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.

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Day 26 Assignment – Fix Dynamic Range

I call this the Clinging Tree because it has been clinging to the edge of the cliff by its roots for years and has even survived cyclones. This photo was taken with the sun setting to the left.

I watched Jim’s entire video but only used Lightroom to restore this photo. I made adjustments to the highlights, shadows, blacks and exposure and reduced the luminance of light blue, dark blue and yellow, while slightly increasing the orange.

1/80 f/8 ISO 3200 54mm

Day 25 Assignment – Add Contrast

For this assignment we were to add texture and punch to one of our pictures by adding contrast.

I wasn’t happy with my first attempt where I started in Photoshop then made adjustments in Lightroom, so I started again from scratch using Lightroom first then only used Photoshop to clean up the jetty and remove the lamp posts.

Nightcliff Jetty – Original 1/1000 f3.5 ISO 80 24mm

First attempt – lamp posts left in

I didn’t like the white patch in the sky when I removed the lamp posts, but I didn’t like the result when I tried to fix it either so I started again:

End results with and without lamp posts.

Sunsets – Dry to Wet 2013

It rained on Thursday night in Darwin, so we may have seen the last of the Dry Season but the change resulted in a couple of great sunsets at Nightcliff on Thursday and at East Point on Friday. Photos taken with Fujifilm X10 on EXR setting.