• Home
  • About
  • Galleries
    • Flinders Ranges
    • The Salt Lakes Project
    • The Deserts
    • Panoramas
    • Outback Life
    • Flora and Fauna
    • Black & White
    • Pot Pouri
    • Abstract
    • Drought Fire Flood
    • By The Sea
    • Portraiture
  • Workshops
  • Instagram
  • Print Info
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
  • Galleries
    • Flinders Ranges
    • The Salt Lakes Project
    • The Deserts
    • Panoramas
    • Outback Life
    • Flora and Fauna
    • Black & White
    • Pot Pouri
    • Abstract
    • Drought Fire Flood
    • By The Sea
    • Portraiture
  • Workshops
  • Instagram
  • Print Info
  • Blog
  • Contact
Rule of Odds Again

Rule of Odds Again

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On March 5, 2021
  • 0 Comments
The human eye finds images pleasing that have a certain balance or harmony. Apart from a single subject like a portrait, photographs are more visually interesting if they fall into groups of odd numbers….particularly threes. House guests or just visiting?
Read More
 
Filters and Exposure

Filters and Exposure

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On February 26, 2021
  • 0 Comments
Using the Circular Polarising Filter to the max and playing with exposure for a more dramatic picture for the Dredge at the Murray Mouth. The sun was high and falling sideways across the scene which is where the polariser is at its maximum on a clear blue sky. Normally I’d back the strength of the […]
Read More
 
The Importance of Exposure

The Importance of Exposure

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On February 19, 2021
  • 0 Comments
I really wanted to take a photo of this tack room on Mundowdna Station near Maree in Outback South Australia. It was a collection of horse and camel saddles and the saddlebags the old cameleers used when camels where one of the main modes of transporting anything around Outback country. The trouble was the lighting. […]
Read More
 
Rule of Odds

Rule of Odds

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On February 12, 2021
  • 0 Comments
The human eye finds images pleasing that have a certain balance or harmony. Apart from a single subject like a portrait, photographs are more visually interesting if they fall into groups of odd numbers….particularly threes. It’s not exactly a rule but more a guideline and if you are aware of. There’s also a series of […]
Read More
 
Your camera goes wherever you go

Your camera goes wherever you go

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On February 5, 2021
  • 0 Comments
Reading about the lives of successful photographers now and in the past, they always seemed to have their camera with them at all times. Many worked only short distances from their homes most of their lives and yet made outstanding photographs that are still masterpieces today. Joseph Sudek and Saul Leiter are just two of […]
Read More
 
The Dead of Night

The Dead of Night

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On December 11, 2020
  • 0 Comments
Murray Mouth Through storm, wind and rain the iron lady continues her task of keeping the waters flowing through the small outlet that is the Murray Mouth. Without the dredge that shifting sand would close the gap casing major ecological damage to the surrounding area and fisheries. The image is one of the features in […]
Read More
 2
Choices

Choices

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On January 5, 2020
  • 0 Comments
Sometime ago I did some work for a company that employed me to take still photographs. However they also wanted to video content. That didn’t work out too well. When I decided to swap to video,  I kept seeing the good still photographs that I should have been taking, so both suffered. Since then I’ve […]
Read More
 5
Aerial Photography

Aerial Photography

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On June 2, 2018
  • 0 Comments
Drones have brought a new perspective to photographing the landscape but there are limitations and sometimes an aircraft is the only way to truly get a spectacular image. Drones can fly limited distances and height and in remote areas getting them to an area easily accessible  is not an option. The small resolution sensors in […]
Read More
 
Forward Planning

Forward Planning

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On June 7, 2015
  • 0 Comments
Most of my workshops are now tailored to suit the the busy lives of most people, whether it be a one, two or three day courses or a one hour Skype session. However there’s one popular workshop that needs a bit of forward planning. The last 3 day event held at Arkaroola in the northern Flinders […]
Read More
 
Lake Frome – An Eerie World of Salt and Sand

Lake Frome – An Eerie World of Salt and Sand

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On May 24, 2015
  • 0 Comments
Glad not to have false teeth. The track(very loose term) to this location was a real car killer. I’m on the edge of Lake Frome, a very large expanse of salt to the east of Balcanoona in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The salt on the lake is dotted with sand dunes said to […]
Read More
 
East Mount Painter Gorge

East Mount Painter Gorge

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On June 11, 2014
  • 0 Comments
Photographers talk generally about the Golden Hour – that hour around  dawn or dusk when photography is at its best. In this case it could be filtered down to just a few minutes after the sun has risen. East Mt. Painter Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges, taken in those few precious minutes at a time when […]
Read More
 
A Couple of Characters

A Couple of Characters

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On April 24, 2014
  • 1 Comments
Cockatoos  noisily posing  in the afternoon sun  
Read More
 
On Your Bike

On Your Bike

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 31, 2013
  • 2 Comments
Shops in Paris, particularly in the central part of the city have quite small fronts so to make them noticeable a lot of work goes into making them works of art. This florist shop caught my eye. Obviously I was going to take a picture of it, but I decided to wait for the right […]
Read More
 
Froth & Bubbles

Froth & Bubbles

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 28, 2013
  • 4 Comments
I found this an amusing scene. All the Greek Gods or perhaps the architects of the French Revolution looking down from the parapets of the Louvre in Paris on a woman taking a bath in a truck. Yep. Times have changed. If I had waited another second I might have got the driver in a […]
Read More
 
A Paris Lunch

A Paris Lunch

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 10, 2013
  • 0 Comments
A little cafe off the tourist trail. The Montmartre District, Paris. The food suddenly becomes so much better.
Read More
 
The Louvre

The Louvre

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 3, 2013
  • 6 Comments
Since the digital revolution the number of photos taken daily has become an avalanche in the billions. The number of bad photographs expands wildly while the number of good ones shrinks to a trickle. The iPhone and its way of taking a photo and similarly many of the cameras manufactured  today where the screen at […]
Read More
 
The Luminous  Labyrinth

The Luminous Labyrinth

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On June 27, 2013
  • 0 Comments
Matera town by night. Some really great restaurants featuring fresh local produce ensured an active nightlife in this rural community. I recall resting the camera on the top of a wall to get this nightscape. f2.8, shutter 1/10th sec, ISO 2000, FUji X 100s
Read More
 
Workshop in Matera

Workshop in Matera

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On June 19, 2013
  • 3 Comments
Where the Hell is Matera? Well, you won’t find it on a map anywhere around my usual haunts. Let me explain. The Sentimental Bloke has beaten a pretty straight path over the last three years, concentrating on a wonderful part of Australia, the Flinders Ranges and the surrounding deserts. From the comments and emails I […]
Read More
 
Natures Gems

Natures Gems

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On March 4, 2013
  • 0 Comments
I am no geologist but when I saw this specimen under light I couldn’t resist the idea of a photograph. This is gypsum crystal…one of the mineral’s many forms. Not all that common but certainly beautiful. The piece is quite large and I shot this in an almost dark room with just the light on […]
Read More
 
The Vagaries of Summer

The Vagaries of Summer

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On February 18, 2013
  • 0 Comments
Read More
 
Page 1 of 512345
Follow on Instagram

@peter_macdonald_photo
Environmental Photographer.

Visit my Facebook Page

@petermacdonaldphoto
Environmental Photographer.

Archives
Categories
THIS ENTIRE SITE © 2009-2018 PETER MACDONALD AND ALL OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS HEREIN, ARE COPYRIGHTED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. NO PART OF THIS SITE, OR ANY OF THE CONTENT CONTAINED HEREIN, MAY BE USED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
Subscribe

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

 Subscribe via RSS
Scroll
Copyright © 2019 Peter Macdonald Photo. All Rights Reserved.
 

Loading Comments...