Remembering the Victorian Bushfires of February 2009
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On the 7th of February 2009 severe bushfires devastated the Victorian countryside destroying families, homes, whole towns, killing wildlife and lush bush, that day will forever been known as ‘Black Saturday’ the worst natural disaster to hit Victoria, Australia.
“The Black Saturday bushfires, were a series of bushfires that ignited or were burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday 7 February 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in Australia’s highest ever loss of life from a bushfire. 173 people died as a result of the fires and 414 were injured.
As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February. Following the events of 7 February 2009, that date has since been referred to as Black Saturday.” [continue reading…]
Springing back to life
Blue Moon – Melbourne, Victoria
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Just saw the Blue Moon rise over the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.
“A blue moon is a thirteenth full moon in a year. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days compared to the lunar year of 12 lunations.” [Read the full Wikipedia article]
Blue Moon rising over the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
Christmas Brushes GIMP – Freebies
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GIMP Snowflake Brushes by ~Project-GimpBC
White Balance Post – Processing with GIMP
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This tutorial is all about lifting colours and putting life back into those flat looking photographs. By adjusting the White Balance you can change the Kelvin of your photograph, this can create a warm or cool effect.
Before and After Post Processing!
Matthew Stewart – Australian Photographer – Inspiration
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Matthew Stewart is an Australian photographer living in Brisbane, where he has the beautiful Landscapes, Seascapes and Wildlife of Queensland to photograph.
Matthew is a brilliant photographer and produces some really stunning shots , his work is defiantly a great source of inspiration for me and thousands of others following Matt on Flickr.com!
Matthew Stewart
