An Early Start, and Colourful Finish to the Day

It was a very early start for Monday's images....I was standing in my gumboots in Lake Burrumbeet around 12.15am, hoping to catch the Geminid Meteor shower. However, the heavy cloud cover that moved in around 11pm put that plan to rest. Luckily I knew I still had something to play around with as I know these trees on the south shore very well, and a little bit of light painting helped to bring them to life. Amazing how the distant glow from Ballarat comes up so strongly on the camera sensor.
Heading back to Ballarat I figured as I was already up I might head north of town to see if it might be clearer up north and by the time I got north of Creswick it was crystal clear. So I set up the camera and tripod and waited for meteors to appear. I think I saw 6 or 7 in the time I was there, and caught a couple faintly....you'll have to click on these for a larger look (the blue one has the meteor if you can't find it!), I have left the 2 star images at a much bigger size for viewing. 
And a pretty nice end to the day many hours later as I caught this great sky above Nazareth House.

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Green and Gold

Sunday night, early Monday morning was tipped to be the best time to view the yearly Geminid Meteor Shower, an annual event that can put on good display of meteors, sometimes every few minutes. So with this in  mind, my Sunday evening trip was a lap of Lake Wendouree to see what I could find....and clouds was not one of them! However, at the end of the rowing course I caught a glimpse of a reflection of the rowing course judges box, so I stopped and grabbed a few nice images in the small pond there. Then I went home to get an early nights sleep before heading off chasing meteors...thats to come!
PS....no clouds for these around 8pm, amazing how just a couple of hours later there was no sky to be seen because of the clouds!

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Super Saturday Sunset

On Saturday evening I thought it was time I made a trip out to Lake Learmonth. However, wotht he clouds looking far more promising over Lake Burrumbeet to the south, thats where I ended up, once again in the far north east corner of the lake where it takes a while to tramp your way across to the lakes edge. Just as the sun dropped down below the bank of clouds it really lit up all the high grasses along the lake foreshore crating something very special, and very fleeting, too. The huge ball of the sun slowly sank into the horizon, though the best colour came a few minutes later looking across to what I like to call Purple Point.

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Moorabool Gold

On Friday evening I couldn't find a cloud anywhere....so it seemed like a chance to visit Moorabool Falls. I haven't been here for a couple of weeks and with the almost nil rain we've had since, I wasn't sure how much flow to expect. Surprisingly its still going along quite nicely and so I decided to stay right up top on the edge of the falls and see what I could do with the setting sun and its reflections. You've got to be pretty careful here, its a 52 foot drop over the edge!

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Remembering Flinders Island

Whilst looking for some images from the Grampians from a while back, I had a quick look through my images from my visit to Flinders Island in late January, 2013 and found this early morning view from Killiecrankie Bay. I'm hoping to get back down there over the summer....its a very special place with numerous photo ops at every turn...and it helps when you have a close friend that owns the local cafe!

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Rural Life

After yesterday morning's visit out to Dean and Clarkes Hill, I was keen to re-visit to see what I could find with some brighter light. It's a good time for a drive around as there is still plenty of pyrethrum around, and the newly ploughed potato fields always give you the chance of catching some nice patterns. And of course the sprinklers...or irrigators as they are called. This one irrigator was obviously causing a few problems as the farmer was working in amongst it, trying to avoid a drenching as he made a few adjustments. Lovely light with the bulk of Clarkes Hill behind working really well against the falling water.

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What Happens Next.....

I mentioned in the previous post about the great canola image I captured out at Clarkes Hill on Wednesday morning....as you can see its nothing like the fields of bright yellow colour when the crop is reaching its peak. This field has been harvested into these great patterns, I'm not really sure what happens next, though they do look amazing, and that sky really makes this something special. I think this would also look great in some late-in-the-day light as well.....

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