This image is, from my day of sailing with Take It Easy, has been a hard one to do. The buildings were really flat and trying to get more detail into them and make them stand out was harder than I thought it would be. It is the problem, sometimes, with using a telephoto lens.
I took some similar images to this when I was in New York and I’ve been trying to work out how to get some of Melbourne ever since. So glad I finally got something.
We started in sunshine on this day, then we watched the clouds roll in and finally it rained as well. You can see the storm approaching in this image. There was a lot of rain, but thankfully most of it held off until we were back at Docklands.
You made a very imposing sky. I know no one, except for the foolhardy, would have gone on the water with that kind of storm looming.
Thank you David, it really wasn’t that bad, it did rain, but it wasn’t much.
I love the depth you’ve achieved here. It’s really beautiful.
I had to work on it a bit to get that, the lens tends to flatten things a lot. Thank you.
Amazing that you took this from a boat! It’s beautiful.
Yeah, it was a great opportunity. Loved seeing Melbourne from there. Thank you Pam.
So good to see what you came up with, Leanne. It does look much more dramatic and eerie than it was or we would never have gone out! But I like what you did with this view of our town!
Thank you Chris, wasn’t quite what I had in mind, but I’m happy with the result. Yes, have to make really dramatic, you know me.
Surreal Leanne. Reminds me of a Coen Brothers movie scene…Hudsucker Proxy?
Thank you Jack, quite a compliment, appreciate that.
Exceptional, Leanne. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Don, and Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.
Wonderful results, Leanne!
Thank you so much Robin.
Wow! What a dramatic image, Leanne! In German we would say ‘schaurig schön’, which translates ‘eerie and beautiful’. That was at least my impression. Merry Christmas Time!
Thank you Peter, I like your impression, a lot. Merry Christmas.