Waratah Bay

Today's blog is a Panorama I took at Waratha Bay in the east of Victoria. 

I enjoy taking landscape photography especially when the clouds are thick and abundant thye can really make a photo.

I took this pano while we were walking along the wind swept beach.

The Beach at Waratah Bay

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

Baby Elephant

This week I'm blogging a photo I took a couple of years ago and completley forgot about.  

In 2010 I went to the Melbourne Zoo and spent the day photographing the vast array of animals and reptiles. I was at the elephant enclosure just in time to see the new baby elephant come out for an hour.

I snapped a heap of photos of the baby elephant, which I completely forgot about until I was looking for another photo and found them.

This is one of my favourite shots.

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

Japan Panorama for my 100th post

It's my 100th post on 'The Smoking Camera' Blog today!

Time has flown since I started the blog 3 years ago. Since the first blog Ive had nearly 3500 visitors from dozens of countries across the globe, with the most hits coming from the USA.

It's been a fun journey to get to this stage now hopefully I can get to 200 posts....

For my 100th blog, I'm posting a panorama of my favourite place...Tokyo.

 This was shot from our hotel room at the Park Hotel on the 38th floor. It was difficult to do as anyone who has photographed through thick glass will tell you.

I think I photographed this panorama about 20 times (there's nothing worse than getting home and finding out it did work) and then stitched it in Adobe Photoshop.

I now do all my basic photo editing in Adobe Lightroom, once I ran it through that I then brought it back to Photoshop for a couple of final touches and presto!

The panorama features the iconic Tokyo Tower (red tower) and behind it in the distance is Mt Fuji.

Enjoy and I'll see you next week!

iPhone Photography

Today is my 99th post on 'The Smoking Camera' blog! It's hard to believe that next week will be the 100th! Hopefully I'll get to 200 but that's a long way in the distance.

This week I'm posting a few more of my iphone photos. I've started experimenting with some of the various app filters that you can now download.

The first is a sunset at Black Rock Beach. I often drive along Beach Road in Melbourne and marvel at the stunning sunsets and amazing colors in the sky, yet I have never taken my camera down there to capture his.

Recently I finally stopped my car and wandered over and snapped a few shots on my iphone. I was very happy with the final results, which I've posted below.

The second is of our pet cat. The cat was a stray that was rescued and rehoused with us. There's nothing she enjoys more than hiding and waiting for a victim to walk past before she pounces. I managed to get this shot with the iphone. I added some vinaigrette to the edges to create a more dark effect.

Sunset at Black Rock Beach

Devil cat...

Enjoy and I'll see you next week for my 100th post!