Digital Photo Gallery of Ted Szukalski
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Anzac Bridge

Anzac bridge photographed from a cruise boat late in the evening.

Three Sisters in clouds MG_9395

There is no visit to Blue Mountains without a quick look over the Three Sisters in Katoomba from the Echo Point. However, you may be in for a surprise similar to what we have experienced: you may arrive there to see it but being able to see it is another story. A thick, low laying cloud cover totally obscured the famous Three Sisters. Actually, one could hardly see anything at all at Echo Point. The cloud cover subsided slightly for few seconds allowing me to take this very moody and almost mysterious photograph of Three Sisters.

Tree and storm clouds MG_2436

It has been a long time since I have converted any photograph to black and white. I usually use black and white conversions for portraits but in this case the perfect candidate was a tree against dark, stormy clouds shot into the raising sun exposure bracketed landscape. The bracketing of +/-2EV allowed the very dramatic clouds to retain their texture and shades and prevented bright morning sun from rendering most of this photograph with clipped white background around the tree.

I have also decided to add old fashioned grain to the photograph the further enhance the clouds mass.

Now, take your eyes away from the tree and look at the shapes created by the clouds at the centre of the photo. There is a human skull there. to its right there is a head of bird of pray as is one above it to the right and above to the left there is another looking straight at you.

Darling Harbour Before Storm MG_2236

Rainy days do not mean you cannot take photographs. Quite the opposite some of the best landscapes I have seen have been taken with very heavy clouds. Selecting a moment to take the photograph is important, I for one like the time before storm when the clouds a low, dark and heavy and yet on another side you get sun underneath the clouds. naturally this favours early morning or or before sun set photography. Here is an example of such light conditions from a recent rain in Sydney.

Waiting for lunar eclipse - Terrigal, NSW, Australia

Waiting for lunar eclipse - Terrigal, NSW, Australia. Bigger image can be seen here.
While I was waiting for the lunar eclipse the other day the cloud cover was quite heavy and for a moment I thought all my preparations will go in vane. Looking long at these clouds I realised instead of complaining about the weather I should take the advantage of it. This photograph is the result of that observation.

Sun always shines on me

Anyone who has been in Sydney or in most coastal areas of NSW would know how average the weather has been. Storms, followed by rains, risk of a cyclone and clouds dominated the environment. On days like that little rays of sunshine seem to be all to distant and quite precious. In a setting like this I’ve noticed this woman across the street. She had sun on her face. Nobody else but her.

Rainbow and an Eucalyptus Tree

I don’t know how many times I have tried to photograph the rainbow. Each time the photos turned out quite dull and the rainbow barely visible. This time however I had quite a bit of luck and quite a bit of time to do it properly as this rainbow appeared just in the valley in front of my house. Dramatic clouds and low light provided for a quite spectacular landscape.