Travels with my Q – Outback road trip

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Road trip to Townsville in June/July 2019. From Victoria through Broken Hill in outback New South Wales through Bourke, Longreach and Cloncurry to Mount Isa in outback Queensland, then across to Townsville. Back to Victoria partly down the coast then midland on and around the Newell Highway. 9,500 kilometres.

Below are a few images highlighting the fantastic quality and range of the Leica Q as a travel camera. All images with standard (basically the default) processing in DxO PhotoLab 2 including some with extra sharpening using Nik 2.

Silver City Highway to Broken Hill
Showers on the far horizon
Silverton back road
Fencing with cloud cover
Silverton Mad Max country
Gum tree exposed
Wind farming where nothing else grows
Colours of approaching sunset
The sad consequence of roads in the outback…
Consequences never ending
Old mining truck White Cliffs opal town
Homestead deceased
Struggling to survive
Road in the middle of nowhere
The reality of farming in the outback. Dingoes not welcome here
Some hills, more scrub
Welcoming bottle trees
Termite mounds in abundance…
… not respecting boundaries
Offloading at the saleyard
Loading the road train
Long driveway in the frame
Little church on the hill
Old pub, old bowser
Long vision
Queenslander at Struck Oil waiting for the rain
Sorghum in the distance. Rocky and Bullwinkle maybe
Bottle tree sentinel
Classic Queenslander
Approaching sunset on the road to Goondiwindi
Saltbush plain
Ageing gracefully together
Silo art perfection
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Travels with my Q – Bali

Roaming with my Leica Q in Bali from Kuta to Ubud in April 2019. Never been before, never really been interested, mainly because of the apparent reputation of Kuta Beach and the bogan culture. So we spent a day in Kuta then went inland to see the (perhaps) real Bali. …

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Travels with my Q – India in shades

Travel photography in India October 2018 with my Leica Q. Converted to mono using Silver Efex Pro 2 (through Photoshop with initial developing in DxO PhotoLab 2). Some cropping because it helps to tell the story. All shooting in RAW. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, but… IMHO the …

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Travels with my Q – India on the street

Street photography in recent India trip (October 2018) with my Leica Q. Converted to mono using Silver Efex Pro 2 (through Photoshop with initial developing in DxO PhotoLab 2). Some cropping because it helps to tell the story. All shooting in RAW. Not much to say really, let the pictures …