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Wave Rock at Hyden, Western Australia [link]Needed to use an ND400 when taking this as there were bus loads of tourists all wanting to surf the rock. At least using the ND400 enabled them to disappear
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It was a loy better then I had expected it to be
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Great shot! I went to "Wave Rock" in my teens! Still looks the same! lol!
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It still looks the same as when I saw it on the Leyland Brothers
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Lol! I remember them - gee, that's a while back now!
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I remember watching them when I was growing up
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Yup! 
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A few years I'd guess ...
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Amazing the way things change. Only 10 or 11 years ago I was there. We camped close and spent most of the morning there. We didn't see a single other person. As much as I love people seeing and valuing our amazing natural wonders, the tourist numbers are certainly an unwanted side effect.
Great shot, the colours are just perfect.
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Thank you. For towns like like Hyden they really need the tourists to survive however too many tourists really diminishes the joy of seeing things like this
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Malcolm's massacre. I hope they were all restored to reality.
When I bought my first 35mm SLR, thay told me cameras never lie!!
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So that's what the real one looks like. Our city zoo, in their Desert Dome building recreated something like this for part of the desert half of the building.
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Yes, this one is definitely real
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Thank you very much Florin
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thanks for sharing this with us Malcolm , now i dont have to visit this spot!!
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I think that you really do still have to visit it
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nah, u did a too good of a job with the camera, i feel like ive been to wave rock now
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I'll take that as a compliment
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that is right MP!
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I've always wanted to go here. You've used the right technique in removing the people from the shot. My only critique is you could have panned to the left to get those trees in frame, that would balance the scene more and take less focus off the foreground which isn't adding much to the shot.
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I was having enough trouble as it was being perched on the side there (it was a steep slope)and if I had of panned left I would definitely have had tourists in the shot as that is where they were resting after "surfing" the wave.
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so an ND400 is some kind of sniper rifle ?????
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It was awesome to see it
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I'vee got an ND110 for exactly the same reason. Lovely shot!
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Thank you very much
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Dig that. I am looking at an nd1000 right now. Trying to convince myself it is completely necessary.
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There would have been at least 6 tourists climbing the rock at the time
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Tourist ruin alot of my shots. Usually cause they could care less about a shot or wont control their children
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