Category Archives: Night Photography

Beneath our Southern Skies

This morning I headed down to Cathedral Rocks at Kiama Downs for a dawn seascape session with Stanley Kozak. The forecast was for decent cloud over, but unusually, it turned out to be wrong, and the sky was completely cloudless, apart … Continue reading

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A Wonderful Hunter Birthday Weekend

The 2012 anniversary of the day I took up residence on this here planet fell quite recently, and Xenedette decided to surprise me with a short trip away and some very pleasurable experiences (get your minds out of the gutter). … Continue reading

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Feature Article in Australian Photography Magazine – November, 2011

A few months ago, I was asked by Robert Keeley, the editor of Australian Photography magazine, if I would consider writing a feature for the magazine. I had sent some images for the magazine’s competition, and when he received them … Continue reading

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Lonely Darkroom: Light Painting Revisited

Here’s a nocturnal urban landscape I shot at Sydney’s Middle Head Fort using creative light painting techniques back in 2009. I had never published it until now. To create this image I used a combination of fluorescent white light and … Continue reading

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Sydney Skyline from Balmain East

Headed out this afternoon for a shoot (the first in a while). I wanted a cityscape, but not from one of the usual locations (eg, Sydney Cove) and not containing the usual subjects (ie, the SHB or SOH).  After some … Continue reading

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Archibald Fountain at Twilight

Tonight I had the opportunity for an evening twilight shoot. I hadn’t shot a ‘scape since January, so it was time I headed out. I decided to shoot the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park.  I arrived quite early and had … Continue reading

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Darling Harbour by Twilight

Last night I had plans for some twilight photography. This is one of the images I shot: This image has been given HDR treatment with Photomatix Pro, with four exposures used to composite the HDR image.  Post-processing included: increasing overall … Continue reading

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Summer Sunset over Long Reef

Until this week I hadn’t shot a seascape (or much of anything) for quite a few months. I’ve been on a hiatus of sorts, and generally disinterested in photographing or being involved with much concerning photography. On Wednesday night I … Continue reading

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Lonely Path

I took Dave for a dusk seascape shoot at Long Reef yesterday evening (my first seascape shoot in many months), and while we captured some pleasing images of a beautiful sunset on the reef (more images to come later), it … Continue reading

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Camp Cove Twilight

Most of my outdoor landscape/seascape photography takes place around dawn. Tonight I broke with tradition and shot at dusk.  Sure, I’m still incredibly fussy about light and tend to avoid the bright, glary stuff which is present for most daylight … Continue reading

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