257 - Whale of a Time

Day 257. Today's daily create is a couple of photos I took when Linda and I went whale watching today about 15 nautical miles off the Sydney coastline. We managed to find this huge humpback playing in the waters on her way back to Antarctica, and although she was playing hard to get she did come up to the surface a couple of times and I managed to snap these photos. Shot on a Nikon D7000, post processing in Adobe Lightroom.

Beautiful creatures...

033 - Seven Oh Five

Day 33. Tonight we went into the city to see the Chinese New Year parade. We met friends in George Street, at what we thought would be a great viewing location for the parade. Turns out it wasn't that great after all. I took my good camera, the Nikon D7000 to take photos of the parade but it was pretty hard to get a good shot. I looked upwards and saw the setting sun hitting the Town Hall clock and snapped a few frames.  I particularly liked this one.

The contrast of the orange sunlight on the sandstone against the blue sky makes it really stand out nicely I thought, however I did give it a little bit of postprocessing in Aperture just to make it pop.