[Leica] Uluru

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Beautiful images, Jayanand. I particularly like “Trees” – at first glance it looks like a field of weeds in front of a boulder, but when your perceptual system suddenly gets the scale, it’s revealed as a plain of trees dwindling to specks in the distance, dwarfed against an impossibly massive rock face. Very nice effect.

I found your photos especially intriguing, as my brother and I are going back to Australia in two months, with 10 days earmarked for Alice, Uluru and the other Olgas, and other parts of the Red Centre in a 4WD camper. I’ll be taking Sony's equivalent of your kit, an a7R w/24-70.

—howard

> On Jan 29, 2020, at 9:53 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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