Heads Up for big swells SEQ/NNSW coast – surf photos anyone?
With the east coast low currently off the coast there are big swells forecast for the next few days, accompanied by morning time low tides which will be well suited to surf/ocean photography. I’ll be off to D’bah/Snapper tomorrow and probaly Monday & Tuesday too. If anyone wants to meet up email me (I have it enabled here) for my mobile # and give me yours so I can program you in – I only answer relevant calls when I am out shooting – then just come down and look for the big yellow Kia van and ring me if you cannot find me.
Source for this is Willy Weather - http://swell.willyweather.com.au/nsw/far-north-coast/durranbah-beach.html
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Day |
Time of Low Tide(am) |
Swell (m) |
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am |
pm |
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| Sunday |
0608 |
2.8 |
3.3 |
| Monday |
0700 |
3.8 |
3.8 |
| Tuesday |
0810 |
3.6 |
3.4 |
| Wednesday |
0926 |
3.5 |
3.3 |
Lake Wakatipu at Dusk
And before you ask, yes, there is a little digital mischief here. The moon is from a frame on the same day about 2 hours earlier, I just wanted to experiment. I like the look though so it is staying. I also made up and added a texture over the whole thing just to give it a bit more ‘artistic’ feel.
This whole area is various National Parks and I am not sure which one we are looking at, but it’s all beautiful. Taken at Kinloch at the head of the lake looking east towards the Glenorchy shore Canon 1DsMkII & 24-105
Sailor’s Warning
Sailor’s Warning, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning”
Or substitute shepherd for sailor if you are a landlubber! And is it true?
From www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/weather-sailor.html:
“Red sky at night, sailors delight.”
When we see a red sky at night, this means that the setting sun is sending its light through a high concentration of dust particles. This usually indicates high pressure and stable air coming in from the west. Basically good weather will follow.
“Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.”
A red sunrise reflects the dust particles of a system that has just passed from the west. This indicates that a storm system may be moving to the east. If the morning sky is a deep fiery red, it means a high water content in the atmosphere. So, rain is on its way.
And I am always fascinated how the light refraction can make the sun visible before it is over the horizon.
From Wikipedia:
Sunrise is the instant at which the upper edge of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. Sunrise should not be confused with dawn, which is the (variously defined) point at which the sky begins to lighten, some time before the sun itself appears, ending twilight. Because atmospheric refraction causes the sun to be seen while it is still below the horizon, both sunrise and sunset are, from one point of view, optical illusions.
As sunrise and sunset are calculated from the leading and trailing edges of the sun, and not the centre, the duration of “day” is slightly longer than “night”. Further, because the light from the sun is bent by the atmospheric refraction, the sun is still visible after it is geometrically below the horizon.
Sunrise, 3 September 2010 from Terranora on far north coast NSW, AUstralia. H2 & 50-110 zoom, f5, 1/100, ISO 100 (3-09-10-CF034972)
Morning Mist #2 CRW_1241
Morning Mist #2 CRW_1241, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
Some re-edits from my trip to Doon Doon early one morning in March 2005. Just wanted to play round with what could be done to bring up the ‘mist and mystery’.
Dreaming of Clouds
Dreaming of Clouds , originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
The soft dreamy looking clouds caught my eye this morning. This is actually photographed through a (none too clean) window but I rather like the slightly grainy effect.
Lumix FZ35 – P1050952
By the Dawn’s Early Light
By the Dawn’s Early Light, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
Another shot from my 2008 dawn trip. Now I know more about editing I can finally get these to look the way I’d always envisaged. The rays were really strong but they came up very flat in my initial editing, but then I only had PS Elements version 3!
Morning Mist, Doon Doon
Morning Mist, Doon Doon, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
A re-edit of some old shots from the 300D, this one was taken on an early morning drive in March 2005
Morning Has Broken
Morning Has Broken, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
Another from my early drive yesterday. It was impossible to leave the shed out – I would have had to stand in a 6″ deep mud puddle and I wasn’t feeling that dedicated!
Morning has broken
Morning has broken, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
I was experimenting with the drop shadow effect for framing – looks pretty nice too. Thanks for the tips, William!
Sunrays from my ‘photo window’ 9 September 2010
H2 50-110
Swell sunrise sans sculptures
As I have been threatened and lambasted for sharing images of what I considered beautiful works by talented (but, ultimately, small minded) people, here is my original Swell sunrise shot reworked with Chi Phan’s very nice sculpture cloned out.
17 Sept 2010, H2 x 2 shot pano, 50-110 lens
Care to Vote for my Image?
I have entered my image Old Jetty Remains, Kinloch, which is my all time most popular image on RedBubble and several other groups where I have it up, in the 2012 World in Focus Travel Photography Contest.
If any of my readers would care to vote for it I’d be stoked. The link is here.
Cheers from Odille
18 September 2011 | Categories: Commentary, Competitions, Landscape Photography, Marketing, Public Art, sunrise/sunset | 2 Comments »