Northern Tien-Shan, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Roughly 3000m above sea level.
From my film archive. Shot long time ago with my Contax (I still love it!) and 16mm fish-eye on color negative film. Color negative film is like a roll of plastic film on a spool with light-sensitive layer that people put into old photo cameras instead of...
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Monday, March 23, 2009 Posted in Perth
Tags: architecture, Australia, building, city, Old Swan Brewery, Perth, river, riverbank, sunrise, WA, water
Do you know how to shoot waterfalls like a pro from National Geographic magazine? Have you ever wondered how those lucky professional photographers manage to shoot great photos of waterfalls that look like they are in motion? You can also take the better waterfall pictures with using a few simple tips while taking photographs. Here...
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Old school photo. I’m fond of new technologies with digital blending, color correction etc. But this is old school photo made in one shot. Back in old days when the Photoshop was not available photographers were using Neutral Density Graduated filters to capture sunrise or sunset pictures without blowing highlights. What if the foreground is...
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Yosemite Creek is a small creek in North Katoomba in Blue Mountains National Park. Sometimes even a small creek can surprise you with a nice photographic opportunity.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Posted in Panorama
Looks better on black - just click on the image and then use grayscale in the new window to change background.
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Tags: Australia, boulder, Kangaroo Island, moss, National Park, red, Remarkable Rocks, rock, SA, stone, sunrise, sunset, yellow
Saturday, March 7, 2009 Posted in Sydney
The J.F. Archibald Memorial Fountain, widely regarded as the finest public fountain in Australia, is located in Hyde Park, in central Sydney, New South Wales. It is named after J.F. Archibald, owner and editor of The Bulletin magazine, who bequeathed funds to have it built. Archibald specified that it must be designed by a French...
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The Pinnacles are located in Nambung National Park, about 25 kilometres south from the town of Cervantes and about 250 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia. The Pinnacles were sculptured by wind, rain, vegetation, sun and time for many thousands of years from limestone. These limestone formations reach four metres tall of sand of varying...
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Tags: Australia, desert, erosion, lunette, Nambung, National Park, nature, outback, Pinnacles, sand, WA, Western Australia
It was quite difficult to shoot this waterfall because it was not showed on all maps I had, there was no good directions on how to find it, it was a very rainy day and all rocks and grass were quite slippery and I had to “climb” on rocks to get there and there wasn’t...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009 Posted in Sydney
Last Thursday the largest (by size) cruise ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2 arrived in Sydney. As usually a lot of photographers went to the Sydney harbour and Mrs. Macquarie’s Point to take pictures of her. The Queen Mary 2 is so huge that she can’t sail under the harbour bridge and also two long...
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Tags: Australia, cruise, harbour, liner, NSW, ocean, Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mary 2, Royal Rendezvous, ship, Sydney, tourism
