Day 451, The Magnificent Coorong

The Coorong is a unique almost landlocked strip of saltwater lakes which run for more than 130km down South Australia’s south east coastline separated from the Great Southern Ocean by one long strip of sand dune beach. We we were just passing at the time when I decided to detour down to the water to […]

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Day 450, Just Me

While out on one of the dry lakes at the bottom of the Coorong National Park I wanted capture the expanse of white which went for on for kilometers. Thinking about the image I wanted to create presented a dilemma. The light was bad, the harshest of light in the middle of the day and […]

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Day 449, Sunset Silhouette

Ever wondered why you see the rays of light emanating from bright lights in photographs. You never see them with your eyes so they can’t really be there. I think we have become so used to seeing these rays in photos that an image without them would seem plain wrong. A clue to why they […]

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Day 448, Planet Fellmongery

The fish-eye lens is peculiar creation. Some people love the wildly distorted images they create, other hate them. I originally purchased this lens for underwater photography where its name and its application have a wonderfully ironic link. Over time I have however come to love using it for all sorts of images from urban exploration […]

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Day 447, Looking Up Through Green

Late in the day with a grey overcast sky the view through the leaves is much more striking than either clear blue nothing or blotchy cloud. I was very tempted to make this image black and white. It actually looked very good in mono but then I considered how mono could not tell of the […]

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