‘Twelve Apostles’ is available to purchase as a card, laminated print, mounted print, canvas print, and framed print. The Twelve apo…
‘Twelve Apostles’ is available to purchase as a card, laminated print, mounted print, canvas print, and framed print. The Twelve apostles is located along the world-famous Great Ocean Road near Port Campbell in Victoria, Australia. Click here to view Darren Stones’ profile Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance member / (Australian Journalists Association) / Click on each image to enter the purchasing area. Thank you. Card Laminated Print Mounted Print Canvas Print Framed print Click banner below to enter Darren’s web site
‘Great Ocean Road’ is available to purchase as a card, laminated print, poster, mounted print, canvas print, and framed print. Scene…
‘Great Ocean Road’ is available to purchase as a card, laminated print, poster, mounted print, canvas print, and framed print. Scenes from the world-famous Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. Click here to view Darren Stones’ profile Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance member / (Australian Journalists Association) / Click on each image to enter the purchasing area. Thank you. Card Laminated Print Poster Mounted Print Canvas print Framed Print Click banner below to enter Darren’s web site
It’s a pleasure to present a collection of photographs from along the world-famous ‘Great Ocean Road’ in Victoria, Australia. These…
It’s a pleasure to present a collection of photographs from along the world-famous ‘Great Ocean Road’ in Victoria, Australia. These scenes are presented to you for purchase as high-quality gift cards, however they are also available for purchase as laminated prints, posters, mounted prints, canvas prints and framed prints. By clicking on each image, you will be taken to the product option area to consider your choice in readiness for purchasing. Thank you and enjoy browsing and buying. Click here to view Darren Stones’ profile Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance member / (Australian Journalists Association) / Twelve Apostles Great Ocean Road Twelve Apostles Twelve Apostles Gibson’s Beach Gibson’s Beach Gibson’s Beach Gibson’s Beach Gibson’s Beach The Arch London Bridge Loch Ard Gorge Loch Ard Gorge Loch Ard Gorge Loch Ard Gorge Eastern View Beach Split Point Lighthouse Click banner below to enter Darren’s web site
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Sweet, I just made my first sale: Thanks to the person who bought the print – you know who you are! :)
My second sale and not an insignificant one – two large canvas prints: !http://images-3.redbubble.com/img/art/product:canvas-print/siz…
My second sale and not an insignificant one – two large canvas prints: I’m not insignificantly happy about that :)
I’m pleased to announce my 2009 range of Australiana themed calendars are now available to purchase via my online sales agent, RedBubble….
I’m pleased to announce my 2009 range of Australiana themed calendars are now available to purchase via my online sales agent, RedBubble. There’s 12 different calendars in the collection to date which depict various aspects of Australia. You’re most welcome to browse through the collection, and if you’d like to provide feedback, that will be great. Calendars are an ideal gift for giving to family and friends, and yourself. / A snap of the jolly old fellow from last year See below for more product information. Here’s the full list for viewing. Each thumbnail is clickable and it will direct to a full preview of the calendar and unit pricing. / Australia’s Animals / We’re a bit different in Australia / New South Wales / New South Wales – South Coast / Humpback Whales / Great Ocean Road / Australia – The Bush / Aussie blokes and sheilas / Victoria / North-East Victoria / Trees In Australia / Great Alpine Road / Central Tilba
The Port Campbell National Park on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia has features which are visited by people from all over the…
The Port Campbell National Park on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia has features which are visited by people from all over the world. Last week, I had the pleasure to meet and chat with photographers from Pennsylvania, USA and Canada at the world-famous Twelve Apostles. They were amazed at our glorious coastline and were keen to find out some of the hidden gems in this area to photograph. Unfortunately, one of the best places to photograph in this area is temporarily closed. Gibson’s Beach is not accessible to visitors due to the closure of Gibson’s Steps, which lead down to the beach. Large areas of ground at the clifftop are covered in hessian to stop erosion. We may never be able to access this beach again. It was one of the very few locations along this weather-beaten coastline which allowed access to the beach. Fortunately, Loch Ard Gorge is still accessible. The area is extremely fragile, and there’s now talk that the Twelve Apostles Boardwalk may cost visitors a fee to access in the near future. I have a calendar for sale which contains features of this region which may interest you. Enjoy. Cheers, / Darren Stones. Port Campbell National Park, Great Ocean Road, Australia, Calendar / Cover / Back cover
click on feature button to see group — Musings written for the Australian Travel and Photography Group’s LifeStyle’s Best Shot! Challenge / Note: click images to view larger versions — Reflections on my first ‘Photographic’ Road Trip In the pre-cheap airfare days the road trip was the ubiquitous way to travel to visit family and friends for holidays. Remember the days when you would drive for hours and stop at pre-determined servos to relieve the bladder and grab a greasy meat pie? when you’d pop ‘No Doze’ like hard boiled lollies? or make an impromptu stop to see the Dog on the Tuckerbox or the Big Banana? I feel nostalgic for these days and sometimes I feel almost unAustralian when I fly. So, when we received news that because of my husband’s job, we would need to leave our new home, Melbourne, and return to the far-flung, tropical city, Darwin I saw my opportunity. We hadn’t had a holiday for a while, so I planted the seeds about how this was the perfect chance to travel the Great Ocean Road, as we’d always planned, and to do the ‘canon ball’ run through the centre. After my pestering … no, nagging (let’s call a spade, a spade) ... he agreed to clock thousands of kilometres on the Ford Falcon for the trip. We packed our suitcases in preparation for the full spectrum of Australia’s weather: from freezing on the Victorian coast, thanks to the Antarctic winds in December (yes, in summer) through to thongs and shorts once we were passed Adelaide, and the week before Christmas 2008, we set off. Oh, and I had a new digital SLR camera – my first digital SLR – that I wanted to break-in by capturing some of Australia’s greatest landscapes. So, my first practice at taking a landscape picture was in Apollo Bay at dawn on Boxing Day. I warned my husband I’d get up to take the shot and so duly set out, with scarf on, to experiment with my new camera. After an hour or so, and with the beach pedestrian and dog traffic increasing, I went back to bed for a few hours. My beloved was not happy with me when I showed him my results – – because I had gone out, in the dark, in a ‘foreign’ town, on my own! The next dawn expedition was at the Twelve Apostles. I’d tried to get a sunset shot the day before but had been thwarted by clouds on the horizon, so I was determined to go back the next day. This time, my husband roused himself early, on his holiday, to make sure I was accompanied. My tentative steps into the landscape genre produced – . So, we continued driving west, stopping at port towns, trying our hand at carnivals setup to entertain kids (surely they were designed for old kids?), where my husband, after much teasing, eventually played a carnival game and won me a toy. Then we spent new year’s in Adelaide with some of my family and set off north, through the ‘red centre’. One place my beloved was very keen to stop at was Cooper Pedy; to stay in an underground hotel room of course! After an overnight stay, we departed shortly after dawn and I managed to snap, from inside the car – because I was fed up with swatting the kazillion flies that inhabit the outback – one of the signs that are strewn along the Stuart Highway as you approach the town. The sign is to warn wayward tourists who might wonder about wandering among the moonscape i.e. the piles of sand that are a by-product of opal mining – . Then, we arrived at the one place I’ve always dreamed of going – Uluru. You can learn about the geological story as to why Uluru is there, but, to see the flat plain with this rock suddenly jutting out (excusing Kata-Tjuta to the west) is truly astounding. The local Aboriginal people have their creation stories to explain its existence, but while I was gazing on the magnificent red monolith I felt an ancient, spiritual rhythm that perhaps no human story could truly capture to explain the mystery of nature. Meanwhile, as a dutiful hobby photographer, I (and my husband) joined the crowds in the sunset viewing area to watch the changing colours of Uluru. We overheard a tour leader, with dread locks and a clear Australian accent, remark to one of his groupies – Oh, I see you have a Ny-kon. I shrugged and continued to take a shot every thirty seconds on my Nick-on, and captured this – . After stopping in Alice Springs and following the OTL (overland telegraph line) to the Devils Marbles, Tennant Creek and Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge, we arrived in Darwin. I had about 300 images to sort through and my secret plan to have the opportunity to photograph some of Australia’s stunning landscape helped revive our thirst for the road trip. We are busy planning the next trip: hopefully to Broome, through the Kimberley, on our quest to see areas of Australia that few Australians ever get to see with the naked – or rather camera lens – eye. -
I have been meaning to write this journal for a while but have only now had the chance to get it all together John and I, as hosts o…
I have been meaning to write this journal for a while but have only now had the chance to get it all together John and I, as hosts of the Otway National Park / Great Ocean Road Group planed a get together for the 24th of October 2009. The plan was to meet with other members of the group at 3 possible locations. The met ups were planned for 3 times throughout the day. On the day MyKeef (who stay the night at my place), John and I piled our gear into my car and right on 4:00 am we headed off. Being right near the ring road we made good time to Anglesea and arrived just after 5:30 am at the first meet up point. We had a bit of a stretch and look for anyone else, but as we could already see some light in the sky we headed for the nearest beach. We happened to stumble onto the Anglesea River Mouth beach. We quickly set up and started to take pictures in the cold conditions. It is about here that things start going wrong for John, as he goes to take his camera of the tripod to change something he drops it and it hits the leg lock on the way down. When he picks it up his very expensive 72mm circular polariser is smashed. But the good news the lens looks fine and it still take shots. Also I happened to have a 77mm circular polariser and a 72-77mm stepper ring. So john was back in business. After taking quite a few photos of the stunning colour on the horizon we thought we had actually missed the sun coming up. We discussed it and concluded that it had come up out of view and we should head off. So we packed up our gear and just started heading to the car, with one last look over our shoulders and there it was the sun. Quick, grab the cameras, no time for a tripod this will have to be hand held. I squeezed off a few good shots with my Sony 16-80 Carl Ziess. I could hear the other guys doing the same. But I wanted a closer shot so I changed to my Sony 70-400 G lens. This lens weigh in at 1.5 kg and is a f4-5.6 but I knew I could still get some great shots out of it. After this little bit of excitement we headed back to the car and load up. Time to head for the next shot, but first… In preparation for this trip I had added a small video camera into my front bumper, where the right fog light would have been. So now it was time to start the video camera recording. We got 1hr and 30 minutes of video throughout the day, I compressed it down to 10 minutes of high speed driving. Great Ocean Road Drive Next stop was Split Point Lighthouse, this is always a favourite place for photographers and at this time of the morning we had it to ourselves. The sun was just bathing it in an orange glow and it looked fantastic. I dug out my fisheye and shot away (none made it onto RedBubble though). We then proceeded onto the Great Ocean Road sign for some more shots (again none on RedBubble). Standing in the middle of the road taking shots of this sign can be dangerous, but at this time of morning we only had cyclists to contend with (and that can be dangerous when trying to pass a pack of them). From here we headed to Lorne for breakfast and a coffee, we also checked out some of our pictures and agreed we had done well so far. Lorne was also our second meet up point, but we were disappointed that no one showed. From here on we didn’t really have any set plans, other than making Apollo Bay for lunch, so we just headed out along the road. We came across a walk along the old log tram track, but after a short time decided to head down to the beach instead. At the beach we tried for some shots of waves crashing over the rocks, MrKeef and John got some good shots, but it wasn’t until I started to pack up that I realised that I had bumped my camera to manual focus and every shot was just a bit out of focus (bummer). MrKeef and I also tried some Infrared (IR) shots. We quickly learned that his Olympus is much more sensitive to IR than my Sony a350 is. Heading out along the Great Ocean Road again we quickly reached Apollo Bay at about 11:30 am, too early for lunch we headed to the break water for some shots of waves crashing against it. We really didn’t get any good shots, but it wasted some time. After lunch at the Apollo Bay Hotel (a must have lunch place) we head out again aiming for the California Red Wood Forest and Triplet Falls. We entered the main Otway Forest and headed a down Beach Forest Road, this is a dirt/gravel road, most of which we drove at 60km/hr as my mates made the comment earlier in the morning that I drive like a girl. John told me a week later that he was holding on for dear life in the back seat on some of the corners. Not that I was actually driving dangerously, my car is in very good condition and I know how to drive it. So we were well within our limits, it was fun though. John had raved about this Red Wood Forest and how wonderful it was. Both MrKeef and I had never been here, MrKeef was a bit sceptical as he had not even seen any pictures of it on RedBubble. Once we arrived we understood what John was talking about. After about 5 minutes of just standing there taking the place in, we got to work on trying to capture the grandeur of this place into a small picture. I personally think we done a reasonable Job. Triplet Falls was a bit of a letdown, I had been here a couple months before hand, the road was now dry and there were much more people about. There was not as much water in the falls and the sun was too high to get a good shot. It was also where John had his second bit of bad luck for the day. He managed to drop his ND400 filter over the edge of the viewing platform and down a steep incline. I offered to go get it, but we both agreed that since we could not see it there was no hope. We walked around to the top of the falls and this actually offered a better photo opportunity, but the path was to narrow and with too many people about to set up tripods, so it was hand held work here. We moved on to the old log train and the steam boiler, we tried to get some shots here and managed a few RedBubble quality shots. From here we headed to the 12 Apostles (not that there are 12 anymore), the sun was low in the sky and this was going to be a hit or miss. We set up shooting west and took some shots. On reviewing the shots I notice some strange effect in the sky, looking up it was then that I notice the strange higher level cloud formation. Cool something to place the shot. MrKeef and John headed for the east side and I took some shots with the 70-400. After I was done I packed up all my equipment, John’s and MrKeef’s and feeling like a pack horse headed off to find them. We headed to Port Campbell, then inland to the Princess Highway and on home, arriving back at 9:30pm. We averaging about 10l/100km and over 600km in the day, I personally took over 530 pictures. I think all up it was a very successful day, maybe a little expensive for John whose camera needed to go in for a check up and fine tuning. But we had great fun chatting and shooting pictures together and will head out again with MrKeef in the new year (John is still laid up with his bad foot). The End
Australian Scenics calendar / A …
Australian Scenics calendar / A selection of Australian landscape and travel images by Cheryl Ridge. featuring: / Apostles sunrise – Great Ocean Road Victoria / On a country drive – Victoria / Nicholson – Gippsland Victoria / Binalong Bay – Tasmania / Bogong – Victorian High Country / Wallaces Hut – Victorian High Country / Stockyard Plain – South Australia / Abandoned House – Wimmera Victoria / Field of Gold – western Victoria / Kissed by sunlight – Mungo Lunette NSW / Kulcurna – Murray River NSW / Flinders Ranges – South Australia These calendars are A3 size, printed on quality satin art paper, wire bound and have a hanger.
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