Light travels on a motorcycle

I like to tavel light when on a long camping tour, especially if I am to ride on dirt roads. There is no need to bring the kitchen sink and "all" the commodities of back home; I actually find pleasure in making-do with less and adapt. 

 6000Km along the Australian Main Range, from balmy nights to frost in the morning. 

 

Urban motorcycles

I am not a big fan of urban riding with all the stop-go traffic and congestion. But admittedly there are some spots in the city that lend themselves as a backdrop for interesting images.

 

Yamaha XSR700. M.Zuiko 45mm f1.8

Honda CB650R.  Zonlai Discover 25mm f1.8

Yamaha XSR700. Kodak Cine 102mm f2.7

Yamaha XSR700.  Cosmicar 50mm f1.4  (C-mount)

Yamaha XSR700. M.Zuiko 45mm f1.8

Yamaha XSR700.  Cosmicar 50mm f1.4  (C-mount)

Benji. Cosmicar 50mm f1.4  (C-mount)

January late afternoon on the beach

While some of my friends are enjoying (or hating?) winter in the Northern hemisphere I get the pleasure to walk barefoot on a sandy beach in Queensland.


Vivitar 135mm f2.8  @f5.6  1/125sec

I never tire of a walk before dark, sometimes I am gifted with a spectacular sunset.


G-Lumix 14mm    f5.6  1/10sec 


Vivitar 135mm f2.8  @f5.6  1/350sec


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Last catch

They dragged the net into the sea one more time and then gathered to see what they caught.


Sigma 60mm f2.8 DN  @f5.6  1/180sec

Australia Day weekend attracted a lot of people to spend time with their family, outdoors.

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Weathered snow gum

The winter storms on the Australian high country Snowy Mountains create a harsh environment for trees to survive.
Only the hardy evergreen Snow Gums have the ability to adapt; the wind bending their trunks and branches, they often root themselves to a cluster of granite boulders.
A bed of daisies keeps them company.


G-Lumix 14mm f2.5   @f4  1/30sec

The Circus tent under the snowgums

Few shelters evoke outdoors as much as my "Circus" tent.
A Black Diamond Megalight, it is my lightest shelter; just a glorified thin sil-nylon tarp shaped into a pyramid.


G-Lumix 14mm f2.5  @f4  1/6sec

It has no floor and despite the occasional bug that might crawl in I can have a bed of flowers adorning my "living room"
It shelters me from wind and rain, and despite flapping a bit in the breeze no other shelter is as versatile or roomy as the Circus tent.


G-Lumix 14mm f2.5  @f4  1/20sec

I have several other tents that totally seal me from the bugs when they are really pesky but I don't get the same feeling of being outdoors as with the floorless shelter. And when it comes to shoulder my pack with my gear and supplies for several days in the back-country I appreciate how light my shelter really is.

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Shelter in the forest

There is no forest more enticing than a snowgum one, up high, close to tree-line.


G-Lumix 14mm   f5.6  4sec

The weather twisted trunks look spooky, the dead branches bleached by the elements; however the soft grass that grows around snowgums is inviting to place my shelter.
I feel safe here knowing that the tortured trees will shed some of the high wind, if it had to pick up during the night.

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Midnight sun

This image was taken while dreaming of being in the land of the midnight sun.


M.Zuiko 75mm f3.2  1/400sec

And now I am making new images, in that very place where the night sky never comes.

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Evening stillness

The moment between sunset and darkness when time seems to sit still.


M.Zuiko 17mm  f2.8  1/320sec

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Starfish

Water and light fading; a rough night for the starfish


M.Zuiko 14-42mmEZ     F9.0   1/25sec