Year: 2023

As the autumn of 2023 approached I had the opportunity to slip away for three days to the Grampians National Park down here in Victoria. Being only a few hours drive from home the Grampians has been our go to adventure destination for hiking and landscape photography. During the past 30 or 40 years you might think I had seen all of it, captured every angle, and explored every summit. The thing about the Grampians, however, is that they always lure you back. The promise of rugged, craggy mountains, sweeping vistas, crashing waterfalls and long but not impossible hiking lingers and inspires.

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This is just a quick write up of some local trips that yielded a few new images worthy of mention. It is not always practical for me to drive thousands of kilometres in search of great landscape photography opportunities. Revisiting locations within a day or two of home, over the course of years, can produce quality work. This approach delivers a greater selection of any special conditions that might elevate the scene such as light direction and quality, season, weather, tide, access and even luck.

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In the January of 2023 the lure of New South Wales, with its diverse coastlines and impressive mountains drew us back for yet another dedicated photo trip. We had a little less than two weeks, which is not much for the time consuming art of landscape photography, but we managed to squeeze in quite a few places by reacting to the weather conditions at hand and relocating accordingly.

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