Wondrous Rocks at Cape Willoughby…
by Rodney Campbell on Mar.05, 2015, under Life, Photography
Whilst on the Lightstation guided tour at Cape Willoughby our guide noticed my penchant for photography and we got talking. It turns out he’s a damn fine landscape photographer and finding that I was intending on coming back for a sunrise session the next morning, he made some suggestions of where I could go shoot and how to get there.
We had some time to spare so after lunch we drove down to the nearby cove he suggested and my two eldest daughters and I went off to explore and do a recce. Travelled light with just the camera and the 24-70 along with a polariser.
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.
Checking the View
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/200 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Heading along the coast and around to the tip of land the wondrous rocky coastline was varied and amazing. Some parts bright orange covered with lichen and others just varied colours of stone. The rocks too were varied with rounded tumbled boulders through to wind and water worn rock formations thrust up out of the sea.
Climbing right out onto a high point on the rocks thrust out into the ocean I tried a couple handheld full 360˚ panorama’s. In this view I’ve stitched the sequence so that we (and my daughter who’s nicely perched on another spire of rock across a small gully from me) are looking back towards the mainland part of the island.
Wondrous Rocks
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/200 sec at f/11, ISO 100
My daughter is enjoying the scenery
Pose
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 56 mm, 1/100 sec at f/11, ISO 100
Time to head back to the car and the rest of the family waiting there.
Windward
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Weathered and Lost
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/40 sec at f/11, ISO 100
Somebody else had left these small stone piles here on the rocky beach near where we’d parked – best put them to good use.
Stones
NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 62 mm, 1/640 sec at f/4, ISO 100
Hard to believe these are all within the same small cove – all within a few hundred metres of each other.
We were looking forward to returning here and exploring this wondrous location further the next morning.
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