The walkway from Manly Beach to Shelly Beach is somewhere I visit often as do many locals with good reason, it's beautiful. I'm a great fan of Cabbage Tree Bay and often find myself drawn to there in an effort to build up my local portfolio. After all the recent rain this morning was one of few that was clear enough to photograph but still had enough cloud to keep it interesting.

Cabbage Tree Bay, Manly, Sydney

Shelly Beach, Manly, Sydney - Panorama

Cabbage Tree Bay, Manly, Sydney - Panorama

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Long Reef, Collaroy, Northern Beaches, Sydney, Australia, originally uploaded by lee duguid.

I'm in the process of creating video tutorials to go with my one day photography course. I choose this shot as an example and processed it from scratch. I'm happy with the end results.

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Here are some photos from I recent shoot I did for a friend Heidi. Photographed locally at Fairlight rock pool a month or so back I used only available light, no flash, no bounce sheet. Enjoy!

Thanks to the model Heidi for all her hard work :)

I went back to Little Manly Cove the other day, a local beach in Manly with a great ocean pool. This image is the result of a one minute exposure, sufficient time to allow the fast moving clouds to streak through the sky.

New Years day really put on a show! I had all but packed up my camera when the clouds suddenly light up. Taken near the Spit bridge this is a panoramic shot I've wanted to take for a while capturing the boats in the harbour and the many mansions on the hill side. At full size the detail is immense, you can easily see each and every house along the waters edge especially on the Seaforth side.

Happy New Year, hello and welcome to my first newsletter of 2010. Since we last spoke I've been to the North Island of NZ, dabbled in tilt shift time lapse video making, shot a models portfolio and published my first photographic guide (Manly, NSW). In between all of that I've been organising my exhibition at Ash's Table, processed some new images, consumed half a turkey and celebrated New Year! Here are some points of interest:

Exhibition Ash's Table - Reminder
Starting January 13th running for 6 week I will be exhibiting at Ash's Table Cafe, Manly. I hope you can make it along, have a coffee and check out my images.

Ivanhoe Hotel Manly - Australia Day
On Australia Day (Tuesday 26th January), 11am-3pm I will be displaying 10 images from the Northern Beaches on the lobby bar plasma screens. A good excuse to go for a beer not that you need one on Australia day!

New Zealand - new images
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This month I've got some new shots from New Zealand's North Island. I managed to get a few in whilst dodging the rain clouds, unfortunately it was a bit of a wasted trip in that respect. I'll be posting more in the coming weeks as I get time to process them.

I've been taking some photos and processing them exclusively using my iPhone. There are a couple of great apps for processing which I use in combination to get the desired results, Best Camera by Chase Jarvis and PS Mobile. Here are some shots taken over the holidays, enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce my first knol (a unit of knowledge) titled A Photographer's Guide to Manly. For this guide and more like it from locations around the world check out this website. It's a great resource when researching locations for shooting, a reference I use and will be contributing to in the future.

Heart Shaped Reef, Australia

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Just a quick update before Christmas and the New Year.

2010 Calendar

I'm pleased to announce the release of two beautiful 2010 calendars featuring my favourite photographs of Sydney's Northern Beaches and New Zealand's South Island. Both calendar costs $30 each plus postage and will make an ideal Christmas or Birthday present. Our calendars are satin-coated prints on high quality art paper, A3 in size, white wire bound with a hanger. For more information please click here

Exhibition Ash's Table
For 6 weeks starting January 12th I will be exhibiting at Ash's Table Cafe, Manly featuring images from Sydney's Northern Beaches. I hope you can make it along, have a coffee and check out my images.

New Images
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I've been busy shooting an assignment using compact cameras so haven't been shooting with the SLR much in the last month. Here is one I took the other morning at Turimetta Beach in between compact shots.

And one from Brighton Beach I finally got around to posting.

I'm off to NZ this week so will have some more photos for next time. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Thanks, Lee