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WildWassa ā Wilderness Within
Published: 2009-03-14 03:14:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 616; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 18
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Wilderness is within otherwise it is not to be found anywhere out there.Stormy day on Victoria's wilderness coast. In the background is the eastern end of the 90 Mile Beach.
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Don, thank you.
I make my living as a boat boy. I rarely take a good shot of the sea and I take many shots at sea and of the coast and where we race the boats.
Maybe I'm too close to the sea to actually see it well. That could be why I like to photograph mountains.
Warren.
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I really like when you convert this photo into black and white! The conversion somehow makes the photo come alive and quite dramatic! And I really like the distant hills which complete the entire seascape! 
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Laurice (I hope this is OK), thank you. I'm glad that you like the photograph.
Normally I don't photograph the sea at all well, which is crazy because in my day job I'm a sailor and work on racing yachts. Maybe Iām too close to the subject? To take a good image if the sea is unique for me, so thank you. Iām pleased that you like it.
It is very enjoyable, to convert digital images to black and white because of the traditional use and visual simplicity of black and white.
I separate the original image into its red, blue and green layers and select the layer that has the greatest tonal range and then enhance that layer, then by recombining it to become new red, blue and green layers, I can still make changes that can only be done using 3 layers. This then allows a traditional photographic tone to be rendered ... like a Selenium, Sepia or Gold tone or another.
Warren.
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Interesting pic. Here's one taken from the air [link] and the pilot seems to have the same surname as you........hmmm
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Ah Ha! the Gippsland Lakes.
I know the Gippsland Lakes because each year I race in the Marlay Classic, a long distance boat race held on the Gippsland Lakes. We came second in this year's Marlay, held only 3 weeks ago. This is when I took the photograph on my way to the Gippsland Lakes.
I'm not a pilot.
Warren.
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Well, congratulations on your success. I suspect the Gippsland Lakes would be more fun to sail than Lake Burley Gerkin (as my #1 son calls it. He has always complained that he could never get shore leave in his hometown as the Navy can't ever get their ships up the Molonglo. 
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Well I call Lake Burley Griffin, where I nirmally sail twice a wee, ... Lake Barely Sailable.
If your son mastered sailing on Lake Barely Sailable ... I'm sure he would get any vessel up the Molonglo especially one with an iron spinnaker (a motor).
Warren.
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Well, actually, the only thing #1 son has "sailed" on the lake (many years ago) is a long thin boat with eight oars in the first VIII.
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This is very impressive.
Warren.
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Please change "nirmally" and "wee" to normally and week.
Thank you.
Warren.
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Pure coincidence about the name.
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Robert, and you're too kind. Thank you for your kind words ... but now my head wont fit under my hat.
Warren.
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Get a bigger hat or go to Papau New Guinea for the Shrunken SKULL...lol:.....
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So easy to say ... you haven't seen the size of my head.
Warren.
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So true. Thanks for another really fine image Warren!
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ADM, thank you Mate and thank you for the favourite.
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Birger, thank you.
I wasn't sure how the shot would turn out because of the servere condition, hand holding the camera. The shot is certainly better than I thought it would be.
Warren.
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