We took ourselves off down the Great Ocean Road, travelling first to Peterborough by the inland route. We stayed overnight there and I managed to get a shot of the sunset over the Bay of Martyrs. I’d used The Photographer’s Ephemera to scout in advance exactly where I wanted to be and so with minutes …
It’s all about the light, it’s all about the light. That’s drummed into photographers and of course it’s true. Round about sundowner time (indeed we enjoyed a bottle of sparkling wine after this picture was taken as the sun went down), I took this picture from Brancos lookout, looking over the Pentecost River in El …
Botanic Gardens, Adelaide Touch of the Hotel California I thought. These palm trees were captured in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. There are more of our shots from Adelaide here.
This is the pier at Glenelg, at sunset. Arriving back from Alice Springs quite late in the afternoon we didn’t know what to do, but our son advised us to jump on a tram and head for Glenelg – so we did. As it was getting dark, we just took the NEX-6 in case we could take …
To finish off the trip to the Red Centre we stayed at Glen Helen and looked out towards Gosse Bluff, walked up Ormiston Gorge, visited Ochre Pits and ended at Ellery Creek Big Hole (above). A set of photos from this final day is here. Below is a picture of Ormiston Gorge Ghost Gum Walk …
By way of a test for my new “strategy” of posting to Facebook, here’s a preview of an image that will be posted in a few days of the Yarra River waterfront at dusk – I should probably have scrubbed out the crane – only just noticed it! [PS Scrapped that strategy in late-2018 after …
Everyone we spoke to said Kings Canyon and the Rim Walk should not be missed in any visit to the Red Centre of Australia. They’re right. After climbing up the more than 500 steps of “heart attack hill” you then walk round the rim of a glorious rock garden with lots of dead trees giving …
More remarkable than Uluru in many ways is it’s near neighbour Kata Tjuta. The geology of Central Australia is fascinating. I’ve promised myself to research it to fully understand what has been going on in the interior of this vast sub-continent. One day, one day. For the meantime I’m more than satisfied by our walk …
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Final shot from our lookout over Uluru – this time at sunrise, from a slightly different spot than the sunset shots. Hope you like the foreground and mid-ground vegetation interest? Here’s the link to the other images taken around Uluru.
So, you get up at 4:30 in the morning and go and stand in the lovely warm autumn dawn near Uluru and watch the sun come up. Magical.