I really enjoy seeing the work of others in the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole. Here is my offering for this week. I haven’t had very much experience doing longer exposures in digital and something I would like to do more of. This was a shot from our trip to the coast last month taken on the first morning where rain quickly followed and the sunrise didn’t really happen. The second day was much more successful for a colour image and can be seen here.
In the last few days we managed to get a couple of nights away at the coast. We stayed at Waratah Bay which is near Wilsons Prom, the most southern point of mainland Australia. Today I was rewarded with an amazing sunrise. I had checked the tide times and knew high tide would be about 2 hours before first light – perfect! This image was taken about 15 minutes before actual sunrise…. 🙂
I saw this the other day at the end of an afternoon with the sun low in the sky. The scenery struck me as being very apt – the Camel’s Hump is a mamelon, formed about 6 million years ago when thick lava forced its way through a narrow vent…the clouds almost look like smoke from a volcano.
During the year or with different seasons, there are certain times of day where the light is just magical to us all. At this time for us in the southern hemisphere, sunrise is now getting later and later and the light is just simply beautiful…a moment captured in autumn 🙂
I welcome the coming of autumn – often cool nights and beautiful warm sunny days. The coming of autumn also heralds one of my most busy time at work, there is a harvest to bring in (I’m a Vineyard Manager)! My postings will probably become a little sporadic over the coming weeks. This shot was taken a couple of days ago with an autumnal mist and spectacular sunrise….
Last image from my recent visit to Pyalong. I’ve enjoyed this series of posts – they are surreal but then so is the landscape. I’m aware they may be becoming a bit ‘samey’ so something different next time….anyhow, this scene struck me as it was so desolate, dead trees both standing and fallen in a tinder box landscape….
I haven’t had the chance for either taking photos or posting due to moving house and work being really busy- but we all know what that is like… a week in we are getting there (slowly!). Today I needed to do some ‘soul soothing’ so went out to one of my favourites – Pyalong. Probably a bit too tired for photos or processing but still good to have camera back in hand with a wonderful sky again. Here is one from this morning…
The cirrus clouds today were amazing, and yes, quite surreal – the scale was huge! I’m not sure this works due to the smoke haze still on the mountain horizon but the sky screamed out black and white so here it is….
Many of you will have seen on the news the big fires here in Victoria this week. This one has come a bit too close for comfort and people have lost their homes, property and livestock, so thoughts to them. They say the fires will continue for maybe up to another 6 weeks and we have to be vigilant with wind changes. This shot, taken at the rear of Hanging Rock (see previous post), was winging it – handheld as no time to set up a tripod and the sun more or less already set, but it shows the heavy smoke layer around….
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