Archive for the 'Landscape' Category

New Year’s Eve – Fireworls Shocker….

Friday, January 1st, 2010

For the first time in years, I wanted to get some fireworks pictures. The fact that last night was a full moon also was irresistible.
I spent a few days before checking the tides, the moon locations, googling how to take fireworks pictures, setting up the cameras etc….. I wanted to be prepared.
I left home at [...]

Blayney Wind Farms

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend end, I decided to drive to Blayney in western NSW to photograph some wind farms at night. It was going to be cold and the weather forecast said showers. It turned out much worse than that! The wind farms are at 1000m and were totally covered in low cloud. [...]

Star trails and light noise…

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I found this post while Googling about star trails (http://www.naturescapes.net/112006/ej1106.htm). There’s some really good information in there about set-up, gear, and location.

There is a section about your shooting location and avoiding light noise. Perhaps I should have read this part better…..

“In general I recommend 150 miles from a major metropolitan area of 1 million plus, [...]

ACP Snowy Mountains Workshop….

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I travelled down to Currango Station over the October Long weekend for an ACP Landscape weekend. Currango Station’s buildings include the oldest surviving continuously-occupied homestead in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park. It is also the largest and most intact example of permanent settlement above the snowline in the country, and has great historical significance as [...]