After a relaxing few days off, sunday found me with a bit of excess energy, so I decided to climb up Kimberley's Lookout near Sheffield to take some sunset pictures, the light quality was well worth the effort. 
Unfortunately my leg muscles protested for a couple of days about the unfair treatment, I really should be putting more effort into my fitness ,if only to give me more photographic opportunities. Add Comment Yesterday I whiled away some hours filling up a memory card of images at Home Hill on Middle Road in Devonport, Tasmania. The House is a national trust building, it was built by Joseph and Enid Lyons in 1916, Joe was a Tasmanian Politician who went on to become Prime Minister of Australia. The Home is open to the public and for a small price you get a very detailed tour, provided by dedicated volunteers. The home is full of gorgeous furnishings, handmade items made by Dame Enid who was a Politician in her own right after her husband passed away, theirs' is quite an amazing story, much of which you will hear on the tour. 
In the hours I was there I only managed to get through 3 rooms and a few outside, but there's plenty of time to go back again and again. Lake Mackenzie is yet another hydro lake in Tasmania with a reputation as a trout fishing location. We'll put it down to the wrong time of day that now fish were caught or even seen. The Lake with it's level well down provided plenty of Photographic opportunities for me while Nathan tried to offer the trout a range of his flies. There was plenty to photograph but the long dead trees that are very often submerged beneath the lake were the most eye catching. 
The small village of Kimberly just on the boundary between the Meander and Kentish shires has a little yellow church perched up on a rise above the main road. I've driven past this little church on numerous occasions and thought, I wish I had my camera or I really should stop and photograph that. Yesterday I finally stopped and spent a few minutes taking a small selection of shots, hopefully I'll go back again when the light is different or find out who has a key and take some inside photos too.
Once again I visited the Don Headlands, near Devonport, the rock formations are really amazing, columns of Basalt and tessellated paving that all formed through volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. The headlands are slowly being eroded, by the sea, weather and the humans that use the area, I wonder how long it will be till the last columns will disappear from this feature. 
Oh Yes more bubbles! It doesn't matter if it's a river stream or water fall, the bubbles and droplets are there waiting to be photographed. But yesterday I discovered a very cool little phenomenon through my lens, when shutting my aperture way down, and using a longish exposure focusing on the surface of the river, I came out with light trails squiggling all over the place. I haven't made captures like this before so it was nice to come home with a new image or 10. 
A picturesque landscape with an artfully blurred waterfall.... I'm over that! I absolutely love the dynamic shapes and forms of moving water which can barely be seen by the naked eye, but at 2000th of a second or even less the forms are like glass. You've probably read these sentiments before, but today was a recharge day for me, going out and photographing in my 'zone', just for me. I hope others see something in my images too, but really I'm just taking them for me. Guide Falls at Ridgley near Burnie, Tasmania was the first stop for my recharge day, I love the water and the basalt rock formations are pretty cool too. Tomorrow I'll up load my second session from the day.  The Wide shot  Getting closer, looking at the falls with in falls  Impact, as the falling water reaches the bottom of the falls and meets the surface of the the stream  Very Close now, looking over the edge at the top of the falls, and the way the water meets the rock The black basalt formations at the mouth of the Don River near Devonport, Tasmania are the main feature of this short series of photos. 
 Well weather and family commitments still managed to keep me home again this afternoon, so I decided to get the collapsable light tent out and take a few still life shots. The shells come mainly from Groote Eylandt in the NT, but a few are from the beaches of Tasmania.   I don't currently posess a proper macro lens, that well down the list this images were capture using a 50mm lens with a couple of close up filters attached. The camera was on a tripod and OCF shot through the light tent.   Obviously the colour and tone of the images have been altered, I used a lightroom preset called BoonDoggle2, but this was adjusted for individual photos too. |  AuthorTasmanian based, New Zealand born, Photographer Kelly Slater ArchivesMay 2012 CategoriesAll |
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