It was great catching up with so many talented Perth Landscape and Seascape Photographers on Friday night. You guys rock! Thanks again to Mark Stoddard and Christian Fletcher for organising it.
This was a shot I that I managed to grab around three months ago now whilst I was spending quite a bit of time out at Bunker Bay. As you can see I managed to narrowly avoid a stack of rain heading across the bay. In fact it was taken the day before I got totally rained out when I headed for a shoot at Meelup Beach.
I just really liked this shot because I thought that the tree dangling over the water was pretty cool. It really made me wonder why a tree would grow that way rather than just straight up in the air. That is the great thing about Mother Nature I guess, she is always creating interesting things for us landscape and seascape photographers.
Now that Summer is here I can’t wait for those amazing sunsets to kick in. What about everyone else? You guys hanging out for those amazing summer sunsets as well?
For those of you who can’t make it I will be doing a live Twitter Feed from Mark’s Party on Friday night. I’ll be posting photos and hopefully even posting a few live 5min interviews with selected photographers as well.
Just click on the link to follow my feed on the night.
This is another photo that I manged to capture up at Lancelin last weekend. As I said last weekend Lancelin with all its sand dunes is a landscape photographers dream. I was going to head back up this weekend but with the lack of clouds I didn’t think it was a great idea. I think this week I’ll be hitting the Perth beaches again like Trigg and Cottesloe to see what I can up with.
Did anyone get out of Perth this weekend and get some good photos?
Thanks for stopping by everyone. All comments are appreciated.
On Saturday I decided to take a drive up to the Lancelin Sand Dunes in the trusty Honda CRV. Yes it can handle the dunes! I really only got to spend 10mins up in the dunes as the wind was blowing that hard that I just got completely covered in sand. It took me two days to wash all of the sand out of my hair, fortunately I had my trusty coles shopping bag over the camera to protect it. Straight after this shot I headed down to the beach where I was able to find some cover and grab a few shots of the sunset. It was so relaxing up there I could’ve easily just pulled up a swag and slept on the beach for the night. Its not something I’ve done for ages and I really should do it again.
I’m really taken by this shot, I just love the complexity of it. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do. Merv I might have to come out to your place and setup a tent for the night and ‘pretend’ to camp.
As we sat in the helicopter I thought we were going to have a pretty cool two hours hanging over some of the best spots around Exmouth but I had no idea just how awesome the next two hours were going to be. This was probably the best part of the trip for me. Once we reached 1000ft and started heading out to the coast from Learmonth Airport I saw Ningaloo Reef and was just amazed at how big it was and how colourful it was. This helicopter ride was a landscape and seascape photographers dream come true. For me nothing came close to this over the entire trip. Well maybe videoing the humpback whales the day before by helicopter was better than this but it would be a close call.
As landscape photographers we get to see some pretty amazing sites and scenes and for that I am eternally grateful.
Did anyone manage to capture the sunset tonight?
As a landscape photographer what would you most want to photograph? For me it would probably be Alaska, Cook Islands / Hawaii and Paris.
Thanks for stopping by crew as always all comments are always appreciated,
Here is Michael Fletcher at work with his trusty Canon 5DMkII. Doing what he does best. Video! Quite often during our trip we’d drop Michael off on an island and then shoot through across to another location. On our way back to the island to pick him up you’d always hear Christian yell out “Hurry Up” hehe. Mike’s work is absolutely amazing if you’ve not seen it before you can check it out over here.
Check out the concentration on Christian’s face just as we are about to take off and photograh the Ningaloo Reef!!! Feeling the pressure perhaps of having three other talented people in the helicopter?
The Canon 1D MkIV has been announced. I’m stoked as it means the Canon 1Ds MKIV can’t be too far around the corner. Will Melissa be nice and let me get one? Here are the stats for the Canon 1D MkIV check them out.
Initial price of the Canon 1D MkIV appears to be around $US7999.00 so start saving guys.
Injidup Beach would have to be a landscape or seascape photographers playground. There are just so many dimensions to it and it has so many angles and moods. I just love it. This shot was taken just before I got soaked whilst shooting at some other rocks on the beach. Now just because I know Chloe is going to ask:
Aperature – F22
ISO – 50
Shutter Speed – 1/13sec.
Now that the weather is warming up I’m really hoping that we’ll start to see some colour in our sunrises and sunsets. I’m hoping to spend some time over at Rottnest and the Stirling Ranges soon to try and capture some great shots. Anyone else planning any trips away soon?
Well when I was down south last weekend I only managed to get up early on the Saturday morning, I just couldn’t struggle out of bed on the Sunday morning no matter how hard I tried. Saturday morning was one of those days that landscape and seascape photographers just live for! I managed to get my previous shot of Meelup Beach and then 30min later this shot of Injidup Beach. As I always say who says landscape photographers aren’t an extreme bunch? I took this photo just before I got covered waist deep in water, I had to literally grab my camera and hold it above my head. At least this time I didn’t lose a thong like I did at Bennion Beach.
What is the closest you’ve come to losing your camera? I think my incident at Bennion Beach was the closest.
