Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The light is lovely and subjects are artistically captured. On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 9:57 AM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Neela & I had gone to Australia for a fortnight in January, marking the > seventh and last continent to visit for me - now I can say that I have > visited the seven worlds of our planet. In between our sojourns in Sydney > and Melbourne we spent a day and a bit at Uluru, the vast monolith that > rises from the scrub deserts of Central Australia. The first set is > relatively straightforward, but the second, which I will post in a day or > two, will be more experimental. > > To kick off, here is Uluru bathed by the warm rays of the morning sun, a > few minutes after sunrise, accentuating the red sandstone. Remember, > January is the height of summer, and even though Uluru is thousands of > kilometres away from the bushfires, it reaches 40C very early in the day. > > All photographs taken with my new toy, a Nikon Z7 with the Nikkor Z 24-70mm > f4 S kit lens. The best "kit lens" I have ever used! Together, they make a > fairly compact, lightweight combo that can be carried around the whole day > without effort - it fitted comfortably in a Billingham Hadley Small with > space left over for my Ipad Mini, mobile phone, dark glasses, reading > glasses and a small bottle of water. The perfect travel combo, IMHO. : > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-837.jpg.html > > A couple of shots of the twisted trees that grow around the base of the > monolith: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-842.jpg.html > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-843.jpg.html > > One of the few permanent sources of water around Uluru is the Mutitjulu > Waterhole, and the next few shots are from there. Because of the water, > this location has been inhabited for 7000+ years, and there is cave art to > be seen in the overhangs there, so we start with that, and go on to > shadows, abstracts and details of the surrounding area: > > Cave Painting: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-859.jpg.html > > Shadows: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-875.jpg.html > > Shadows and Light: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-876.jpg.html > > Abstract: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-880.jpg.html > > Slope: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-848.jpg.html > > Hole in the Wall: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-890.jpg.html > > To end this set, three photographs of Uluru and its sister outcrop, Kata > Tjuta, from the air, taken during a sunset helicopter ride which we took to > get another perspective of the area. As the sun went down, the colours > changed fast: > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-921.jpg.html > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-955.jpg.html > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/auatralia/uluru/Australia-20200117-987.jpg.html > > Please see LARGE > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >