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Mount Panorama

Jason Benz — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 04:22:33 +0000

This is the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst. This race track is also a public road, and Karen found herself driving on it by accident the first time we drove to New South Wales from Victoria. This time it was my turn to do a lap in our van.

We have arrived in Sydney now and we have started making preparations for our flight to the UK at the end of the week.

Trinculo Wreck

Jason Benz — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:47:07 +0000

On our first night out of Melbourne we free camped at the Boolarra Pub. We were warmly welcomed by publicans Ross and Robyn who we drank and danced the night away with into the small hours. The following day they treated us to a superb lunch before we set off to Australia‘s southern most point.

Last night we stayed at Paradise Beach which is one of many free camp-sites along 90 Mile Beach. This morning we made our way up the coast to this 154 year old wreck of the Trinculo which was driven ashore by a series of gales in 1871. This is Karen‘s shot of the wreck which I thought looked better than the ones I took.

Cutts Close

Jason Benz — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:02:49 +0000

Karen took this picture in Rutland. Snow is a tricky thing for cameras. The problem is left to themselves they often turn snow grey. This is due to the auto exposure trying to balance the tones in an image. Unless you remember to overexpose you may need to do a bit of work in Photoshop later to make the snow look like snow. I used levels to retouch this image. The upper layers darken the sky slightly in the same way you might use a Graduated Filter. The third levels layer brightens the snow without losing detail in highlights.

Hadrians Wall

Jason Benz — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:50:43 +0000

Karen took this is a shot of me on Hadrians wall. The sky was almost completely blown out in order to capture as much detail as possible in the stones. I managed to squeeze out some more detail by using an extreme tone curve. You can see from the gray bar chart the original image had almost no mid-tones.