Lake Windamere

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Australian, Lake Windamere, landscape, photography, travel, water

Lake Windamere

Dead trees

Dead trees 2

Lake Windamere

Reflection

Reflection 2

Still on the same day, after leaving the Black Stump Way I joined the Castlereagh Highway through to Gulgong an old gold mining town west of the Blue Mountains from Sydney. I would love to stop here one day and walk the streets, there is so much history here (for Australia anyway 1840’s to1860’s there abouts). The streets were very narrow and bendy for 2-way traffic and with The Little House in tow quite a challenge to navigate. Didn’t find the caravan park so pushed on to Mudgee a big wine growing area and very popular with people from Sydney for weekends. It’s only three and a half hours away.

Stayed in Mudgee overnight at the Riverside CP which is right in town and handy to everything including the river walk which Flair thoroughly enjoyed after 8 hours in the car.

The next day was only 50km the long way – through Lue and Rylstone to Cudgegong State Park on Lake Windamere (Windamere Dam).

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More Views From Coromandel Peak – NZ

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Lake Wanaka, landscape, NZ, photography, sunrise, travel, water

As the sun rose slightly higher the snowy Southern Alps became the highlight with the inlets of Lake Wanaka still in shadow.

A different direction and the clouds are catching the pink light with the Lake very much in shadow.

Snow Fed Stream

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Australian, photography, Snowy Mountains National Park, travel, water

An alpine stream flowing over the boulders. Fed by the melting snow above as we come into Spring and Summer in Australia. Taken near Dead Horse Gap, Snowy Mts. National Park.

Thinking

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light, photography, sky, vastness, water

I am always amazed at how long it takes me to think things over and ‘see’ the bleeding obvious! I suppose I should be used to it by now but it still takes me by surprise. So when looking back through some of my favourite images and trying to put adjectives to them that I could then use in future images, why was I so surprised to find – isolation, light, sparseness or minimalism, detail or close up, vastness and ICM?

Light and vastness.

Abstract Lemon – SW Rocks

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abstract, lemon, movement, photography, SW Rocks, water

A bit of fun with a jug of water and lemon wedges.

Bouncing Off The Rocks.

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creek, nature, photography, slow shutter, splashes, water

I love the effect of a slow shutter speed on fast moving water particularly as here where it hits a rock in the middle of the creek.

Did I Mention It’s Rained Recently?

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creek, nature, photography, water, waterfall

With all the rain we had last week, Purgatory Creek was flowing freely and creating all sorts of lovely little waterfalls and splashes and eddies for me to photograph.

My raging little creek, it’s actually not that small but not that big either 🙂

One Tree, Fiji Style

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Fiji, nature, One Tree, photography, travel, water

Fijis’ answer to NZ’s Wanaka Tree. This tree is growing in the ocean on the eastern side of Suva, Viti Levu.

I took the liberty of adding the egret from another shot of the tree (it seemed to like to roost there) and played with this shot in PS to keep it light and blue. It was actually a grey sunrise 😦

Back to Ba Landing – Fiji

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calm water, Fiji, photography, travel, water

Reflections as we head across the water towards Ba Landing on Viti Levu.

The calm waters were enticing people to fish further out to sea and the beautiful day helped also.

Hibiscus Plus Water, Leleuvia Island – Fiji

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Fiji, hibiscus, Leleuvia Island, photography, travel, water

The hibiscus flower from yesterday’s post ended up being photographed in the small crystal clear shore break in front of my burre. It took me many, many images to get close to what I was trying for but now I’ve studied them more I need to go back and try again 🙂 It might be a few years before I do but I’ve got a better idea of how it will work. Lots of the better shots below to show you what I was trying to get before the hibiscus flower became too damaged. This idea was sparked by a cover image Marie Kova created for the TEDX talks in Fiji this year and one of our group on the Fiji Road Trip – see previous posts.