Another image from the storms 3/12/08… It was quite a storm! Shook the windows in the house with each peal of thunder as it traveled overhead….

Another image from the storm 3/12/08… While the lightening isn’t so impressive, I found the dark, ominous clouds spectacular!

A shot taken of the thunder storm that rolled over my yard last night. Have more to come..

A photo of a sunset from Denarau Island, Fiji.

The second picture published to this site, taken from the balcony of Air apartments on the Gold Coast last year. This photo was taken 9 minutes prior to the sun first rising as captured in the first photo, here: Shepards Warning.

A sunset shot taken over Noosa River on the weekend just past. Winter always feels brisk and fresh, no matter where you are – but I guess we don’t have it so bad afterall!!

Now, this photo illustrates the limitations of the tiny little IXUS. No super wide angle lens, so left with photo stitch. When you don’t pay the best attention on taking the shots, the angles of your stitch change and you are left with a whole heap of the blur tool in photoshop.
Despite not being happy with the post-production work I did to stitch these two shots together, I decided to still post it up – purely as the sunset was spectacular and the clouds provided quite a dramatic sky.

Apparently a red sky in the morning is worthy of a shepherd’s warning… But, I must admit – I have no idea what that is based on. This day turned out brilliantly!

This shot is taken of a sunrise on the Gold Coast, Australia – from the balcony of Air apartments in Broadbeach, right above the Kurrawa Surf Club. I was lucky enough to have a chance to meet my parents there for an early morning walk last week, and this is what greeted us.

This photo was, like some of the other recent photos on SP, taken at Port Douglas. It captures some of the dramatic sky that loomed in the distance as a storm rolled into town.

Appropriate really.. This weekend, I hope the Melbourne Storm rolls out the title of 2007 premiers.

*edit: and they did!

This is a photo I took literally minutes ago as a massive electrical storm passed over the top of my home here on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. I am pretty blown away by this shot and I expect people to think this is jazzed up in photoshop, so I will explain how I took the shot and what has been done to it since:
I used my usual device: my Canon IXUS 55. I switched the shot-type to “fireworks” and changed the shot frequency to “continuous”. Then I squatted at the edge of my patio, in the pouring rain, somehow trying to get the roof out of shot (failed) and half protect the lens without getting my grubby paw in shot (succeeded), while taking 150 photographs, one after the other, of the night sky. 2 shots almost caught a lightening strike, 1 shot got a glowing cloud, 146 shots were of pure blackness and 1 shot qualified for posting.
I imported the photos to my mac with iPhoto trashed most of them, exported this one to photoshop, enhanced the contrast by 0.10, decreased the exposure by 0.33, inserted my watermark, cropped half the roof of my house out of it and exported it to upload at these dimensions. So, yes, tweaked – but minimally. I hope you get something out of it. All I can say is that I wish I had of been able to record the clap(s) of thunder that came after it!!