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Skeleton

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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The Alpine region of Mt Field National Park is a harsh environment of many extremes. Not only is the land baked by the sweltering summer sun, but it is also lashed by vicious blizzards and submerged in deep drifts of snow during winter.

It is therefore natural that some plants do not make it. In the case of trees, they die and their skeleton is left to be bleached by the weather before eventually succumbing to rot and falling to the ground.

Over my Christmas break, I visited the Lake Dobson area of Mt Field with friends, and this was the image that I ended up picking from the set of images taken

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Big Boat Racing

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Dekadence Near the finish

One of the great things about Christmas time in Hobart is when all the ocean racing boats sail in for the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race. It is sad that these days a lot of the faster boats turn around and head back to Sydney within hours to participate in the Sydney-Coffs Harbour Race, which happens early in the new year.

If they don’t head back, then there is usually a good chance they will participate in the King of the Derwent Yacht Race held usually around the 2nd January each year.

This year I had the pleasure of watching the event from the deck of the Cartela, giving me plenty of opportunity to take some photos.

There are a selection of images I have taken of the event. Please click on the image for a larger version.

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Tags: Boats, Christmas, Derwent River, King of the Derwent, Sailing

Evening Ebb

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Going through my photos at Cape Deslacs, I noticed that there was enough imagery available to generate another mini slideshow. Rather that create another animated GIF as seen in my Deluge post, I thought I would attempt to find a way to animate the images using script. The end result is seen above using wordpress plugin.

Cape Deslacs is quickly becoming a new favourite spot for me, with a fantastic rock formation and coastal beach allowing for a lot of experimentation with exposure, composition and natural lighting.

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Tags: Cape Deslacs, Clifton Beach, Sequence, slideshow

Deluge

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

New Years Eve 2009 was spent at a friends place having a BBQ. What was not expected though was a spectacular electrical storm, one of which Hobart has not seen in a number of years. not having my own gear with me, I grabbed one of my friend’s cameras are started snapping away. Sadly I did not get any good images of lightning (though my friend did later). However I did get this fantastic sequence of images showing the heavens opening up over Hobart with a deluge of water.

Heavens open up - Hobart Deluge

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Tags: Hobart, New Years Eve, Sequence, Storm

DeSlacs

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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Cape Deslacs is a favourite spot of a good photo buddy, Alex Wise.I decided to pay the place a visit the other week with the idea of trying to capture motion in the surf with a strong backdrop. Cape Deslacs can be found at the eastern end of Clifton Beach (webcam). Whilst I really like the colours of the surf, sand and sky, the cape itself is lit a bit harshly – I was still a little too early for the true “golden hour“. However I will be heading back again in the near future to redo the photo.

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Tags: Cape Deslacs, Clifton Beach, Long Exposure, Waterscape

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