This is another photo of the Monte Bello Islands. If you’re into taking seascapes then its the place for you. For those of you who don’t know about the history of the Monte Bello Islands, its quite fascinating. It was the site of Britain’s first atomic bomb tests in Australia and you can still see lots of debris and buildings that were left over from the tests. At Trimoulle Island we were able to look back and see the viewing platform that they used to watch the bombs going off, it was only approximately 5kms away from where the bombs went off. We couldn’t believe that they setup the viewing platform so close. Imagine suggesting to someone in this day and age that they stand behind a steel viewing platform and look at an atomic bomb going off!!! They would just laugh.
Those poor guys certainly weren’t safe from the fallout, fallout was even registered in Brisbane days later.
Photo Settings:
Aperture – F11
ISO – 50
Shutter Speed – 1/100sec
Cruising around the area in a boat its hard to understand how anyone could blow up such a beautiful area. These days its pristine and if you ever get the chance to head out there you should. If nothing else you might come back with a nice healthy glow.
Yes another awesome Ningaloo Reef aerial photograph! This was taken from a Sikorsky S76 helicopter almost directly opposite Exmouth. Christian, Mike, Larry and I had just flown in from the Monte Bellos and we thought we’d seen some great landscape sites out there. However, we were totally blown away with Ningaloo Reef from the air, you get to see just how wide it is and just how far it reaches.
I think next time I’m up there I’ll try and wade out to various reef outcrops at low tide to see what I can capture.
I’ve been up to Coral Bay heaps of times but I never realised the reef was as big as it is. Anyone up for a trip to Coral Bay and surrounds in the new year? We could get some awesome landscape and seascape photos. :-)
I just love this photo. I was walking to work on Saturday and of course I had my camera with me, I was trying to get a few urban landscape shots. Anyhow as always is the case I had my eyes on the street and had walked up and down the street twice getting shots of doors and steps before I looked up and saw this. I guess the time of day was just right. It really does show though that whenever you can you should always carry your camera with you because you just don’t know where your next shot is going to come from.
Photo Settings (for Chloe):
Lens – Canon 16-35mm F/2.8 USM II
Aperture – F16
ISO – 100
Shutter – 1/25sec
Have any of you guys taken a walk through the city trying to get photos? Whether it be Perth or elsewhere? Have you ever dragged your camera along ‘just in case’ and then end up getting a cool shot?
Unfortunately this photo was a bit blurry but its stll a great photo of my son Xavier walking across the mat at his swimming classes. Its funny a few months ago he’d scream if he was anywhere near water but now we struggle to get him out of the pool once his lessons are over. Swimming lessons are such cool fun. Just thought I’d share this moment with you guys.
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.
