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“Photography: Painting and Drawing with Light”
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day on Ridge Road looking south across the farming region of Yan Yean towards Arthurs Creek.
INTRODUCTION
One cold winter’s day my husband and I travelled by car along Ridge Road within the Yan Yean Region where I managed to capture rural landscape photographs featuring lambs resting under huge gum trees, cattle grazing on expansive grass fields and Purple Swamp-hens prodding the grass for food at the Yan Yean Reservoir Park. We also sighted many Black Wattle trees which are prolific at this time of the year and found throughout the bush and in local residential gardens. On this particular winter’s day the weather was challenging! It rained, hailed and then the sun appeared revealing beautiful blue skies decorated with white fluffy clouds.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day just off Ridge Road at Yan Yean Top Lookout – Yan Yean Reservoir Park.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day on Ridge Road looking south across the farming region of Yan Yean towards Arthurs Creek.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson_www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day just off Ridge Road at Yan Yean Top Lookout – Yan Yean Reservoir Park.
PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT USED
During this landscape photography exercise – I used a compact system camera, a Sony A7 Mark II – Full Frame with a Sony A FE24-240mm F3.5-6.3 OSS Lense. For some of the shots, I used the camera hand-held, and for others, I used the camera mounted on a tripod with a remote timer. Each photography adventure helps me learn more about my camera and lense; and hopefully helps me becoming a better photographer. I also used my Samsung Galaxy S6 mobile phone for quick spontaneous photographs and gain GPS location readings.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day on Ridge Road looking south across the farming region of Yan Yean towards Arthurs Creek. This particular photo featuring myself taking a photo was taken by my husband on my mobile Galaxy 6 mobile phone.
MY PICK OF THE DAY PHOTOGRAPH
On this particular day and as we were leaving the Yan Yean Top Lookout Reservoir Park area, I spotted these Black Wattle trees. “They are among the tallest of the wattles, this fine species has dark-green bipinnate leaves, numerous and are smooth. The fragrant golden flowers are produced in long heads in spring. It occurs naturally in New South Wales though it has been extensively planted in other States of Australia. It is considered to be one of the best of our wattles (Thistle Y. Harris 1980)”. NB: I particularly like this photograph because of the angle I was able to achieve. The Gum Tree trunk in the foreground leads the eye up towards the pretty blue skies whilst the yellow flowering Black Wattle trees in the background steal the show! And the small puddle of water reflecting the image of the wattle and sky above, just adds that little bit more of interest to the overall shot.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day just off Ridge Road at Yan Yean Top Lookout – Yan Yean Reservoir Park. Featured here Black Wattle Trees, among the tallest of the wattles.
CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY APPROACH
In future, I will be selecting some photos from each photography adventure and be a little more creative during the development within Adobe Lightroom 6. Here is my first creative attempt!
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day just off Ridge Road at Yan Yean Top Lookout – Yan Yean Reservoir Park. Featured here above Purple Swamp-hen Waterbirds.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day on Ridge Road looking south across the farming region of Yan Yean near and along Deep Creek. Cattle grazing on grass with mighty storm clouds slipping over the mountains in the background.
THE PHOTOGRAPHS
On my return home, I downloaded all the photographs into Adobe Lightroom 6. I developed a small selection of photographs. During the process of developing them I was able to see what I needed to address during my next photographic adventure. Please find both above and below the best of what I took during this travel and photography adventure!
- Please click on the images to view in full and find camera setting details
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day on Ridge Road looking south across the farming region of Yan Yean near and along Deep Creek.
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day on Ridge Road looking south across the farming region of Yan Yean near and along Deep Creek.
SLIDE-SHOW OF ALL PHOTOGRAPHS
CONCLUSION
Being out and about experiencing the natural wonders of the world really does rejuvenate the body and soul. Photography is just another way I can improve my sense of wellbeing and at the same time – be creative! It definitely works for me and once more we finished up our day in high spirits. NB: Please click here to visit my ‘Photography – About’ page where you will be able to find blog links and photographs about other photographic adventures…
Happy photography all!
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- Yan Yean Region, Victoria – Australia_Photographed by ©Karen Robinson http://www.idoartkarenrobinson.com 2017 Aug 27 Comments: Chilly Winter’s day just off Ridge Road at Yan Yean Top Lookout – Yan Yean Reservoir Park. Featured here above Purple Swamp-hen Waterbirds.
Please click here to visit my ‘Photography – About’ page where you will be able to find blog links and photographs about other photographic adventures…
© Karen Robinson – August 2017
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Beautiful photographs and amazing places. You have a good eye for getting the best results out of the landscape
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Thank you…I am learning more each time my hubby and I get out and about. I find myself looking at landscape differently now, always framing it up in my mind, even without a camera in my hand….warm regards Karen.
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What a lovely place and you have such a good eye for capturing it and telling its story.
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Hi Claudia, thank you and it was a lovely place, tucked away in rural Victoria and not too far from home. Am trying to do better each time with my photography efforts, so appreciate your comments…warm regards Karen
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I love what you are doing and really enjoy seeing a part of the world far away from my home. You take beautiful pictures.
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Awesome photos, Karen! Thanx for sharing.
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Thank you … I am beginning to really understand the process of developing photographs within Lightroom 6. Getting to know my camera better is also happening as well – takes time but such a creative pleasure! Warm regards Karen
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What a fun day! Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you … it was an interesting day for sure with the weather being rain, hail and then beautiful sunny skies. We managed to be in the car during the rain and hail. As the sun appeared, it gave me a chance to capture some good shots. Always an adventure! Warm regards Karen
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