Boats Resting Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is not a busy time of year for these boats so I found them idle in the Parramatta River. The tide and sun were working together for me here. The tide turned them perpendicular to the setting sun to provide a nice bisection of light by the bows.

The Parramatta River is the main fresh water body that flows into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour). It is a tidal river up to the Charles Street weir in Parramatta, 20 kilometres up stream from Sydney. This river and the harbour support both commercial and recreational boating. This includes everything from kayaks, racing sculls and small sail boats up to the larger sail and motor boats, ferries and large container ships. Oddly enough (and happily for some) it doesn’t include jet skis.

Post processing on this photograph included some lightening of the shadows, darkening of some highlights and very slight tweeking of the levels. The final version was sharpened for posting here.

ktanska, MLINES, gunbud, pierrefonds, scobert has marked this note useful

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ktanska (16365) 2006-11-14 3:54

Hi John,
Quite original looking little boats. Very realxing scene. Reflections work nicely on small ripples.
Kari

dynamo (90) 2006-11-14 11:21

Very relaxing scene indeed, well done.

doubay (5023) 2006-11-29 8:44

Very nice!
Andreas

devimeuxbe (55623) 2007-01-26 2:39

Hi John
It is a nice picture in the harbour. The light is beautifull. The colors of the boats are also great.
BErtrand

MLINES (10810) 2007-02-15 18:10

Hi John. Very good clarity as well as colours in this capture. Boats are one of the best subjects around the harbour. Good work, nice POV. Murray.

gunbud (27489) 2007-03-12 12:26

Hi John,
A masterpice of simplicity showing these to beauties in perfect light. The colors are stunning and the details are perfect.
Regards, Tom

pierrefonds (25855) 2007-12-08 4:51

Hi John,

A nice image of the boats on the Parramatta river, the photo has a good composition, sharpness and beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing.

Pierre

scobert (5333) 2008-04-15 19:34

Hi John,
I finished commenting on another boat photograph and I said that it looked like a post-modernism ,realistic painting with the vivid colors and the superb sharpness. The same can be said for your image. Interesting, isn't it? Your minimalistic and 3D effect looks more real than than the real scene, and I really like this effect. The subject matter is basic, but it is beautiful and fascinating to look at. Wonderful work!
Stan