Digital Photo Gallery of Ted Szukalski
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She lights up the room

Some of the most interesting or funny, as in this case, street photographs are created where two unrelated elements create a new combined value. In this case combining the advertising poster with a men dressed in woman’s skirt provides some visual humour.

Annie - uni work at a bus stop

This is Annie, a university student doing her work, that’s right at a bus stop. Isn’t take it everywhere technology wonderful? Her Apple notebook obviously get its far share of real field work. Annie thanks for the photo. PS. Love your boots!

Magic Mike - Act preparations

I’ve met Magic Mike on my way home. He is a street performer. A magician to be precise. I have taken a photograph of him during his preparations for the next act. I have given him my card and quickly explained about this web site. He looked at the photo and was quite impressed. He insisted I take another photo during his favourite act: sun glasses, which climb upon his face by themselves. As you can see from the photo above they are certainly moving up there. Why doesn’t Mike’s tuxedo have sleeves? So you cannot accuse him of pulling an ace out of his sleeve during the card act. He was a nice bloke to talk to. If you see his act, say hello.

Morning has broken

A morning, foggy scene of a field road. The whole scene was soaked in early morning sun rays and surrounded in a bit of magic courtesy of gentle fog.

This was a very difficult scene to photograph. The strong sun light coming through the top right corner generated interesting rays cutting through the morning fog and steam from the bushes. I have again used a HDR (high dynamic range) technique to render this image. In this case it allows of showing of the whole range of greens from very dark to very bright and at the same time not loosing any details to clipping (when colours combine to a single colour spot)

Terrrigal - Photographing the sunset

My kids really like this particular spot. There is lots to explore or simply to spot a crab or other sea creature. It certainly makes a good break from playing computer games or watching TV.

There was a photographer there who setup with a tripod and pointed it at the sea (towards the East at sunset). This struck me as bit odd however, he was onto something. There was unusual level of smog over the see on the horizon and thus the evening sun rendered it as stripes of red shades. Lucky for me and unlucky for him the seagulls put up a show between where I was sitting and the sea resulting in this landscape photograph.

Terrigal - Evening on the rocky beach

This photograph from Terrigal taken at evening on the rocky beach is a single exposure HDR (High Dynamic Range) image. This landscape was photographed hand held and processed with Photomatix to maximise the contrast between darkest and lightest elements of the view.

Autumn Trees

Autumn is upon us. Low morning and evening temperatures and the beautiful red leaves of some trees can be noticed in many places.