This shot was taken at sunrise driving through Karijini, saw the morning light shining over the peaks and parked up quick and ran a few hundred metres down the road trying to find a good spot to set up shot! one of those magic moments.
I was in Karijini a week before Christians Workshop and I took this video climbing down into Knox Gorge and stopped at this spot because I thought it was quite a high drop and couldn’t really believe that this was the way everyone climbs down, Looking at the pictures it also looks like the Spot the Nick Melidonis had his fall from the ledge below where Im standing quite amazing he didn’t hurt himself even worse!
Climbing down into Knox Gorge – Karijini from William Ophuis on Vimeo.
Went down south last weekend to take some photos was pretty nice weather, went to some spots I havn’t been before, the iphone can be pretty handy in this area!
Went for a walk down at Bells Rapids last weekend and was getting some nice reflections in the overcast weather, This area is one of the few nice river areas in the hills and there are plans to Develop the land there, If you have the time you can sign the petition on this site to try and help stop it.
www.bellsrapids.com
This is a shot taken down in Knox Gorge at the end where the gorge gets very narrow, challenging spot to set your tripod up! especially missing a rubber foot of your Gitzo!
Loved this gorge even after seeing a King Brown Snake 20metres after getting in the gorge but he seemed more scared of me then he thought I was! hate snakes, I learnt that morning that the first person in the gorges is the snake clearer haha after a bit of a walk you get to Kermits Pool the water is such a nice colour and the rock underneath the water aswell, first thing I did before taking photos was do a bomby in there! spent about 3 hours in there just taking my time and shooting.
The most enjoyable times for me in Karijini was driving through all wide open areas in the magic hours and even just during the day so much to see and very unique landscape, pretty in its own way, this was taken driving the gravel road from Weano back to Dales Gorge one afternoon.
These two shots were taken the first morning after arriving in Karijini, I arrived at oxer lookout the night before and the sunset wasn’t very impressive and I hadn’t checked in at the campsite yet so I decided just to sleep in the car not the best Idea when its hot and raining which made the car like a sauna lol In the morning though Was happy to see some nice light and got these shots, still going through images so stay tuned.
I arrived back from Karijini on Friday night, came back because of a few reasons, family emergency and ran out of storage space due to me spilling a glass of bourbon n coke on my Macbook……, heres a pic from my camp while I was there, Proper pics will be coming through probably next week or the next.
Hey everyone, Just about have everything ready for Karijini will be camping out there looking very much to it, leaving not this friday but the next, will be keeping the blog updated if possible via iphone, going for 2 full weeks so will have a lot of time to explore and hopefully get some good shots! guessing there will quite a few photogs down in the gorges during when the Karijini workshop is on haha.
just a pic of my Land Rover which Ill be taking out there, was out in Lanno on easter!
