Photography
••• Easter Photography •••
Taken with my Canon Powershot A40 and then cleaned up just a little bit in Photoshop.
Those are my shoes, along with some sand and prints in said sand... I wasn't sure what kind of mood I was going for, but that's what I got. Lighting has been adjusted very slightly with the use of a "soft light" layer and a gaussian blur of 2.0 pixels.
With this one, the tide was coming in while I was down on the beach, and, standing to capture the water as it filled the channel with my jeans rolled up to my knees on the opposite bank, it was rather wet and the wind coming off the ocean was cold, too. Again, I have tinkered slightly with the lighting in Photoshop, the top of the rock being blown out unintentionally by a soft-light gaussian blur trick again.
Footprints in the sand, the tracks of so many different people meandering up and down the beach all day long. Again, I have done only the subtlest bit of editing, just because I can.
Classic beach scene.
Early morning as the sun is rising above the ocean, spilling warm light over the world. Minimal editing done on this one. It's the same photo my icon was made from.
The flood of a little pool. The water came up to my knees and I waded in through it, soaking my jeans and making the material really uncomfortably heavy.
The tide of that little pool and the shoreline surrounding the area. You would think that the weather would wear the rocks down so they were smooth, but they were jagged and the edges cut into my feet.
The cliff leads up to a cemetary overlooking the vast expanse of ocean. There's graves dating back to the early 1900's and some even before that. The way up can be seen if you look closely.
The ochre of the rock stands out beautifully against the azure and aquamarine of the sky and the sea. On the same end of the beach as the photo before this one.
My feet... they're tiny.
This is the beach on the other of the side of the cliffs. To get over to this side of the beach, you have to climb up a cliff, walk through the scrub along a pathway in the cemetary, and down the scrabbly pebbly rock edifice that scares me shitless so I go down on my arse.
This is the same expanse of beach as in the previous photo, just from a lot further down the path. The pebbly slipping rocks that you walk down to get to here are so scary because one missed step and you could really hurt yourself going down.
A little bit of a caved area. Can't really remember much about where it was taken.
This rock here is called Dragon Rock, as it looked like a dragon's head the first time we saw it back in 1998-- and it's eroded greatly since then.
Dragon Rock as seen from a distance.
More beach and rocks.
The waves splashing against rocks, and in the distance is Montague Island-- the name, if I remember rightly, has nothing to do with Romeo and Juliet in spite of it having a name from the play.
Caves! Or what could later turn into caves with erosion.
Fishermen on the rocks.
And another one where there's also fishermen.