'Light Snow' ... in a digital darkroom.

[Wild Wassa]

127 thread views ... that is excellent. Let's take it to over a 1000 .. shall we? I hate odd numbers.

It is hot here at the moment ... "Oz, it's as sweltering as bro. I wish I was beached as, but not as beached as hot plinktun bro." ... do you like my new Kiwi accent that I'm acquiring from Kiwi tourists over the summer holidays? Do you think it is kewl?

Although some might find my new accent a bit misleading or even totally d'ciptive bros, I'm finding it as multicultural as. "Summer is ridical in Oz bro." Everyone I talk to is largely a new Australian ... so "Cong Hei Fat Choi !!!!"

Anyway, back to the hot post processing plot. Here are some hot shots from my little Canon point-n'-shoot S70. Hoilding my 40D is totally out of the question. 3rd degree burns can be life threatening.

The Coastal Ranges are going up. The sea breeze is bringing with it a heavy pawl from the burning Budawang Wilderness and the once warm temperate rainforested coastal ranges will be no more, sadly. Losing the precious remnants of rainforest to fire is tragic. It is a sad week that has prompted these next few shots.

'Smokey'





I'm not talking only 100F ambient air temps, that is just a kiddy play temperature, I'm talking seriously hot air, like closer to 117-120+F. I've seen some hot "simmers" here but this summer is absolutely swelteringly hot. Where I was working this morning the radiant temperature from the surroundings was 53C/130+F ... so I left work and went and did some photography in the shade.

'Sweltering Heat Brown Stump'. Showing 3 stages in the build. The original image is a slumping heat stressed Hairy Oak, adding a texture screen in the second stage and then finally converting to b/w, sharpening selected areas and toning the image using the colour balance parameters and abit of cloning to add some evil drama. As always, I ran the image through Lightroom and then back through Canon's Arcsoft to make the finer tonal adjustments.











Man it is hot. It would be even hotter here if I had a longer thermometer (a variation on thermometers that I stole from a Mark Twain quote). It is so hot holding a black camera here, when you take a breath and hold it, it burns your throat and pressing against a camera ... renders facial burns.

Warren.