I absolutely hate the default darktable themes - they seem purposefully designed to obscure - shit-brown identical sliders everywhere. So I made a theme I could work with. www.patreon.com/posts/154293...

Must admit Bluesky fell off my radar over the last year or so, but that's true of all social media so it's nothing against this platform. Anyway - here's a shot from my happy place - Gerroa, looking south down Seven Mile Beach towards Cullunghutti Mountain. #photography #landscapephotography

Out exploring the Booderee National Park on a glorious summer's day and encountered this lovely Honeyeater getting his calories for the day.

Always love seeing the pelicans down at the river estuary chilling out after a hard day harassing the silver gulls at the boat ramp. This is the Shoalhaven River estuary at low tide, looking west towards the setting sun. #photography #australia #shoalhaven #serenity

How do you feel about this application of AI in photo editing? Using Nano Banana Pro and this prompt: "make the background as sharp and in-focus as the foreground - as if this was a focus-stacked image". Output Image is 4K at 300dpi - zoom detail at 200%. #ai #photography

Always nice to get a shout-out. My recent video on Nano Banana Pro has been picked up by Capture Mag.

Latest article online at Substack - a meditation on how the latest generative AI models will impact photography and post-processing. #photography #ai #post-processing #weareallfucked

We still doing aurora? I bollocks'd the last big show - went out too late and hit up a local spot that turned out to be busier than Bondi on Xmas day. So this time I had a plan - an abandoned yacht on the river estuary. 25s exposure on the X-T4 - bit of dehaze and white/black not much else needed.

Some lovely sunrises and sunsets over the long weekend here in South Coast NSW. This was taken on Monday about 30 minutes before sunrise. I thought this driftwood looked a bit like someone lying back in the surf with an arm out-stretched. #surf #beach #sunrise #landscapephotography #australia

So what's the thinking then? #Canva are getting rid of the old #Affinity suite and releasing some new apps incorporating their tech? Given that they're now giving away the old apps, it sure does look that way.

One of those lovely warm spring evenings shooting long exposures at Black Head in Gerroa at the weekend. #photography #landscapephotography #sunset #australia #fujifilm

Mavic 2 Pro. 10-bit 1" sensor & Hasselblad colour science. What's not to love? 5 x shot vertical pano shot above the Shoalhaven River estuary at the weekend. #waterscrape #landscapephotography #photography #australia #dji #mavic2pro

Latest Substack post now online. Free read made possible by my epic paid subscribers

Bird on a wire #photography #australia

The ever lovely Murrays Beach in Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay on a mid-winter's evening. #photography #longexposure #beach #landscape #australia #fujifilm

Sunset last night was spectacular - like a golden flower of vibrant colours. It carried on for ages after sunset too - I was still on the beach nearly an hour after the sun hit the horizon. #photograph #sunset #australia #beach #serenity #sunflower

Had my eye on this beached yacht since it washed up on the estuary and when I realised the sunset was going to pop, I headed down early to photograph it. Ironic then that this shot (a long exposure) was taken a full 50 minutes after sunset. #photography #landscape #australia #fujifilm #sunset #nsw

Excire ran a photo competition that was judged by an A.I. Excire's CEO thinks their A.I. is 'subjective' and 'unbiased' - I categorically disagree. open.substack.com/pu... #photography #excire #judgementday

Sunrise in the back dunes on Seven Mile Beach here in South Coast NSW, Australia. Wind's back again today, but it was calm as you like three days ago. #photography #landscape #australia #beach #sunrise #fujifilm

Some cracking winter sunrises lately - always a treat after a spell of bad weather. This was sunrise in Shoalhaven Heads. #photography #sunrise #beach #serenity #australia #fujifilm #coast #landscape

My sunset spider-sense was well and truly tingling yesterday, so I made sure that the drone was charged up. Flew just before sunset and about 10 minutes afterwards. This is a Mavic 2 Pro incidentally - still the best Hasselblad camera DJI stuck on a drone. #photography #dji #drone #sunset #australia

Incredible sunset tonight here in south coast NSW. This is a two minute exposure shot an hour and 10 minutes after sunset! #photography #landscape #sunset #australia #fujifilm #skyfire

Beautiful vibrant sunset tonight down at the local. Just me, a solitary surfer and the silver gulls. #photography #sunset #australia #pacific #fujifilm #landscape #beach #serenity

Photographed the 'strawberry' moon with the big zoom lens to get into the detail. I've marked up a few of the landmarks in the second image. Funny to think of the Eagle sat there on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility. #photography #astrophotography #moon #astro #landscape #fujifilm

Big old strawberry moon tonight - photographed rising over the Shoalhaven River in NSW, Australia. 10 shot vertical pano edited in Lightroom. #photography #australia #nsw #shoalhaven #fujifilm #fullmoon #strawberrymoon #moonrise

The Aurora Australis at the weekend was just incredible. Stunning colours and amazing clarity. Living somewhere with dark skies is a real privilege. #photography #aurora #astro #australia #gerroa #nsw #fujifilm

The aurora australis arrived in full technicolour glory on the 1st of June and, miracle of miracles, we had clear skies too! This was towards the end of the show with the lovely red light slowly receding under the milky way in Shoalhaven Heads. #photography #aurora #australia

After a week of heavy rain the skies cleared and we were all rewarded with a stunning sunrise this morning. Gorgeous firey tones, deep reds, oranges and magenta. Nowhere beats South Coast NSW. #photography #sunrise #beach #australia

Issue #6 of the brutally honest Shutter Happens photography newsletter is out now - free to all - but made possible by the legends on my paid tier. ahutchinson.substack...#6 #photography #news #fujifilm #adobe #luminar

Let's just say that I found TopazLabs Photo AI 4 to be a bit underwhelming. Substack review linked - and there's a video version as well - youtu.be/2lmKMebxa3s #photography #topazlabs #photoai #postprocessing

In-lens and in-camera stabilisation makes handheld longer exposures perfectly do-able - this was 1/10th of a second handheld on the Fujifilm X-T4. #photography #scape #beach #sunset #australia #fujifilm

Phew. Back at the beach. It's been a minute. No vlogging, no headphones, no tourists, just me and the camera on a beautiful warm autumn evening with pastel skies and the lazy arc of Seven Mile Beach curving away to the horizon. #photography #landscape #australia #gerroa

The art of accepting the slog to the top. #photography

Democracy done. Only dilemma I have every year is which of the far-right parties to put absolute last. Being forced to make a choice, no matter how marginal, between One Nation and Arse Trumpet of Nations nearly caused me an existential crisis. #democracy #auspol

Epic rainbow visible this morning. Photographed with the iPhone from the gateway to the south coast at the end of the Kiama bends. Removed some ugly telegraph wires using the new distraction removal tool in Photoshop Beta. #photography #iphone #iphone16promax

Heaps of interesting new software releases lately - Lightroom and Photoshop got big updates, as did PureRAW and Photolab. Luminar got a decent new auto-adjust tool, Photo AI managed to get even worse and there's a Capture One update around the corner. #photography #postprocessing #software

If you're a Photolab user you might like to know that DxO have rolled out a hot fix for the recent (buggy) 8.5 release - the Export submenu is now working again! #photography #postprocessing #photolab #dxo

Made this video after a suggestion by one of my subscribers - looking at the incredible power of mask intersects.

"The friend part has gone down quite a bit," Zuckerberg testified. The Facebook feed, he said, "has turned into more of a broad discovery and entertainment space." Or, you know, just one great big vestigial bowel movement, a shit-flecked cyclone of the lowest value content possible. #facebook

Watch @andyhutchinson.com.au on Landscape Photography World Podcast video edition now on YouTube #landscapephotography #podcast youtube.com/watch?v=Cy_I...

My in-depth review of the brand-new DxO PureRAW5 is now up on my YouTube channel. Have a squizz. #photography #postprocessing #raw #dxo #pureraw #review www.youtube.com/watc...

I've been putting the eagerly anticipated DxO PureRAW 5 through its paces and my review is now live on my Substack for members of my deadset-legends club. The YouTube review will go live tonight. #dxo #pureraw #postprocessing #photography #scape #fuji open.substack.com/pu...

Stunning sunset last night, but one of those late-burners that you'd have missed out on if you'd packed up and gone home too soon. This is the Shoalhaven River estuary in Shoalhaven Heads. #photography #sunset #scape #australia #river #coast

Went out hunting Aurora Australia tonight which is rarely easy at latitude 35 south. Got a very faint glimpse of purple on the horizon, but was happy with the clarity of the Milky Way. #photography #landscape #scape #astrophotography #australia

Oatmeal bang on the money with this one. 😆

Big Thoughts at the Beach - first of a new series on my YouTube channel looking at the trials and tribulations of being a photographer. www.youtube.com/watc...

Free to read on my Substack - the story of Unsplash and how they grifted the entire photography community. #unsplash #photography #stockphotography open.substack.com/pu...#unsplash

Never turn your back on the ocean. Those basalt columns are over six metres high. Bombo rarely disappoints. #landscape #scape #photography #bombo #australia

These birds were shaking off the dust of the day and cooling down from the extreme heat down at the local river reserve.

That's why I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning. Great splash of colour down at the local, early morning dog walker out enjoying the sunrise and getting some of those rejuvenating negative ions. And breathe out. #photography #scape #beach #sunrise #australia