the rising full moon over the Pinnacles, near Cervantes
lit by the remains of the setting sun
hand held, elbows on the sand
Pentax 10-17 fisheye
1/5 second, f 9
Tag: Pentax
Australia Day 2014
fireworks on Australia Day 26th January 2014. taken from near Langley park looking across the Swan River, Perth WA
Pentax 10mm fisheye lens
white faced koala
A glass jar shaped like a koala, (it kind of looks like a teddy bear to I guess) with a colourful box behind which gets distorted as the light pass through the koala
it once contained honey I think
blue faced koala
A glass jar shaped like a koala, (it kind of looks like a teddy bear to I guess) with a colourful box(uncle tobys oats) behind which gets distorted as the light pass through the koala
it once contained honey I think
EH Holden 50th Birthday
2013 is the 50th Birthday of the EH Holden, 1963 – 1965
and the EH Holden car club of WA put on a car show “birthday party” on the South Perth foreshore, it also included the earlier model EJ cars too
one of the most popular Holdens, and I am not saying that because I have one 🙂
more (bigger images) here as I put them up
Pentax 17mm fisheye, 5 images stitched in Microsoft ICE
Peacock with tail open
It is that time of year again at Caversham wildlife park, inside Whiteman park. The male peacocks are showing off.
as no females were around I am not sure if he was showing off for us, or trying to keep two, totally unimpressed, emus at bay.
Unfortunately I was way to close for my 300mm lens, so I snapped 6 photos, 3 across and 2 up with the though of stitching them together. Which sounded like a good idea at the time.
Using Microsoft Ice the end result wasnt too bad, even though the peacock was moving, so a little judicious editing, cut and pasting, I ended up with a 21 megapixel image.
Was it worth it.
Siesta Park Beach
The beach at Siesta Park, Busselton
looking north across Geographe bay
Pentax fisheye
fresnel lens
Cape Leeuwin lighthouse lens
on the most South West point of Western Australia
where the Indian ocean meets the Southern ocean
Autumn/Fall
Whilst the rest of the world was having spring, we were having Autumn. On top of that Native trees around here do not do the Autumn thing of losing their leaves, they are the same colour all year round, some trees may flower in Autumn which makes them different. So on my way home from work I notices a Japanese maple street tree was doing the Autumn thing and one evening I managed to get back before all the leaves were gone and get an “Autumn” photo
(note the green leaves in the background)
West coast sunset
The sun sets on the West coast
disappearing into the Indian ocean
white cheeked honeyeater
White cheeked honeyeater on a Banksia flower
silver princess
Its mid winter and my silver princess is still flowering. It still has a few flowers left to open too.
White tailed black cockatoo
A white tailed black cockatoo feasting on a firewood banksia cone whilst sitting on my bull banksia in Winter
I counted about 20 of them going through my trees, pruning as they went.
I picked up some banksia flowers they snipped off and put them in a vase
They do a a fair amount of damage, but gee it is worth it just to watch them 🙂
Hillarys boat harbour panorama
looking to the shopping precinct and the Breakwater tavern, with the small fairground to the right
I tried focus pulling, changing focus with the shutter open on a long exposure
but ended up sandwiching two photos together to get this result
Pentax 10mm fisheye cropped to a panorama
for a larger size go here
Silas as Orton effect
My attempt at the Orton effect, an effect developed by Michael Orton in an attempt to imitate watercolour painting with photography. Initially it was done using multiple slides sandwiched on top of each other. Digital has made similar effects easier and this is mine, done in GIMP.
Did it work?
Australia day 2013
fireworks on Australia Day 26th January 2013. Across the Swan River from Langley park, Perth WA
