Well another year and another spectacular Vivid festival has come and gone in Sydney. Unfortunately the nights I’d picked to go in were extremely wet, too wet for taking serious pics. Luckily on Monday 9 June, the last night, the weather cleared so a friend and I went down to Blues Point about 10:00 pm. Didn’t get […]
It looked promising for a great view of today’s partial solar eclipse from Sydney’s North Head but unfortunately the clouds moved in just after the moon started passing in front of the sun at 4:14 pm. I used my Nikon D800E with 70-200 mm f/2.8 with 1.7 Teleconverter and a couple of Cokin neutral density filters. This is […]
A recent trip to Singapore gave me the opportunity to explore some black and white shooting in the evenings with my newly repaired Leica M9 using a 50mm Summilux and 90mm Elmarit. The following shots were taken in the areas around Chinatown, Boat Quay, Little India, Arab Street and Marina Bay. All pics have been post processed using […]
Once again Sydney didn’t let us down with another spectacular fireworks display to welcome in the New Year. I hope you enjoy… …and all done for another year. Hello 2014
Day 5, 23 August 2013 and I awoke to an overcast morning in Mildura so slept in and didn’t rush out to try and get any sunrise shots. Before heading off to Wentworth and onto Broken Hill I dropped in at the main wharf on the Murray River at Mildura. Onwards to Wentworth and decided […]
After packing up the new Toyota Prado and leaving Sydney at 1:30 am on Sat 17 Aug with a stack of camera gear and only a rough idea of where I was going (apart from visiting my son, James, and his girlfriend in Torquay) I finally arrived home at 8:30 pm on Sun 25 Aug. […]
Vivid Sydney has once again delivered a visual feast in 2013. The Opera House is absolutely spectacular this year and for everyone who didn’t get a chance to see it in person I’ve shared the highlights in this post. Taken with a Nikon D800E and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G lens set to manual focus on a […]
How fortunate I am to live in Sydney. Apart from the rest of this great city the Sydney Harbour Bridge by itself provides countless photographic opportunities. There are so many perspectives and I will keep adding them to this post so I can share them with you. I find it ideal for black and white […]
Sydney awoke on Tuesday 28 May 2013 to a heavy fog shrouding most of the city with ferry and air traffic severely impacted, that of course meant the roads were more busy than usual. Luckily I live close to work at North Sydney was able to use back streets and get to the office a […]
I’ve never had much success photographing fireworks but then again I’d never really paid much attention to doing it properly and just used the automatic camera functions in the past. All I ever managed to end up with was a lot of useless pictures that I ended up deleting. Now, when you live in a […]