Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia
Featured Work
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A Glimpse of Sun by Tim Beasley
40d, 18-55, ND 1.2, tripod and remote release. / Taken at a creek in Lawson near Fairy and St. Michael’s falls, Blue Mountains.
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Grand Canyon, Blackheath by David Mapletoft
The Grand Canyon is located in the Blue Mountains National Park, NSW Australia.
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Crying in the Mist by Kellea Croft
I stubbled upon a group of 6 black yellow tailed cockies in Leura, NSW, Australia. It is a cloudy covering on the mountains and I was heading to the lookout for cloudy valley shots. It was exhilerating standing in the recently burnt underbrush with the magnificant creatures flying all around crying out to each other. My heart is still racing…
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Sylvia Falls by Tim Souter
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. / If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. – Bruce Lee Model: Canon EOS 50D / Lens: Canon IS 18-200mm / ISO: 100 / Aperture: F5.0 / Shutter Speed: 1/4th sec / WB: Auto / Focus Type: AF / Focal Length: 20mm / Style: Waterfall/Slow Shutter / Image: Jpg converted from RAW.
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First Light at Echo Point by Tatiana R
Tuesday 14th of April 09 / Echo Point, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW Canon 5D / Canon EF 85 mm F/1.8 USM lens / ISO: 50 / Speed: 1/20 sec / Aperture: f/22 / FL: 85mm / WB: Auto / Focus: Manual / Image: Raw / Filter: Hoya CP filter and Lee ND Grad 0.6
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A new dawn by JennyMac
Mount Solitary in a sea of mist. Taken from Narrowneck Katoomba NSW.
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Didgeridoo on Easter Sunday by DianneLac
Boomblar was entertaining tourists on Easter Sunday at Echo Point, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, N.S.W. A different experience to other Easter Sunday mornings…... Camera Canon PowerShot SX10 IS, F/L 45.53, exp 1/320
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Lawson Creek, New South Wales by Andy Newman
Mushrooms in Lawson Creek, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Looking upstream toward Federal Falls. / / / “Lawson Creek, New South Wales” was featured in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales group, June 2009.
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Sylvia Falls In Mist by Peter Hill
Canon EOS 5D Mark II, tripod-mounted, remote shutter release / Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L Zoom Lens with Canon UV Haze Filter and Hoya HMC ND x400 Filter (aka The Black Glass) / ISO: 50 / Aperture: 7.1 / Focal length: 24mm / Speed: 180 seconds / WB: Auto / Focus: Manual / Image: single RAW file, converted in Canon’s Digital Photo Professional, linear contrast applied / Location: Sylvia Falls, Valley of the Waters Creek, Blue Mountains National Park, 5 April 2009 Taken at the exact same spot, and on the same shoot, as the longer timelapse Sylvia Splendour
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Jamison Valley Panorama. by Andrew Bosman
The full 180 degree view of the magnificent Jamison Valley from King’s Tableland in the east to Narrow Neck Plateau in the west and south to the Wild Dog Ranges. VIEW LARGE FOR MAXIMUM OPTICAL PLEASURE!
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Brittania Falls - Blue Mountains NP, NSW by Malcolm Katon
Another of the wonderful waterfalls in the beautiful Blue Mountains of NSW
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Three Sisters and a Cockatoo by David Iori
David Iori’s Website Email Me / . / © Copyright 2008 David Iori Photography, All Rights Reserved / . / The Three Sisters Echo Point Katoomba The Legend / _The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, ‘Meehni’, ‘Wimlah’ and Gunnedoo’ lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry. The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle. As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come._
Recent Work
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Three Stone Falls by Tatiana R
Another shot from Valley of the Waters, Blue Mountains, NSW, taken in one of our few April 2009 trips. Don’t think that this particular spot has a name, just a creek and three mighty stones formed a little waterfall where the water cuts through rough bushland. Please view large! Canon 5D / Canon EF 24-105 IS Lens / Apperture: F 11 / Speed: 120 seconds / FL: 24 / Hoya NDX400 filter
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Fern & Flow by Peter Hill
Valley of the Waters Creek, Blue Mountains National Park. Leech City. / Canon 5D Mark II. This shot was taken in May 2009. Tomorrow Tatiana and I are planning on returning to our favourite place in the BM, only this time with the intent of making it all the way down to Vera Falls. To do this and make it back up to Conservation Hut before dark we will need to resist shooting the many waterfalls along the way. I uploaded this shot to show something which perplexes me. I recently found a blog which, apparently, is written by an insider at Canon US. To say it represents a marketing dream for Nikon would be an understatement, because it goes on and on about all the faulty Canon EOS DSLRs of late. One of the targets is the 9-point AF system for the Canon 5D Mark II. The gist of the criticism is that the “f-—-—g w-——-ers” at HQ in Japan compromised on the AF to get the HD video in, and that the 5D Mark II deserved much better, something like the Nikon D3’s 45 point AF system, ie something a little 21st Century, not 20th. Comments on that blog include complaints about all these “soft focus” results people are getting because of the 9 point system, and a conspiracy theory about dpr removing a discussion thread on the issue. I am perplexed because I do not understand what the problem is. I have experienced the D3’s AF system and, yes, it’s amazing. It’s like a freakin’ disco happening in the viewfinder, a fire engine frenzy – red spots going off everywhere. I was raised on a 1 point manual focusing system, where you turned the lens until the horizontal line in the circle merged with the object being focused, so having a 9 point AF system is something of a simple luxury. I think some have confused the limits of a 9 point system with inability to achieve focus. I do not believe for a second you cannot achieve pin sharp images using the Canon 5D Mark II. In today’s DSLR world, where EVERY new model is expected to have at least 10 breakthrough technological “improvements”, we associate automation with better functionality, and expect it to do the job for us. However many focusing spots you cram into a frame, they all become superfluous anytime you stick a manual focus lens onto the body. Lo and behold, a lot of the best [and expensive] lenses available are manual focus lenses. When I use such a lens I will often turn off the AF assist simply because I want to do the focusing on a particular object in frame. Relying on sophisticated AF systems means trusting the algorithms being used. We can, if we choose, trust our eyes. Focus is also a function of aperture, and I believe the lower you stop down the less reliance should be placed on achieving maximum red dottage in the viewfinder. I positively cringed when a photographer [not on RB] informed me she will wait until she gets as many of those red dots firing off as possible before hitting the shutter release and will wave the lens around until she gets “enough”. That is an example of becoming a prisoner of technology, rather than a user of a tool. So, is this image in focus? It was shot without the AF on. Featured by the 5D Mark II Group November 2009 / Featured by the Dimensions Group November 2009
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Empress Falls by Tatiana R
Empress Falls, Blue Mountains, NSW. I have been looking fro a particular photo in my archived folders and can’t find it. But keep finding some of other previously neglected photos. Sorry.
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Mystic age by JeffStockton
In a very small area of the very large Blue Mountains of N.S.W. Australia. Whenever I visit this particular place everything seems to stop & one can get lost in a world far from what they are thinking. The POOL OF SALOAM in Leura is a world all of its own & is a Treasure to the mountains area it lies in & surrounds itself with. A virtual Rainforest that has much to offer to trekkers,photographers & people who visit this truelly beautifull spot. This / shoot was testing as the light was playing with the Mist that hung around till after lunchtime & the presence of dark areas made it hard to get correct / exposures without whiteouts in prime areas of the frame. CANON 400D / filter attached
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Looking in by JeffStockton
Part of the area at the POOL OF SALOAM in the / Blue Mountains of N.S.W. Australia. Not far from the village of Leura. CANON 400D / W.B.- sunny
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Wentworth Falls by Trevor Tanner
Named after one of the trio of white explorers to first cross the Blue Mountains from the coast to the inland (the indigenous people had been wandering back and forth for millennia). / This is the waterfall from which my hometown takes its name. / / This is number two in an edition of fifty and is marked accordingly. / A Certificate of Limited Edition can be mailed or emailed to the purchaser upon request, entirely free of charge,
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Sunset over Hampton by Colin12
Sunset over Hampton, / in the blue mountains NSW Australia
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miners hut B&W by Colin12
miners hut on Airly turret. / Blue mountains NSW Australia
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Grose Valley panorama by Michael Matthews
This is a view of the Grose Valley that I had never seen before because I had done this walk many times but never gone off on the detour that was signposted with a “No through track” sign. It is close to Evan’s Lookout just off the Grand Canyon walk in the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia. This is a 4 photo stitch job … more like 3 & a half. / I have a lot to learn about stitching but I thought it came out ok. This is the Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains National Park in Australia.
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Capertee Valley by Deborah McGrath
Panorama of the Capertee Valley and Pantoneys Crown. The Capertee Valley is the second largest Canyon in the world. This image was taken from Pearsons Lookout off the Castlereagh HIghway at Capertee, NSW, Australia in the Blue Mountains. Compiled of seven images taken with my Sony DSLR and 18-70mm sony lens at f13, 1/160 second. Photomerged and edited in Photoshop elements 7. The image has been adjusted in curves and slightly saturated. Image taken on 16 November at 7.20am.
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Night sky over the JAMISON by JeffStockton
The Jamison valley in the Blue Mountains of N.S.W. Australia is one of many valleys that are accessible to sightseers & trekkers wanting to explore this gifted area of Australia. I arrived here / late afternoon to try to catch some startrails with my film camera & shot this with the digital prior to film. CANON 400D
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Vera Falls by Peter Hill
This is probably the only photograph you’ll see of Vera Falls on RB taken by me. At least, for a while. Without the distraction of many falls above it on the track down from Conservation Hut, it’s a 90 minute trek down down down, then longer up up up. Our first time there, we hadn’t figured on the lack of rainforest canopy, so by the time we got there, around 9am, the sunlight was halfway across the falls, presenting a huge challenge. The 30 degree heat didn’t help either, especially on the way back! This was the only presentable image from the shoot, but my legs are so stuffed I had to at least upload the one. This was shot from the cave to the side, in shade. Vera Falls was worth visiting, but it distinctly looks very much like a miniature Wentworth Falls, even down to the swimming hole. But it was a good workout for the new lens, which, I have to say, is one of the best I have used since testing the new EF 200mm f2.8L. It was a challenge to get the light right for this shot, so it was filter city on the end of the lens, but boy, amazingly crisp. Canon EOS 5D Mark II / Carl Zeiss Distagon T 21mm f2.8 Lens with Singh-Ray Vari ND Filter and Lee 0.9 Hard Grad and 0.9 Soft Grad ND Filters / ISO: 50 / Aperture: f9 / Speed: 60 seconds / Focus: Manual / Image: Single RAW file, straight from camera, no processing. / Location: Vera Falls, Valley of the Waters Creek, Blue Mountains National Park Best viewed large
About This Group
This group is for all artists and mediums (photographs/journals/t-shirts/writings etc) all about the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
We want to showcase to the world the unique Blue Mountains area and its importance here in Australia. The Blue Mountains is a world heritage listed area and therefore unique in the world.
There is no limit to the number of photos you can have in the group but they MUST only relate to the Blue Mountains (this includes flora, fauna, buildings, landscapes etc) and they MUST INCLUDE A DESCRIPTION WITH AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE DESCRIBING HOW THEY RELATE TO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. If they do not, they will be rejected. A LIMIT OF 2 UPLOADS PER DAY applies to ensure eveyone’s art has a chance to be seen. Should you do more than this we will keep the first two and reject the rest. You can then upload these the following day.
Journal entries must relate to the Blue Mountains or they will be rejected.
PLEASE TAKE TIME TO READ THE GROUP RULES BEFORE POSTING AN IMAGE.
Thanks for joining and we look forward to seeing some wonderful artwork and photography of the Blue Mountains.
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact either Gayle or Ben via BubbleMail.
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