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
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One weekend in July, my wife Debbie and I and Ella our Labrador, decided to spend a couple of days in the Otways, Victoria. We stayed…
One weekend in July, my wife Debbie and I and Ella our Labrador, decided to spend a couple of days in the Otways, Victoria. We stayed at cottages in Glenaire and spent the Saturday walking in the lush forests there and chasing waterfalls. With a few tips from John Conway, I took my 40D with me and attempted my first waterfall shots. If you haven’t been here yet…...you need to! 1) The room with a view – from the Glenaire Cottages. 2) Our crimson friends – native birds visited often. 3) Beauchamp Falls 4) One of the many beautiful streams in the Otways. 5) Sequoia Sempervirens – Along the road we came across some mighty Californian Redwoods, planted in 1938 along the banks of a stream, they were a lovely place to take a stroll. / / 6) It sometimes pays to stop and look up! 7) Through the trees to the water. 8) The beautiful Hopetoun Falls 9) Hopetoun Falls 10) No “bears” here! – lunchtime Koala style 11) Blanket Bay – Otway National Park. 12) Rockpools – Blanket Bay. 13) Shells – Blanket Bay. 14) Incoming waves – Blanket Bay – Otway National Park. Hope you have enjoyed viewing these these, as much as we did taking them.
Wow! I’m still amazed at the honour..I can only say THANK YOU to the hosts of Point and Shooters and COUNTRY ROADS / around the World for…
Wow! I’m still amazed at the honour..I can only say THANK YOU to the hosts of Point and Shooters and COUNTRY ROADS / around the World for featuring my works, and another big THANKS to those who voted for my “That Wintry Feeling” and gave me the winning entry in the Country Roads Challenge. You have certainly made my day! “Shoot and Get Drenched”..featured in Point and Shooters / “Fireball Descending” ..featured in Point and Shooters / “Around The Bend” was featured in COUNTRY ROADS / around the World / “Over Hill and Dale” was featured in COUNTRY ROADS / around the World / “Touchdown!” was featured in COUNTRY ROADS / around the World / “That Wintry Feeling”, Winning Entry – COUNTRY ROADS CHALLENGE- “LET’S GO TO THE MOUNTAINS” /
I want to take a bit of time to introduce a new group that I’m hosting with John Kowalski. It is called The “Otway National Park and T…
I want to take a bit of time to introduce a new group that I’m hosting with John Kowalski. It is called The Otway National Park and The Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The groups is dedicated to Photographs of the Great Ocean Road. From Bells Beach to The Bay of Islands Coastal Park including the Otway National Park. This is one of Victoria’s great scenic drives, also one of the most dangerous. In my time on Red Bubble I have seen some wonderful photos of this area and this is the group to showcase the many aspects of this unique area and the photographers who take them. We will be having fortnightly themed features, the next one is Buildings followed by Bridges. Keep an eye on the forums for updates. Until the 3rd of September we will be wavering the 1 per day rule, just so we can get started. So come and Join us… Dion Puggs Chapman
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
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