Cottesloe Beach Surfers

Winter has arrived in Perth which draws almost as many people to the water as summer, just the mix changes. With rough weather comes waves and wind, so out come the surfers and kite surfers. Still it amazed me how many surfers turned up at Cottesloe Groyne, which as it turns out many swim along for access to the waves.

Surfer by the Rocks, Perth, 2014, John Wiese

Couple on the Hill, Sydney, NSW

Sydney is a great city for photography, so many iconic locations and structures. The downside of course is that my recent visit there in May 2014 has only added to my image backlog. I am now part way through processing image sets from Perth, Kalgoorlie, Sydney, Canberra and Paris. Thus have decided to mix it up a bit by switching locations.

Found this spot the day before but not much was happening, so came back the next afternoon. Saw this couple sitting on the hill and after a moment they got up. Right place, right time, nice sky.

Couple on the Hill, Sydney, NSW, John Wiese (c)

Texting in Paris

I love this image, a Parisian texting. However this image took me forever to decide on a final crop, much longer than normal. Typically I’ll get composition very close in camera, but this image just had so many possibilities…

How many steps to leave in the image, should I crop out the observer on the right, should I use my first ever square crop (yes my first), there was an interesting set of objects in the foreground (which I lose in the “almost” square crop).

Anyway here is the image, this is one I think I could keep working on but others beckon me…

Texting in Paris