yOOrek's Rants'n Raves » Victoria http://blog.yoorek.com The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:40:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Southern Sunset http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/southern-sunset/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/southern-sunset/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:18:10 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/southern-sunset/ Here is another photo I got from my mate. I just love the tonal gradations in this capture. Ah, all this makes me homesick.

Southern Sunset

Southern Sunset Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Sorrento, Australia, April 2008 

Taken by a mate of mine and post processed by me. Slightly different cropping.

• NIKON D50 • ¹/1000 sec at f/5.6 (? 1 EV) • ISO 200 • Pattern metering • Normal • no flash • 18-200 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 200 mm •

2008-04-05-1839-41

Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.

© 2008 A. Mazurkiewicz

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/southern-sunset/feed/ 0 Sorrento, my lovely Sorrento http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/sorrento-my-lovely-sorrento/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/sorrento-my-lovely-sorrento/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:12:39 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/sorrento-my-lovely-sorrento/ A friend of mine sent me few photos as a surprise. He is in Australia, I am in Switzerland and used to be there. The photos are of the places I used to visit. I did some post processing in Lightroom on them and here is the result. Used some gradual filters on the first photo. The result is quite dramatic wouldn’t you say.

Sorrento, my lovely Sorrento

Sorrento, my lovely Sorrento Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek: 

Sorrento, Australia, April 2008 

Used to spend quite a lot of time there. Sadly, not any more. Photo taken by my mate and post-processed by me.

• Canon EOS 40D • ¹/400 sec at f/11 (0 EV) • ISO 400 • Pattern metering • Normal • no flash • EF28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 USM @ 28 mm •

2008-04-05-1619-25

Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.

© 2008 A. Mazurkiewicz

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/12/29/sorrento-my-lovely-sorrento/feed/ 0 Body corporate and the art of taking photos in 21st century http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/18/body-corporate-and-the-art-of-taking-photos-in-21st-century/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/18/body-corporate-and-the-art-of-taking-photos-in-21st-century/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:35:17 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/body-corporate-and-the-art-of-taking-photos-in-21st-century/ With all the news about photographers being accosted by overzealous security guards I remembered this photo taken by ‘mugley’ and the ‘problems’ he had. Just read the photographer’s comments.

body corporate

body corporate Originally uploaded by mugley

Original comments by mugley:

Got the second-lamest anti-photography excuse ever from a concierge in this building:

“You can’t take photos of the building because we have a body corporate.”

Told her I could shoot whatever I liked as long as I wasn’t trespassing, and we both went on our merry ways. I suppose I should give her credit for not using The Lamest Excuse (ie anything including the word “terrorism”), but sheesh – what is wrong with businesses in Southbank?

With the hotels and retail areas so heavily dependent on tourism dollars, why are they so keen on attitudes that seem perfect for alienating camera-toting tourists?

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/18/body-corporate-and-the-art-of-taking-photos-in-21st-century/feed/ 0 Australian larrikinism still alive and kicking http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/16/australian-larrikinism-still-alive-and-kicking/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/16/australian-larrikinism-still-alive-and-kicking/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:53:03 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/australian-larrikinism-still-alive-and-kicking/ Some say that larrikinism arose as a reaction to corrupt, arbitrary authority during Australia’s days as a penal colony, or as a reaction to norms of propriety imposed by officials from Britain on the young country. If this photo is not a perfect example of this attitude then what is?

Got a smoke?

Got a smoke? Originally uploaded by SegiY

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/16/australian-larrikinism-still-alive-and-kicking/feed/ 0 David Attenborough of photography http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/11/david-attenborough-of-photography/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/11/david-attenborough-of-photography/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:39:57 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/david-attenborough-of-photography/ With a caption and comments like this I think Mugley could be safely compared to David Attenborough. Don’t you think?

in the sights

in the sights Originally uploaded by mugley

Original comments by mugley:

The delivery van, while not the top predator of the urban savannah, is still a formidable threat to a pair of careless hominids.

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

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... or three or four

… or three or four Originally uploaded by mugley

Original comments by mugley:

Today’s storms opened up a temporal vortex in the centre of Melbourne today, causing old sexist advertising from the 1970s to appear in Swanston St.

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/02/or-three-or-four/feed/ 0 I just knew that the party will have to end one day http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/02/15/i-just-knew-that-the-party-will-have-to-end-one-day/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/02/15/i-just-knew-that-the-party-will-have-to-end-one-day/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:18:00 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/i-just-knew-that-the-party-will-have-to-end-one-day/ Source: The Age

“SOME of Victoria’s favourite seaside getaways and most sought-after beachside suburbs will have to be abandoned or relocated over the coming decades as climate change leads to rising sea levels, storm surges and floods.Low-lying settlements from Lakes Entrance in Gippsland to Elwood, Brighton and Werribee on Port Phillip Bay and Apollo Bay and Port Fairy on the western coast have been identified as vulnerable to flood and erosion by senior scientists, coastal experts and researchers working for the State Government.”

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