Shirley Milburn's Photography Blog

A Night at the Tower

shirleymilburnphotography — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:15 +0000

I was fortunate to be amongst 6 photographers from PIP allowed access to shoot from the Perth Airport Control Tower last night. It was a great experience to just go, with fabulous 360 views on a pleasant Perth evening (thankfully not too windy!). There is a “balcony” around the outside where we could set-up our tripods, although being slightly height challenged a little stool to stand-on would have been handy!

We were also lucky to get a sneak peak in the control room itself

Blue Bay, Mandurah

shirleymilburnphotography — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:01:51 +0000

Well last night Sue-Ann took me to her not-so-secret favourite spot, Blue Bay. Haven’t done a seascape for a while and had a new CPL filter to play with. She also had the fabulous idea to do some 55sec long exposures after dark too

Cervantes Roadtrip

shirleymilburnphotography — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:52:23 +0000

Enjoyed a lovely weekend with the girls up at Cervantes. Plenty of laughter and a bit of photography. Near disaster, as when we first arrived it was too windy to go to the dunes and the Pinnacles were closed for repairs to the road! The Pinnacles reopened in time for a sunset shoot (I have never been a great fan, and haven’t edited those shots yet!), sadly it was cloudless and extremely windy. Sunday morning we headed for the nearby dunes. It was dark, and we managed to drive right by them …….ending up some 65kms south at Wedge Island, arriving just in time for sunrise. I was a happy girl, we found some nice unspoilt dunes…

Light Painting

shirleymilburnphotography — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:10:13 +0000

Had a whole heap of fun last night at Kwinana Beach with Stephen Humpleby and Dave Savage showing us their light painting skills and tricks. I cannot take any credit for the creativity or “light spinning”, but thoroughly enjoyed watching and taking some cool photos

Was great to finally meet Steve, an online friend for quite some time, and a few other PIPsters….

Playing in Photoshop

shirleymilburnphotography — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:08:57 +0000

A couple more shots from last night…after a few minor tweaks in photoshop

Cloud Chasing!

shirleymilburnphotography — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:08:11 +0000

There were some fabulous clouds hanging over the hills all day, really big and fluffy white. So headed out with a friend to try and capture some nice cloud shots, was thinking gorgeous tree in the big white cloud. Drove for miles, but the clouds had changed when we got there…..not quite so white and fluffy! Struggled to find pretty trees in the right location too! We did stop a couple of times. While shooting the sunset scene we noticed there was a distant storm and the lightning flashes kept lighting up the clouds….. no nice lightning bolts for us though. Anyway, it was an enjoyable drive around Northam/York/Beverley and got a few shots I liked….

“Countryscapes”

shirleymilburnphotography — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:25:23 +0000

Have spent too much time at the beach lately and fancied a change. With the promise of stormy clouds, myself and Sue-Ann headed off for a drive in the country….

Another Trigg Sunset

shirleymilburnphotography — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:58:55 +0000

It was blowing a gale this evening, which was a shame as there were some nice clouds. In the battle of the seaspray I managed a couple of keepers

Final Sunset of 2011

shirleymilburnphotography — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:59:30 +0000

There were a few clouds around, but sadly the waves were big and the wind was high so seaspray was a nightmare. Also too many people sat on the beaches drinking champagne!! Still, a nice way to finish the year, one final sunset…..

More from Trigg

shirleymilburnphotography — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:55:53 +0000

Edited a couple more from Trigg the other night which I quite like….