Thanks! You'd better go soon if you want to see the Maheno; I've been told it's going to be removed soon. Not that you need an excuse to go to Fraser (I think), but still...
Midnight Oil just happened to be on my boss' radio when I posted these pictures. Rather appropriate, I think. :-)
They're beautiful (the vagaries of a discussion on light are lost on me, I'm afraid) but I'm drawn to images of decay, particularly shipwrecks. They're just so evocative, particularly a big one like that in such an idyllic setting.
Sounds like you had an infuriating experience with the tour, that's too bad.
Thank you! I'm glad you like them, warts and all. I agree it was a perfectly evocative shipwreck, which is why I was so frustrated to have to share it with so many others. I would have loved to stand there peering at the ship and losing myself in fantasies of what heart-breaking events might have taken place on board in its day. Alas, it was not to be...
In actual fact, the tour was excellent. True, I wasn't happy to have to leave the wreck so quickly, but that really was the only blemish on an otherwise fabulous trip. I had a great time on Fraser.
i agree with your selection, no. 1 is beautiful. even though i'm more into b&w, the beautiful color in this shot produces the sort of photograph that makes you wish you were there, shoes off and walking in the sand.
Yeah, I wish they'd all turned out like that one. But I'll shut up about that now. :-)
A walk on the beach sounds rather good to me now. Perhaps I should go to the beach today, rather than stay at home and edit beach photos. Hmmm. I shall ponder this notion...
I have no idea what it must be like not to have a beach around. I've always lived close to beaches. Even in England and Taiwan, where I lived more inland than I do in Holland, the sea was an easy day trip away. I like creeks, though, so I think you should go to yours and throw stones into it, or even build a stone castle in the water... (I'm in a childish mood today. Forgive me.)
Alas, the weather isn't too conducive to a trip to the beach right now. We were promised a nice and sunny weekend, but the sun has yet to materialise...
I love the first picture, especially the gorgeously saturated colours.
I hear your frustration with the tour - that sort of thing has happened to me too many times. They always whisk me away from the things I'm interested in, to make sure we get plenty of time in the carpet factory or whatever else it might be. However, I'm looking at some of these pictures and thinking, if you had photographed it from the other side, wouldn't you (and potentially the camera) have got rather wet?
I told you I'd be back! I needed a bit more time than I thought, but I found my way back to the fold eventually. :-)
Yes, there would have been some wetness if I had gone over to the other side of the ship, but I think I would have been willing to suffer for my art, so to speak. The waves weren't that big. I don't recall if I actually saw anyone take pictures from that side, but I think it would have been doable.
Tours can be infuriating, can't they? As I said to mephistophela, though, this was pretty much my only gripe with the Fraser tour. The rest of it was quite fabulous. And the guide probably would have had an angry mob on his hands if another stop-over at the shipwreck had caused them to miss out on the only good sunset in all of eastern Australia. Not that they got their sunset in the end, but you know what I mean.
tours can be good or bad. i recall touring the tower of london and absolutely the best part of it was the beefeater leading the tour, an old army sergeant with a wonderful sense of humor.
Funny guides can make up for any missed photo opportunity. I recall visiting a palace in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a guide who liked to play up the old Scottish-English rivalry. I'm sure he'd told his jokes a thousand times before, but they worked -- I kept laughing throughout the tour, and didn't mind not getting any good shots!
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cool music you are listening to as well!!
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Midnight Oil just happened to be on my boss' radio when I posted these pictures. Rather appropriate, I think. :-)
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Sounds like you had an infuriating experience with the tour, that's too bad.
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In actual fact, the tour was excellent. True, I wasn't happy to have to leave the wreck so quickly, but that really was the only blemish on an otherwise fabulous trip. I had a great time on Fraser.
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A walk on the beach sounds rather good to me now. Perhaps I should go to the beach today, rather than stay at home and edit beach photos. Hmmm. I shall ponder this notion...
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of course, i could always go down to the creek and throw stones into the water. that's satisfying :)
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Alas, the weather isn't too conducive to a trip to the beach right now. We were promised a nice and sunny weekend, but the sun has yet to materialise...
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I love the first picture, especially the gorgeously saturated colours.
I hear your frustration with the tour - that sort of thing has happened to me too many times. They always whisk me away from the things I'm interested in, to make sure we get plenty of time in the carpet factory or whatever else it might be. However, I'm looking at some of these pictures and thinking, if you had photographed it from the other side, wouldn't you (and potentially the camera) have got rather wet?
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Yes, there would have been some wetness if I had gone over to the other side of the ship, but I think I would have been willing to suffer for my art, so to speak. The waves weren't that big. I don't recall if I actually saw anyone take pictures from that side, but I think it would have been doable.
Tours can be infuriating, can't they? As I said to mephistophela, though, this was pretty much my only gripe with the Fraser tour. The rest of it was quite fabulous. And the guide probably would have had an angry mob on his hands if another stop-over at the shipwreck had caused them to miss out on the only good sunset in all of eastern Australia. Not that they got their sunset in the end, but you know what I mean.
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