is an inherent part of Melbourne. I reckon that this particular location would look very different at night when wet and illuminated by the streetlights, but for today, this will have to do. |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:07 |
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A neutral density filter, some inclement weather, a passing storm and a long exposure are what contributed to the creation of this image. Shot at Frankston beach at 4p.m. in the afternoon, there were waves coming in that every photographer dreams of. I took three shots of this particular vantage point - each one more dramatic than the next. I settled for this one (though the other two were pretty good in their own right.
This was my first visit to Frankston. I had heard about the appeal of this beach in the past but had never made it down there to check it out until last week, on the last day of my mini-break from work. There is a lot more worth photographing there - however, with the weather getting worse by the minute and increasing sand and sea-spray being blown at my lens, I had to call a hastry retreat and plan for another shoot another day... |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 12:29 |
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I have a couple of these pier shots, and they are all a little different. This is one that I took last week that really appeals to me. Taken off the edge of Frankston beach on a day when the weather turned seriously inclement at about 4pm, this pier (in what appears to be in some degree of disrepair). Frankston is different from St. Kilda or South Melbourne in the sense that it is closer to the mouth of the bay, rather than at its centre. The result is that you get a lot of turbulence in the waters even when its quite calm at South Melbourne.
This shot would have been impossible without the use of a netural density filter that gave me an additional 6 stops worth of exposure time to play with. The hardest thing about this shot was keeping the lens free from any spray off the water. It was a lot trickier than it looks. |
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