Point Lonsdale lighthouse on a Summer morning just as the sun’s ray’s peaked over the horizon.
The Split Point Lighthouse, Airey’s Inlet, Victoria – detail.
This is another case of right place right time. I normally check the tides to see where they will be at sunrise and sunset, but as my fiance and I were staying near Geelong for a few days, I didn’t bring a tide chart with me and so I had to take guesses as to where it would likely be. Anyway, at the last minute I decided to head down to Point Lonsdale to take a few shots of the lighthouse and to my delight the tide was out and slowly creeping in. By the time I finished shooting, I was walking through water to get back to the shore.
Mother nature is preparing her assault… / / Canon 400D / / Visit my website On The Rock Photography
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Another lighthouse shot that I wanted to share. Thanks for viewing. / Cheers, Joe
Another from my lighthouse series. / Thanks for looking. / Joe
I did 2 versions of this one.. This one and one where I’m stuck in a web on the light house.. This one made the cut! :)
View looking up the stairwell of the Point Hicks lighthouse, Croajingolong National Park. This lighthouse is immaculate and has been well looked after. It was named after Leutenant HICKS who was the first person to site this part of Australia during Captain Cooks voyage. They continued up the East coast of Australia eventually landing at the town called Seventeen Seventy. Sales – 7 x cards Feautured image in the following wonderful groups : / That One Great Shot, / National Parks of the World / Descriptions Group / Syle! Class! Elegance! Excellence!
_ Taken near Whyalla on the Eyre Peninsular, South Australia
The Lizard point is at the tip of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall and is the most Southern point on the UK mainland, there are many small villages nearby but Helston is the nearest town,some 11 miles North. A lighthouse has guarded shipping from the treacherous Man O War Rocks and force of the Atlantic waves since 1751, in 1721 the Royal Anne Galley was wrecked on the rocks here and 15 of the crew were lost, prompting the building of the first lighthouse. They were buried in a mass grave at nearby Pistol Meadow. Below the lighthouse is the now redundant old lifeboat station which has been replaced by a new one a few miles away. I took this image in Midsummer when the pink seathrift flowers adorn the rugged coastline and even on a fine day like this, the awesome power of the Ocean is so evident. Nikon D100 / 18 – 70 zoom @ 29mm / AP F22 for 1/30sec / CP filter
Point Lonsdale Victoria
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Mark Twain (1835 –1910)
Took this on my Australia Day 2009 weekend sea kayak trip around the Prom on our first morning. This was one of those cloudless and very intense summer mornings when the sun just catapulted up above that horizon becoming too intense and bright for good images almost instantly. This particular spot is away from any designated walking routes so is no doubt experienced only very rarely. I got up before dawn and before any of my buddies were even thinking of saying hello to the new day. So I got this beautiful sight all to myself and additionally didn’t have the worry of unthinking friends stomping their footprints straight through the middle of my compositions like happened the previous day. It’s funny I just walk around beaches very carefully these days totally aware of the impact my footfalls will have on any composition but of course this is not normal with others oblivious to such aesthetic considerations. The great looking lichens on the foreground rock were certainly a big bonus. Took a few of this one and the only way I could get any colour in the sky was to piggy back a 2 and 3 stop neutral density graduated filter (i.e. 5 stops) and then I had to make sure I placed them perfectly so I didn’t darken the headland (close but not perfect, good filter use is invisible and I haven’t quite succeeded in that here, I think I prefer winter sunrises). Fortunately my test shots were done pre-sunrise so I was all set up when the moment came. Amazing how much jiggery pokery it takes to get something to look the same as you see it. One of my companions had hiked the north end of the Prom years before, walking almost 60km in stifling heat on inland viewless tracks in two days with very heavy packs, there destination Lighthouse Point. When they got there he was bitterly disappointed to see a small light on a stick atop a short metal framed tower and not the impressive round stone building they had envisaged. I think Russ enjoyed this trip much better certainly gave us a good laugh to reminisce about his younger gung-ho hiking days. Camera: Canon EOS 5D mkII / Lens: EF24-70 f/2.8L USM @ 30mm / Filter: Cokin P121M 2 stop ND Grad and P121S 3 stop ND grad / ISO: 100 / Shutter Speed: 0.8 sec / Aperture: f/16 / WB: Auto / Exposure Compensation: minus 1/3rd stop / Post Capture: Levels, hue saturation, dodging & sharpening in PS4 For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
Point Hicks Lighthouse Febuary 2009. Image looking up the stairwell of this immaculately kept staunchon of the night. I hope this brings some relief for the victims of the Victorian Bushfires Febuary 2009. All proceeds of this work will be donated to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal Until June 30th 2009 Featured in the STAIRS group -March 09!!
Beautiful Double Island Point Lighthouse, built in 1884, and operational since. It’s a metal clad, over timber frame lighthouse, and the light today after many upgrades over the years, has 750,000 candle power! In 1992, the lighthouse had solar panels installed, and was no longer manned. Canon 50D, 18mm. Double Island Point, Rainbow Beach, QLD. Available Large.
A friend recently commented that it looks too dangerous to shoot with me! Ha, i laughed. Funny thing is i don’t even own any boots! If you ever do want to take photos with me i suggest you bring a towel!!!
Water & rock, soft & hard, land & sky, black & white in the very late afternoon moody light. / A shoreline shaped by the “Roaring Forties”. / West Point State Reserve, near Marrawah, Tasmania Nikon D40 / Sigma 10-20mm lens / ISO200 / F/22 / 25 seconds featured in Black & White Photography group 11th July 2009 / featured in Nikon DSLR users group 20th October 2009
3 Shot HDR Taken on 6th September 2009 at Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia Canon 50D / Sigma 10 – 20mm at 11mm / 3 exposures, f/11, ISO 100.. / Grey grad filter / Tripod Photomatix for the HDR Tone mapping and Adobe Lightroom for shapening and tweaking…
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