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Mt Surprise Hotel

Nothing like a beer on a hot day, The only pub for a hundred kilometres is popular late in the afternoon

Nothing like a beer on a hot day, The only pub for a hundred kilometres is popular late in the afternoon
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Mar, 2018

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Community Choice Award

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Outstanding Creativity

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Top 20 rank week 1

Behind The Lens

Location

I was sitting in the front bar at the Mt. Surprise Hotel with two fellow artists. Mt Surprise is the name of the town with a population of about 300 people and about 400 Klm (250 Miles) from the nearest main town the roads are dirt and the days are hot and dusty. Perfect weather for a quiet beer in the cool of the Front Bar. We had just driven in from Forsythe, a small community at the end of the train line in the 'Gulf Country' of Far North Queensland. At latitude 18 degrees S, this is Dry Tropics country, with long very hot dry seasons and short intense wet seasons, the average temperature is about 32 degrees Celsius (90F) year-round and in about 3 months they receive more than 800mm (31") of monsoonal rain for the year, not including Cyclones. The vast flat dry land turns into flood land with freshwater crocodiles and mosquitos.

Time

It was around the middle of the day with the heat still building.

Lighting

In Far North Queensland the daylight is pretty much impossible to work with, This was shot inside, hand held using natural light reflecting in from outside

Equipment

Olympus OM1 shooting Ilford FP4 100ASA

Inspiration

The whole feeling of the image, the heat of the day expressed by their naked torsos, the heat was draining, it was a time to stop and do nothing. Even drinking was exhausting

Editing

None to mention Scanned on an Epsom and retouched in Lightroom

In my camera bag

D610 Nikon with 17-35mm lens Sony RX100V6 iPhone 11

Feedback

For me, it is more about the feeling or the mood that I want to capture, more than the technically correct image. I almost always use available light except when I am doing more conceptual work. In those moments I will use a LED video light on a warm tone.

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