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Roadtrip: Darwin — Adelaide 2022
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Gardens of Adelaide
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A small selection of photos from our visits to three of Adelaide’s beautiful public gardens
A touch of Japan
On the edge of the city is a tranquil oasis, the Adelaide Himeji Garden, a gift to Adelaide from its Sister City Himeji, Japan.
Adelaide and Surrounds
Photos from our current trip
For our first outing, Tara took us to a lavender farm, an art exhibition at a chateau and a lovely drive around the scenic area of Lyndoch. It’s not the season for lavender but it was still a very pretty place to wander around, the giftshop was open with a very relaxing aroma and the lavender-flavoured treats from the café were delectable.
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Lyndoch Lavender Farm and Café
Chateau Yaldara
Our own backyard
Due to travel restrictions we have ended up paying more attention to attractions close to home.
In July we had a camping trip to Lorella Springs Wilderness Park in the Gulf Region of the Northern Territory.
More recently we had a midweek trip to Kakadu National Park.
I realise how fortunate we are to be able to travel while people in other areas are under much tighter restrictions. I hope these photos encourage people to plan and look forward to their next adventures when travel restrictions are lifted.
Day 30 Assignment – Eliminate Digital Noise
For this assignment I selected the three photos of a martial arts demonstration by the Darwin Chung Wah Society I used for Day 22 Assignment – Capture the Decisive Moment. Jim remarked that they were a little noisy due to the wide aperture and high ISO necessary for the high shutter speed needed to stop the action.
I used the Noise Reduction slider in Lightroom and tweaked the results a bit to try to maintain as much detail as possible. The second photo of each pair is the noise-reduced version.
Day 29 – Work in Black and White
My assignment on removing colour cast didn’t get much of a reaction, so I’m just going to go ahead and post the next one.
I’m hoping the lack of activity indicates that everyone is busy getting on with life as much as possible under the circumstances and keeping well. Having this course to concentrate on has definitely helped keep me sane despite the restrictions. I am grateful for it.
For this assignment we were to select our favourite photo from this course and convert it to black and white. I chose two, Elizabeth River Bridge and Finn Road, both of which I used in the leading lines assignment.
When I Googled Nik Silver Efex Pro it said Google had made it available free of charge for a couple of years but they don’t anymore so I wasn’t able to use it. I experimented with Photoshop Express and Lightroom. I found the tools in Lightroom easier to use.
Below are the edited originals of each followed by the Photoshop and Lightroom versions.
Elizabeth River Bridge f5.6 1/1251s ISO 100 4.10 mm
Finn Road f5.6 1/1061s IO 80 21.66 mm
April 2017 events
Our month in photos
April was a busy month for us, starting with a family reunion weekend at Litchfield National Park to celebrate Brian’s 70th birthday.
Before we left we went to Nightcliff Dragons Under 9’s first Rugby League game of the season.
The next JT?
Go Cuz!
Buley Rockhole
Litchfield Tourist Park Homestead
Florence Falls
Wangi Falls
Resting fruit bats/flying foxes
Resting family
Four-family get-together
Continuing the reunion theme, we got together for our traditional family and friends’ dinner at the Nightcliff foreshore. 
Wedding Anniversary
Our 34th wedding anniversary on 9 April saw us having lunch at Chow on the Darwin Waterfront. Delicious South-East Asian food and my first taste of green pawpaw salad – yum!
Easter Weekend
Pine Creek Digger’s Rest was our base for the Easter weekend.
Good Friday
Pine Creek Lookout, Watergardens and Railway
Hooded parrot
Easter Saturday
Moline Rockhole, Kakadu Ranger Station, Bukbukluk Lookout, wildflowers, Miners Park
Easter Sunday
Umbrewarra Gorge, Copperfield Dam, kite, boot tree, sunset
Easter Monday
Home via Burrell Creek. Robin Falls, Adelaide River War Cemetery, Manton Dam wall
Rainbow bee-eater
In the garden
Cavendish and Dwarf Ducasse bananas
Cavendish and Lady Finger bananas
Tomato seedlings
Basil from Penni
Kathy’s orchid – primrose scented
Six sprays on one orchid
Sunset
Our magnificent sunsets always enhance family dinner on the foreshore.
Day 28 Assignment — Remove Colour Cast
For this assignment we were to check our landmark photos from Days 21 and 22 for colour casts and remove them using the tools in Lightroom or ACR.
As I have been unable to complete those assignments due to Covid 19 restrictions, I practised on some recent photos taken at Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve near Darwin.
I experimented with Auto and eye-dropper tools in Lightroom with some interesting results. Overall, Auto on its own was too extreme and needed tweaking and the eye-dropper results depended on the neutral area selected.
Here I am showing the original, one of my attempts and the end result for four photos.
Billabong 1
Billabong 2
Two Jabiru, one Egret
Single Jabiru
Day 27 Assignment – Enhance your Colour
For this assignment we were to enhance the colour of the sunset photo we took for our assignment on Day 3.
This photo was so dark that increasing the vibrance did little to improve it:
So, I made adjustments in Lightroom to contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks, then increased the vibrance:
I took it into Photoshop and cropped it to get rid of the footpath, then used the spot heal and clone stamp tools to remove the signpost.
Day 26 Assignment – Fix Dynamic Range 2
Jim Hamel commented that he wasn’t sure that my clinging tree example had anything to do with dynamic range but that it did improve the photo, so I submitted another and asked if it was a better example.
Original 1/1000 f7.1 ISO200
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