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When my father first sent through his draft plan for our trip I noticed that we were travelling past Cervantes on the west coast of Australia on the way down to Perth.

@ the Pinnacles

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 40 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/8, ISO 100

I’d heard of the famous limestone Pinnacles at Nambung National Park but I noticed in my fathers plan that we were travelling straight past without even stopping here.

That just wouldn’t do – in my minds eye I had this vision of light painting the pinnacles at night and shooting the milky way arching over the top of a cluster of pinnacles and the milky way streaking through the sky in a star trails with a pinnacle thrust upwards in the frame.

I suggested to my father that I needed to stay somewhere close for two nights to give me the opportunity to try some of these.

So the plans were set in motion and now at last we were planning to stop at Cervantes for two nights and I could drive in to Nambung National Park to get my shots.

Widows Peak

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 62 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Unfortunately it looked like my good fortune that had been with me just about this entire trip had finally abandoned me. Instead of the clear blue skies I needed for the stars I had nearly 100% cloud cover and worse when we arrived at Cervantes for lunch it was pouring with rain :).

The weather forecast was also grim – it was expected to stay this way and rain for days. I made the hard decision to forgo staying here and move on. We’d just visit the pinnacles this afternoon and then detour eastward and visit my uncle before heading down to Perth.

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

The Pinnacles

NIKON D750 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 62 mm, 1/80 sec at f/13, ISO 100 x 10 Frames

This image is a panorama stitch of ten (10) vertical frames.

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