The magic half hour

Hi all,

My first post in these forums, so please be gentle with me!

I returned home after an 18 hour day today (up at 4am) to quickly develop a couple of photos from my day trip to the North West of Western Australia.

I didn't have time to take any photos until I was on the way back out to the airport at 1700 and just had to park the car by the side of the road, find a hillock (not easy if you know the Pilbara at all) and take these during 20 minutes or so of beautiful light courtesy of the setting sun. I had a hell of a job keeping my shadow out of these!

Please give me your opinions. I took these RAW, so will play with them more over the next few days, these are from the full-size JPGs:

Beautiful.

These will be stunning after you post-process them.

Great shots.

I like both of them even w/o any PP. Great job Simon!

Beautiful shots!..The North West is stunning. I haven't been up there for a long long time now but I can't wait until I do and I can take pics..Where abouts exactly did you take these pics?

Great color.

Excellent images.

Those red colours are just fantastic! Really stunning shots.

Thanks all, appreciate your comments. I really must correct a misconception that I have allowed. These 2 images are post-processed, but only from the large JPG. Not from RAW, which I will do later on.

Witchy, these are taken about 1km north of the Paraburdoo airport, looking towards (about 100km away) Karijini National Park which you may have heard of lately - http://www.abc.net.au …items/200506/s1​390771.htm).

I will be back up there for 2 days next week, more to come, however I will be with someone else this time and I'm not sure he'll appreciate my wanderings off into the spinifex to take photos!

Simon....

The first one is awesome, the colors are very attention getting, great job..........Joe

Thanks Joe, I will be getting these printed out tomorrow on a Frontier system, so will see how they look with a prospect of getting them printed at 20"x30".

Simon....

Simon,
They are terrific!!
I will be going to Australia at the end of this year and it will be my first visit there. Australia is a wonderful place

RaymondCheung wrote:
They are terrific!!

I will be going to Australia at the end of this year and it will be my first visit there. Australia is a wonderful place

Thanks Raymond, where are you going in Australia? There are good bits and their are better bits .

Remember that Oz is about the size of the continental US, so the east side is vastly different to the west (the best bit).

Simon.... (Now watch those East Coasters jump in!)

Amazing Colors!

SimonBl wrote:
Thanks Raymond, where are you going in Australia? There are good bits and their are better bits .

Remember that Oz is about the size of the continental US, so the east side is vastly different to the west (the best bit).

Simon.... (Now watch those East Coasters jump in!)

Hi Simon,
I am planning to go to the eastern Australia, first to Cairns for scuba diving, and the final destination at Sydney. Is there any nice driveway along the coast in the East that you can suggest to me?