A last minute freak chance capture of the pink glow of a sunset, shot from my office no less.

City Beach – 24/02/2009

Growing up I always looked upon images of tropical Australia with awe at the colour of the turquoise oceans and palm tree clad shorelines.

Turns out most of the tropical oceans are a milky brown colour and the clear turquoise waters are actually in the southern Indian and Southern Oceans.

Not that it’s a bad thing.  Meelup Beach, Dunsborough in all its glory.

26/01/2009

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.

A sullen afternoon looking up from Bennion Beach towards the street.

18/01/2009

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.

In an image not amiss with the ‘summer’ weather of today, more cloudscapes from above Bennion Beach.

A stormy (albeit some what of a let down) looking afternoon above Bennion Beach renders the sky with a mixture of low and high cloud.

The earth holds her breath for one drawn out moment as day switches to night.

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!