tree in river

This is an alternate version of the XPan image previously posted. I often leave a few weeks before going back and assessing an image, particularly if they have been shot in in other formats. This is a morning shot taken in muted light. The sky although a little darker doesn’t compete with the trees and the river in the same way as a bright sunny sky would. This is somewhat more painterly.

sandlines and seaweed

Descriptive in different ways - I use the word ‘story’ very sparingly in relation to photography. It can make you sound pretentious especially when you don’t have a series of images that work together. These two images though show why I shoot both colour and B&W. Especially with a limited colour palette as this bottom image shows, the yellow gold can lift the image where absence of colour would not give the image the same appeal. It may not be the most striking image but it illustrates the point. And you can see why and how too much colour in an image can detract from your subject of the image as a whole. Which is why, in many instances, if not used judiciously, colour weakens your image. B&W just tells the story in a different way.

First light

I took a detour after coming off the ferry from Victoria and arriving in Tasmania at 6.30am. As fortune would have it - great timing for this scene. Intriguing with the shed with no doors. A great angle from the street. Sometimes nature does the trick, sometimes humans. In this case, both.

keeping the detail

This photo tested the dynamic range of the Fuji GFX100S. It produced the next best thing to a fog or mist in a scene. Early morning and strong light coming from the sunrise. Distant background shows some detail but the clouds all but blown out. Histogram shows full recovery of the highlights but obviously nothing visible in the cloud mass. I don’t thing there was much to see with the naked eye.

Little Grey Fergy

Tasmanians or Taswegians are given to ‘animating’ their letterboxes by turning objects into same. This is slightly different, Little Grey Fergy refers of course to the brand name of tractors - Massey Ferguson. Don’t know exactly why they have elevated its position.