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Excellent, just returned from WA, Perth, took few shots at Augusta, too cold in the night haha.
my shot wasn't as good as yours and soon missed my chances as cloud covered the whole sky for hours.. many many pics to process.
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Excellent, just returned from WA, Perth, took few shots at Augusta, too cold in the night haha.
my shot wasn't as good as yours and soon missed my chances as cloud covered the whole sky for hours.. many many pics to process.
ZerocoolAstra
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Really great narrative to accompany a lovely pic! :thumbsup:
Must go and search where this Pinnacles Desert is...
Zichar
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Thanks. Was a family trip though, didn't shoot as much as I'd like. Didn't even fill my primary 16gb card, and I borrowed extra for standby.
Ha, must post and share!
I've got a few more which used the surroundings as foreground, recce-ed during the daytime and remembered settings for night.
That first shot I posted was probably in haste and excitement. Would have done well to go through another round of NR and cropping out the side elements, makes for a good desktop pic I can attest to
It ... was scary
Guess we can laugh about it now
And proclaim that's how adventures are made
It was still a very rash and unsafe decision on hindsight
Anything could have happened
And we would be stranded
The counter lady at Hertz rental said it was a brand new 4WD, and I believed her
Pretty young thing in a suit
Blind faith, really
We only saw a few trucks pass by in the opposite direction - white maintenance vehicles
Just played it cool and waved ;p
The Pinnacles Desert is ~1hr north of Perth
The wiki's a good read about the 'rocks' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pinnacles_Desert
fifiehafizah
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Love this!
fifiehafizah
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Call me an idiot but what is this...Very interesting....
Zichar
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Zichar
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An 11 stitch pano of the desert
Which turned out weird because I totally did not account for
The angle of the sun hitting the rocks in the middle of the pano frame
You'll notice the shadows are harsher on the sides
Which is great as they bring out the contrast in the rocks
Which turned out weird because I totally did not account for
The angle of the sun hitting the rocks in the middle of the pano frame
You'll notice the shadows are harsher on the sides
Which is great as they bring out the contrast in the rocks
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Zichar
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Poetic !!!
Not only your photographs, but also the narration. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Keep going. Can't wait to see more and read more
Heh thanks for the support
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So this is the kicker right here
We sped up and swung by the Visitor's Center just before it closed
Because my wife loves browsing the tchotchkes
And partly because we were curious to know about the rock formations
*Psst It's all there in the wiki*
Right outside the interactive display room
Pasted beside the light switch no less
Was this laminated sign
Warning about the road closure
I couldn't help but laugh and called my brother over for another bellyaching
- We found out a few days later while watching the news
To much chagrin too
That stretch of the Indian Ocean Drive
Was closed and redeveloped to be the scenic coastal drive in WA
To rival the Great Ocean Drive in the south
And two Sundays after our adventure, on September 19
The Premier with the Transport Minister officially opened the Lancelin-Cervantes link
Laughing again, I yelled a slaphappy 'First!!!11!!!!'
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Zichar
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And the comedy of errors continue...
On my list of To-Dos for the holiday
Was to sit on a jetty fishing with my old man
Call it unfulfilled dreams, but when I was a child
My dad, an avid angler, would refuse to bring us out on his fishing trips
Too dangerous, he says, my mom chiming in
And then life set in, abandoned
Well, I'm all grown up now
Packing handlines and squid jigs along
Read up on the coastal small towns which had a jetty (a common feature I must say)
And their correlating abundance of our eight-armed friends
So when we reached the town of Jurien Bay
The residue of adrenaline from our earlier adventure had me moving everyone out of the house
To the jetty everyone!
I was absolutely floored and totally unprepared for the scene that lay in front of me
World Taekwondo Federation?!
They demolished the jetty!
On my list of To-Dos for the holiday
Was to sit on a jetty fishing with my old man
Call it unfulfilled dreams, but when I was a child
My dad, an avid angler, would refuse to bring us out on his fishing trips
Too dangerous, he says, my mom chiming in
And then life set in, abandoned
Well, I'm all grown up now
Packing handlines and squid jigs along
Read up on the coastal small towns which had a jetty (a common feature I must say)
And their correlating abundance of our eight-armed friends
So when we reached the town of Jurien Bay
The residue of adrenaline from our earlier adventure had me moving everyone out of the house
To the jetty everyone!
I was absolutely floored and totally unprepared for the scene that lay in front of me
World Taekwondo Federation?!
They demolished the jetty!
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Zichar
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Something I learned from shooting sunrise at Punggol
Yes, Punggol
Is to take a look over your shoulders once in awhile
Loved the reddish pink where the sun cast its rays
Made pastel by the 10-stop filter
You'll see that there's another jetty ~250m in the distance
No such luck, it's been torn down too.....
Yes, Punggol
Is to take a look over your shoulders once in awhile
Loved the reddish pink where the sun cast its rays
Made pastel by the 10-stop filter
You'll see that there's another jetty ~250m in the distance
No such luck, it's been torn down too.....
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Zichar
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I completely understand the allure of a self drive holiday
The freedom to make any detour you want, any sight you fancy
A recurring theme for this leg of our journey was
To hit the coast, just keep heading left
So one of our first turns from Jurien Bay
Was the town of Green Head
Of which the term a green head kid in Cantonese colloquially stands for a virgin
And brought much delight to that small immature part of our brain that just won't grow up
The hyuk-hyuk chuckles never really ceased as I bent down to capture
Clumps of seaweed and kelp washed ashore
Refuse from the great barbers down the sea
The smell of the ocean pungent yet redolent of rot
The freedom to make any detour you want, any sight you fancy
A recurring theme for this leg of our journey was
To hit the coast, just keep heading left
So one of our first turns from Jurien Bay
Was the town of Green Head
Of which the term a green head kid in Cantonese colloquially stands for a virgin
And brought much delight to that small immature part of our brain that just won't grow up
The hyuk-hyuk chuckles never really ceased as I bent down to capture
Clumps of seaweed and kelp washed ashore
Refuse from the great barbers down the sea
The smell of the ocean pungent yet redolent of rot
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zoossh
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Sorry it took so long to reach a landscape shot
On the way up north, we stopped at Yanchep National Park
Taken with a 10-stop, the slow moving ducks, oh so cute the evening before
Turned into brown streaks of annoyance
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yah, that is the bad luck me.
the flowers dof is not shallow enough, i thought. but the above shot is nice. and i almost misread as loch ness.
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