Electric

Electric

Taken at Churchill National Park in Lysterfield, Victoria.

I wanted to try something a bit more ‘out there’ with this shot, I wasn’t content with an ordinary sunset shot, as attractive as it was. Let me know what you think of it, because I’m not quite sure what to think! I like it but I’m not sure if its just ‘too much’.

Shot with a Nikon D200, 28-70mm lens at 48mm, F/16, 100 ISO, polarizer. 9 shot HDR, tone mapped twice, once for the foreground and once for the sky. Merged/mapped in Photomatix and assembled in Photoshop.

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The story:

Lawrence Norton and I decided to go and explore some fire access trails at Churchill NP which is only about 5 mins from my house. During the nightmare bushfire season this year not even this little park was safe. So with his trusty old FJ40 Landcruiser we managed to get to the top of the hill beneath these massive electrical towers, where we caught an awesome sunset.

Because the fires had only just been extinguished in that area barely a few days earlier, police and the CFA were still on the lookout for suspicious behavior, and a police helicopter spotted us and was circling above us at one stage looking at what we were doing. The chopper eventually flew away but then about half an hour later we realised exactly why it was so curious as to what we were up to; a fire had broken out in the valley barely 200 meters from where we were shooting. Fire trucks were driving right past us and by that stage it was getting dark so they didn’t spot us. It was an interesting evening!

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