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The Point of Lonsdale

23 Tuesday Apr 2013

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As most of you know I went away last weekend.  I went to Ocean Grove to stay with two friends who I have been helping learn photography, or to take better photos, not that I have to do much now, but I still get asked the odd question.  On the first early morning we went to Point Lonsdale.  I have to confess I love Point Lonsdale and it is fast becoming a favourite place for me to photograph. To the End 1It is the first time I have been back since this jetty was opened and now all the work is done on it.  It does have that new look, but I am sure it will age with the weather.

We were there for sunrise, but it wasn’t much of one, though the clouds got some good colour in them.  It was great to be able to work out onto the jetty and take photos and make the jetty the focus of some photos rather than trying to avoid showing the work being done on it.

Near the end of the post I am going to put a gallery with a number of images.  The images in this part are the reasonable straight images, meaning I have processed them basically, but the ones in the gallery have all been through Color Efex or Silver Efex and have been given treatments with those.

At the End 1The sun had come up a lot more and I was almost at the end here.  I love the light in this image, it could be morning or evening.  I have enhanced it quite a bit.  Behind me, the sky was full of clouds and the light wasn’t so good.

Back to the Point 1This is a image I strived to get for some time, one with the jetty and the lighthouse all in the same compositions.  I know the light house is in the middle, but I wasn’t sure exactly how to do this, and perhaps it’s something I will have to go back and try sometime.  I just to play, though I wonder if it wouldn’t be a better image when the sun is going down, it would go down behind the lighthouse somewhere.

Through to the Point 1

I was tying to be more creative with this one, what do you think?  I like the idea of the jetty framing the lighthouse, it almost becomes two images.  The nice clean lines of the jetty, then to the white lighthouse with a stormy sky behind.  You know, I like it.

I have the gallery for you now.

There are some interesting conversions there, take a look and see what you think.

Etsy and Red Bubble

I have been adding more images to both accounts, I hope you will all take a look at them.  I have been trying to work out which ones to put up, but am not quite sure, so if you have any ideas, then let me know.

Here are the links for both

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ReWorking the Shearing Shed

22 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by in Architecture, Mallee, Photography, Reworks

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Well it isn’t exactly the same shearing shed, I couldn’t work out what the images were, it has been a long time since I first did these images.  The idea should be the same.  Again, as with last weeks rework, I was curious to see how I would do the image now, if it would be different, better or worse.

shearingshed0544-1scThis is the original as I did it some eighteen months prior.  The clouds always got me.  The way they almost move towards you, then the contrast of the rusty tin of the shearing shed.  It isn’t a bad image and has always been one of my favourites from up that way.

So what could I do differently?

Shearing Shed with Rust

This image is taken from further away and you get more of a look at the whole shed and some of the yards around it.  I also like the way the trees frame it.  The rust of the shed fits in with the dry grass at the front of it as well.

If I am to be honest I prefer the second image far more, though I may have been to heavy with some of the processing, but I might have to think about that some more.   The dry grass in the front is great, I do really like that, and it isn’t in the first image.  I think the second image gives more context of its surroundings.

It is nice seeing what changes can be done now.  I will admit, I did rush this a little.  I had planned on doing another image, but it was taking forever and I really didn’t like where it was going, so you got this one instead.  I am not disappointed, and time will tell what I really think of it.

The New Blog and Spam

The new blog has been going for two months now, and I still like how it looks, but not many have changed over to it, and I know many people have been having trouble with it, as far as liking a post or commenting on it.

The reasons for starting the new blog have changed and I see now that I don’t really need it.  I will keep it going though, as long as people are subscribed to it.  Though, I am having a huge problem with spam.

The spam I get from it is unbelievable and I am getting so many comments that are just that, spam.  I am constantly trying to get rid of them.  I don’t know how other people who self host go, but it has really surprised me.  WordPress does a great job of filtering out the spam and it is rare that I get spam in with my comments.

I have also noticed that my spam folder on my WordPress.com site is getting a lot as well.  I used to get, maybe, 15 to 20 spam messages a day, now, sometimes, I am getting over 50.  It is annoying.

I am not really sure what to do with the new one, but if people wanted to change back to Leanne Cole PHOTOGRAPHY at WordPress, I would be grateful.

The Back of Beyond

19 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Today has been one of those days, you know one of those days that I wish I had a lot more of.  Photos of one building then onto photos of another.  I am loving some of the opportunities that I have been getting lately.  The day was also full of ideas and grant money, or rather how to get some, and what I need to do.  It is days like this that make me feel like a real photographer, well a working one, haha.

I haven’t had time to work on on today’s images, so I have some images from my weekend in Inverleigh.

Birds Out of Trees

On our way to Lorne we went through a small place called Dean’s Marsh.  Down the main street some trees have been cut down and they have made sculptures out of the stumps.  Something that seems to be catching on.

Heads Coming out of Trees

This is another one, different sculptures.  They are quite amazing.  It is a lovely thing to do to the tree stumps, almost a new way of recycling.

Sunset 1

That evening the sky got cloudy and then I got to photograph the sunset.  This is the opposite side.

Sunset 2

Again, out the back.

Sunset 3

I went out the front and watched the sun setting and took this and the next image.

Sunset 4

I liked the way the clouds are enclosing in on the sunset, like they are taking it over.

I almost forgot I had these.

I will leave it there today.

Finding Rustic Around Inverleigh

14 Thursday Feb 2013

Posted by in Countryside, Landscapes, Photography

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As I have said I was in Inverleigh on the weekend and on Sunday morning we went out to take some photos of the surrounding countryside.  I had seen this the year before, but didn’t take any photos and always regretted it.

Inverleigh WindmillDon’t forget there are more images and words in the post on my new site, so please go over there and check out the rest of today’s post.

Finding Rustic Around Inverleigh

Also if you don’t go over there, I am putting up more images to sell on my website, so please check them out.

Here is the link to the photocart leannecole.com.au/photocart

Lunching in Lorne

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

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This past weekend I went to a small place just outside of Geelong called Inverleigh.  A gorgeous little town.  On Saturday our host took us for a drive through the country to Lorne on the South coast of Australia.  It was the perfect day for going to the beach, though not the perfect time of day for taking photos.  Though having said that, it turned out, it wasn’t bad at all.  Sometimes you have to make the most of what is there.  The clouds were amazing.

Exploding CloudsTo see 4 other images and to read more continue reading here.

Town Hall by Nikon

27 Tuesday Nov 2012

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For today’s post I picked another photo that I took with the Nikon 5100 on Sunday of the Ivanhoe Town Hall.  I was so disappointed with how the sky turned out in the photos. When I was looking through them, there was one that I thought wouldn’t be such a bad image if the sky were better.  It has been overcast and rainy here today, so I took the 5100 outside and took some photos of some clouds.  I picked one image and replaced the sky.

There has been quite a bit of processing done to this.  I have tried to enhance the brick detail more.  The lighting has been completely changed as well.  What do you think of the cloudy sky?

The original is there on the left.  It’s really washed out and I really don’t like the sky in it.  The clouds and the processing have improved the image so much.  A lot more mood has been put into the image.  The darkening of the bricks has helped give the outside of the building more depth.

Of course, I couldn’t just leave it at that.  With the Nik Software, you know I had to try the image in Color Efex.

The Color Efex filter Classical Soft Focus.  This filter really is my favourite.  I find a lot of the others too much, whereas I like the subtleness of this one.

So after using Color Efex, I had to see how the image would look processed with Silver Efex.

When it is changed to black and white with Silver Efex, the whole mood changes.  It almost looks like it was taken at night with a full moon.

The other day when I did the post on the images from the back beach, someone suggested using the soft focus on the black and white image, so today I decided to try that.

Though,  now that I compare the two, there doesn’t seem a lot of difference.  It is softer, but not a lot.

Doing the images in different ways can be a great thing, but then it becomes harder to work out which one you like the best.

I had hoped that I would be able to get out with the Nikon 5100 today to get some photos, but the weather wasn’t suitable as we had thunderstorms and rain this morning.  I am planning some trips this weekend to really try it out.  Though, I am going to try some still life images this week with some dead roses I have.

 

 

Adrift on the Dunes

05 Friday Oct 2012

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Last time I was up here I wanted to photograph some sand dunes I had heard about, do you remember.  We went to Patchewollock, and drove out the road we thought they were on, but couldn’t find them anywhere.  It turns out, we didn’t go far enough.

We went to the Pine Lodge up there, (at some point will give details on their place) and was given directions to Snowdrift, which is what we were looking for.  This is at the bottom.  I did have visions of doing some sunset shots from the top, but in the end decided today to just find it.  It got very cloudy as we were driving out there, and in the end, I wasn’t too concerned about the lack of a sunset.  These clouds were so cool, I loved them and I tried to make the most of them.  After being there, I’m not sure sunset shots would work the way I hoped, so I’m not disappointed.

This was taken at the top of Snowdrift.  It was a really hard climb and not one for the unfit (me) or the sick and dying.  Once we got to the top we could see for miles.  I liked the tree stump and those amazing clouds, so I took this one really low.  Took me a few shots to get it.

I also took a series of images going all the way around, and will attempt to put those together for you at some point.  I was so happy with how these and some others turned out.

I am going back home tomorrow.  I am looking forward to that, and I am looking forward to spending more time on my photos from the last few days, and catching up on blogs.  I am so behind on blogs, and comments.  I am going to be very busy the next few days.

Bridging Gaps

16 Wednesday May 2012

Posted by in Landscapes, Photography, Water

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In yesterdays post I showed images of fishing boats tied up.  There were another two images that I considered putting with them, but then I decided that perhaps I would leave them for today.  When I first got out of the car I noticed that you could see the bridge that linked the mainland to Phillip Island really well.

I wasn’t sure about this image, everything is in the bottom of the image, but I realised that the sky is so dramatic and the space over the bridge really works.  It isn’t necessarily a very interesting bridge, fairly modern I would say, but it is the dominant feature in the landscape here.  It is so much taller than anything else.  The length of the bridge helps give scope to how vast the water is.  You can’t really tell from the photo with all the fishing boats across the front.

The red fishing boat on the side really makes for an interesting point of focus, though it is unfortunate that you don’t see a lot of the bridge.  I suppose you could say the idea is there and I think you can tell that it is a wide bridge.  I have just realised as well, as I look at this image, that you would imagine that the ocean is out behind this bridge, but the open water is actually behind me.  If you went under the bridge and headed straight ahead you would end up on mainland Australia.

After yesterdays post I will admit I was quite surprised at how many comments I got about the cloudy sky, so I thought many of you would enjoy the images today, especially the first one.

Dealing with WordPress

I don’t know how many of you have been on the forums this week about all the changes that WordPress have been making,  but I have been and it has not been a great experience.  I know that other people have found this, and I know I have, and that is how rude the WordPress staff have been to users.  I’ve been made to feel like an idiot, treated like I don’t know anything, and then been harassed because I dared to say that I had been made to feel this way.

If WordPress are going to make a number of changes, and let’s face it, not inform anyone of those changes, then they should not be surprised when everyone is up in arms about it.  People generally don’t like change, and to make so many was too much.  We were all confused, things weren’t working the way we were used to, and no one understands why.

There is a news section on the WordPress and finally yesterday they posted something about the new comments default, only a week or so from when they made that change.  They said they have done to because it is what people wanted, funny how they do things that people want and in the forums declare that they can’t possibly know what people want.

Of course, it is all coming out now that they are trying to be more like facebook.  When you comment or like something on facebook you get a notification everytime someone else likes or comments as well.  I don’t quite know why WordPress feel the need to start competing with facebook, or twitter, they are completely different mediums.

They really need to let people know what is going on, when they make a change it needs to be on that news page.  It would be so much easier if people could just go there to find out what was going on.  Instead they have to learn things by trial and error, that is ridiculous.

I don’t know about you, but I am worried about where WordPress are going to take us next, it is not a ride I’m looking forward to, how about you?

On a Cloudy Day . . .

14 Monday May 2012

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I was going through some photos today of the cycling and I saw some images that I had forgotten that I had taken.  We saw these clouds heading towards us and we were sure that we were going to get a massive dumping.  It didn’t happen.  They sort of side swiped us and dumped the rain somewhere else.

This is where the rain headed and if you look closely at the bottom you can see the curtain of rain as moves.  About the middle.  It was so strange.  I love watching rain in the distance.

These weren’t as dark and ominous, but I liked the fluffy nature.  If you put the images side by side, starting with the top one, you can see what the sky looked like and how the clouds rolling along, and the dark clouds moving.  These clouds would have been gone soon and the others would have replaced them.

Clouds are so much fun.  You never quite know what they are going to bring.

An Instagram Field Trip

11 Friday May 2012

Posted by in Field Trips, Instagram, Landscapes, Photography, Victoria, Water

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On the weekend while in Aireys Inlet one of the things I tried to remember to do was take photos with my phone and instagram.  I thought it would be fun to do and would let people who are friends with me on facebook get an idea where I was.  Of course I played with the filters.

Aireys Inlet 1

Aireys Inlet 2

Erskine Falls 1

Erskine Falls 2

Lorne 1

Lorne 2

Aireys Inlet 3

Aireys Inlet 4

Aireys Inlet 5

A quick post today.  I had a very late night last night and I can’t think very well today.  I hope you like the weekend through the instagram camera on my phone.

I have put all the other photos from the weekend on my website, I have also included quite a few that I didn’t put up here, and I may add more to them as well.  If you would like to see the photos in galleries, then go to my website www.leannecole.com.au.

I am off to Philip Island tomorrow for a cycling event, and I hope to have a chance to get down to the beach to get some photos as well.  Enjoy your weekend, till tomorrow.

WordPress Again

Just wondering how many others have noticed that things have changed on WordPress.  I’ve noticed that my blog never goes on the reader any more, or if it I press topics/Photography, mine never comes up.  I have also noticed that my stats have gone down a lot, I mean by almost half.

I just spoke to someone else who has noticed similar things.  Have you noticed the same?

Field Trip – On Our Way Home

10 Thursday May 2012

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We stopped, as I’ve told you, at Anglesea so we could get a closer look at the fence.  I showed two images of it on Sunday.  I took many more, as I said, and I’m going to show you those today.

This was the back of it.  I thought I would show a lot more details of it today.

The bolts holding it together were rusting away, which is not surprising considering everything rusts near the ocean.  The fence thing is very strange.  I love the fence posts, but how long it will last with the tide constantly bashing it remains to be seen.

Here is a close shot of the bolt and you can see the rust permeating the wood.  Beautiful colour.  The wood, the bolt and the rust are really interesting together.

I love this image, it is one of my favourites.  The sun wasn’t out, but it looks really bright. I also think the pole on the end is very interesting.  What happened to it?  I can only imagine that it is a victim of where it is.  You can see the rail that goes along the back has been broken off as well.

I decided to do the image in black and white as well.

I find this one just sparkles.  I can’t decide between the two, which one I like the most.  You might have to decide for me.

Which one do you like the best?

Field Trip – Early Mornings in Aireys Inlet

09 Wednesday May 2012

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On Saturday morning, I had got some sunrise shots, not fabulous ones, but still something.  The others had wanted to sleep in, so they missed it.  We were hoping that if we went out at the same time we would get another sunrise.  Well, it didn’t happen.

We set out for a place that was down the beach from the Lighthouse, with the idea being that the sun would rise behind it and we would get some beautiful photos.

That was about all we got.  We waited and waited, but the clouds were too thick and you really couldn’t see anything.  The sky did light up with some pink, but it was very disappointing.  It was a lovely clear morning, and if we had got a sunrise, it would have been spectacular.  Oh well, we don’t get everything, another time, the lighthouse isn’t going anywhere.

This was taken from a cliff up near the lighthouse.  You could see all the way to Anglesea, which the furtherest point around.  I did this image in colour first, but the cliff face on the left was too distracting and the image seemed to work better in black and white.  I must confess, that this image was actually taken the day before.  I didn’t realise it had been mixed up with this lot until I was loading here.  Sorry.

We went further around and found a spot where we could get down to the beach.  We were also aware that the tide was coming in and made sure to keep a close eye on it.  This surfer came down and went into the water.  I couldn’t believe it myself, it was way too cold.

We came down here hoping we might get a good view of the lighthouse from this side.  When we first got down, the cliffs were too high and obscured the lighthouse too much. However, I noticed if we walked further away you could see it better.

Really, the only thing that messes up this image are the houses in front of the lighthouse.  Of course it would have been nice if the sun had come out as well, just a little.  The honeycomb cliffs are just beautiful.  I love the colour of them.

I put my tripod down as low as it would go again.  I watched as the waves came in and took a series of images.  I like how the water in this image shows some direction.  I liked it in colour as well, but thought I might try it in black and white as well.

This was the second last image I got here.  My tripod was low and Sandra and I were standing there, thinking we had had enough, but wanted one more big wave, well we got it, it came up much higher than anything else had.  We both picked up our tripods and I screamed like a girl.  I got myself out of the way, but my shoes got wet.  Very glad I had boots on and my feet didn’t get wet.  It was very funny.  We giggled about it for a long time while we were having breakfast.

I have edited a lot more photos than I’m going to show here, and just wanted to let you know that I will be putting the photos up on my website for you to look at, hopefully I can start tomorrow.  If you are interested in seeing them then go to www.leannecole.com.au.  There will be a gallery full of them.

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