Kangaroo Island

We crossed on the car ferry and found our lovely little shack in Vivonne Bay, on the south coast.

Koala

Vivonne Bay jetty

Vivonne Bay

Lets go for a morning walk on the beach

Vivonne Bay beach

George admiring the view

George

Koala

Red Wattlebird

Remarkable Rocks

Remarkable Rocks

Windswept scrub

Vivonne Bay at sunset. I am pushing the HDR here, so it is a bit hyper-realistic. This photo involved a tripod, with the camera set to delay 2 seconds and then fire 7 shots at different exposures at half second intervals. The exposures go from -3 stops to +3. (Ie -3, -2, -1, normal, +1, +2, +3). Then the LR Enfuse Lightroom plugin software aligns the seven photos, and blends them, so the dark under-exposed areas are lifted, and the bright over-exposed areas are darkened. Its a technique that doesn't work well in wind, or when people are moving, because the images don't line up properly.

Here is a tutorial on how to do it.

McLaren Vale

Part of the plan with leaving Nimrod in the north over the cyclone season was to keep our options open in the event of cyclonic or wet conditions. So with wet weather looming, rather than go sailing, we decided to fly to South Australia and rent a car and explore some vineyards and stay in a cottage on Kangaroo Island.

Adam Hooper is a small radical winemaker we found living in a tin shed, producing the most exquisite chardonnay. If Penfolds is the Beethoven of winemaking, he is the punk rocker. Check out La Curio 'Suffragette' 2012 Chardonnay. 

Here are some photos from the area around McLaren Vale. Some are experiments with HDR (High dynamic range). I am using a Lightroom plugin called LR Enfuse.

McLaren Vale

Port Willunga 

 Willunga (HDR)

 Willunga (HDR)

 Bridge to Granite Island, near Victor Harbor

 Granite Island

 Granite Island (HDR)

 Granite Island

 Port Willunga jetty