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 third visit (see 2024 and 2025 posts), and again, done at sunrise to capture the changing light conditions. Note that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…