Rodney Campbell's Blog

My eldest daughter and I had a photography inspired weekend trip away in the freezy Blue Mountains area of Oberon (3 hours drive west of Sydney). We’d joined a number of other photography enthusiasts from our local camera club for a few days of photographic fun out in the countryside. We were all staying at a farm stay up in the hills outside of Oberon where it was cool and crisp – although perhaps not quite as cold as I’d been expecting – unseasonably warm weather the locals said 🙂

Note: These photographs (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 lovely colours and the slight rise up the paddock to the road made for a perfect silhouette subject with the trees and fences on the ridge

Standing for Sunset

NIKON D600 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 102 mm, 1/20 sec at f/4.5, ISO 400

We’d actually arrived at the farm stay just on sunset. A shot a little earlier from our balcony towards some distant hills just lit by the setting sun – a fortuitous positioning of rock formation and clouds…

Smoke Signals

NIKON D600 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 300 mm, 1/200 sec at f/6.3, ISO 640

It was a very cool and clear evening (and we were a long way from the light pollution of the big cities) so we figured we’d try some shots of the stars – again from our balcony :)…

Oberon Milk

NIKON D600 + 15.0 mm f/2.8 @ 15 mm, 15 sec at f/2.8, ISO 6400

Later that evening a few of us headed down to Oberon to the large factory they have there since it is lit up and operating at night

Moonbase Alpha

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 19 mm, 60 sec at f/8, ISO 100

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