Rodney Campbell's Blog

Ahhh – here I am surveying that great Galactic Bridge in the heavens. I’m continuing my quest for capturing the Milky Way arching from horizon to horizon over the landscape.

Galactic Bridge

NIKON D750 + 14.0 mm f/2.8 @ 14 mm, 30 sec at f/2.8, ISO 4000 x 8 Frames

These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. Click any of the images to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

This arch of the Milky Way over this fabulous valley was shot in Mirima National Park (commonly known as Hidden Valley National Park). Would you believe the Kimberley town of Kununurra is just five minutes drive from here.

As I’ve often done, to include the top of the arch of the Milky Way I have to angle the lens upwards for the shots. I’m also taking fully manually (both framing and exposure) images.

Entropy Exhibition

This was one of the images that didn’t make the final cut for my current exhibition. Titled “Interstellar” it’s a series based around astro photography and our fabulous night skies. With a particular emphasis on epic Milky Way panoramics.

Our exhibition starts in only a few days time at The Art Space on the Concourse @ Chatswood (Sydney’s North Shore). It’s showing from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 18th September 2016 and entry is Free. If you can make it we’d love to see you there.

…and if you’d like to chat with me whilst you’re there, I’ll be there all day on Sunday the 11th and Saturday the 17th of September.

We headed to nearby Bodalla for lunch and along the way back to this lovely church on a hill called All Saints Anglican.

Located in the local government area of Eurobodalla Shire, Bodalla is a small town on the highway on the South Coast. Bodalla is famous for it’s cheese and dairy. From 1856, Thomas Sutcliffe Mort had been acquiring land in the Moruya district, and eventually owned some 38,000 acres. In 1860 he purchased Bodalla Station. He replaced the beef cattle station with an integrated and tenanted dairy estate. He cleared land, drained river swamps, erected fences, laid out farms, sowed imported grasses, and provided milking sheds, cheese and butter-making equipment.

All Saints

NIKON D750 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 1/5 sec at f/8, ISO 100

All Saints Church, commemorating Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa Shepheard Mort, was designed by Edmund Blacket. The foundation stone was laid by Marianne Mort, Thomas’ second wife, on 18 March 1880. It was completed in 1901. The church has one of seven small Henry Willis & Sons organs, built in 1881 and installed the following year.

The Aisle

NIKON D750 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 1/5 sec at f/8, ISO 200

It was raining, therefore heading into the church was a great call to get out of the inclement weather. Inside this beautiful church we had really lovely features and detailing. The light from the overcast skies outside was soft and fantastic resulting in a lovely interior light.

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

This is a stitched panorama of the church interior composed of three vertical frames. An exposure blend from nine (9) bracketed exposures (from -5&1/3EV to +2&2/3EV at 1EV increments) was used for each of those frames. Consequently a total of 27 exposures was used for the final result.

All Saints’ Anglican Church

NIKON D750 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 1/8 sec at f/8, ISO 200 x 27 Frames

The vertical image above is the central frame from this panorama.

Went down to Narooma harbour to check out the local sights including the Australia Rock. We’d also see for ourselves that little water channel and the famed Narooma bar we’d have to negotiate tomorrow morning.

You hear a lot about boats coming to grief crossing the infamous Narooma bar. However thats a story for another day :(…

Shouting

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 300 mm, 1/320 sec at f/8, ISO 900

We did however get to see quite a few seals which was great. We’d be seeing a whole lot more of them once on Montague Island :). The seals were playing on and around the rocks and were easy fodder for the slightly longer lenses. They seemed unconcerned with our nearby human presence.

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

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 92 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100

The weather was still a bit iffy with times of ominous cloud and a little rain. The fresh air an beautiful views made up for it :), and interesting images could still be found if you looked.

Faded Time

NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 190 mm, 1/200 sec at f/5.6, ISO 180