An amateur photographer loose in the Blue Mountains
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New Zealand 2026 – Day 1
In April 2026 I took part in a 6 day landscape photography workshop in the South Island of New Zealand. What a remarkable place! We could have spent many more days there and not run out of fabulous, dramatic landscapes to shoot! I was part of a small group of five, plus the leader of…
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New Zealand 2026 – Day 2
Day 2 saw us wake in the town of Tekapo – a very popular tourist haunt.Our sunrise shoot was at the iconic Church of the Good Shepherd – an active church built on the edge of Lake Tekapo.We moved mid morning a few k’s up on east side of the lake. Day Two – Church…
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Abstract | Landscapes | Lookouts | Places | Sunrise
New Zealand 2026 – Day 3
This ranks as one of the best starts to our days in NZ!We stayed in the town of Twizel overnight, and planned a sunrise shoot in the morning at a sheltered spot on a bay of Lake Ruataniwha. From there we moved mid morning to another spot on Lake Ruataniwha that had been adapted for…
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Landscapes | Lookouts | Places | Sunrise | Sunset
New Zealand 2026 – Day 4
Overnight on day 3 was spent at an ‘interesting’ older ski lodge on the shores of Lake Ohau (pronounced ‘Oar-hoe’). In the winter, the peaks behind the lodge are busy ski fields, with the lodge living up to it’s name. In the offseason, its occupied by random groups of people like us.The ‘interesting’ aspect is…
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Landscapes | Lookouts | Places | Sunrise | Sunset
New Zealand 2026 – Day 5
This was a big day with the camera. It started with a delightful sunrise shoot on the beach at Wanaka with the famous (infamous?) Wanaka Tree. While perhaps a little clichéd, it is a lovely place to experience a sunrise. We got to the location really early, snagging a waterside spot, allowing us to dodge…
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Landscapes | Lookouts | Sunrise | Sunset
New Zealand 2026 – Day 6
Our last day in the field, and a mixed bag of results. We started from Queenstown, and first to sunrise at Moke Lake (again, sans sun), and then found another old jetty enroute to Glenorchy, before finishing the day at the Glenorchy Wharf. Day 6 – Moke Lake With the sun avoiding us, it was…
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Abstract | Coast | Landscapes | Places
Sculpture By The Sea – 2025
Sculpture by the sea happens every year and is a display of around 100 sculptures set into the landscape on the south headland of Bondi Beach and stretching around to Tamarama Beach. This was my second visit, and again, done at sunrise to capture the changing light conditions. The event wasn’t quite as impressive as…
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Penrith Weir
Having never tried photographing birds before, I went with a group of people from the Blue Mountains Photography Group to Penrith Weir in June. Not the best spot for nice compositions – too much flood debris still in place, but most of the river walk is lovely and well worth doing. I didn’t expect to…
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Coast | Landscapes | Places | Structures
Sculpture By The Sea – October 2024
Sculpture by the sea happens every year and is a display of around 100 sculptures set into the landscape on the south headland of Bondi Beach and stretching around to Tamarama Beach. This is the first time I’ve visited it and decided to go with a friend for a mid-week sunrise shoot. This was partly…
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Landscapes | Lookouts | Places | Sunrise
Govetts Leap – August 2024
Govetts Leap at the top of the Blue Mountains is a favourite spot of mine. This is a dawn shoot and was blessed some interesting cloud, but also mist in the valley below. This was shot from a lower vantage point that the car park area at the top, and I think it gave me…
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Landscapes | Places | Plants
Floriade – October 2023
A return to Floriade in Canberra (an annual display of over 1 million spring bulbs – mainly tulips – in Commonwealth Park) was long overdue.It didn’t fail to impress, but we did miss the peak of the tulips due to the warm weather in early spring bringing them on earlier than usual. But this year,…
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Astro – Wentworth Falls – September 2023
Where and Why? Over a year since the last post – that’s what a busy work schedule will do for you!This was a quick ‘n’ dirty evening of astro photography in September 14th 2023. Wentworth Falls is not really dark enough for serious astro work, but it was a good opportunity to refresh the skills…
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Coast | Landscapes | Places | Sunrise
Turimetta Beach – June 2022
Where? That’s what I said when this was suggested as a location! Having lived in Sydney for more than 50 years, I had never heard of it. Turns out it is a small beach located between Warriewood and Narrabeen Beaches on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Its dominant feature is a large rock shelf on…
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Sydney Zoo – May 2022
Sydney Zoo opened a couple of years ago and is only half and hour away from me. So a lovely (rare) sunny day in early May was the perfect chance to pay a visit with the camera. The zoo is quite small, but being a new facility, it is built with both animal and human…
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Astro | Historic | Landscapes | Structures
Astro Shoot – May 2022
Since forever, I’ve been fascinated by astro photography. The ability of even a modest camera to capture detail in the night sky that our naked eye simply cannot perceive unaided means there is a whole new world of photography to be explored. I have played around with some images of the moon in 2021 –…
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Landscapes | Macro | Places | Plants
Mt Tomah – April 2022
The Blue Mountains Botanical Gardens at Mt Tomah is a well known and respected place to view a range of cool climate, mainly native gardens.I made a quick trip to cash on on the a rare day of sun (or at least partial sun) on the Anzac Day long weekend.It was crowded, making some angles…
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Empress and other Falls – January 2022
There is a popular loop walking track called the ‘Nature Track’ that starts and ends at the Conservation Hut in Wentworth Falls. The main track is around 3.0 kilometres long and would be rated as ‘easy’.It includes a handful of lookouts (which are nice, but not spectacular), but it also leads to a number of…
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Historic | Places | Structures
Hartley Vale – January 2022
This is a location I keep coming back to multiple times as there is such a range of interesting view, places and objects to photograph.I saw this Harman crane and shed first in 2021 when driving past. This time I stopped and took some time to get a few shots.The story behind the crane is…
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Hassans Walls – January 2022
This was a quick visit as I was meandering around the area while on a short break early in January. It was in part of play around with the idea of ‘long lens’ landscape photography.This is the idea of going beyond the normal wide-angle landscape shots and instead picking out more details in the view…
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Landscapes | Lookouts | Places | Sunrise
Govett’s Leap – October 2021
A return to this famous lookout at Blackheath – this time at sunrise.This was prompted by a fabulous photo my youngest son, Sam took c.2003 using our very first digital camera, a 5 megapixel Canon Powershot (from memory). That image was printed and framed and still looks amazing for a mere 5Mp shot.I was hoping…
