Murray Darling Junction, low altitude aerials
Murray Darling Junction has been photographed from the air many times, just not this close. At Wentworth a small outback town in far western NSW. Australia’s two longest rivers join together, at the Murray Darling Junction. Together they form the Murray Darling Basin. A huge catchment area comprising 23 river systems. Combined the Murray Darling [...]
Wildflowers in Mallee region, Australia.
Masses of wildflowers in Mallee. The shot above is pretty typical of the current conditions throughout the Mallee. Most everywhere you drive the sides of roads are a alive with the massed colour of Acacia and Senna’s in flower. Every year we have a good showing of these species but this year seems to be [...]
Photographers copyright creating buzz this week.
There’s been a bit of a buzz around photographers copyright on the internet. Stemming from an out of court settlement in America.
Beautiful time-lapse photography of Northern Lights, a must see.
Landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd created this stunning timelapse sequence of aurora borealis (AKA northern lights) recently. Using a Canon 5D II camera and a couple of wide angle lenses and some pretty nifty tracking gear.
Eucalyptus ertythrocorys or Red Capped Gum in flower.
We’ve just added this stock photo of Eucalyptus ertythrocorys to our archive as a Royalty Free image.
Flooding swamps Northern Queensland yet again.
Seems like Queenslanders, particularly those living in Northern Queensland had better get use to being wet
Massive Solar Flare, may disrupt communications, provide photo ops.
A massive Solar Flare is set to disrupt some electronic communications. From TV and Radio reception right the way through to some power supply systems. good news for photographers in the Northern Hemisphere though. The Northern Lights are set to be spectacular over the next few nights. You can read all about the event and [...]
Blackwater reaches Swan HIll
Reliable sources tell me that a flush of Black Water has reached Swan Hill.
It’s not just our flowers that look good.
After such a great Spring in South Eastern Australia, Cassia and Acacia bushes are loaded with a whole manner of brightly coloured seed pods
Acacia aneura or Mulga in flower.
Acacia aneura is a very tough and hardy native of the Australlian outback.
Plasmopara viticola, or Downy Mildew.
Here’s one from our lesser requested stock pictures. Plasmopara viticola, or Downy Mildew a common enough garden disease which also plays havock with the viticultural industries if vines are left unprotected. A fungal infection that requires a very specific set of environmental conditions to take hold, spreads rapidly when those conditions are achieved. So what [...]
More wildflowers of the Grampians region, Hibbertia fasciculata.
Travel anywhere through the Grampians Region during Spring time and you will are bound to see hundreds of Guinea Flowers, flowering.
Thelymitra ruba or Salmon Sun Orchid, Grampians region Victoria.
Considered to be uncommon where this specimen was photographed in the Grampians Region of Victoria, the Salmon Sun Orchid is a common sight in other parts of Southern Australia
Thelymitra ixioides, Dotted Sun Orchid, Grampians wildflowers, Victoria
Thelymitra ixioides, or Dotted Sun Orchid, isn’t all that uncommon in the Grampians Region of Victoria, an area renown for its spring wildflower variety.
Drosera peltata, Pale Sundew flower, Grampians region, Australia.
This time however I decided to shoot and image for stock of the pale, fragile white flower on top of the small sundew plant.
Red Parrot Pea flower, Grampians, Victoria.
Manged to squeeze in a few hours shooting wildflower stock photos in the Grampians region of Central Victoria last week. I’ll post a couple of stock images from the shoot during the coming week as I get them processed and into our stock photography archive.
Pale pink Sturt’s Desert Pea flower, and a lonely last stand.
We found this lone pale pink coloured Sturt’s Desert Pea, or Swainsonia formosa growing in the wonderful Living Desert Flora and Fauna Reserve near Broken Hill, in Western NSW, Australia.
Hills ablaze with wildflowers….
A traveler tells me that the outback of Western NSW, Northern South Australia are simple alive with a flurry of wildflowers in full bloom.
Are you looking for background images suitable for compositing?
I needed a natural texture to blend with a composite that we are in the process of creating for a client. A quick search of our natural backgrounds gallery in excitations stock photography archive and I had the shot I wanted.
Orchid time in the Grampians.
The early orchid varieties should be starting to bloom in the Grampian Ranges about now, so I’m hoping to get down there twice this season.
Stock Photography Australia, new search portal launched.
Last night we launched a new search portal for our stock photography. Nothing flash mined you… in fact it’s straight html (get it). Just another mean of searching our image archive, we’ll update it as we go and add some more content to improve its SEO, but in the meantime, stockphotosaustralia.com will be a simple [...]
excitations stock archive out of action today.
June 10th from around midday until just after 2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time the server running our archive will be down for a scheduled upgrade. Of course its scheduled, because if it wasn’t we would know it was going to happen would we now. Anyhow the good folk at Photoshelter who provide our archiving service [...]
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 released.
After being in Beta testing for some time Adobe have release Lightroom 3. Certainly some neat new features in this version, including noise reduction and non destructive perspective adjustments not to mention the ability to to work tethered with a range of cameras. Why has this feature taken so long Mr Adobe? Working on both [...]
Eucalyptus flowers, how to photograph them.
One of the search terms we see often used to arrive at this blog is “how to photograph flowers” and one of the flowers that often appears in that list of how to searches are Eucalyptus flowers. so herein starts a simple approach that we often use when photographing flower in the natural environment. There [...]