Freshwater Beach Aerial Shot Northern Beaches, Sydney

An aerial shot from the 5D MkII overlooking Freshwater Beach. I much prefer the colour quality of the light in the digital over the film at this time of day. Good learning experience though. Next time will use a different film.

Avalon Beach Photo’s, Northern Beaches, NSW

I don’t know why but for some reason this image has always appealed to me. Is it the orange sand, the mix of colours, the morning light on the pine trees, who knows. It certainly hasn’t sold like other images of mine, but I find quite often it is the slow achieving photos in your collection that can be some of your personal favorites.

This shot was taken on the Fuji G617 | Velvia 50 slide film

F16 | 1 Sec | Center Filter | ND Grad

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Your Northern Beaches Book – Special

In December 2007 I published my first book which I called “Your Northern Beaches”. After shooting this beautiful coastline of Sydney for a good four years I felt I had a broad collection to achieve one of my goals as a photographer and that was to self publish a book.

After a good six months of designing / writing / proofing and taking additional photos to fill in shots that I felt I was missing I received my two advanced copies of the book from the printer, soon followed by a truck full of my books.

This book is coming close to the completion of my first print run of 5000 books and I only have 10 cartons left and I though I would put on a special. The book retails for $27.50 plus $9 postage and I am offering the book at $20 with postage included anywhere in Australia.

The book is an 80 page pictorial journey from Manly all the way to Palm Beach with some selected shots of Sydney city in there as well. Printed on gloss paper, hard backed with a jacket. When closed the book is 27cm x 17.5cm in size and it is the only current pictorial book on the market for the area.

********* Thanks to all those who bought the book but the special is now over. Only 4 cartons left now. *************

Curious Pelican, Turimetta Beach

On an cold and wet day I decided to go through my huge archive of transparencies and I came across this one taken about 6 years ago. When looking at the image it is funny how you are taken back to that exact moment. So I scanned the shot on my Imacon 343 scanner and when viewing the shot in Photoshop memories of the morning I took it started to come back to me. I recalled shooting in the other direction waiting for the sun to come up when I heard a sound behind me. I was initially taken by suprise when I turned and saw this curious fellow standing right behind me. I took one shot before he realised I was actually quite boring and he waddled off.

The shot to the right is taken on my Canon on a recent trip to Terrigal Beach on the Central Coast and the shot below is the sunrise shot I took that day after my feathered visitor left as the sun breached the horizon.

The shot below was taken on my Fuji G617 camera on Velvia 50 slide film. Wish I could remember the settings but it is a while ago now though I usually shoot at f16 and this looks like a 1/4 or 1/2 sec exposure.

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