Wave action at Narooma in New South Wales, Australia.
Another image from a recent trip to the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. The clouds came in quickly covering the sun, but not before putting on quite a performance with the light!
Merewether Beach at Dusk / Newcastle NSW Australia
On coming storm approaching Dromana pier. If you like this, you’ll love my Australian Beaches Calendar!! You can get this shot and 11 other beautiful beach shots for just $30 :) /
“the little boat just has to sit and wait on the shore while all the other ships are out playing in the storm” Firth of Lorne. Scotland.
/ Humming the song through a feather in the mists of time. Mountains belonging to the sea. This could be a concept to consider once I get up there panting and wheezing white in the single malt air. Near, down from here is a fiord and a whaling station, blood on the sea. A slip way and a chimney that flourished because of Lord Soap Man and no one seems ready to demolish. Mountains above the sea, each reflected and sinking into deep sleep. The whiskey beach is shell skeleton white and the waves are the colour of that old car on the beach. A tennis court is green on the hillside with a mountain hare trapped inside decalcomanie fencing. A small island of rocket letters and natural asbestos. Black Cock on little bonsai mountain leks attracting females; for the life of me I cannot think why they would be temptation impressed. Stag antler rutting and digging the mud, hanging like suicide from a bullish roaring rough chestnut neck. Mist and mellow nonsense red with fly agaric poison and other wonderful words that sting to the lips and deaden in the mouth. Mountains expecting the sea. Scooping out blue and grey multiple, whales and Ariel, perspectives. Down to fields and trees of gold. Giving what they have in storms, to get it taken away anyway. A beach is a retired mountain wheezy whispering softly of its youth. Breeching and scrimshaw carving into doubt and spindrift on waves of heather and bells. The higher I go when whether weather depressions set in, the wetter I get. Now is that not something? Go higher to feel lower. My feet are wet in my old boots but I could care less. I’m still looking for old ghosts now on the knife edge and precipice. Go higher and bag all the top Monroes you can. Do not come down. Pewter lake mirrors below and steaming mist rising from the streaming morning. A hags glen of peat that becomes difficult and then impossible causing a turn around of the subtle senses much like some fated women. Saying one thing to the world, or at least this small part of it, and meaning another. The three fated crone, woman, and virgin. Becoming which witch, you know not what? Fated three. Graceless but graceful to my eyes. I would like to go/give up but I cannot. If I remember all this with clarity then I can draw when I am rested. In black pen so make no mistake, I will make no mistakes. The Ptarmigan are churring and winging low in fearful flight. You can hear the wind through eagle pinion. A strange hind, not native, barks at me in disgust. Whatever am I to do with you? she says, you come to these mountain islands and get as far away from the sea, upwards as you can. As if that made sense. I thought getting high meant some other things from the past. The Seal Silkie rises out to sea and you see me at least and at last. The last of the Summerisle insects call from out the heather and the butterfly dies above allowing its powdered coloured power to settle gracefully upon your stretched out mind. Eerie eyrie’s sit on clefts covered in painted white marks that advertise death before winter. A fire in the delicate distance disturbs the cause, because it is not alone and that is really how this works. The act of climbing a mountain is changed succinctly and dramatically by the act of observing the climb and making route root choices. She left me and I left you and they are now all come together on this rather crowded emotional peak on a lie detector line. What shall we do if not hum the ending song said Sandy in my ears.
on my way home i stopped under the bridge to escape the rain and caught the tail end of the storm as it headed out to sea. Sundale Bridge over looking Southport Broadwater View more of my storm images / / Storms
Had to run for cover after this, I could hear the rain coming and far from shelter. I like the texture to the cloud on this. Looking towards Bayview Harbour, Runaway Bay View more of my storm images / / Storms
A collection of lightning stirkes
Here on RB there are stunning coastal images with perfect long exposures and processing,,, well,, this isn’t really one of them but what it is, is my first ever long exposure. This morning my friend and I decided to shoot a sunrise on the Western Port Bay (Balnarring) so I packed my case & tripod and off we went at 5am. As soon as we got there, my cheap tripod broke in half so there goes my long exposures! But I ended up getting creative with positions..hmmmm.. Then, we waited.. and waited.. and no Sunrise! Just lots and lots of gray clouds and drizzle :o( But that aside I still tried to make the best of it and got this image with a 30second (200 ISO) exposure so please be kind! I promise I’ll do better next time…. After I invest in a good tripod!
A storm brewing off the coast of Munmorah State Recreaction Area / New South Wales, Australia
The sky had changed colour to a greenish tinge as these wall of clouds rolled in(most likely hail fell somewhere) looking across the Nerang River towards Cheveron Island 20/11/08 View more of my storm images / / Storms
There was more activity out to sea but I wanted to add an element to the shot so I faced up the beach towards Narrowneck/Main Beach to try and include some of the Hi-Rises, Gold Coast. 20/11/08 View more of my storm images / / Storms
The picture is of a small island called Fungus Rock. It lies just off the coast near Dwejra on the western side of the island of Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago. A rare plant grows there, prized for its medicinal qualities – so much so that the Knights of St. John forbade anyone to collect it on penalty of death and mounted a guard to keep trespassers away. Probably for this reason the Maltese call this rock “The General’s Rock”. The title means northwest in Maltese and that’s where this November storm was coming from, when this picture was taken near sunset. Tourists used to visiting in Summer might be interested in a somewhat different view of the place! Pentax K 10D.
,Eastern point lighthouse during a Nor Easter
A clearing storm, captured from Kalalau Lookout in Kokee State Forest, overlooking the Kaualau Valley on the Napali Coast of Kaui in Hawaii. I was attracted to this scene since the cliffs seem to be floating in midair. All content & images © Stephen Vecchiotti. You may not use any images in any way without written consent from artist. All Rights Reserved.
On the beach, a cold winter day just after sunset. Captured wiht an Olympus E3 camera and a zuiko 9-18mm lens, at Alimos, Attiki Greece.
A wall of foam rushes towards the camera as the waves roll in at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast. Foam and cameras aren’t a good mix due to all the sand and salt content and with a couple of large surges with the waves, I managed to get wet a couple of times. Knee deep in foam at Burleigh 23/05/09
Coast of Lake Kochelsee and (leaving) River Loisach. It was a stormy day, strong wind and many dark clouds, which for a moment suddenly let pass the light of the sun. Just a few seconds). / This place belongs to my neighborhood, I live here. / Bavaria. / Germany. FinePix S6500FD / Tv=1/90, f/8.0, FL=73mm(35), ISO100, As is – No photoshop – Unaltered image In the background: German Mountain Alps
Rough start for Wellington, shot at Point Hallswell Light looking back towards Wellington City. Dawn shoot with Henk Stolk not quite the sunrise that we went to get, the weather was nasty first thing, light breaking towards the south Coast. Shot on a Nikon D700 with 17-35mm Nikkor Lens, ND 8 soft Grad, tripod. Raw files with Active D-Lighting on High.
I really like this image, i’ve put it up to show just how diverse the light is at Kaikoura, This really was that dark and sinister, had to keep wiping the rain off the filter, had my waders on, this wave went straight through my legs before racing back rumbling the pebbles. Great water movement, loads of natural drama and not a hit of photomatrix Shot on a Nikon D700 with 17-35mm Lens, Cokin ND8 soft grad, Raw files with Active D-Lighting on High.
Nikon D200 / 17-55mm Nikkor lens / Polarizer / grad grey / tripod
Shot at Pebbly Beach at Crescent Head in the late afternoon, in Monochrome with a Lee Light Green Polyester Filter. The image was then converted to colour as you now see it by a process I explain here. Featured by the SEA Group November 2009 Best viewed large
This image was shot on a cold, wet, and stormy dawn near winter earlier this year. Soon after the storm ended the shoot. the waves were whipped up something fierce. The sound was incredible. I had the 24-70mm f2.8L (RIP) on the Canon 5D Mark II, and now I yearn for its awesomeness. A man can never have enough lenses. I also had the Hoya MHC ND x400 Filter on the lens. This was meant to be a longer exposure than 33 seconds, but I cut it short due to the wind, and compensated with a curves adjustment. It was shot at 24mm and I’ve cropped the lower part of the image as it was detracting and I wanted to centre the horizon. I kept ISO at 50 for the shot, and stopped down to f13 as well. Shot as a single RAW file in Landscape, and desaturated to 10% before converting to this JPEG version. The location was Dee Why Headland on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Featured by the Tone It Down Group December 2009 / Featured by the 5D Mark II Group December 2009 Best viewed large
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