Photography challenge

[DerekD]

19 minutes ago, big Neil said:

How far away was the subject Derek? Did you use a tripod or monopod for these images?

bn

hi @big NeilProbably only 6 or 7m away and it was on the monopod (takes most of the weight but allows me to swing the camera pretty quickly). I had the camera lens wound right back to the low end of its capabilities but it lets me snap away without disturbing the subject matter. I took several bird ones at the dam too.

Edited September 9, 2023 by DerekD

[JonD]

A few more abstract images I snapped on my phone while picking up some timber at a hardware yard.

An old steel shipping container pained brown had some signage written on it. The paint had worn and shrunk over the years leaving these patterns.

I told my wife they were artworks in a shop down where I had been working and they were $1100 each, she said she liked them and believed they were worth it🤭

 

 

 

[JonD]

A couple more recent ones from my old phone. Any guesses on the jaws ?

 

 

Edited September 10, 2023 by JonD

[Blackfish]

Nice photos Jon. Mulloway Jaws ?.

[JonD]

20 hours ago, Blackfish said:

Nice photos Jon. Mulloway Jaws ?.

Tailor

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by JonD

[Blackfish]

Dohhhh, great set of Jaws.

[Blackfish]

Test

 

[Steve0]

Not for the (lack of artistic) photography skills, but for the subjects:

Selfie on eroded sand

The rod is 10'6". The top of the sand ledge is a tad under half the rod length. The cause was a moderate storm. When a bad one hit I could not get down, close to all sand eroded away and there was little other than rock left.

 

 

In case you need Luderick bait on the beach.

 

[Steve0]

The 2019/20 Border fire burnt to the edge of Eden, but that doesn't mean Eden was spared

About 4:45PM on 4 January it was so smokey, automated lights switched on. There is no colour tweaking. We see i as the phone camera took it (very eerie to see).

The beach was a mess of charred leaves and creatures that paid the price:

Above and below: Charred leaves achieved a depth of about 30cm in places
 

 

A single feather only hints at the scale of destruction suffered by birds

In about 1km, without digging into the charred leaves I found more than 20 birds washed ashore. Most were even sadder sights than the above. Also amongst the carnage washed up were a dead Wallaby and dead Penguin. At a guess, ocean predators had full bellies.

 

 

Bluebottles rise above debris.

[Steve0]

This photo of the black wave would have blown the size limit above.

Edited February 9 by Steve0
Typo

[JustJames]

1 hour ago, Steve0 said:

This photo of the black wave would have blown the size limit above.

 

In the aftermath of the fires, I went scuba diving in Jervis Bay with some friends.  It was touch and go whether we would be able to go at all, but just before we were due to leave the roads were open and the word from people in Jervis was "please come...we need tourist business!".  I remember on dives outside the heads finding handfuls of charred leaves in gulleys 15+ metres under water.  It was very weird being in Jervis in what should have been peak holiday season and having the place to ourselves.

 

Vaguely related...time flies!  I let my son drive there to rack up the hours on his L plates.  A few weeks ago he tore up his P's.

[Steve0]

2 hours ago, JustJames said:

 I remember on dives outside the heads finding handfuls of charred leaves in gulleys 15+ metres under water.

Charred leaves 15m under may explain the dead Leatherjacket in the char heap not mentioned above.

[Steve0]

Storm front rolling past (unedited).