Golden retrievers are known for their love of water. You just cannot keep them away. They love swimming and chasing ducks. This is all true unless you are a 4 month old golden retriever puppy. As you can see from this photograph he was less than impressed with water. He followed the bigger dogs into the water but love it? No way. You know that stuff is wet and cold and drips of the fur. Who said water is fun?
One of my favourite photographs is “Horses in the mist“, which I took some time ago while passing a farm. Today I have passed the same farm in a horrible weather: rain and an unpleasant wind. The horses however, did not seem to mind. They seem to enjoy running in the water and splashing it. This horse looked particularly playful.
Here is another view of the morning rock fishing. The photograph took a while to set up. The key here was to get the silhouettes of the fishermen in the background and beautiful textures and shades of rocks and water in the foreground. It took me 4 or 5 shots before I could balance the light properly. As you can see from the top right corner the sun was still low but quite strong.
Information for photographers: if you are confused by the effect not matching the exposure data: I have used ND8 filter for this capture.
When I photographed these two couples looking afar at the bulk carriers anchored in the distance I have noticed how similar the texture of the ground was to the waves below. When I was converting this to black and white I made an effort to match the tonality of water and the sandstone to match to create an illusion of smooth transition and thus “enable” the people in the photograph to walk on water.
The Spiral Fountain located in Sydney’s Darling Harbour is very popular with many tourists and children. The temptation to take off your shoes and walk the water filled spiral to the center is hard to refuse. It is also one of the most photographed attractions.
Here is a couple of simple abstract images capturing water twirls.
I had an option to present the first water twirl photograph as a black and white image but in the end decided the sepia like result already represented good final tonality.
The second water twirl photograph was captured on “black sand” which combined with strong light gave a blue reflection. Red stone adds to the scene in terms of colour and focus of the image.
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