No matter how many times I see stunning sunsets, I never get bored of them. Similarly with photographing them and looking at the photos afterwards: even though they can to some extent technically be repetitive when looking through photos of them later, there’s just something I find very magical and awe-inspiring about them.
I spent the second half of last week on a short break in the South Island based mostly in Christchurch, although I ventured out a bit to the wider area of Canterbury. The weather was excellent for landscape / travel photography, and I managed to get some pretty good shots of snowy mountains, and for my third trip to Banks Peninsula finally got to see it in nice weather (although once again got the timing of the tides wrong as I often do!).
The general lack of international visitors / tourists was pretty pronounced, even in normally popular tourist spots.
Last week I returned from a trip to Australia, driving from Sydney up to Sunshine Coast in Queensland, and have just done a first pass of photo processing. The weather was generally excellent (although it was very windy in Byron Bay and Gold Coast, so walking on the beach was not amazingly pleasant with the sand blowing), and I thoroughly enjoyed the trip and took some photos I’m very pleased with, including several sunrise ones (getting up somewhat early was worth it!).
Sydney Sunrise:
Newcastle Sunrise:
Lighthouse and rain:
Sunrise in Port Macquarie:
Rough Seas at Cape Byron:
