Hunter Valley
Hunter Valley is world famous for its excellent wines. It is a major tourist attraction as it is only 2 hours drive north of Sydney. Once you there and you enjoyed your wine tasting, excellent food and serene scenery you may wander why this flat hilly land is called a valley. To find the answer to this question you need to find the right sandy road that will take up high the the surrounding hills and if you lucky you will be viewing this vast landscape with the a matching hill group far on the horizon defining the valley.
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December 23rd, 2008
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Ted Szukalski |
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Foggy sunrise
I woke up very early this morning and was welcomed but a fascinating sunrise over the valley. Low laying fog and sparse clouds added to the inspiring view.
Some 18 hours later on my way home I had the displeasure of viewing something very disgusting. A large man sat at the end of the train carriage and ate oranges and peaches. One after another for whole hour and a half. He would split the orange and fill his mouth with it. Kept his mouths open exposing the orange peal, while he consumed slowly the inner fruit. Once he finished he would clean his face and teeth with his tongue. His whole face never stopped moving. I have to add his face looked a bit like that of Stan Laurel.
When he would finish one orange he would take a sip of water from a bottle and rinse his mouth. Then he would proceed to the next orange. This was a very trying journey. Minutes away from my station he stopped eating. The visual torture was over… No! For the next 10 minutes he proceeded to yawn without covering his mouth. I swear I think I could count how many oranges he ate in total.
Look at the photo above - you will feel better.
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December 19th, 2008
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Misty sunrise
I got up quite early this morning and could not get back to sleep. I checked my emails and started to read some of my favourite blogs, when in the corner of my eye quite a spectacular sunrise emerged. The valley was covered in a very dense fog and the sun set golden morning hue to it all. At moments, I could see the fog dissolving in plasma like patterns. Something regrettably I could not capture in this photograph.
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November 13th, 2008
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Sun rays and fog
The morning fog stayed in the valley a bit longer today allowing for some very visible sun ray effects through the trees.
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August 30th, 2008
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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)
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May 28th, 2007
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Ted Szukalski |
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