The day Nudgee Beach said "Right. Lets do this!"

The day Nudgee Beach said "Right. Lets do this!", originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Still plumbing the depths of my archive of shots from last year. When I originally posted shots from this shoot I put up a pano but now I think I prefer this single frame image.

Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm. HDR [-2,0,+2] processed in DPHDR.

Place of ducks

Place of ducks, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Nudgee Beach. I'm fascinated by the swarms of little blue crabs around here at low tide, they avoid people incredibly well. If you get too close they burrow under the sand :)

I read today that the word 'Nudgee' is a corruption of the Aboriginal word meaning 'place of ducks'.

Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm, Lee 0.9 hard grad, Gorillapod.

On the down-low

On the down-low, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

It feels like ages since I've been out to do a sunrise shoot and since there was a forecast break in the poor weather we've been having I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get out there.

I can't attach my camera to the tripod without the centre column inserted so there is a limit to how low to the ground I can get using it. I wanted to get REALLY low here so whipped out the trusty gorillapod so I could get a few cms off the ground. Had to kneel with my elbows in the sand and everything :)

Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm, Lee 0.9 hard grad.

Processed in DPHDR from a single RAW file.

Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

I used a ND filter and an aperture of f/22 so I could leave the shutter open longer and capture more explosions :)

Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Lee 0.9ND filter.

Burleigh heads

Burleigh heads, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

Damn, those boulders make settling the tripod a challenge.

Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm, Lee 0.9 hard grad

I've just opened this photo in IE using my work laptop and it looks terrible. Oversaturated and bands of colour in the sky. Let me know if you experience similar.

Arthur the Squirrel

Arthur the Squirrel, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

A classic shot :)

Disneyland 17/09/2010

Disneyland 17/09/2010, originally uploaded by greenplasticdave.

After seeing how pointless it was to arrive late on Friday night I endeavored to get to this spot in plenty of time yesterday night. As soon as the parade was over I pounced on my spot and defended it for three hours. I was quite surprised (annoyed) that although the area in front of the castle is out of bounds for safety reasons, people can still walk past between that area and where everyone was waiting patiently for the fireworks to begin. Consequently I have a LOT of shots with ghostly looking people wandering across the image.

My final image here is a manual blend of two shots. One taken during the display and the other for the foreground that I took AFTER the show when I was able to get a bit closer and avoid all the passersby.

Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 10-20mm.