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There are a few ocean outflow pipes heading straight out over the beach and out to sea along Sydney’s famous Manly beach. Probably best not to think too much about what goes out of these into the ocean :(…

Drained Arrow

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 92 sec at f/11, ISO 100

Got a late night hitup from my friend Gerry to shoot sunrise the next morning :). Scrambling for ideas we looped through a number of scenarios and eventually came back to these. We’d both never shot the pipes on Manly beach before so figured what the heck…

I’d arrived about fifteen minutes before Gerry so wandered down onto the beach where this single pipe was located.

Tried my hand at a few early twilight natural long exposures. I decided for this I wanted to stand back a little from the pipe and use a longer lens to get the pipe to feel larger in the frame. The fact that I’d likely keep my feet dry doing this never crossed my mind.

The first image above was at 5:15AM, still 40 minutes till sunrise.

Torpedoed

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 20 sec at f/11, ISO 50

I tried a few angles, down very low and standing up much higher, as in the image above.

The actual sunrise was looking like a bit of a bust. Quite a bit of cloud right down low on the horizon was likely to kill any chance of anything spectacular. It did make for some nice pastels before sunrise however.

Pastel Flow

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm, 31 sec at f/11, ISO 50

Gerry had arrived at the southern end of the beach where the double pipes were. I chanced one more shot angled more from the side and then made a move to join him.

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