The almost unquenchable final embers of an oceanic sunset.

18/01/2009

As has been a running theme through this summer, another sunset image from Bennion Beach.  By fast my favourite beach in Perth’s northern beaches, its isolation from the rest of the coast and even the city; plunged down a cliff, make it an isolated place in a sea of suburbia.

If one were literally pan up from the scene presented in yesterday’s photo, one would have happily been presented with this view, though one would also be seeing white orbs for about half an hour afterwards!

18/01/2009

A single peak on a single wave can have the affect of knocking you flat, yet that single peak on that single wave is but a grain of sand on the beach to the ocean.

18/01/2009

It’s that fraction of a second of a moment that makes the world of difference…

18/01/2009

Another one of those images that doesn’t really look like a great deal but kind of looks familiar.  That description is probably sufficient.  And no, it’s not a pavlova.

18/01/2009.

In other news, Perth’s sunset put on a spectacular display this evening and I was lucky enough to be there to capture it.  Lots of great images to come from there in the coming weeks.

The accuracy of this sign at Bennion Beach is exceptional.

Crepuscular rays would have to be one of my favourite sky artifacts.  Regards of your religious or spiritual persuasions, when such a display is taking place before your eyes, you can’t help but be moved by the vision of light streaming through and ‘touching down’.  I love nothing more than to watch gaps in the cloud stream over the ocean in winter revealing patches of silver light on the ocean.

One the purest and simplest joys I take from photography is being able to control the amount of light that the medium (be it film or CCD) absorbs in order to dictate how the scene is represented.  As technology advances, there’s more and more ways of ensuring the ‘perfect’ photo.  For mine, though, it’s about illustrating the mood of the scene as I felt it in the image that I choose to represent that feeling.

Taken on the same evening as the shots over the last week, the mood of this image is in stark contrast to those, yet, it’s the same beach, same time of day, just a different approach and different set of rules for the light.

And that’s where the magic comes in!

The last smoldering embers of clouds outline an ever darkening sky over the ocean at South Trigg beach.