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So… more Sculpture By The Sea… this time it’s “Our Memory in Your Place” by Byeong Doo Moon from South Korea (and for a measly 128 thousand dollars it could be yours).

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.

Some lovely metal feathered plumage fanned out waiting to catch the first rays of sunrise. Fifteen minutes to go now…

Feathered Friends

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 56 mm, 4 sec at f/11, ISO 100

I then went for a wander around the rest of Tamarama beach to explore the other sculptures there and half an hour later when I came back Ana and Alison were deep in orb country 🙂

With the sun up but shrouded in orange fog I gave our feathered friend a try with their orbs and the trusty 24-70 I had mounted at the time.

Tripple Your Luck

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 1/80 sec at f/11, ISO 180

Wing Span

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 52 mm, 1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 100

The following is one of those rare times for me, it’s an unusual shot. I’m scouting out a scene and picturing in my mind how I think it’s going to look after I setup and make the shot but the end result turns out to be an unexpected surprise and somewhat completely different to how I’d anticipated.

I’m usually pretty good at estimating what the effect will be when I setup the camera in certain ways. In this case the sun was up and it was quite bright by now. I liked the look of this green rock out at the waters edge with the waves rushing over it with each forward push. I wanted to get a shot where it was pretty isolated in the sand and water and lengthen the exposure with some heavy neutral density filters to simplify the water and sky.

I wasn’t looking to get the sun in the frame but I was somewhat forced to point it’s way to exclude some of the distracting rock on the right side. I loaded up the Lee Little Stopper and got things going. What I hadn’t anticipated was the effect of the mysterious foggy cloud over the sun and the horizon and the sort of mist hanging about in the air this morning.

The exposure didn’t end up being as long as I was expecting – a mere 1.3 seconds and not the tens of seconds I thought might happen (I’d need the BigStopper for that). Plus the results of all this fog made for a really dreamy look – it’s not my usual style but it’s growing on me…

Anticipation

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 31 mm, 1.30 sec at f/11, ISO 100

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