Cania Gorge

yeoeleven · Guru

Cania Gorge

oldboar · Senior Member

Another good report old mate. Rod looks like he'd been on something very different to his normal fare, although an extended period in Billee's company may perhaps that effect, lol. We've just spent a couple of days at Cairns, doing the Kuranda scenic railway / Skyrail round trip. I thoroughly enjoyed the train & attractions at Kuranda village but, to be honest, found the Skyrail somewhat boring except for the drop down off the mountain to Caravonica Lakes. View for that section was amazing but as for the rest, the tops of trees become somewhat repititious. To say that Sandra did not share my enjoyment of the Skyrail could be considered an understatement. Returned to Saunders Beach today so the beachside pic is from the camp area towards Magnetic Island.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

I sort of know how you feel, John. When I visited Cania Gorge I was at first disappointed. However, it was on the last day that I realised why. It is very hard to 'step back' from the "features" of the place and this makes taking photos very difficult.

I realised that the walks go up close to everything and creates an impression that you are 'crowded' against the things to see. I would go again and maybe spend longer there to see if I could make better use of different light conditions.

For what it's worth, here's a couple of photos.

Cheers - John

GaryKelly · Guru

Yep, all a camera does is take an image of the prevailing light. If the light's crook, so is the pic. The camera doesn't see things the same way our eyes do so it pays to think like the camera and shoot accordingly. Right, John?

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Yer rite Gary.

And the "problem" in Cania is it feels like a "crowded" place - the walks are through narrow 'gorges' that probably look more interesting at differing times of the day.

Very difficult to get 'back from a scene' and capture it. Interestingly, not just with a camera either. I felt that I seemingly was always up too close to the 'feature' and looking up rather than 'across to'. It's a bit difficult to express, but it certainly isn't open like other gorges - Carnarvon Gorge or Porcupine Gorge as two examples.

I would go again to Cania, but I would be on walks at 'first light' and spend a whole day on each walk until 'last light' for instance, rather than just doing the walk and struggling to get an interesting photo like I did on my first visit.

I have attached a photo of "Dripping Rock". This feature has a constant dripping of water down the rocks and through the ferns. It looks quite lovely but you get a crick in ya neck looking up to the top. The photo is a "stitched photo" of four shots top to bottom and I was leaning right back over the the railing to get a shot of the top.

Cheers - John

GaryKelly · Guru

Amazing what peeps will do to get a shot. I know a bloke on Red Bubble, a grandfather, who traveled across the Nullarbor and stopped somewhere near vertical cliffs. The edges of the cliffs have a reputation for crumbling but that didn't stop him crawling on his belly (did I mention he has vertigo?) to the edge and pointing his camera straight down for a shot. When I commented on how dangerous it was he said, "Yeah, but I got the shot!" It happens to many of us, though... if we have a camera around our neck, we're inclined to take risks we wouldn't normally.

Vic41 · Guru

GaryKelly wrote:
Amazing what peeps will do to get a shot. I know a bloke on Red Bubble, a grandfather, who traveled across the Nullarbor and stopped somewhere near vertical cliffs. The edges of the cliffs have a reputation for crumbling but that didn't stop him crawling on his belly (did I mention he has vertigo?) to the edge and pointing his camera straight down for a shot. When I commented on how dangerous it was he said, "Yeah, but I got the shot!" It happens to many of us, though... if we have a camera around our neck, we're inclined to take risks we wouldn't normally.

If that is the cliffs on the GAB Gary, I saw a foreign couple who looked about 50 sitting with their legs dangling over the edges, must have had a death wish. Sometimes the strong winds there come from the north (blowing out to sea) so standing too close to the edge is a risk too even without the crumbling edges.

-- Edited by Vic41 on Sunday 6th of April 2014 10:42:15 AM

GaryKelly · Guru

Yep, somewhere along the GAB, Vic. Crazy people. I was at Port Lincoln one time on a TV shoot. We hired a local chopper pilot (a woman) to take our cameraman on a flight over the cliffs, heading from the sea towards the rocks and then pulling up at the last minute to fly over the top. Sheesh! She was no chicken either, but flew that damn thing like a 'Nam vet. I was the writer so all I had to do was churn out a script from the safety of our digs back in town. The cameraman was fearless, btw, and the veteran of many a Sydney to Hobart filming with one of those big Sony broadcast cameras.