Photography

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New Zealand

A New Zealand Adventure Begins

Queenstown, on New Zealand’s South Island, is sometimes referred to as the ‘adventure capital of the world’, a title it has earned through the variety of outdoor and adventure activities that can be pursued in and around this alpine city. Even the flight into Queenstown is regarded as the

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Diving PNG

I was surprised today to see blog post from DeeperBlue on Diving Papua New Guinea, featuring one of my images from a trip my wife and I made there in 2006. We love PNG, and have dived at Kavieng, Kimbe Bay (Walindi), Milne Bay (Tawali) and Tufi. These are all

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Colourful Clarke Quay

Singapore is a colourful city. I didn’t tropical business-hub to be so vibrant and vivid, so as a photographer I was delighted to experience not just the modern architecture mixed with Asian heritage, but also the colourful expression of city’s colonial past. We explored the city mostly by

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Positano Rising

This series of photos from Positano in Italy have showed different aspects of the town, its stunning coastline and some individual characteristics of the township. This image, shot from the same western overlook from which I shot the image East from Positano shows the scale of the town growing up

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Six Passengers

Famous for its spectacular coastline, seascapes and mountain vistas, life in Positano is literally built around the sea. The township is a year round magnet for tourists, and the crystal blue seas are a way that many get to and from the area, and are a major part of their

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Stepping Up in Positano

Positano is known for many things – beaches, restaurants, bars, walks, magnificent scenery and more. Perhaps however it is most known for its many, many stairs. The town really has only two roads – the main highway the winds between Sorrento and Amalfi that cuts through the high part of town, and

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Looking Up from Positano

Like the other towns on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, Positano stretches from its beautiful coastline up into the surrounding mountains. Standing on the beach, the signature dome of the church of Santa Maria Assunta is framed between an enclave in the ridge-line of the mountains. Buildings stretch much of the

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Positano Blue

Positano on Italy’s Amalfi Coast is a spectacularly stunning township, rising up from the sea into the heights of the surrounding mountains. We visited in late Autumn, the low season for tourism, and we loved the fact that we could truly explore the coast, and the whole township without

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Colours of Old Hill Street

Whatever way you look at it, Singapore is a colourful city. It boasts a colourful mix of cultures, cuisines and language, and it boasts a rich array of colourful architecture. With 927 windows in a variety of colours, Singapore’s Old Hill Street Police Station is a striking landmark as

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A lesson re-learned

I sometimes wonder how often we have to re-learn a lesson we’ve previously learned. It can be an especially intriguing conundrum when we make a mistake that not only have we previously learned, but one for which measures have been put in place to minimise associated risks. Recently I

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The Blast Furnace

The Ambivert’s Guide to Street Photography I recently read a fascinating ebook called The Ambivert’s Guide to Street Photography by Scott Wyden Kivowitz. I am quite keen on progressing my street photography skills, but I don’t always feel comfortable just taking a photo of someone, and I

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The Wreck at Homebush Bay

Photography Podcasts I love podcasts[1], which are a great way of getting quick info on a huge variety of topics whilst on the go – driving, commuting, running, walking, etc. I am really enjoying some great photo podcasts at the moment, and would suggest the following five to anyone interested

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Zig Zag Station

The old Lithgow Zig Zag Railway line in Australia’s Blue Mountains operated from 1869 to 1910, after which it was replaced by a new deviation that operates to this day. The Clarence Station was the centre of a railway town during this time, but today the restored station is

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Operatic Sunrise

Happy New Year Wishing everyone all the best for a safe, happy and successful 2015. Operatic Sunrise Today is New Years Eve, and the world’s eyes are on Sydney Harbour as one of the major focal points for seeing in the New Year. This image of the Sydney Opera

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Narrabeen Pool

Sydney has a lot of wonderful ocean pools, most of which are photogenic, particularly at sunrise and sunset. The pool at Narrabeen on the Northern Beaches is perhaps one of the most interesting photographically, and is an extremely worthwhile destination for pre-sunrise photography. The beautiful light in the morning twilight,

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Links to Sunrise

Sunrise at Mahon Pool, near Maroubra in Sydney’s east. The chain fence around the pool was the key feature for this image, and I used it to form the basis for the composition. The chain fence is a leading line through the photo, and the key linking feature—the

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A Morning at the Opera

Sydney Harbour is one of the most scenic harbours in the world, at least in part due to some of the world famous landmarks like the Sydney Opera House. The image was made from Milsons Point using a Nikon 18–200mm telephoto zoom. Finding the right position was challenging because

photo mindset

Do You Make or Take Your Photos

The following article was originally published on my website BlueBeyond.com.au. I’ve decided to move it over here for reference. Recently I read a great book called The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography by Galen Rowell , a renowned outdoor photographer from the US. This book is one of

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International Fleet Review in Sydney

This coming Friday, 4th October, marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival into Sydney of the first dedicated fleet for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) [1]. The RAN was actually the first of the former Colonial Dominion navies to become independent of the Royal Navy. To celebrate this milestone, the

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Calm Before the Party

This is the third of a set of images I made at Clovelly Beach in Sydney at Sunset on New Years Eve 2012. I love the beautiful light at sunset, and the HDR effect assists in brining out the colours. See this photo on * Des Paroz’ 500px Photo Gallery * BlueBeyond

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Thoughts on HDR Photography

As a photographer, how often have you looked at an image after downloading it from the camera (or even develop it) and wondered why it doesn’t look the same as the image you took? All photographs are unrealistic representations of a reality that we as individuals see. There is

Landscape Photography

Layabout Reimagined

Layabout was an image I originally published in 2005 on my Flickr photostream. It is a personal favourite – I like the composition and the colours. With the dynamic range of the camera I was shooting on at the time (a Nikon D100), I recently wondered how its would look with

Sydney

Fort Impossible

Bare Island Fort, La Perouse was the setting of parts of one of the Mission Impossible movies, hence the title of this image. Its apt, because the beautiful colours and saturation aren’t really possible in traditional photography, and rely on HDR. Three images were made about 30 minutes before

Travel

Uepi Island Palms

Starting today, my goal is to publish 1 new photo per day to my Flickr photostream and to this blog. This image was made at Uepi Island Resort in September 2009 during a wonderful week of diving and relaxing we had there. Its the first HDR image I’ve published,

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Review: The Underwater Photographer

The following review was originally published on my website BlueBeyond.com.au. I’ve decided to move it over here for reference. There is one underwater photography book that has journeyed with me on every dive trip I’ve made over the past 8 years. Although I’ve read Martin