Category: Travel

Taken on vacation trips

Beach Stroll

This photoblog actually started out as a “Featured Photos” page on LiveJournal almost a year ago in December 2003. I decided to migrate it to Blogger recently after Blogger’s features were upgraded after it was bought over by Google. Since the migration, I have been working behind the scenes to migrate the old entries from LiveJournal over to this new format. In the meantime, here’s a picture from the past which I personally like very much and which was featured as one of the very first entries of my old photoblog.

This is one of my recent favourite shots taken at the Busselton jetty in Western Australia. This jetty is the longest jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, extending 2km from the shore into the sea. Brilliant sunshine and weather meant that many people were enjoying themselves by the beach. Even the seagulls were enjoying the sun! Caught this moment of a mother and child strolling by the jetty. I love the shadows cast by the mother and child as well as the running action of the kid, which gave some dynamism to their profiles.

Exposure information: ISO 200, Shutter speed: 1/320 seconds, Aperture: f/18.0, 35mm effective FL: 62mm. Metering mode: Centre Weighted Average.

Unwavering Spirit

Originally titled “Spirit of the Desert“, this shot (taken at the Pinnacles Desert at Nambung National Park, Western Australia last year) was renamed “Unwavering Spirit” for a competition which I took part in recently. Unfortunately, the judges did not like the shot enough to award it a prize ;p However, it remains still, a favourite of mine in terms of lighting, composition as well as the interesting contrast of lines and patterns.

The Runaway Shadow

Australia ranks as one of my top destinations for photography currently 🙂 I had the pleasure to visit the country twice (once in September, and again in Novemeber last year) and came home with lots nice pictures.

This is one particularly memorable one taken off Busselton Jetty, Western Australia. A little girl playing along the sunny coast cast a striking shadow on the pristine sands. I had the advantage of a high view point when capturing this shot. The tricky bit was the exposure. Due to the high contrast between the reflected light off the water and the girl, I had to underexpose the shot generally so as not to blow the highlights in the water. I am thankful for the RAW capabilities of my camera though: the details in the sand and in the girl were later restored with the help of post-processing of the RAW file coupled with levels adjustments in Photoshop.