DarkElf Photography
stirling ranges
Posted by DarkElf (Perth, Australia) on 1 April 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
today's photo comes from a mountain range about 70km north of Albany in Western Australia... they are called the Stirling Ranges and while they are not the highest of mountains, they still quite rough and the weather does change here very quickly... the highest peak is Bluff Knoll (1095m) and is visible in the middle of the range on the photo...
i was lucky that just as we were leaving the ranges during our trip in September 2008, the weather cleared completely and presented blue skies and brought out the greens of the local crops, after two or three days of mixed and muggy conditions...
welcome to my photoblog and thanks for visiting... my aim is to learn photography and share my experiences with you, not only through my attempts at photography, but also through showing different aspects of the world that have caught my interest over the time that i have been walking this planet... hope you enjoy the journey with me...
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
Gorgeous intense green. This is so refreshing.
1 Apr 2009 1:33pm
seb from Lyon, France
Thanks for your comment, i just finish a long travel in Australia. I remember the Bluff Knoll, a walk under the storm... I enjoy to see lot of others images of your beautiful BIG country !
1 Apr 2009 1:46pm
Susan from Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States
great shot!!! worth waiting for the weather to clear!!!
1 Apr 2009 6:29pm
Roman from Thunder Bay, Canada
Gorgeous colors, I love those vivid greens and the crispness of the image.
cheers
Roman
1 Apr 2009 6:44pm
Nicole from Komono, Japan
Wow so beautiful. Australia is next on my list of counrties I must visit!
2 Apr 2009 2:41am
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
A kinda refreshing simplicity to this . . like it is a demo of what a landscape should look like but seldom does. Even the trees look like tokens.
2 Apr 2009 8:35am
Manel from Girona, Spain
Great close-up that lead our eye to the real motive of the photo, the mountain!! Congrat. I've seen your exellent portfolio and I would like to congratulate you for it. See you !!
2 Apr 2009 10:37am
Ragnar from Tromsø, Norway
This is just an amazing picture! Fantastic colours in the forground and a sky that looks so nice and blue. Did you use bracketing and blended the images together to get such a perfect shot?
2 Apr 2009 8:04pm
@Ragnar: hello Ragnar! no - no bracketing here and no blending - one shot only! i did use the polarising filter, though, to get better saturation and contrast...
Sof from Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Incroyable ces couleurs et un cadrage tout en horizontal sauf ces quelques arbres... j'aime bcp
2 Apr 2009 9:04pm
JJ from Jersey City, United States
Such a beautiful shot, lovely greens in the foreground and such a beautiful background
3 Apr 2009 1:30am
dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States
YOW -- i have been missing out!! :) excellent work as always mate!!! looks like we will definitely be meeting face to face this year if you are down -- i have a friend that will be residing in albany until next january shooting an aussie television program!! so of course i will finally have to make it to albany / denmark / esperance after all! yahoo!! marvelous colors here mate -- keep it up and bravo to you!!
3 Apr 2009 3:59am
Eye Spy from Menorca, Spain
Great photo, it really brings back memories....Bluff Knoll, the blowholes....ah...
3 Apr 2009 4:26am
don from Spokane, United States
The vivid green of the grasses in the foreground work well with the distant range of mountains. The few puffy clouds complete this fine image. Well done.
3 Apr 2009 3:38pm
Scott Schilling from San Martin, United States
Great photo! I love the green foreground and the overall composition is great! Have a wonderful weekend!
3 Apr 2009 5:32pm
EYES WIDE SHUT from The library of my soul, United Kingdom
Rarely do I use the word, but this is AWESOME! Perfect in every way, Dark Elf
3 Apr 2009 8:22pm
Daniel from Córdoba, Spain
Fantastic green colour in the front, good blue in the rear, perfectly outlined clouds and a great subject for this shot: the mountains! It reminds me to one of those Windows wallpapers. Great picture!
3 Apr 2009 9:07pm
dogilicious from Millerstown, PA, United States
Very nicely presented. I like the strong foreground.
3 Apr 2009 10:57pm
Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada
Beautifully framed and composed shot! Intense colours and surprisingly clear for this type of shot! Well done! ;-)
4 Apr 2009 11:27am
Amirhossein Barkhordari from Tehran, Iran
really great .. I can see kilometers of varied lands ..
4 Apr 2009 12:14pm
Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States
So rare to see such lush green grasses in Australia. A beautiful image.
4 Apr 2009 2:09pm
marcel lemieux/star_cosmos_bleu from Bedford.Quebec, Canada
What lively colors...beautiful...lovely scene and mountain rage in the distance...great capture..big open country...
4 Apr 2009 2:11pm
Graham Russon from Cape Town, South Africa
Stunning shot, the green grass in the foreground is stunning
5 Apr 2009 7:35pm
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
Love the depth of field in this shot. The detail of the grass in the foreground and these colours are amazing.
6 Apr 2009 3:53am
Rakesh Vanamali from Ooty, India
This is such a breathtaking picture! It makes me feel so very close to nature and also think of how peaceful life is in places far away from human beings! You should consider yourself very lucky to have been able to have visited here and carried back memories and pictures!
Fantabulous shot!
6 Apr 2009 12:17pm
Mirza Ahmad from Thames Ditton, United Kingdom
Really like the foreground offsetting the ranges in the background, nicely captured.
6 Apr 2009 12:17pm
Tracey from Maryland, United States
Makes me feel so small! Great image showing the vastness and greatness of the Earth.
6 Apr 2009 3:05pm
David from Mataró, Spain
Lovely framing and composition.
Powerful and saturated living colours.
Really nice.
6 Apr 2009 5:17pm
Alun Lambert from cheshire, United Kingdom
very good image, sharp from front to back
7 Apr 2009 5:34am
Sussi from Landskrona, Sweden
Wonderful beautiful scenery, composionen excellent and magnificent colors!
7 Apr 2009 8:20am
emeterio from Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Beautiful colours. I like the contrast betwen green and blue.
7 Apr 2009 9:09am
narcís from Girona, Catalunya, Spain
Una captura molt bonica, tan per compo com per color!!!
8 Apr 2009 7:43am
pedro alexandre from loures, Portugal
wooooooowww, i love this one on the wall of my living room.
14 Apr 2009 8:47pm
Edward James from New Hampshire, United States
Beautiful landscape that seems to go on forever. The green grass is so vibrant. I love how it stands out. The horizon is perfectly straight..I love that.
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave me a comment and checking out my blog. It means a lot coming from someone like yourself.
19 Apr 2009 2:04pm
Mr.Shooter from shiraz, Iran
Thick green line,orange line then purple line and discrete white line and at last blue line of sky.Nice colors
Maybe with on elemet at front of the frame(for exmple a farmer), You make visitor spending much more time on exploring in your fantastic land(Photo)
20 Apr 2009 3:29am
@Mr.Shooter: hello! thanks for visiting and leaving a comment - I agree with you - it would have been nice to have a point of interest in the foreground but on that day and at that place there was nothing of note visible as far as the green fields went... may be next time ;-)
krishna from Calicut, India
WoW!!! what a beauty yaar!!!
It's so captivating. Good framing.
20 Apr 2009 5:09am
SPunkt from Stuttgart, Germany
Wow! -shot
I like the arrangement a lot, but could imagine it with something in the front.
(I see, Mr.Shooter has written about the same )
20 Apr 2009 3:33pm
Gautam from Dubai, United Arab Emirates
this is what i like abt photography...you can visit a place without going there...your pics does that...capturing Australia....this one is a great image with lush green
30 Apr 2009 1:55pm
Piervincenzo from Reggio Calabria, Italy
I don't think there are many words for this pic apart from just a WOW
30 Apr 2009 8:14pm
Zion from Engins - 38, France
as a windowe landscape in better! ;) ;) ;) so great !
5 May 2009 9:33am
Mariana from waterloo, Canada
That is my favorite nuance of Green ! Gorgeous . Panorama is so attractive . Love these beautiful trees, not to mention a great sky and mountains ! Simply - stunner !!!
6 May 2009 2:35am
Sash from Adelaide, Australia
Yeah, maybe you can superimpose yourself riding a tractor in the foreground. ;)
This is bloody brilliant mate. The entire composition is top notch. I'd hang it on my wall any day. Raise your bat to acknowledge the standing ovation. Well played, sir.
20 May 2009 5:49am
Canon EOS 400D
1/125 second
F/9.0
ISO 200
40 mm
landscape
stirling
ranges
mountains
spring
western
australia
24-105mm