Photograph of rock reflections at Tidal River, Wilson’s Promontory National Park, Victoria. / This photograph was featured in the Red Bubble groups Reflectivity, Light and Reflection, Nature’s Wonders, All About Water, Rocks and Bones, and All Countries ~ Streams, Brooks, Creeks, Rivers, Ponds & Lakes, Made By Nature, and Australian Travel Photography. It was also in the top 10 in the ‘Reflections on Water’ in the Rivers, Lakes and Dams group challenge, and ranked #3 In the Real Life Landscapes Challenge, and in the top ten of the All About Water ‘Reflections in Water’ Challenge and also the ALL COUNTRIES – Streams, Brooks, Creeks, Rivers, Ponds & Lakes group challenge ‘Reflections in Water’. It was voted into the top ten of the First Things challenge ‘Tranquility’ / It was voted third in the Rocks and Bones group challenge ‘Wake Up’, and won the challenge ‘Water Reflections’ in the Woman Photographer group. It was voted winner of the Melbourne & Victoria group challenge ‘Victorian Landscapes’ It was also voted winner in the Australian Travel Photography and Writing group challenge ‘Midweek Daydreaming’ and was also voted into the top ten of the Made By Nature challenge ‘Reflections’. It was featured in Featured Features, and was voted Winner in the Wilsons Promontory group challenge ‘Prom Granite’, and into the top ten of the Featured Features challenge PRIZES The Challenge of Challenges. /
A perfect winters morning, great light and a rare perfect reflection. I took many shots that morning but had to wait a few weeks to get my film back to see if any had come out. This was the one where everything came together, composition, light and technique. To balance the amazing disparity in light between the shadowed foreground and the bright background I used an ND4 Graduated filter. This filter balances the exposure by only letting one quarter of the light through the top part of the lens as compared to the bottom. The eye is so sophisticated that it automatically compensates for these differences so judging the effects of the filter is basically an educated guess and because I shoot on film I have no on location way of assessing the results and re-shooting if I mess it up. This shot is one of my all time personal favourites. It was also the group avitar for ‘All water and seascapes’ a little while back and was my first laminated print sale on the bub. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
The world is about to end because of global warming. Temperatures are soaring, ice is melting, glaciers are retreating, seas are rising, and we’re all going to fry. We’re all up to here with worry about it. The Royal Society says there’s no longer any room for scientific doubt about it. Britain’s Chief Scientist says it’s a bigger threat than global terrorism. / Every global warming sceptic is denounced as clinically insane. Every developed nation wags its finger at every other (well, ok then, at America) and tells it to Emit Less. Every politician and B-list celebrity now anxiously measures his or her carbon footprint. Every British schoolchild is now drilled to believe that man-made global warming is a Fact along with poverty and the existence of Belgium. It’s a wonder any of us has any incentive to get up in the morning. :) Online Galleries: / Surrealism art prints / 2d3d graphic design software / 3ds models max software
North Narrabeen tidal pool on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Shot at 18mm; 30sec; f/11; ISO100
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These are the oldest baths in NSW. About 1820, a natural pool was enlarged by convicts or soldiers, on the orders of Major James Thomas Morisset, Commandant of the Newcastle settlement from 1819 to 1822. Its original size is estimated as 15 feet long, seven feet wide and six feet deep. Initially reserved for military use, these baths apparently served for a time as Morisset’s private bathing place and were for many years known as the Commandant’s Bath.
Shot at Pukerua Bay, view towards Kapiti Island, weather closing in with a strong Nor wester blowing on shore, the clouds were moving so fast the sky changed every couple of seconds. Shot on a Nikon D700 with 17-35 Nikkor Lens Other work in this series / Chloe’s Angel Seawash / Pukerua Bay Backwash / Tern Haven / Kapiti Footspar / Pukerua Bay Stormscape / Peach and Lilac Melba / Barier Rock
I hate titles…...... Tidal #2
I’m a little worried that I may be developing a bit of a furniture fetish!
I was standing in the middle of the on coming wall of water, it might look small now but when it got to me – it was up to my thighs. / More photos from the shoot of Mona Vale Pool - Got up at 4 to get to the pool for these shots, travelling petrol: $10 / - A can of WD40 to water proof the camera: $4.95 / (to use this – Hahah…. you sprey it onto a piece of cloth the wipe you camera with it, avoiding the lens and viewfinder….not sprey directly onto the camera….so what ever to reply moisture is good. It also stop salt sprey clinging itself on the camera too.) / - Stand in front of an on coming wall of sea water (Being scare sh#tless): PRICELESS!
© Simone Byrne Photography, 2008. All Rights Reserved. 18th June, 2008 Dusk falling over one of the many tidal rock pools filling at London Bridge on the Mornington Peninsula. Portsea, Victoria, Australia Camera: Canon EOS 350D Lens: Canon 18-55mm @ focal length 18mm Exposure: 25 sec, f11, ISO 100 Filters: Hoya UV, Cokin 121S Grad ND8 Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS More Images @ SimoneByrne.com.au Thanks for looking, all comments greatly appreciated, Simone.
Shot at Titahi Bay, New Zealand Nikon D700, Nikkor 17-35mm Lens / Titahi Hidden Embers
Twice a day as the tides receed nature’s tidal artwork is unveiled – and what an exhibition it can be ! At glance it may be missed…but with a keener eye patterns emerge..sometimes contoured, other times smooth. Only can nature make such pieces of work that define true beauty on a seemingly endless scale. / / / Canon EOS A2, Fuji Velvia 50. / ©T.Middleton2007 —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— / / / see more of my photography from Nth Qld below / / /
I am going to write a poem about war. Perhaps it will not be a real poem, but it will be about a real war. It will not be a real poem, because if the real poet were here and if the news spread through the crowd that he was going to speak—then a great silence would fall; at the first glimpse, a heavy silence would swell up, a silence big with a thousand thunderbolts. The poet would be visible; we would see him; seeing him, he would see us; and we would fade away into our own poor shadows, we would resent his being so real, we sickly ones, we troubled ones, we uneasy ones. He would be here, full to bursting with the thousand thunderbolts of the multitude of enemies he contains—for he contains them, and satisfies them when he wishes—incandescent with pain and holy anger, yet as still as a man lighting a fuse, in the great silence he would open a little tap, the very small tap of the mill of words, and let flow a poem, such a poem that it would turn you green. What I am going to make won’t be a real, poetic, poet’s poem for if the word “war” were used in a real poem—then war, the real war that the real poet speaks about, war without mercy, war without truce would break out for good in our inmost hearts. For in a real poem words bear their own facts. (René Daumal)
Found my Mojo!, been ages since I got wet ;-) found these warn limestone blocks in the North Bay at Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island, carved smooth by the sea in a very blocky pattern, very different to the other rocks I found which tended to be sharp like sharks teeth. Shot on a Nikon D700 with 17-35mm lens, with Cokin ND4 grad filter.
A bowl like depression in a stone shelf catches the incoming tide as the sun sets over Encounter Bay, South Australia.
This was the last sunset that I shot last thursday with Henk Stolk heavily influenced by Henks treatment of the images from our shoot with models Zoe de B and Christie Wright at Titahi Bay, Henk is a master of Dark and sinister images. I’d passed this image up for not having my requirement for lots of flowing water, but the sky is fantastic, reminds me of the 186 AD eruption of what we now know as Lake Taupo, an eruption so violent it sent flaming red matter into the sky so far that it was seen as far as China and recorded by both the chinese and the Romans, this sunset with its saturated colours is almost prehistoric. Shot on nikon D700 with 17-35mm nikkor lens, processed in photoshop in my own version of HDR.
Shot at Plimmerton Beach, New Zealand, massive storm approaching the North Island. Shot on a Nikon D700 with a AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm 1:2.8D / Dock of the Bay / Chocolate Coffee Sticks / Last Post
St. Mary’s Lighthouse, Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, UK
Sunset at Merewether Baths. The pool was empty and I managed to get a few shots from inside it before I was told to get out.
A slightly different angle. Location: Newcastle Ocean Baths, NSW, Oz. / Time: 10:35am / Canon 450D / Filters: ND400 + circular polarising / f/20 / ISO100 / 25sec / tripod
Lava rock off the South coast of Maui with the light of the setting sun illuminating the clouds and rocks alike as the incoming tides surge past the rocks.
Early morning shoot at Wainuiomata Beach, the end of the world, not quite but the next stop is the south pole, wind that will slice your ears off and sand/gravel that will sand bast your car, not a place to swim. image taken on a Nikon D700 with a Tamron 17-35mm lens. I consider this to be my best work from 2008. Just had this done as a large canvas, just stunning. Other work in this series Claw Back the Sands of Time / Time and tide / Purple Dawn-the Rising / Dawn Arrives / Draw Back / Punk Rock / Orange Dawn / Side swiped! / 10m Vertical / Marble / Clawed from my feet / Last but not least
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