Yesterday afternoon we took the family to Kwinana Beach. While the kids were having a lot of fun in the water, I got my kite airborne in the gusty seabreeze, and took some aerial photos.

Here's my favourite from the KAP session, with the camera pointing directly down towards the beach:

straight down

Kwinana Beach, Western Australia
GoPro HD Hero2 (suspended from a kite)

After having dinner in Rockingham, as we were driving back home, we noticed the sunset was looking very nice. We stopped at Kwinana Beach, and got some photos of the sunset (from the beach, without the kite this time), with the Grain Terminal providing an interesting silhouette.

Kwinana Grain Terminal at sunset

Kwinana Beach, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 35mm f/2 @35mm, 1/200 sec, f/6.3, ISO100

While exploring Amsterdam on foot and by boat, it is hard to miss the many different bridges over the many canals. Here is a selection of black and white photos of some of the bridges encountered in Amsterdam.

A boat on the Keizersgracht (emperors' canal) passing under a bridge. This is where the Keizersgracht intersects with the Brouwersgracht (brewers' canal):

boat on the Keizersgracht passing under a bridge

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

A bridge over the Bloemgracht (flower canal), where it intersects with the Prinsengracht (princes' canal):

bridge over the Bloemgracht

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

The narrow wedge-shaped building in the photo above, at the corner of Prinsengracht and Bloemgracht, is an art gallery called "Galerie Josine Bokhoven". The shape of the building is due to the two canals not crossing at right angles.

There are signs on each side of the bridge in the photo above that say "ZINKBUIS RIOLERING". As far as I can work out, this refers to zinc pipes used for sewerage. If anyone can shed any more light on exactly what this means, please leave a comment.

Mitchell Kanashkevich is an award-winning travel and documentary photographer from Sydney. He has written a number of ebooks on photography-related topics, and "Rabari - Encounters with the Nomadic Tribe" is the first e-book of a series on travel documentary photography that Mitchell will be doing with LightStalking.

The photos included in Rabari are from a personal project undertaken by Mitchell, about nomadic Indian cattle herders called the Rabari. He spent 4 months travelling on the back of a motorbike with an assistant to build his collection of photos of the Rabari.

This ebook contains a great collection of photos of the Rabari, and Mitchell provides detailed information on each of the photos, including:

• camera settings
• some background info on the subject(s) shown in the photo
• objectives of the photo
• light
• moment and/or pose
• composition
• biggest challenge
• how he managed it
• post-processing

While in Holland last year, we spent a day exploring Amsterdam. The many canals throughout Amsterdam see quite a bit of traffic, and there are also a lot of houseboats moored along the sides of the canal. Many of these houseboats look like they haven't been moved for years.

boats along the Prinsengracht

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

This is a view down the Prinsengracht (Prince's canal), with the Westerkerk visible in the distance. This photo was taken from the bridge near where the Brouwersgracht (brewers canal) crosses the Prinsengracht.