Travel

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Photography

Heian Shrine

The Heian Shrine is one of the iconic sites of significance in Kyoto. To get an image without large crowds requires an early rise or a bit of luck. Or some editing, as in this image, which had a number of people removed using Lightroom’s Generative Remove tool to

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Snowy Spencers Creek

A picturesque creek off the side of the road to Charlotte’s Pass in the NSW Snowy Mountains. Captured on a dramatic day a couple of years ago, I love the remnants of winter mixed with the freshness of spring. Image Data * C: Fujifilm X-T3 * L: Fujinon XF 70-300mm f/

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Gondwana Nights

The Gondwana Observatory is a feature of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs near Winton, Qld, and one of four certified Dark Sky places in Australia. We had a visit there in September 2023, and really enjoyed the clear dark skies that can be found in outback Queensland. The Gondwana Observatory

Astro

Winton Machinations

Winton in Outback Queensland is a great place for nightscape images. The obvious place to shoot is the Jump Up at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs, but there are a number of places you can shoot right on the edge of the town. This image was captured in a park

Prague

Prague Cathedral and Castle at Sunset

A wonderful sunset over Prague provided a stunning view of this cathedral and the distant castle. This photo was captured moments after my Prague Sunset image and was also shot from Prague’s Powder Gate. There was a wonderful golden light on the church, with nearby buildings shadowed. The visual

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St Stephens Basilica

St. Stevens Basilica is a World Heritage Site in Budapest, Hungary. On this day, there was a display set up in St. Stephens Square for a major movie launch, so our shooting options were limited. We walked around and found this vantage point, which allowed us to get a good

Iceland

Seydisfjordur

Seydisfjordur (Seyðisfjörður) was a unique stop on our 2019 visit to Iceland. A detour off the ring road, the town is the terminal point for the ferry that links Iceland to the European continent via the Faroe Islands to Denmark. A really scenic town in the east fjord-lands, Seydisfjordur is

Sunset

Fiery Sky over London Arch

London Arch is a spectacular rock formation offshore of the Great Ocean Road, near Port Campbell in Victoria. The single arch pictured in this image was originally connected to the mainland by an additional arch washed away in 1990. Back then, the structure was known as London Bridge, but it

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Prague Sunset

It is astounding that it is almost four years since I captured this image of an epic sunset in Prague, Czech Republic. Captured from Powder Gate, I love the way the Y-shaped intersection below leads the eye towards the city’s iconic cathedral and castle in the background. Prague is

Iceland

Hjalparfoss

The first waterfall we visited during our 2019 Iceland Trip was Hjalparfoss—a very pretty double waterfall on the road to Landmannalaugar in the Icelandic Highlands. This waterfall is the point where two rivers join up after snaking together through a lava field. This is the second image I am

Europe

London’s Eye

Also known as the Millennium Wheel, the London Eye stands almost 140m tall on the banks of the Thames River. It opened in 2000 and was the world’s largest Ferris wheel. Today it remains one of the largest in Europe and is a very picturesque part of the London

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Walter Peak

Located on Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand’s Otago region, the Walter Peak High Country Farm is the tourist destination of the TSS Earnslaw, the only remaining commercial passenger-carrying coal-fired steamship in the southern hemisphere. We took the voyage on the Earnslaw from Queenstown as a way of getting a

Iceland

In the Lava Fields

A hike around Landmannalaugar took us past some interesting lava fields with amazing ryolite mountains as a backdrop. I spent some time, on and off, working on this image to get it to match my vision of the scene. There were no big changes, just quite a few small edits

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Drama in Myhavn

The colours of Copenhagen's Myhavn become even more saturated under a stormy sky. We visited Denmark briefly following on our epic adventures in Iceland. Image Data * C: Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 * L: Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 12-60mm f/2.8-4 * E: Lightroom Classic Around the Web View this image

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Black Sand and Sea Stacks

Famous for its black sands and sneaker waves, Iceland's Reynisfjara Beach is a photographer's dream. Basalt cliffs and sea stacks bookend the long stretch of black sands where Iceland meets the North Atlantic Ocean. It is coming up on three years since our Iceland Adventure, and

Iceland

Gatklettur Rock Arch

Our epic journey to Iceland seems like so long ago—it was back in the before times. But it was just two years back that we visited this amazing country—just two years ago today that we took in this magical rock arch. Located on the spectacular southern coastline of

Iceland

Kirkjufell Sunrise

Perhaps one of the most iconic mountain images in Iceland is Kirkjufell. I revisted the site on several occasions over our three days in Grundafjordur, and was rewarded with several beautiful variations. One of the key benefits of going at different times is that you can take more time to

Iceland

Skogafoss Emerging

Skogafoss is a truly spectacular waterfall. Standing over 60m tall, it is easy to take in the magnificence of these falls from the base, and to walk up to the top. This view is taken from near the adjacent visitors centre, and I really liked the image of the falls

Iceland

Black Church in the Gloom

Another view of the Black Church of Budir. With the low clouds over the surrounding mountains I couldn't do much with the sky, so focused instead on the waterfalls around the church, emerging from the gloom. Along with the clouds, the crowds presented another compositional challenge. There weren&

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Bláhylur Blue Crater

One of the many amazing sites we visited during our photo tour to Iceland's Highlands area, was the blue crater of Bláhylur. Formed in a crater, the magic blues of the lake and the green hills in the background provided 'pops of colour' in an otherwise

Iceland

The Hidden Canyon

Known as the Hidden Canyon, Fjadrargljufur Canyon is a gem of a canyon located just off the ring road not far from the southern township of Vik. We had first seen this location in a video by Mads Peter Iversen, and it immediately took a place high on our list

Iceland

Photo Gear for Iceland

Icelandic people seem to have a lot of sayings that involve the weather. This is entirely natural when you live in a place where the weather is very dramatic and very variable throughout the day—leading to one of my favourites: If you don’t like the weather, just wait

Iceland

Eystrahorn

Located near to the more famous Vestrahorn in Iceland's south-east, Eystrahorn is another stunning mountain range rising 756m over the adjacent coastline. Driving clockwise on Iceland's ring road, the jagged cliffs of Eystrahorn were a distinctive landmark as we did the relatively long drive from Seydisfjordur

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Haifoss

Haifoss is an amazingly tall waterfall cascading into the Fossa River below. With a 122m drop, Haifoss is the fourth largest waterfall in Iceland. Located next another fall called Granni, Haifoss is in Iceland's highland area, en route to Landmannalaugar and near to the amazing Valley of the

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Behind the Falls

Among the myriad of waterfalls in Iceland, Seljalandsfoss is unique in that you can easily walk behind the falls to gain a spectacular view through the water curtain over the adjacent plains. We visited this site on a (typically) overcast day, and got some good images. The following day was