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Elfin Light

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 70 mm, 178 sec at f/16, ISO 100

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Week 39

I’ve been away for a couple of weeks so I’ve missed doing some street photography…

I decided to go for a really long exposure architectural street image theme this week. This was taken with a 10 stop ND filter in the middle of the day to get a long enough exposure (2 minutes) to get some streaky cloud movement.

Planet X

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 12 mm, 120 sec at f/20, ISO 100 + ND3.0

Our last day in Cairns… I got up early to catch the sunrise from the rocky headland at the southern end of Trinity beach this time.

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

Dawn’s Light

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 1 sec at f/16, ISO 100 + 0.9GND

Jagged and Smooth

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 12 mm, 1.3 sec at f/16, ISO 100 + 0.9GND

After breakfast we packed up and headed out to nearby Crystal Cascades. Here I’ve used the ten stop ND filter to slow time and allow the water to flow, it wasn’t really an ideal time to take these types of shots – oh for a nice overcast day…

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 98 mm, 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 640

Crystal Cascades

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 75 mm, 30 sec at f/9, ISO 100 + ND3.0

We then spent the rest of the day before flying out in the evening in Cairns…

Aerial

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 12 mm, 1/60 sec at f/4, ISO 1400

Spent the day lazing around (recovering from our big day out on the reef).

Went for a walk along the full length of the beach outside our place and captured a few shots of the family having fun on the sand along with a another group of small children having a great time at the beach…

Searching for Pippies

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 145 mm, 1/250 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

Life’s a Beach

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 165 mm, 1/250 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

Run!

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 155 mm, 1/320 sec at f/5.6, ISO 100

That night we walked to a local restaurant where we had a great meal (after I shot a few sunset photos over the lagoon – a nice stable stone wall made for a great “tripod”).

Trinity Sunset

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 13 mm, 2 sec at f/11, ISO 100

As we were walking back to our apartment I noticed these lily flowers (which were down in a water drain channel) were blooming (I think they might only come out at night because they were all closed whenever I saw them during the day) so after we got back to the room I grabbed my gear and came back to take a few shots as I light painted the flowers with my LED torch.

This particular one is half lit on one side by street lighting on the other side of the road (thus the orange glow) and I lit from the other side with my torch which has a much cooler light (thus the white) – note that the flower petals are actually just white when normally lit to the naked eye.

Night Lilly

NIKON D7000 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 145 mm, 30 sec at f/13, ISO 100

We spent the day out on the Great Barrier Reef with a small tour company (Seastar Cruises). We left early around 8AM with a small tour group of about 30 passengers.

The trip out was nice and smooth and took about an hour to get out to Michaelmas Cay where we all spent some time snorkelling and swimming in the clear, calm waters of the reef around this sandy coral cay. The weather was fantastic and the scenery perfect…

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

The Cay

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 13 mm, 1/250 sec at f/6.3, ISO 100

Turquoise Reef

NIKON D7000 + 12.0-24.0 mm f/4.0 @ 12 mm, 1/250 sec at f/6.3, ISO 100

After lunch on board we headed over to Hastings Reef for another few hours snorkelling in the outer reef. The wind was picking up in the afternoon so the water was much choppier and the ride back to Cairns was a lot rougher and two of my daughters were looking decidedly green and one well… lost her lunch lets say…