Pacific Blue
A couple more traditional seascapes from Fiji.
Category: Seascape
Fiji Shores
Sorry if you came here looking for photographs of palm trees and coconuts.
I’ve just spent the Christmas/New Year break on Tokoriki Island in Fiji. Strolling along the beach one evening, I thought I’d get in for a closer look at the ocean meeting the sand.
Sitting. Watching. Waiting.
Sitting, watching and waiting as storm clouds descend on Coolum Beach from all directions
Point Cartwright Dreaming
I had a trip up to the Sunshine Coast last weekend, to shoot the Sunshine Coast Marathon. Since I had to arrive the day before, I figured it would be a great opportunity to get out and shoot some landscapes, which I haven’t done nearly enough of recently.
The weather didn’t really play along, but I did manage to beat the storm at Point Cartwright for these dreamy seascapes before running back to the car just as the thunder and lightning struck.
Weekend Wanderlust – The Great Ocean Road
Those of you who have known me for a while may remember that, back in 2010, I drove from Brisbane, through Western New South Wales and South Australia, to Adelaide. After meeting my wife in Adelaide, we then drove across the southern coast to Melbourne, via the Great Ocean Road.
I’ve been thinking about that trip recently, particularly this snake which I lay down on a boardwalk and got very close to in order to photograph. Mostly, I found myself wondering what kind of snake it was, and how much danger I placed myself in. Turns out it was a White-Lipped Snake. Slightly venomous, but mostly harmless.
While digging these photographs out of the archives, I thought I’d revisit a couple of landscapes from the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road. You can click on the second one to download it as a desktop wallpaper.
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Waves In Motion
Crescent Dawn
“What brings you to Crescent Head today?” asked the receptionist when checking me in at the motel.
“Nostalgia, mostly”.
Looking back towards the beach and the surf club
Crescent Head was the location of Carney family holidays for most of my teenage years. We would often share a rental house with the Briggs Family (Matt’s now a beauty and editorial photographer) – 4 parents, 5 boys, a girl, and a revolving cast of friends and guests. Surfing, playing cricket, free rounds of golf after the green-keeper had gone home for the day, bingo at the club, what still may be my worst ever hangover. OK, some memories are best forgotten.
Once upon a time, I would have been up this early to go surfing. Now, the camera calls. Although I will admit, when I saw the waves off the point, a part of me did wish I had my old bodyboard in the car.
The Point 
Pebbly Beach
Crash
The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Blue Serenity
Paragliding strikes me as one of those sports that could either be very exciting and nerve-wracking, or really serene and relaxing. These gliders were over the Carlo Sandblow at Rainbow Beach.
Noosa National Park
The internal alarm clock went off and woke me just before the 4am alarm on my iPad, and I was up and away. Walking a couple of kilometres through the Noosa National Park in the dark towards Granite Bay. This place really shines at high tide, with the smaller boulders creating a colourful polished look when wet. Timing meant that I was there at low tide, so concentrated on the moving water amongst the larger boulders on the shoreline, before backtracking through the National Park and photographing some of the vegetation in the morning light.
Granite Bay 
Pandanus 