Wategos Beach https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au Byron Bay & Beyond Sun, 27 Mar 2016 05:43:10 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 The majesty of an osprey in flight… https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/majesty-osprey-flight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=majesty-osprey-flight https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/majesty-osprey-flight/#respond Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:46:20 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=5396 In the hundreds of times Lismore-based photographer Andrew Sooby has walked the Byron Lighthouse Precinct, he doesn’t ever recall ever seeing Ospreys – but...

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]]> In the hundreds of times Lismore-based photographer Andrew Sooby has walked the Byron Lighthouse Precinct, he doesn’t ever recall ever seeing Ospreys – but last weekend  his luck changed. “These shots are of one of a a pair which was patrolling between Clarke’s Beach and the Eastern Most Point,” says  Sooby. “They hovered over Wategos, beaks into the strong northerly wind, virtually motionless for minute or two at a time, before suddenly banking away to let the wind push them further up or down the shore line. I caught one of them diving to the surface and drag something out, and another one from underneath, flying high.  They were truly awesome.”
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Says Sooby: “I shot these on a Nikon D750; 24-120 zoom, each set at 120mm; each ISO 100; each at f.4; each at 2000sec.”

For more information on Andrew Sooby go to: luminousmudbrick

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]]> https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/majesty-osprey-flight/feed/ 0 Warnng – there be dragons https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/warnng-dragons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=warnng-dragons https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/warnng-dragons/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:36:41 +0000 https://www.verandahmagazine.com.au/?p=4558 Lismore photographer Andrew Sooby, of Luminous Mudbrick, captured this beautiful close up of an Eastern Water Dragon for Verandah Magazine at Wategos Beach.   “He...

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]]> Lismore photographer Andrew Sooby, of Luminous Mudbrick, captured this beautiful close up of an Eastern Water Dragon for Verandah Magazine at Wategos Beach.   “He was in the grass by one of the benches overlooking the beach,” says Sooby, “totally unphased by the people and traffic.  It was a week before spring and lizards were out sunning themselves.”

Andrew Sooby shot the dragon on his Nikon D750; ISO 100, with the zoom set at 120mm, 1/400 sec.

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