Long exposures

Kwinana jetty has long been a favorite haunt for local photographers  It got bashed up by a storm a few years back and has been decaying ever since, which makes it interesting It faces pretty much due west, so the sunset is always directly at the end of the jetty As it decayed, it left leading lines to the sunset which are great subject…

Absentee landlord..

Wow – I’ve been really slack on here.  To be honest, I almost forgot about blogging – then you get into a bad habit of not making time for blogging and before you know it, months have passed and no updates .  Or in my case, 6 months. Oops. Life has been a bit rinse repeat of late – working hard, still recovering from my…

Trip to Penguin Island

We’re pretty lucky here in the Southern Hemisphere.  Perth is far away from the world and very beautiful. The downside is that we have all kinds of wildlife that is out to get us here,  but we also have tiny fairy penguins.  And they live on Penguin Island, only a few hundred metres off the coast near Rockingham, conveniently, only a short drive from my place.

Lightning Strikes

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before, but we get some awesome storms here in Western Australia.  They are mostly just packed with rain and wind, but from time to time, they come bearing violent electrical goodies. So when I heard the rumbles of thunder across the ocean, naturally, I went down to check it out.

A trip to the wheatbelt – Canola fields

Springtime in the wheatbelt means yellow canola fields as far as the eye can see. Well, not quite, but it does seem a bit like it from some vantage points.  it was a lovely day, I had some time so I jumped in the car and headed out to York, which is a couple of hours drive from me to see if I could…

Experiments with motion

Timing is everything. Usually, work and my commute dictate my timetable and I don’t get an opportunity to get to the beach with the camera, but weekends are a different story. And as luck would have it today, timing lined up perfectly and I got down to the beach with the versatile little X100T to take some abstract sunset pictures.  

First signs of spring

Seasons are a bit vague here in Perth. If you judged Perth climate by UK summer – we have summer all year round. Autumn is a week of changing leaves between 35 degree summer days and the start of rain and a cool change Winter comes and goes, but only exerts itself hard enough to warrant a jacket for a few weeks. It can be wet…

Sundays on the bike

Winter in Perth has been a bit two faced this year.  If it’s not lovely sunny and very unwinter like, it’s been hammering it down with rain and utterly miserable! Anyways – after an whole weekend of torrential rain and damp overcast skies, the sun poked through around lunchtime on Sunday and the afternoon was perfect for a ride and scrub in that new back…

Winter sunset.

As winter approaches, the skies become awesome again. Not that clear blue skies with endless sunshine over summer isn’t awesome – it’s just that autumn and winter do sunsets better. I was on the roof at the weekend, clearing out the guttering, as you do (well, as we do here in Australia – the gutters are stupidly designed and can’t cope with the rainfall…

Storm season

You know winter is coming to Perth when the rains arrive. We have a remarkably livable climate here. For most of the year it’s pretty much awesome – can be a bit too hot in the summer, and the lack of insulation and central heating can make winter a bit chilly, but for the most part – it’s peachy. But did you know we get…