Category: <span>Photography</span>

The tide appears to come in rarely on Southport beach. This is because the shallow gradient of the beach means that it goes from far out to high tide, and then back out again in a very short time. So, when I was passing and realised it was almost high tide, I grabbed my camera and took some shots. Unfortunately the high tide wasn’t that high, but, at least there is some water lapping around the pier supports.

This photo really needs a large image to see it properly. The picture below links to an 800 x 600 version.

OK, so it’s another flower picture, but it was just sitting in a vase, asking to be photographed.

The sun was in and out of the clouds, making exposure difficult, but, having stopped down a couple of stops because of the bright sky it turned out OK.

No, not the cult TV show starring David Carradine, but the real McCoy. I found this sitting on our patio doors, and rather than crush it in one fell blow as I opened the doors, I decided to remove it. It quite happily sat on my hand while I walked it into the sunlight and took several photographs.

This is my favourite.

I know it’s another flower, but, as I’m doing the whole close up photography thing I thought I’d put it up here, just to add some colour. This is a house plant that got the take it outside and photograph from below treatment. Unfortunately, due to the wind I couldn’t get as large a depth of field as I would have liked. At any rate my Olympus C-8080 WZ only goes to F8, so the shallow depth of field is inevitable with macro shots on this camera.

Thinking about images breaking out of the box for a web site design and Gordon of Hype Creative suggested breaking out this iris from the frame. Anyway, here’s my take on it…