City On The Rise

A stunning sunset over the city of Perth, Western Australia.

Canon 5D Mk II + 70-200mm F4 L USM
10 image stitch

Sunset, Cottesloe Beach

After watching the sky all day, hoping that the clouds would stick around for sunset, I made the decision to head to Cottesloe Beach to take a photograph I had been wanting to shoot for some time. When I arrived at Cottesloe, the clouds were looking great, and I knew that I was going to witness a brilliant sunset.

I climbed up a few rocks to get to this vantage point and watched the light show begin. The sun disappeared over the horizon and the sky slowly lit up a nice pink colour. I was surprised to find that there weren’t too many people down at the beach on such a nice night.

I can’t wait to see this one printed!

SS Maheno Shipwreck – Fraser Island

Following the lead of Darren Tierney, I thought I’d post my version of the SS Maheno shipwreck I shot during our trip to Fraser Island.

On the third morning of our camping trip to Fraser Island, Simon, our human alarm clock, woke us up bright and early. Bleary eyed, and definitely not feeling like getting out of my warm sleeping bag, I somehow managed to lift myself up and, through the trees above, take a quick look at the sky outside. It was still dark, but we could see stars in the sky – not a bad sign. We quickly got dressed and woke ourselves up as much as possible, packed our camera gear into the 4×4 and we were off.

The SS Maheno Shipwreck is about 15km south of our camp site, stranded on 75 Mile Beach, and by the time we arrived sunlight was starting to appear over the horizon. Not much later, the clouds were beginning to pink, and the sky turned a nice pastel blue. This is what we came here for.

Each of us found our preferred composition around the ship and we began another long day of shooting.

Noble Falls, Gidgegannup

An overcast day not too long ago gave me the opportunity to drive out to Gidgegannup (about 40km northeast of Perth) to photograph Noble Falls. I had never been out there before, so it took me a while to find the place, but eventually I did. After a fairly dry Perth winter, I wasn’t expecting a lot of water, but the falls were flowing quite nicely when I arrived as you can see in the photograph below.

Fraser Mangrove – Sunset at Mckenzies Jetty

After a long day shooting various locations around Fraser Island; Darren, Simon and I decided to head to Mckenzie’s Jetty on the west side of the island to shoot the sunset.

Unfortunately I didn’t make the most of the light during its ‘peak’, but I did manage to get this photograph that I like after the sun had long disappeared over the horizon.

I slowly composed my image around this Mangrove tree not far from Mckenzie’s Jetty, while also trying to capture the hint of red light on the clouds and the golden glow of the setting sun over the horizon. A long exposure allowed me to really pull out the colours of the rapidly darkening sky.

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