The
above picture is a variation of the photo below... taken a year apart. Both pictures
are composites. The photo above features the moon during a lunar eclipse, the
picture below features Mars at its closest point in August 2003. I took the moon
photo around 4 years ago with a 300mm telephoto lense outside my apartment in
Eastgardens. During a lunar eclipse the Earth's shadow is relected off the the
moon, causing a redish hue.
Bondi
Mars 2003
The pool
featured in these pictures is the famous, and newly renovated, Bondi Icebergs.
Im not sure why it is blue in the newer photo and green in the older.... maybe
they were cleaning it!? The picture of Mars was take with a 270mm telephoto and
left at near full resolution. It is placed close to where the actual Mars was
when this picture was taken (though ofcourse it did not appear this large!) This
is the only form I have the above image in.. The master file was lost when my
laptop was stolen last December... (Always back up!)
Bondi
Hotel
The lighted building
in the upper right hand corner of this photo is the Bondi Hotel. This place is
important to me as I lived there for 6 months when I first made the move from
Melbourne to Sydney all those years ago. It was white back then.. now its kinda
pinkish. I took this photo from rocks near the pool in the photo above. I had
climbed down to beach level in the hope of getting a better angle of the pool,
but I couldnt get close enough with the tide up.
The photo below is another
variation of the Icebergs pool... this one a 30 second exposure that leaves the
breaking waves looking like a thin mist has moved over the area.