Articles - Seascapes

During the middle of last week, I headed to a spot just south of Blackwoods Beach in Cronulla, and shot this image under a rich yet moody sky, as the sun rose to signal the start of a very hot summer day: I have shot along this stretch of Cronulla's coastline a few times, but not [ continue reading ]

I am back, shooting seascapes again.  This image was captured early in my second seascape session of 2016, and my third dawn outing in less than a week.  The predicted cloud cover for this morning looked quite favourable, so I headed to south Cronulla, and found this appealing rock shelf just south of Blackwoods Beach.  While [ continue reading ]

This morning was the first occasion on which I have shot a seascape since June of 2013 — quite a long time.  In the past few weeks I have felt a desire to head back out in the pre-dawn darkness and photograph the ocean and coastline again, a desire which has not been in me for [ continue reading ]

This is an image I shot in January of 2012 at Sydney's well-photographed Turimetta Beach.  This particular scene is further away from the main gorge and rocks featured in so many images.  The morning brought a few successful images, but this one had sat untouched and unpublished for the past three years.  A moody, rain-laden [ continue reading ]

A discussion about creative filters on an Internet forum got me thinking, and prompted me to post a quick article here on a question new landscape/seascape/cityscape photographers often ask: Which filters should I buy?  I personally recommend Lee filters (although I have a HiTech filter in my rig), and use the Lee filter holder and [ continue reading ]

This view of a tempestuous sky in South Cronulla was an image I shot over four years ago, and originally processed and published in black and white.  Here is a newly-processed colour version.  To my eyes years later, it looks just as effective in colour as it does in black and white [ continue reading ]