Graham Leggate

I have recently been pre-occupied with a few to many things! One of those things is re-hosting some websites. So this post isn’t of anything interesting, it’s more of a test to ensure the functionality of the blog is still there. Hopefully now that the other distractions are out of the way, I can focus a little more on making pictures rather than just taking them

With recent event’s, I had fallen behind on reading many of the blogs I usually follow. Like usual, Mark S is posting like a machine. I’m not sure if that man sleeps! Anyway, he has posted some images of Boab trees in the Kimberly, so I thought I would dig up this picture, which was taken at Broome’s Town Beach.  A few of my mates have seen this image, it’s one which hangs proudly at the end of a hallway at home.

The weather has pushed us all seaside I think, or at least to the pool. Mind you our pool has been around 30 degrees… lovely. We went for a drive up to Guilderton a few days ago, just to have a look to see if it’s a worthy close to home holiday destination. The answer to that is ‘yes’. The beaches are lovely, the mouth of Moore River is really nice, and very kid friendly. Amelie had a ball playing in the shallow water chasing the fish. Anyway, the picture below is a quick holiday snap taken from the look out over the river mouth.

ISO200, f/11, 1/400th

Done a billion times before and a billion times better, but here’s mine. Taken on a perfect blue sky morning, hardly a cloud in the sky, flat lighting, oh how boring

For those with a careful eye, you might see a problem with the title of the image… note to self; Double check posts done late at night.

Here’s a snap I took a while ago, which I have reprocessed to get it closer to how things looked that night. I’m slowly starting getting the hang of masking and blending in Photoshop.

Things have been a little too busy recently, so no new pics… except some entrants for the Canon Photo5 comp. Even for that I’m running late on getting my pictures ready Anyway, I thought I would post an image taken a while ago, just to have something posted.

Last week Amelie and I headed down to the beach to take some pictures and stretch our legs. To my surprise the beach was covered with Blue Bottle Jellyfish’s. There were hundreds washed up on the beach. It’s a sight I have never seen on a West Australian beach, so I was really surprised. I was a little worried that Amelie would touch one or accidentally come in contact with a tentacle. But all was ok. Here’s a couple of pictures.

I was looking though some older pictures and came across some pictures from the Maldives which I thought I would post. The first makes it all look a bit miserable, but even when it’s raining, the place is still lovely. The second picture is the jetty leading to the spa treatments at the Hilton. If you haven’t visited the Maldives, best to get in quick whilst they are still here.

Whilst looking though some older photo’s, I also found this one of Whitehaven Beach, taken from the lookout where all the tourists go. The beach is just lovely and plenty of baby reef sharks and rays darting about in the shallows. Time for a holiday I think!

I’m still sorting out my library of pictures in Aperture, so from time to time I come across pictures which I think worth showing, The image below was taken down in Esperence a few of years ago, and I had bracketed many of the shots. So I thought I would attempt another HDR. So here it is.