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at the beach, Sydney 2019. Leica IIIc Cosina-Voigtlander 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar LTM, Ilford FP4+ in ID-11 1+3. V700 scan.
The perfect spot to get some sun and check out Sydney harbour on a hot summer's day - near Smedley's Point, Manly, NSW
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- Bathers relaxing & enjoying the sun, surf & sand at Stanley Bay Beach in Alexandria during the inter-war years.
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- Original postcard purchased by my late father-in-law, Australian Army 2/1 Anti Tank Regiment Driver Tom Beazley, while on extended leave in Alexandria.
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- Digitized (using a Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner.
- Restored from the badly faded, scratched original quality, using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows (sepia duo-tone version).
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- Bathers relaxing & enjoying the sun, surf & sand at Stanley Bay Beach in Alexandria during the inter-war years.
- Commercial signs (left to right) can be seen advertising - "Toccos" cigarettes, "Optraex" (Optrex) eye care products, "S. Pellegrino" orangeade, "King of the Damned" movie (released in 1935).
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- Original postcard purchased by my late father-in-law, Australian Army 2/1 Anti Tank Regiment Driver Tom Beazley, while on extended leave in Alexandria.
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- Digitized (using a Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner.
- Restored from the badly faded, scratched original quality, using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0 (duotoned version).
summer at Manly beach, Sydney 2018. Leica IIIf Leitz Elmar 5cm f/3.5 Kodak Ektar 100. Exposure 1/200 @f/8. V700 scan.
Sydney summer 2018 near Manly beach. Rollei 35S 40mm f/2.8 Sonnar Agfa APX100 in Rodinal 1+50. V700 scan.
This lazy sunbaking penguin was happy to have its photo taken as it basked in the mid-morning sun on Haast Beach, on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.
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late summer at Dee Why beach, Sydney 2019. Leica CL M-Rokkor 40mm f/2, Ilford HP5+ in XTOL 1+2. V700 scan.
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Located in the centre of town, Horseshoe Bay is the most popular beach with locals and visitors alike. Featuring grassy headlands to picnic on, a sandy beach to sunbake, a sheltered cove to swim in and a 180 degree view from the mountains to Trial Bay. Horseshoe Bay is home to an excellent right hand wave that’s the locals' choice when we have east coast lows.
Length – 200m
Four Wheel Drive Access – Prohibited
Surf Lifesaving Patrol – Yes on weekends and during holiday season. Always swim between the flags and obey the life guards.
The difference in colours depends on where these lizards are. In this one the small Western Bearded (or Dwarf) Dragon, Pogono minor minor, is sunning itself on the top of a small bush in the scrub and taking on the darker colours of its surroundings. This makes the markings on its body much more pronounced than another I saw in the same area on a log.
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Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 100-400/5-6.3 IS
ISO200 f/10 361mm 0ev
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 9.7, colour graded in Nik 9 Color Efex and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Sydney summer 2018 near Manly beach. Rollei 35S 40mm f/2.8 Sonnar Agfa APX100 in Rodinal 1+50. V700 scan.
Sunbaking in the warm morning light, even with their whole body and maybe half the brain sleeping, their eyes were constantly surveying the surrounding. Always watching.....
This wild duck was a male Mallard, easily identifiable by its gleaming green head, white neck ring, and brown chest.
Just acquired this Mamiya 645 210mm f/4 N medium format lens for my M645 1000S body. Coupled it with a Fotodiox Pro adapter to my Nikon D7000 to try out some digital captures, it is a pretty good tele. The quailty of the Mamiya lens is just super. A bit heavy due to its professional-grade all-metal contruction. Manual focus only. D7000 supports stop down metering, and that works really well.
sun baking at Manly beach, Sydney, 2017. Leica IIIc Cosina-Voigtlander 21mm f/4 LTM Ferrania P30 in XTOL 1+1.
Manly beach, Sydney, summer 2019. Olympus OM4-Ti, OM Zuiko 35mm f/2, New Kodak Ektachrome 100 exposed at +2/3 to +1EV. Noritsu photo lab scan 2400dpi. No colour adjustment. Minor tone adjustment in LR6.
...making the most of the sunshine, high up in a stringybark, after a few cool, overcast days... sunbaking, scratching, stretching... unusual to see a cuckoo around here at this time of year. It was my understanding that they head north for the cooler months, then flood back down in the early Spring... anyway, it was nice to see one going about its business
Tamarama is a beachside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Tamarama is located 7 kilometres east of the Sydney CBD.
Tamarama has a small but perfectly formed ocean beach located about 1 kilometre south of the world famous Bondi Beach and a couple of hundred metres north of Bronte Beach. The suburb is mostly residential and the beach and adjacent parklands have been popular places for recreation such as swimming, surfing, sunbaking and picnics for more than a century. The best aspects of Tamarama are its pretty landscapes, gully, parks, beach, ocean, quiet surrounds and convenient location nestled between Bondi and Bronte beaches.
source: www.en.wikipedia.org
Sydney is having a sustained, hot summer. On the day I took the photo the temperature was around 100 on the old scale or 38 in Centigrade. When it is that hot thousands of young people head to the beaches in Sydney where there are more than 30. We really are blessed here in that regard. Bondi is our best beach for crowds and surfing. Sand is fine, too, and squeaks under your feet.
This beach is 700 metres wide and the sand perhaps 100 metres to the surf. So people don't hang out near the walls except at both the north and south ends of the beach where it is narrower. So there is a big gap to where the people are lying and that is great for doing a panorama because there is no one in the foreground. It isn't easy taking a panorama when the surf is big like on the day. You have to work quickly so that the surf doesn't change too much from frame to frame. Otherwise it will be almost impossible to stitch using software. I use Autopano Giga but gave up after a day trying to get everything right. Photoshop saved the day and did an excellent stitch where most people are clear and sharp. Another possibility is to have a camera that allows one to rapidly take many photos as you pan across the scene. The camera needs a large buffer. Sony A6500 would work but not full frame. A99II would also do the job.
As you can see most the people here are youthful. We have thousands of backpackers from all over the world heading downunder for our summer. They weren't disappointed this year. Local Aussies are there as well but the mix is such that you really can't tell who is who.
You can see that Brazil has influenced what the women wear while almost all the men wear board shorts. Women wear less and the men are covering up! A few topless women among all the topless men. Most women cover up to reduce the risk of skin cancer. Yet, look at how many are lying there sunbaking. Experienced Australians know skin cancers are real and many have had some burned off by skin specialists. We prefer a beach umbrella or tent to protect us from the sun. Luckily umbrellas and chairs can be hired at the beach. You can pick the backpackers because they seldom have an umbrella or large towel and will have a bag near them.
I wanted to document Bondi on a hot summer day and I have achieved it with several panoramas. I took 2200 photos on the day. I hope some people appreciate the panorama.
What a chore editing a beach panorama with moving surf and thousands of people. Best stitch was in Photoshop. Some editing afterwards re the surf and a few people. One big stitch error but I left it in for fun. Two full days spent editing. I edited each photo individually to get equal colours, etc. Of course I redid the sky and patched all the errors that resulted. At least I learned a few things in Photoshop. So much to learn there.
61689 X 5086 pixels from 17 photos. 35 Mb
Shot with the sharp 90 mm Sony FE macro lens. So you clearly see most of the people on the beach.
It is best to download the panorama and view it on a computer with a large screen...or a 4 k TV. I had trouble opening it on Google Chrome but no trouble on Internet Explorer.
Lots of flotsam ends up on these beaches, washed by the East Australian Current. Fortunately, so much of Indonesia's garbage which washes ashore in the far north doesn't make it here. Nor does the enormous volumes of plastic which plague so much more of the world's oceans. The waters here are relatively clean, even if I choose not to gorge on the oysters as I did half a century ago.
There are dead whales now, and for that we should be grateful. When there weren't dead whales it was because their population was perilously low.
Our phylogenetic cousins from the Cambrian still stick themselves to rocks and occasionally, being unstuck, come to grief. Further up the evolutionary tree, sometimes there are bits and pieces of humanity, like the feet of a criminal suspect who apparently put them in the ocean of their own volition.
Free swimming sea life turns up too. All that lives is born to die. They might cause momentary concern. But they should also trigger our sense of curiosity and wonder. Even the stranded stinging bluebottles deserve our interest and sympathies.
What might normally float by design isn't immune to design failures, sunk, or like the famous Pasha Bulker which decorated Nobby's Beach to the amusement of many Austral Novocastrians, aground. That harbour is also famous for the specialist diver working to illicitly retrieve blocks of cocaine from a ships hull, and instead floating up to the surface himself. Now it seems that trade is generating plenty of jetsam further north.
Occasional penguins from the Southern Ocean or New Zealand's Fiordland will land here. That's irregular. Little penguins are a resident breeding species as nearby as Montague Island. It's sad but true: penguins are not immortal. I fear that when Avian Influenza A — H5N1 — reaches these shores there'll be fewer of these already at risk treasures.
Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, the largest modern volcanic explosion, has failed to replenish the current's larder of pumice. Nevertheless, the submarine eruptions of the Tonga-Kermadec Arc have a history of decorating these beaches. There'll be pumice about, even if it is buried up in the dunes.
What of this? The coconut is not resident. Is it a visitor, resting on the shore? Or is it marooned, left to weather in the sun never to arrive wherever it was that it was going?
What does a young seal have to do to have a rest ??? It seems that the little seal has the best place but then the older seals always head back to the water to play. It seems they are just teasing the little guy, or trying to get him to have a swim instead of sunbake.
Australian Fur Seal - Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus