Ocean Concerto

With daylight saving time pushing into autumn (not sure why they do that), it meant that the sunrise over the last few weeks was not until after 7:00am. Given I am an early riser I took the opportunity to work on a few night time photographs early in the morning. The one on the left is from Camden Heads on the mid north coast, the right is the full moon taken from North Curl Curl on the Northern Beaches.

I don’t post a lot of selfies. I photograph to build a collection of images for my gallery in Sydney and odds are no one is ever going to decide to hang a photograph of me on their wall! But, this selfie has a story so I thought I’d share it here. I had a 15 second exposure running to photograph a lightning storm the other night (image below). A few seconds in, something moved in the corner of my eye so I walked around to see what it was. I knew the flashlight would ruin the shot, but I was curious to see what ran passed. Turns out it was a rat the size of a cat, the thing was massive! It scurried off pretty damn fast and I went back to my tripod and checked the last frame. There was so much salt spray in the air that the light beam looked like something from a sci-fi film. I figured it would make a good selfie, the lightning storm had moved passed me anyway, so I set up for this shot. I think it’s only the third or fourth selfie I’ve ever done…