Is that a UFO?

Can you see the UFO?



Last night I tried, not very successfully, to photograph some distant fireworks, but I got quiet a surprise when I viewed them on my computer, Can you see the destinctly disk shape object hovering in the upper left of the sky. You might have to enlarge the image by clicking on it. Didn't take long to figure it was a reflection of a hanging light behind me.

Moral:: Remember reflections when photograhing through glass, even when it us dark!

Summer Time

Venus Bay Street Party

Notice that even the police horse is dressed up

A summer romance

Towards dusk a local flock of galahs congregate on the power lines atthe end of our lane (to catch the last rays of warmth). the rest of the story requires no words

17th. Monash Carols by Candelight

The Harmattan winds

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The dust-laden north-easterly harmattan winds blowing from
the Sahara have reachedcentral western Ghana. Christmas must be near!

Photomosics :: More Experiments

Photomosics :: More Experiments
Originally uploaded by imageo.

Returning to the experiment I started last week, I have been taking a number of time lapse photos (using the night scene setting on my camera, which leave the shutter open up to 4 seconds) from a moving bus in the early mornings. Of course the images are blurred and streaked out, but the colours and the abstract patterns are pretty amazing. I like the effects such "abstract" photos can create when you combine them, and add repeating paterns as in he examples below. (I used the picture grid feature in picasa's collage maker, and gimp for the grids)






You may need to click onto the larger image to fully appreciate these

This post preceded photofriday topic :Blur by a few months but I'll put a retro-link back here now

Weight:: PhotoFriday

for photofriday topic :Weight

African Dawn

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I guess it is hard to feel the balmy embracy of yet another hazy - misty dawn in central western ghana.

Mobile Marketing

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Roadside sellers are all along, any road you care to take in ghana.Like most Ghanians, Sonali has a lovely smile and was happy to have her photo taken, but I doubt this web presence is going to have much impact on her sales.

The bread makers

The bread makers
Originally uploaded by imageo.

This family were busy preparing bread rolls, as dusk fell. These rolls are comonly sold on the roadside by ladies with a large basket full of the rolls perched on their head.

Front & Center

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Originally uploaded by imageo.

The smartest dress secruity guards in town. Late afternoon but i did use a fill flash to make sure the dark skin tones had a little detail.

Road Trip Collage

Road Trip Collage, originally uploaded by imageo.

This is is one of those, "now for something completely different" posts. It was inspired by firstly photo fridays experimatal topic and secondly by boredom (I am currently spending 4 hours a day in a bus travelling the backroads of ghana.

This is a collage of available light images taken on a very misty morning, from a "moving" bus.

for photofriday topic :Experimental

Backlighting :: Bird of Paradise

Heat "noise" in low light

This is one of this " creative accidents". I used picasa's "I'm feeling lucky filter" on a chronically under-exposed photo (I sometimes do this just to see what is there!) and got the characteristic blocky "heat noise" you get in most lower level lighting/long exposure digital images, suddenly formed a beautiful pattern/texture. The art of such imperfections can be beautiful, at least sometimes.



The original under-exposed image.

for photofriday topic :Imperfection

One Place Four Different Times

These are all photo of the same resteraunts on Anse Vata beach in Noumea, as the "Evening in Noumea" and "Cameraphones ..." posts below.

Life's a beach

Worn :: but wallpaper worthy

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originally uploaded by imageo.

From time to time I like to make up screen wallpapers, from my favourite photos. My Olympus Camedia Software includes a nice wallpaper maker, but I normally add extra stuff with Corel Photo Paint. This well worn securing ring on the barge deck made a perfect background to counterbalance my backlit photo taken from the same barge. Notice I have reversed and cropped this background image in the walpaper. My wallpapers can be downloded free (for personal use) from my Flickr Account.


for photofriday topic :Worn

An evening in Nouema

Available light images taken from my hotel with nightscene setting and a tripod (It is very difficult to hand hold low level light photos with most digital cameras, unless you want blur!)

Cameraphones :: Are they any good?

This photo was taken with my mobile phone (NEC 410i). Maybe cameraphones are not quiet ready to rival my traditional olympus camera, but still suitable for reasonable snapshots