Andrew Gould's Images
Brighton beach at night
Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 18 October 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
This is Brighton, my local beach in the southern suburbs of Sydney at 7:30pm last night.
It's about 15 kms. south of the city centre, and the tallest object you can see in the distance in the middle is Sydney Tower in the centre. Off to the right are the beginning of Sydney airport's runways.
If you'd like to get things in perspective, have a look at this Google map:
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=-33.960803,151.156769&spn=0.01164,0.019312&z=16
Right in the middle of this map, you can see Bay St and Brighton-Le-Sands. That's the street junction just up the steps after the building here.
Zoom out to see the whole bay and where it is in relation to Sydney Harbour, to the north. Zoom right in to the corner of Bay St and the Grand Parade at the waterfront and click on Street View to see exactly what I see when I'm down there.
It's spring here in the southern hemisphere, and daylight saving started a short while back. That's the reason it isn't totally dark at this time of night. I must take the tripod one of these days for early evening beach shots, so I can try with a really low ISO. This was taken, as usual with my Sigma 18-200mm image stabilizer zoom, though, so there wsa no problem with it being hand held.
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Canon EOS 40D
1/6 second
F/3.5
ISO 500
18 mm