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 Devil's Gate Dam is part of the Mersey-Forth Hydro Power scheme, situated at the lower end of Lake Barrington - it was commissioned in 1969 and even now is quite a sight.


From time to time the Dam overflows, I missed it last year but next time I'm going to get there.

According to the plaque on site at the dam the rock foundations are Chert, the exposed rock faces on the road leading down to the dam are quite intriguing.

Form, Texture, Tone and a moment stopped in time, the still fluid water washes over what was once molten magma.

The sun was shinning and the birds were chirping and there was no way I was staying at home. But after driving up the coast the day before I didn't want to be out all day again.

So after a quick search of the local councils website I picked a short walk (not so short because I'm not so fit) not to far from here. 

About 5mins into the 90min walk I found this cool little creek, the water was clear but tannin stained, and there was an amazing array of bubble formations, I filled an 8GB card in 10mins and had to pull myself away to complete the walk and gain the view from the top of the hill.

Needless to say I filled the rest of my second 8GB card with bubbles on the way back down the track.

Domestic duties completed for the day, I packed up the car with: camera, tripod, gumboots and a couple of snacks.

After dutifully letting Mr Slater know where I was heading, I took off towards Deloraine and then Liffey Falls.

Even though I hadn't been to these fall before I had a pretty good idea of what to expect as photos abound on redbubble and google earth - hence the gumboots, I was hoping to get a few different shots from the far side of the river.

Unfortunately it became evident within a few seconds of my first steps into the river that there was a hole in my gumboot and me being the softy that I am I couldn't quite bring myself to spend much time in the river with increasingly wet and cold foot.

I did venture off the bank but it require quite a bit of effort to compose, and focus the camera on the tripod while standing on one foot, so I didn't get far.