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Outback Shed.
Above is an image taken from one of my favourite spots to photograph, Marrakai just a few clicks down the road from us here in the Northern Territory of Australia. I have finished a Photoshop course and have am happy to try out a few new tricks I learnt along the way, infact it was a reassuring course just letting me know I am already on the right track. This image has just been processed with the channel mixer and a texture added, too easy! Now I am up with all the tricks of CS4 I’ll have to start brushing up with CS5 soon enough!
Dirty Dirt
This used to be covered in natural bush land and is an area I used to visit to watch wondering wild Buffalo, the place I spotted my first antilopine walleroo (which I thought was a ‘big red’ at first) and to watch various finches in the tall grasses (wishing for that 400mm canon lens). It is government land that is used to collect dirt for the new bridge that is currently being built in Palmerston. When I spoke to the guy that is in charge of the area (-as i asked to drive in to take images of dump track tyres for some ttv work) he reassured me that the land is fully regenerated and no one would even know they were there. Little does he know that I have been visiting the area for long enough to watch these 2-3 square kilometre areas get wiped clean of all nature and no, years later they do not look the same.Granted though, there is enough land available here in the NT to take what you want from it without any fuss but it makes me SAD as its MY area, less than 10 kms from my home and a where I can go to see everything the territory has to offer from wandering emus to wetlands to rocky outcrops.It is where most of my ‘Through the Viewfinder’ images have been taken that appear on this blog. Anyways I said my bit…good on you if you’ve read this far as i really just wanted to rant outloud. Oh and the pano is a 6 image stitch with PTGui with no colour manipulation just a little burning and dodging. Don’t care about pano correctness in this one-I know I’ve got alot to learn re panos:)Cheers Jules
Jules Campbell in DiscoUnderWorld
Jules Campbell, originally uploaded by discounderworld.
Jules Campbell
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Old habits die hard..
Taking more pictures of trees I can’t help myself …sigh…Can’t wait to see what the ttv style comes up with in the big tree country in the SW of WA.Still haven’t moved, as I write I am sitting in the loungeroom surrounded by boxes.It’s a hot time of year and I’m holding off packing all my thousands of large prints and negatives as the 20ft packing container reaches 40+ degrees!
Good news is I’m flying to WA to attend a 20 year high school reunion at Busselton in Decemeber so I could probably take the most important negs and prints on the flight with me and store them with my folks in Margarets.Arhhh problem solved, blogging does have a reason! too sort out problems as you type! I still feel as though I’m talking to myself though…
Cheers for now Jules
Misty Mornings
Its been a while I know things are starting to get back on track and with a short break from photography I am feeling more inspired than ever. Lately there have been a few misty mornings which has been quite strange, although we do get fog in the dry season on occasion its usually cold-ish (low 20C’s) but lately its been thick fog and 26 degrees or more.
I took this image above at a favourite spot of mine, I call “Milly’s Lookout” as I once released a Frilled Neck Lizard there after I nursed it back to health. It had been hit by a car, I stopped and picked it up before another car came and after a Vet visit a few stitches and nearly dying twice on the operating table she came back with me for months of re-hab as I often used to do volunteer wild life rescue and care. Anyways years on and I still enjoy the visiting the place I call Milly Lookout.
A recent fire had gone through leaving the place looking quite eerie in the fog, if it wasn’t for the extreme humidity and the temp I could have been in a winter wonderland somewhere- well I can dream can’t I ? I’ll be right we are having another cold snap I think tomorrow morning it might even get below 20 Degrees C! Cheers Jules
One Image Six Ways
Sooo many options sooo little time…..
Admittedly the blue wash ones don’t look too hot pressed up against the black ~ they really deserve their own space but I just knocked this up to show the differences. Sometimes I play with colour so much I can have a dozen different versions which I usually put on the back burner till the next couple of days then I come back and decide. Its strange how a day or so can make such a difference in editing choices..does anyone else do that ? or have or tips/tricks to the final cut edition?
Outback Photographer
Well here it is my first magazine interview with the fabulous Disco Underworld
You can read all about it online and in several different just check the homepage out.You can also vote for the best article (ie me) in the mag and I might even some win some cold hard cash!! So don’t forget to vote for me:)
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Yesterday
Yesterday is History,
‘Tis so far away —
Yesterday is Poetry —
‘Tis Philosophy —
Yesterday is mystery —
Where it is Today
While we shrewdly speculate
Flutter both away
by Emily Dickinson
Talk about pressure!
Well phew thank-you Mr Fletcher for the link!!
Okay so the latest gallery pics posted are from the same day, same time ..two using my ‘through the viewfinder’ technique and one straight photograph. Don’t get me wrong I love straight images (when I say straight I am referring to very little post process) as most of my square images only have colour adjustments.
Oh don’t worry I am working on getting on the pano bandwagon for sure even thinking of doing a Christian Fletcher workshop! woohoo But because I am an honest poor artist I make do with my crappy 400D (but a CANON none the less) and my $5 1966 Kodak Duaflex from ebay and CS3.
My Lee Filters and a Canon prime 400mm and PT Gui are still on a wish list oh and of course the mkii….sigh BUT I must be realistic!
A little about me …I am a former WA girl now living in the wilds of the Northern Territory amongst beer swilling, fish mongering blokes in singlets and thongs oh and did I mention beards and motorbikes!
I love it here but I also miss my childhood town of Dunsborough but fear that perhaps the only thing I really miss is the memory of it. I try to visit often as I still have my folks and brothers down that way.
I have been doing photography to my budget’s limit for well over 15 years and once had a job with The SouthWest Times taking photos for $5 each which makes you think “well no wonder she is poor!” I am quite new to digital really which pees me off because I’d just mastered film…its all live n learn. Digital is pretty dam exciting I gotta say!!!
And I tend to hang out at redbubble alot !! actually too much but its ok – I have alot of images there…
Thanks again Christian for the heads up ..as I now feel less like I am talking to myself! Cheers Jules
Faerie Queen
‘I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.’
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quote. Act ii. Scene.1
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Thank-you!!
Flame Tree
Thank-you to Michelle and her family for letting me visit her beautiful property yesterday to take this image. Many Thanks Jules Campbell
