Photography of inconvenience

Too much of photography is based on convenience - a leisurely start to the day, which is sunny, take a camera, walk around, take a photo. Consequently, most photography, all the easy photography,  has been done to death so if you want your images to stand out, a good way is to make sure you are photographing in less than convenient circumstances.

The last two days in Sydney have been terrible - torrential rain, dangerous surf, a month's rain in 24 hours.  Going to the coast, Bronte specifically, in these conditions is to risk damaging your camera either from a freak wave,  from the rain or from the salt spray which means that very few photos are taken in such conditions so those that are will be refreshingly original. To make photography more inconvenient, I used a tripod as I was shooting at 2/3 of a second, f22 most of the time with two neutral density filters to kill the light. The results are below.