darkness

True darkness is generally hard to find in the city. Our street lights go on as the sun goes down, even our jetties have lights on them. 

A lot of people shoot long exposure beachscapes when the sun goes down, which is what I tend to do also. Sometimes (rarely as I'm not a morning person - lol), I like to go out in the morning before sunrise. This is when you can get some really interesting shots with the tide being different to night time and the moon might still be up casting a glow on the water. I do have a few moon shots at sunrise but I haven't processed them yet, all in the archives still :)). Pre-sunrise mornings also generally mean an absence of people on the jetty, particularly in winter. Although plenty are still walking along the ocean front at first light.  

20mm, ISO 200, f/9, 2.5 seconds. 

it's getting dark...

With so much beauty, light and colour in Australian sunsets - it is pretty strange even to me that I want to capture these same locations in darkness with minimal or no colour. 

A few months ago in March, I was out shooting at Grange beach with a friend visiting from Queensland. Normally I leave the beach after last light but that night I stayed because I had company. I took a photograph at Grange jetty which had a 1 minute exposure and I loved it. The effect on the water was silky and the reflection of the jetty lights on the water looked amazing. 

This was the beginning of my fascination and love of long exposure and interest in photography as it's getting dark. 

18mm, 60 seconds, ISO 100, f/22, ND8.