Eye of the Storm | Lake Mungo
I recently returned from an almost 5000km road trip through western Queensland, western NSW and almost to the Victorian border and then back up the coast. Here’s an image from western NSW as a storm cell is about to move through, we were lashed with crazy winds and sand blasting at us. Many more images to come.
Point Arkright Storm
Here’s an image I captured a little while back from point Arkright on the Sunshine Coast. Check out my website and my facebook page for more new images.
Storm Over Sea
Here’s a new image from a month or so ago, I was lucky enough to be able to get in front of this impressive storm front looking back towards Brisbane from Woody Point. Check out my website and my facebook page for more new images.
Hasting’s Point Storm
I was on the road just north Byron Bay a couple of days ago, I watched storm clouds building and decided to stop in at Hastings Point to capture the front as it came over. Check out my website and my facebook page for more new images.
Camera- Nikon d800e
Lens- Nikkor 45mm 2.8 Pc-e
12 image stitch
Afternoon Storm
I captured this image Wednesday last week North of Brisbane, I only managed to capture a few frames before it broke up.
POP UP!
Last week I did a pop up gallery at one of Brisbane’s newest riverside office towers. This is new ground for me, I’m used to having my own gallery and attending art fairs and markets but setting up for a short period with massive amounts of traffic was a great experience.
Brisbane City Jacaranda
With winter on it’s way out, I thought I would post this image of Brisbane City in Jacaranda Season from late last year.
Karri Valley Reflection
We spent a couple of days around the Karri Valley, Pemberton. This image was taken after sunset, looking across the lake.
Morning Glow
I headed out for sunrise on Thursday, I drove for over an hour in the pouring rain to Point Arkwright near Coolum hoping for a break in the weather right on sunrise. I stood in the rain for about 30 minutes waiting, the sun broke through for about 2 minutes. It was still raining while this was happening so in between wiping the lens off I managed to get 2 useable frames that didn’t have water on lens.
Shorncliffe Pier
The Shorncliffe Pier has recently been closed off by the Brisbane City Council due to safety concerns. This is impacting significantly on community events, local businesses through loss of trade, and our enjoyment of the Shorncliffe beachfront. Please show your support by signing the online petition to SAVE THE SHORNCLIFFE PIER HERE. This is an image I took at the Shorncliffe Pier on Monday night.
Epson International Pano Awards 2012
The third Epson International Pano Awards is dedicated to the art of panoramic photography. Advances in digital photography and software such as PTGui, Adobe Photoshop, Kolor Autopano and Easypano Panoweaver has resulted in an explosion in image stitching, especially in the panoramic format.
The Epson International Pano Awards showcases the work of panoramic photographers worldwide and is the largest competition for panoramic photography.
I entered 4 images for this years Pano awards and they all scored well, here are the images and results.
My Noosa Storm image also made it into the top 50 coming in at 40th. Here’s the link for the top 50 in the Open Award Nature (including landscapes).
Crawley Boatshed After the Storm
We were on our way back to Perth after a great couple of weeks in the South, we could see huge strikes of lightning hitting Perth city. By the time we made it to Perth the storm was mostly over just some moody cloud about. This image is of the Crawley Boatshed after the storm.
Bribie Island Storm
I was lucky enough to get in front of this storm last weekend, I ended up on Bribie Island north of Brisbane. When I got there this family had just put their canoe in the water probably planning on a nice afternoon on the water, they must have forgotten to check the weather before leaving home. You can see them in the bottom right of the image wondering what do we do now. Not long after this image was taken I was running for cover the mother and kids were back in their car and the poor dad was frantically getting the canoe back on the roof of the car.
Evening Storm
I captured this one last week on the Redcliffe Peninsula, just before the rain started to bucket down again.
Afternoon Storm Panoramic
Here’s a panoramic of the Storm I shot in Noosa recently, this was before the colour really happened. I like the mood in this image. Again shot with the 5d Mk 2 and a 3 image panoramic stitch using shift on the canon 24mm TSE 2. I’ve also got some new images on my website that I haven’t posted on the blog.
Afternoon Storm Noosa
We’ve been in Noosa for the last few days relaxing, this storm front came through on Tuesday afternoon. I watched it building up all afternoon, this image was taken around sunset with the the 5d MK 2, 3 image vertical stitch using the shift function on the Canon 24mm TSE II lens.
Ben Messina Landscape and Nature Photography 
