May 28 2009
Size Does Matter
Big is pretty much always better right? Well, when it comes to personalities that is definitely the case with my miniature poodle. She thinks she’s as big as an elephant! In reality, this is more like it:
Archive for May, 2009
May 21 2009
Auto Wreckage Art
Imagine walking along a well populated inner city street, in a world famous city, and seeing a giant rock on top of a car in the middle of the road. The rock has landed right in the middle of the car’s roof and would have either seriously injured, or killed the occupant of the car on impact.
May 14 2009
You Can Be Part Of The Story
A well looked after garden is always nice to look at. I recently discovered a tourist attraction which has created new meaning to the art of gardening. This place is amazing, and sits amongst wineries in the famous Hunter Valley. It is appropriately named Hunter Valley Gardens.
Here is their austere Border Garden:
May 07 2009
Photographing Contrast
Taking photographs of high contrast landscape scenes can be a bit problematic. Generally, you have to give up something - wash out the sky, or dramatically underexpose the foreground. These are the choices I recently had to make. It would have helped if I had a graduated Neutral Density (ND) filter…
Here is a sunset shot. I really wanted to capture the amazing colour in the sky, so underexposing the foreground was the only choice. But, I happen to like the silhouette look that results - it makes the image a little more dramatic.
