Ross Bridge

Guide Falls

Map to Guide Falls

Liffey Infrared

I haven't been updating my blog of late. No real reason for it, I've just been slack. The worst thing is I haven't been keeping up with reading/commenting on my favourite blogs. I hope to rectify that in the coming days.

I still have quite a few images to process from my little excursions around the north of the state a couple months ago. This shot is a start at least.

I've had a few people mention of late that I have a distinctive style to my shots. I would say that my shots and processing is influenced by the photographers and images I look at. I do have a fascination with water and feel much more at home shooting with water in the frame. To be honest I'm not sure I have a style as such and some of the time I don't like the results I come up with. I think I'm still searching for "my style" and with each image I'm getting closer to it, whatever "it" is.

Rivers

Hobart Dock

Launceston Seaport

I think I can take a better shot of Launceston seaport, but as I don't have many shots of my home town, this will just have to do for now. I remember when this was a seaport, now it's full of restaurants, bars and accommodation.

Meander River Deloraine

Buried by the Beach

The Stanley cemetery is right beneath the Nut and beside the beach. Not a bad resting place.

Stanley, NW Tassie

I'm not sure which of these first three compositions I like the most. I guess I'll pick a favourite eventually. I'm leaning towards the first one! It would have been better with a high tide!

Going up the Nut

Stanley is situated on the far North West Coast of Tasmania. The major attraction of Stanley is The Nut.

The Nut itself is 152m (500 ft) tall, and was formed when lava cooled to form basalt rock. It is possible to either climb The Nut by a walking track, or take a chairlift to the top. The Nut was known as Moo-Nut-Re-ker by the Tasmanian Aboriginals, and by 1851, sailors had come to know it simply as The Nut.

I choose to walk the Nut basically because it didn't look that steep. I was wrong! My heels didn't touch the path as I walked up the track, that's how steep it was.

I stopped several times in the pretense of taking photos of the scenery, I was really catching my breath. :)


This is shot from about one third up the Nut.






This is roughly the halfway point.









Finally at the top!

West Head Lookout

This was my next stop after leaving Bradys Lookout on the Tamar River. I was much calmer after taking the shots of the Tamar but I was behind schedule. I had planned a drive to different locations to coincide with the sun. Due the the fact I was already 2 hours behind I changed my plans and only managed to hit two other places. This is the second of the three spots.

I drove down the west side of the Tamar and arrived at Greens Beach. From here I took Gardners Road out to the West Head lookout. It's in a national park so permits do apply. The lookout looks over Anderson Bay towards Badgers Head.

I can tell you it was blowing!! The trees aren't leaning inland for there health. :) A couple of times I found it hard to keep my eyes open while taking photos. I had to take my hat off or it would be lodged in a sand dune by now.

At this point I had almost forgotten I'd been at work earlier in the day. It was a very nice feeling!

Campbell Town Bridge

Tamar River

These shot were taken at Brady's lookout on the West Tamar Highway.

These were taken in the last week of '08. I had just left work after being tied up for 2 hours longer than I had planned. I wasn't in a good mood at the time but after I took these I suddenly calmed down and started taking much better shots (they will be coming soon).

2008 Colblue in Review

2008 was a strange year for me with my photography. As the year started I was taking a lot of motorsports images but, all the while I was growing bored with them, as a result I soon gave them away after Easter. I wanted to spend more time taking landscapes so I planned a east coast holiday and spent a week taking photos. I managed to get some really good shots in that one week period, which is lucky because I didn’t get out to take another landscape for the rest of the year (till last week, anyway).

I spent a lot of my time working at my full time job and playing golf. Because I wasn’t getting out taking photos I started thinking I wouldn’t get back out there. I still took some shots in that time; all of them work related, product photos mainly. Then something extraordinary happened, I started getting my photos in company calendars. When that happened I got a rejuvenating shot in the arm and wanted to get out and take more landscapes. Unfortunately I still couldn’t find the time for them (it was driving me crazy).

In the last three months of the year I did some paying jobs that at least got me using my camera again. I even bought some extra goodies for it! But as I mentioned, I didn’t get out to shoot anymore landscapes till the last few days in the year, they will be shown in the coming weeks! I was so glad to finally get back out there. It was a very calming experience to just shoot for me! I didn’t get as many shots as I had hoped but it was still enjoyable.

So on to my favourite shots of the year 2008. Many of these shots were taken in that one week holiday I took earlier in the year, seven of them to be exact. I’ll try and put them into a chronological order.

This was one of the first shots I took for the year of the January full moon. I had never taken a shot of the moon with so much detail before.




These shots were taken in the months leading up to Easter.





















In April I finally got away for a week down the east coast of Tasmania. It was a good trip which saw me almost get my car stuck on a beach, I found every dirt road ever made, get sea sick, take a wrong turn, and take some of my best ever photos. It was eventful!!




































This is one of the rare shots I’ve taken in my home town of Launceston.






One last shot from my last photo shot of the year. This was an unplanned shot that I managed to capture.




Well, that was my year. I don't know what is in store for me in 2009 but, I hope it will involve taking photos and seeing more of this wonderful state, Tasmania.