Camping on the Murray River
Well i’ve been a bit slack lately, its been over a week since my last post, Christmas is always a busy time though, everything seems to happen at once. I managed to get away camping for a couple of days again, this time to a magic little spot on the Murray River just out of Dwellingup, a small town South East of Perth in the middle of the Jarrah Forest.
As a young kid we used to go camping on the Murray river at Dwellingup, its really the place where i first developed a love of the Australian bush and nature. The forest around Dwellingup and the Murray River have a particular smell, one i have not smelled in quite a few years, yet as we drove through the town and out into the bush the smell of the forest brought back a host of childhood memories, good memories of what this place represents for me. Its amazing how a smell can connect with so many other things in our lives, it is the key to many memories and experiences and all we have to do is catch a faint sniff to be brought back to other times past…
Wandered off the point a bit there for a while, back now. Had a great weekend, wandering through the bush, canoeing up the river, swimming and reading books. I gave the new F Stop camera bag a thorough field test, filling it full of camera gear tripod and water and went for a nice long walk, it passed with flying colours, great bag, highly recommend it. I only took one photo all weekend, and this is it…
Ah... beautiful. Explain to me again why i can't just stay here?
It is an 8 shot pano stitch shot on the 5D Mk II (of course) with the 16-35mm f2.8L lens at 16mm, of the Murray River at Sunset. actually its a 24 shot, cause it was bracketed and then manually HDR blended.
The Redgate beach pano is still coming, i’ve been a little distracted… there is also several hundred shots from Greece, Chile, Brasil, Argentina and Central America still to come, Stay Tuned!