Promontory wilson
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As is the case with many of my shots there is a considerable time gap between finding a good location for an image and shooting it. I found this spot in March 2007 on an overcast day completely unsuitable for photography. I finally returned in November 2007 to capture the shot I had envisaged all those months before. On this occassion the light surpassed my expectations with the results being worth the wait. With the number of visitors and photographers that visit not only Wilsons Promontory but Pillar Point and Squeaky Beach in particular it amazes me that I have never seen this composition before. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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A perfect winters morning, great light and a rare perfect reflection. I took many shots that morning but had to wait a few weeks to get my film back to see if any had come out. This was the one where everything came together, composition, light and technique. To balance the amazing disparity in light between the shadowed foreground and the bright background I used an ND4 Graduated filter. This filter balances the exposure by only letting one quarter of the light through the top part of the lens as compared to the bottom. The eye is so sophisticated that it automatically compensates for these differences so judging the effects of the filter is basically an educated guess and because I shoot on film I have no on location way of assessing the results and re-shooting if I mess it up. This shot is one of my all time personal favourites. It was also the group avitar for ‘All water and seascapes’ a little while back and was my first laminated print sale on the bub. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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Photograph of rock reflections at Tidal River, Wilson’s Promontory National Park, Victoria. / This photograph was featured in the Red Bubble groups Reflectivity, as well as Nature’s Wonders. It was also in the top 10 in the ‘Reflections on Water’ in the Rivers, Lakes and Dams group challenge. /
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Don’t usually go for the created image as such but I was mucking around the other day and did this simple edit of my most popular rb pic. I love how the clouds, sun and rocks combine to form a face. Hope you like it. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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Tidal River, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia
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This shot was taken on Squeaky Beach at Wilsons Promontory on what I considered to be a fairly flat sunset. I had tried a few other shots on the rock platforms at the other end of the beach with limited results and as it was now getting very dark I was on my way back to the car. There was a limited orange glow on the horizon which wasn’t particularly arresting but from previous experience I thought the camera might ‘see’ the scene better than the naked eye. Large area’s of black silhouette in a frame I generally don’t like so I tried to balance that with the sea and sky with a fairly long zoom. The exposure was thirty seconds long, flattening the waves and intensifying the light and colours (velvia helps too). The end result was my favourite shot of the trip. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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This view is one I have dreamed about for years after seeing it in an article I found on-line. The picture is taken off the rarely visited Mt Norgate (419m) overlooking Oberon Bay, then Norman, Pillar, Leonard and Tongue Points before getting to Shellback Island at Wilsons Promontory. When down amongst these points the fact that they line up is impossible to percieve. The difficulty in getting to this spot was staggeringly hard involving two days of hard bushbashing to cover less than 10km. Part of the journey can be seen on this You Tube clip . Incidentally this clip was of one of the easier traverses on which no-one actually got (very)wet. For more of the story of this trip check out the caption linked with my Anser Island from South-west Point pic below. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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View of the magnificent Sunset from Squeaky Beach – Wilsons Promontory – Victoria – Australia / October 2008
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View from Tidal River, Picnic Bay look out – Wilsons Promontory October 2008.
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View of Picnic Bay – Wilsons Promontory October 2008
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This rock formation is known as the whale rock on the banks of the Tidal River at Wilsons Promontory.
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Different view of uprooted tree taken by the Lilly Pilly Gully Walk, Wilsons Promontory National Park :)) For the Barnsis :))
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Coastal Tea Tree Flower – Wilsons Promontory – Victoria – Australia – October 2008 Prolific and in full bloom during october. These tea tree flowers are the most prolific in the area. During October when in full bloom, your hikes and walks are infused with the sweet smell of these blooms. Not the best photo i know..hand held macro whilst dodging bees!
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Tree that had fallen on Lilly Pilly Gully Walk – Wilsons Promontory National Park
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This shot was taken on Squeaky Beach at Wilsons Promontory on what I considered to be a fairly flat sunset. I had tried a few other shots on the rock platforms at the other end of the beach with limited results and as it was now getting very dark I was on my way back to the car. There was a limited orange glow on the horizon which wasn’t particularly arresting but from previous experience I thought the camera might ‘see’ the scene better than the naked eye. Large area’s of black silhouette in a frame I generally don’t like so I tried to balance that with the sea and sky with a fairly long zoom. The exposure was thirty seconds long, flattening the waves and intensifying the light and colours (velvia helps too). The end result was my favourite shot of the trip. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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I had just been hiking for two days down at Wilsons Promontory and decided to catch the sunset at Pillar Point before heading home. Two days before 140mm of rain had fallen creating many new creeks I had not seen before. I found this one on the way back to the car after photographing a spectacular sunset from Pillar Point. By the time I reached this spot the sun was long gone but this little rivulet caught my attention. It was so dark that a thirty second exposure was required but I loved how this heightened the blue of the sky reflected in the water while adding a slightly blurred effect to the clouds. Have had one poster sale on rb of this work. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society .
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View from Pillar Point overlooking the main beach of Wilsons Promontory National Park – Victoria – Australia
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Seasons can be very important in photography. This shot for instance was taken in mid winter and the increased rainfall at this time of year had increased the flow of Sealers Creek which in turn had washed more sand out into the cove. The effect of this was a much lower beach which allowed me to get right under this branch and take full advantage of the first rays reflecting off the sand onto its underside. When I last visited in mid summer the gap under this tree was more like 6 inches than 6 feet making a similar shot impossible. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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As a wilderness photographer I have a tendency to value photos from remote and difficult to get to places over those taken 10m from the car or off the public viewing platform no matter how amazing the scene. With these criteria in mind and the experience of this amazing area fresh in my memory I would therefore value this shot as amongst the most significant to me personally that I have ever taken. I first visited the Prom back in 1991 and over many years traversed every track in the area, revelling in the new pads like the SE Point/ Waterloo Bay track as well as some of the more remote tracks in the northern section of the promontory. As a bushwalker who likes to explore areas that few others get to, my attraction to the trackless southwest corner of Wilsons Promontory came into focus fairly early in my forays around the Prom. In accordance with this interest I made enquires at the Ranger Station in Tidal River about doing a walk in this area only to be informed that off track permits were only issued to parties involved in scientific research. Having walked extensively off track in other regions around Victoria in the full knowledge of local park staff I was frankly mystified by this policy. In the busy areas along the west coast and near the 1961 Cinnamon Fungus outbreak in the north of the Prom I could understand it but in most areas the shear density and verdancy of the undergrowth was its own deterrent to most potential off track candidates. Years later I found my mystification justified when after a mini tornado of letters to the editor of WILD that occurred in consequence to an article I wrote about a circumnavigation of the prom that I did (without a permit). I became aware that permits were in fact issued for non scientific parties and have happily applied and received such permits henceforth. My mystification these days is to why I was misled in the first place? Anyway back to the walk, we left Tidal River at midday on Friday planning to get to Enclave Creek by nightfall. About halfway down the heavens opened and informed me extremely effectively that it was time to reproof my megabuck Gortex jacket. Twenty-one km later at South Point drenched and with darkness approaching we dismissed the Enclave Creek idea and happily retreated to our shelter for a well earned dinner and rest. Our main worry being about the feasibility of completing such a trip if the weather didn’t improve. We needn’t have worried with the next day dawning bright and clear. Rising before dawn I gave all of my five and a half kilograms of camera gear a work out in the magical first rays of the day. I took my time so as to give my gear a chance to dry and thinking that the two days we had allowed to cover the next ten kilometres was ample for the task at hand anyway. On one hand I was expecting this walk to be one of the toughest I had ever done but from my view of the nearby coast I wasn’t expecting those difficulties to start until around South-west Point. So casual was my approach that I decided to fill my water bottle en route rather than at the nearby creek. Boy was that an error of judgment. It started easy enough but soon enough we were forced inland as the cliffs grew shear and our low level rock climbing and rock hoping grew more dangerous. See a you tube clip of my brother negotiating one of these traverses here . Incidentally this clip was of one of the easier traverses on which no-one actually got wet. So dense was the inland scrub that our progress slowed to a crawl with only a few hundred meters an hour being covered. Eventually we stopped at Enclave Creek for ‘lunch’ at 4:00pm after checking out Enclave Creek Falls and our by now very parched throats. We decided that we needed to make South-west Point by nightfall to give us a hope of completing our trip the next day. Four hours later exhausted but happy we completed the one kilometre traverse between Enclave Creek and the point by torchlight. In ten hours of hard walking that day we had covered a mere two and a half kilometres. We had however scored one of the only spaces large enough to pitch a tent in that we had seen all day. The next morning was one of rapturous delight, experience the new day from a place that a mere handful have ever experienced it from before. The location and light were stunning my only regret being the need to hurry and therefore missing a few shots I otherwise would of got, oh well. By 7:15 we were off on another huge day of scrub, granite, coastlines, creeks and mountains our previous days start point depressingly close wondering if we would have time to complete our walk in the time allotted. To be continued… For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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Oh I wish I was a gull…taking it all like these two…but i am grateful for being me :)) View from Whiskey Bay Beach, Wilsons Promontory October 2008.
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First outing for the year photo taken from the summit of Mount Oberon at Wilsons Promontory in Victoria. Below in this shot are Norman Bay, Squeaky Beach and Tidal River the height of this mountain is 558m and the 360 degree views are just awesome worth the 3.4km climb to the top.
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This photo is a good example of what not to do, that is to point the lens straight at the sun, it just happened to work on this occassion. Walking along the Loo Errn Trail at Tidal River I found the light catching these reed heads in a compelling way. I didn’t really think the shot would work but I tried it anyway using a fisheye lens and shutting the aperture down to f22. The sun then refracted around the tiny aperture creating the sunburst and there was just enough light in the read heads to balance the brightness of Sol despite the fact that the rest of the shot has almost gone black. The starburst reflection is the thing that really makes the shot for me though. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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Another perfect morning at Refuge Cove, Wilsons Promontory. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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I took this shot back in January 2006 when my family and my two sister in laws and their families hired a house down at Waratah North near Wilsons Promontory. I took this shot in a farmers paddock across the road from our house after doing the dishes. For more shots from this area check out my Wilsons Promontory gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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