After a bit of a hiatus from blogging and photographing, I have just returned from an epic, although short, trip to the South-West of Western Australia with something to share.

Sugarloaf Rock is one of my favourite spots to photograph around Dunsborough, and a few days ago I had the opportunity to photograph it at sunrise. It was windy as anything, but I was determined to get the shot. After scrambling around in the dark to find a composition, I found this angle and set up my gear. I fired off just a few frames and packed up my gear. This was one of those times when I was confident I had something special.

I also shot some photos of the surrounding areas – Meelup Beach, Wyadup Beach, Cape Naturaliste, Canal Rocks. These photographs will be coming shortly.

Thanks,

Beau

Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 30mm, 0.6 Second, f/16, ISO50

In 1935, the SS Maheno drifted ashore on the coast of Fraser Island during a strong cyclone while being towed from Melbourne to Japan to be pulled apart for scrap metal. 75 years later it is one impressive piece of scrap metal, and also one of the main tourist attractions along the east coast of Fraser Island along 75 Mile Beach.

The light on this particular morning was brilliant, illuminating the left side of rusting ship perfectly, without being too harsh. Nobody else was around. The tide was out just enough to expose a lot of the ship, but also in enough to create the leading line I had in mind. There were low clouds and high whispy clouds both catching the soft warm light. This was one of those times when you’re out shooting photographs and you just know that you’re going to come home with something satisfying. The conditions couldn’t have been much better.

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The morning of the second day of our trip gave us a nice sunrise to shoot. We had decided to go to Meelup Beach which turned out to be a good idea, for me at least. I’m not sure that Clint was really feeling it that morning. Enjoy.

I was going through some of my older photos this morning as I was backing up my archives onto my new external hard-drive and came across this photo I had forgotten about. I have processed it before but I don’t think I got the best out of it back then, so I re-processed it using some of the tips I have picked up from Darren Tierney recently, and am quite happy with the way it has turned out this time around.

I remember rushing down to the beach on this particular morning knowing that it was going to be a great sunrise. Well worth the early wake up, I reckon.