Iridescent Blue



Some of you have asked about this photograph and what I can tell you... this one is a photograph II took in Bali, and have done some advanced colour remapping. So the photograph is a of some of the sparkly beach sand in Bali, that has a high amount of quartz and mica, which looks sparkly. On the west coast of Bali the beach sand is a yellow/orange colour with sparkly volcanic/mica sand (its not like the white powder sand beaches in Perth).

So here I have attempted to take the sparkly/iridescent material and remapped the colours to the green, and the yellow and golden colours to blue, To me this combination forces you to look more at the abstracted forms and totally removes the subject matters cues ie it doesn't look like beach sand, and get me to look and think about the colours and forms and where these could be in nature.

For me, the colour combination is very exotic and the form totally beguiling. It demonstrates for me where we see nature's patterns in different scale proportion i.e. this photograph looks like an underwater deep ocean floor scan, and not the tidal zone sand it is.

Anyways there you go, a little peek behind the curtain to get a sense of what and why. :D

Old Deep Blue

Some great travels over the last four months and some great photography of course.  Whilst I'm still collating and reviewing images I felt you would like a little bit of colour in your day.  So here is Old Deep Blue.  Enjoy.


Sinister blue

This time for a change I was photographing with Nicholas, yes we photograph a lot together, but end up with different images...funny.  This image caught my eye immediately.  The darkness, with shimmering dark and blue accents. Enjoy.


BlueBlack I

BlueBlack I

Solitary walk in Mandurah.  About an hours drive from Perth, on the coast, walking around the estuary.  I come across this magical blueblack liquid metal before me.  I spend about 30min just watching the patterns swirl, form, change, alternate, reform, dissolve and recreate.  I'm mesmerised. People walk past and wonder what I'm looking at.  Looking into the water, they fail to see it.  The missed beauty of this moment evolving in magical forms.

It takes me a while, but then I remember I am holding this huge camera.  I bring the camera tentatively to my eye, almost with a sense of despair that the forms will stop at any moment or for some technical reason they wont be able to be captured, these beautiful forms.  Fleeting unrepeatable moments.

Everything on manual including the focus, dial the exposure, twist the barrel, press the shutter in quick succession.  Now not brave enough to look until I get home.

Enjoy.


Top blue

Another post so quick after the last one... crazy!  This one is for William, who is a terrific landscape photographer who is currently using the same type of camera this one was taken with.  The Hasselblad H4D, with 120mm macro lens.  I still haven't processed the images I shot with this camera the last time I used it... but here is a quickly processed shot.  Enjoy.


The Blues...

Recently, I attend a photography lecture at the Western Australian State Library... as I usually do, I parked in the State Library carpark.  Interestingly there was an installation all throughout the car park which was quiet stunning... what was it you ask?  Well I'm not really sure, well... it was blue...