Panorama Photograph. Xian China

One of my favourite things to do in photography is to create panoramic images. The process starts out in the field when I look at a landscape I look for the panorama in that landscape. I take a series of images left to right with about a 30-40% overlap. All my images are captured as RAW files.

Back at home I use the RAW images to create the panorama. I do no processing at all on the original RAW images. The RAW images are selected and stitched in PhotoShop using the automated process. Over the years Photoshop has got much better at this. The files are saved as a .psd image. I then open the image in Lightroom. In light room the image is cropped and the levels adjusted to create a good image. I use Lightroom because the original .psd file is left untouched by the Lightroom edits.

Xian from the City Wall. 3 Image Panorama

For me this panorama take in Xian China is one of the most interesting I have done. This image was taken from an Ancient City Wall looking back towards the old city. From this ancient point of view we see an old city struggling with the issues of a modern world. Traffic and Pollution. The image has a depth as the city vanishes into the pollution. It took some time in Lightroom to get the levels right to give this image the depth it has.

In Our Garden

We have been having a lot of rain where I live and a lot of the roads around the area are closed by flood waters. So in between the rain showers I decided to investigate the garden.

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Purple Drops

Purple and Green

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The F111 Deseal Reseal Tragedy. What went wrong?

Reblogged from Ramblings by Ian:

The F111 Deseal Reseal Tragedy. What went wrong?

We have here an industrial accident that was allowed to continue for over 20 years. We had a leadership in the Airforce that has a canon fodder attitude to the well being of those they had a responsibility to protect. This attitude was alive and well in 1998 when a senior Airforce Officer spoke of the “Greater Lethality” of the Spray seal program.

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Justice for POW’s

Reblogged from Ramblings by Ian:

Justice for POW’s

It’s great to see the Australia Government recognise the Special Service given by the POW’s. These men and women served in terrible conditions doing jobs that were often lethal at the hands of a cruel enemy. This enemy had no regard for the wellbeing of those forced into unpleasant labour in very difficult conditions. The enemy had a military objective and they used the POW’s with little regard to their wellbeing.

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Getting away with Murder.

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I thought we lived in a Country where justice was equal for all. I thought that if someone was killed by the actions of another then those responsible for the death would be made to answer for their crime.

It would seem I was wrong. If you put a uniform on and serve in the Defence of this Country it would seem that basic justice does not apply.

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The Australian Government still sits on hands while good men die.

The Weekend Drive.

Rust is Cool

We did one of the classic day drives for our area on the weekend. The Rain Forest Way. This is a great drive with plenty see and some great side roads into some nice National Park areas.

We extended the drive out to Woodenbong and the scenic drive around there. The whole drive is an easy day drive from Brisbane. There are lots of great photographic locations and interesting places to stop and eat. The roads in the Woodenbong are are a bit on the average side.

Some images from the day.

The Milk Shed

This Macro was shot in front of the Milk Shed

Ian Fraser.

Big Cats

Yawn... 28 Aug 2010

I am not the go into the wild style of wild life photographer. I like the civilised approach of being able to go back to the hotel after a nice walk around a zoo. My wife has a love of visiting zoo’s when we go to cities we haven’t been to before. My Big Cat photographs have been captured from a number of zoo’s.

Taronga Park Zoo Sydney

Melbourne Zoo

Shanghai Wild Animal Park

Beijing Zoo

Australia Zoo

It is very sad when you think that in the future the only place that many of these big cats will exist is in Zoo’s. I would love the chance to photograph these awesome creatures in the wild (not to far from a Hotel… )

Ok I wont bore you with more rambling here are some Big Cat shots…

China Tiger Shanghai Zoo

Beijing Zoo Lions

Ligers Shanghai Zoo

This one was a challenge shot through glass with a large crowd pushing in.

The Ligers from the photograph above.

A final image for this post.

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Big Cat Set on Flickr