Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information