December 2020 - Various

Peaceful Dove Descending.

Blended with Flickr free fx texture.

Sea Eagle Goes Fishing for its Nestlings.

Early morning sees this white-belllied sea eagle set out for the Hinchinbrook Channel in search of barramundi that abounds in its waters. Photographed from the vantage point of the old tearooms off Highway 1 south of Cardwell. Uninhabitated Hinchinbrook Island, Australia’s largest island national park, rises to meet the sun.

Hinchinbrook Channel Viewed from Old Teagardens.

Evening, Vierzy, France. 2002.

Church of Saint-Rufin-et-Saint-Valère and associated buildings in the rural municipality of Vierzy, 100 km north east of Paris. A graffiti etching on a courtyard wall of this church dates back to 1743. Info: https://www.annuaire-mairie.fr/mairie-vierzy.html

Evening, Vierzy, France. 2002. (Painterly.)

Church of Saint-Rufin-et-Saint-Valère and associated buildings in the rural municipality of Vierzy, 100 km north east of Paris. A graffiti etching on a courtyard wall of this church dates back to 1743. (Best viewed enlarged. A pano stitch x3 photographed in 2002. Rendered using Real Paint Fx scripts, brushes and tools. Proprietary Dodge and Burnish texture added. Final colour enhanced with a Photoshop 22/2021 3DLUT: Crisp_Warm.look) Info: https://www.annuaire-mairie.fr/mairie-vierzy.html

Vierzy - Church of Saint-Rufin-et-Saint-Valère Courtyard, 1743 Grafitti.

Louvre, Paris. 2002.

The Louvre, Paris.

Photographed from within a wing of the Louvre. It pays to arrive early for Paris tourist spots and capitalise on much of Paris's late nights and subsequent late starts to the day.

Betty-Rose - Autochrome Simulation. 1.

Autochrome was an earlier colour process introduced in 1907 by the French Lumière brothers. Their images were created by combining layers of microscopic dyed potato grains (red, green and blue with optional black grains filling the spaces) on a glass plate. They turned their attention to still photograhy after earlier inventing the first viable moving film camera+projector and opened the world’s first cinema theatres. The first multi-reel, feature length film was Australia’s ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang.’ It opened in a Melbourne theatre on Boxing Day, 1906. Exposure X6 app plus a separate propritary filter creating a Fuji Superia film effect.

Betty-Rose - Autochrome Simulation. 2.

Autochrome was an earlier colour process introduced in 1907 by the French Lumière brothers. Their images were created by combining layers of microscopic dyed potato grains (red, green and blue with optional black grains filling the spaces) on a glass plate. They turned their attention to still photograhy after earlier inventing the first viable moving film camera+projector and opened the world’s first cinema theatres. The first multi-reel, feature length film was Australia’s ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang.’ It opened in a Melbourne theatre on Boxing Day, 1906. Exposure X6 app plus a separate proprietary filter creating a Fuji Superia film effect +LUT Fall colours look.

"Nandroya Falls, North Queensland."

These falls drop 50 metres from the plateau above into what many regard as one of our best swimming holes in the north. Access is via a scenic 6.6 km loop track from the Henrietta Creek parking and camping area just off the Pamerston Highway access to the Atherton Tablelands. Well worth the hike! A less scenic but shorter route is via a left fork in the track - 1.5 km/30 minutes one way - and passes the small Silver Falls alongside the track. As you approach Nandroya Falls there is a lower cascade section - see photo in first comment. More info: https://www.wettropics.gov.au/nandroya-falls-circuit.html

Cascade section with Nandroya Falls in the background.

Townsville City Intersection.

Abstract effect.

Bank Peninsula, NZ.

2002.

"Planet Purtaboi"

A tiny planet modelled on north Queensland's Purtaboi (or Mound) Island that is visible from Dunk Island and Mission Beach on the mainland. So tiny is this planet that it is just a short swim from the day side to the night side! Or you could just wait two hours for midnight to become midday. (Polar projection of original image blended with another image of the night sky.)

Shadow the Wonder Dog.

Still from video clip rendered via Prisma app for iPhone.