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Friday, December 12, 2025

Bridgewater Bay Blairgowrie for Skywatch Friday

 


Not much cloud gathered above Bridgewater Bay that day in Blairgowrie, just a clean, pale sky opening toward the horizon — but the sun dipped at the perfect angle, and I managed to catch a tight little sunstar flaring between the rocks. I kind of love it: that quiet brilliance, the way it sharpens the whole scene, turning the shoreline into something both wild and tender at once.

To get there from Melbourne’s CBD, the journey itself becomes part of the story. You slip onto the M1, heading south-east, and let the city gradually fall away behind you. At Frankston, the road becomes the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, carrying you through rolling stretches of coastal scrub and pockets of vineyard country. As you reach Rosebud, the landscape softens — tea-tree thickets, dunes, and glimpses of back-beach light. You turn onto Boneo Road, then onto Melbourne Road, and finally wind your way through Blairgowrie’s quiet streets until the sea begins to whisper its presence.

From the carpark near the end of St Johns Wood Road, a sandy path leads you through heathland and low coastal shrubs. The air smells of salt and sun-warmed limestone. Then the land suddenly opens, and Bridgewater Bay reveals itself: rugged rock shelves, tidal pools gleaming like hammered glass, and that western horizon where, if you’re patient and a little lucky, the sun breaks into a star just for you.


Sony A7RV

FE 20-70mm f4 G


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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Westgate Park Sunset with reflection for Water H2O Thursday

 


This was taken just before my locum assignment a month ago, when Joel and I returned for a second attempt—chasing the kind of light that makes a place feel briefly enchanted. The air was thick with rye grass, that familiar sting already prickling at Joel’s eyes and, soon enough, at mine. We became reluctant pilgrims, hiding in the car with the windows sealed, watching the world sway in golden dust until the sun softened enough for us to brave it.

When the sunset finally unfurled, it felt like an invitation. The sky melted into tones of peach and ember, and the bridge stood against it like a quiet sentinel. As the light dropped lower, its reflection stretched across the water—long, trembling strokes of fire—so that bridge and sky and river seemed to echo one another in a single, shimmering breath. The water caught every hue, turning the surface into a sheet of warm glass where the silhouette of the bridge repeated itself, darker, deeper, almost more true in its reflection.

For a moment, the allergies, the waiting, the whole month ahead vanished. It was just the two of us, the bridge, and a sunset sinking gently into water—an image worth every second of hiding and every breath held against the grass.


Sony A7RV

FE 70-200mm f4 G


Linking Water H2O Thursday


Sunday, December 7, 2025

No16 Beach in Rye for Sunday Best

 



No. 16 Beach in Rye is known, of course, for its Dragon Head Rock — that craggy silhouette rising from the restless sea like an ancient sentinel carved by wind and tide. Yet it is not only the famous formation that holds the eye. What fascinated me more that day was the exposed ocean floor, revealed in shifting patches as the waves inhaled and exhaled. Ridges of kelp, stone, and sand emerged like the ribcage of the earth itself, each glistening plate a quiet record of centuries of tides, storms, and moonlit nights. Here, the sea writes its diary in saltwater ink.

Joel and I lingered on the shoreline, lingering in the breeze that smelled of brine and age. Our footsteps pressed into sand that had once been sacred to the Boon Wurrung people, the traditional custodians of this stretch of the Mornington Peninsula. For thousands of years they moved along these windswept dunes and coastal flats, gathering shellfish, watching the migration of birds, reading the tides with an intimacy that modern visitors can only imagine. Long before the beach became a photographer’s haven, it was a living classroom, a place of food, ceremony, and story.

Later came the early European settlers, carving tracks through the tea-tree, building fishing huts, and naming the headlands after their own imaginings. The coastline remained wild and ungovernable, storms reshaping its contours with a kind of untamed artistry. Dragon Head Rock itself became a marker for sailors and wanderers — a creature hewn from basalt, watching over the changing generations.

As Joel and I took in this layered landscape, the unexpected happened: a photography group we had once been part of — a group with which the past included frictions and small wounds — wandered into the same stretch of beach. The air, suddenly, felt taut. Once, we had met weekly under the casual banner of shared interests, but the structure frayed when the leader, who struggled with memory impairment, continued to collect a five-dollar annual membership fee as if time had not moved on. Misunderstandings grew. Intentions tangled. A minor sum became a symbol of something heavier — a discomfort none of us knew quite how to name.

Seeing them again here, the old tension rose like a shadow across the sand. Yet it was oddly softened by the scenery. The roar of the waves seemed to dwarf the awkwardness, reminding us that human discord is fleeting compared to ancient coastlines. Dragon Head Rock did not care for our quarrels. The exposed ocean floor continued its shimmering revelations, indifferent to the knots of memory and missteps that people carry.

In that moment, the past felt like another tide — rushing forward, pulling back, reshaping what we thought we understood. And the beach, wise and wide as ever, held all of it: the history of land and water, the footprints of those who came before, and the small human stories that drift through like foam on the surface of a much older sea.



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FE 20-70mm f4 G



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Friday, December 5, 2025

Stingray Bay Warrnambool for Skywatch Friday

 


The cloud in the image hangs low and brooding, as if it has gathered every mood of the Southern Ocean and pressed them into a single, slow-moving shadow. It feels impressionable too—alive, shifting, carrying the temperament of a coast known for its sudden turns of weather. Warrnambool has always worn its climate like a cloak: heavy one moment, iridescent the next, a place where wind, light, and water constantly revise the landscape.

Stingray Bay, just beyond the thunder of the Blowhole and the salt-sprayed arches of Thunder Point, has its own long memory carved into this restless edge. For thousands of years it was a quiet gathering place for the Gunditjmara people, who knew the rhythms of the tides and the pathways of eels and rays far better than any visitor blown in by a storm. The bay’s limestone arms once sheltered smooth-gliding stingrays in such abundance that early settlers named it almost without thinking, awed by the dark shapes that moved like shadows beneath the surface.

Throughout the 19th century, the coastline here became a stage for shipwrecks—brutal reminders of how quickly the Bass Strait could turn from invitation to threat. Whaling stations rose and fell along these cliffs. Fishermen hauled cray pots under skies as erratic as the catch. Even now, the rock platforms hold the stories with a kind of stubborn dignity: layered sediment, eroded tunnels, small tidal pools carrying miniature worlds.

So when the cloud presses down like this—thick, bruised, and full of intent—it feels less like a passing weather pattern and more like the landscape remembering itself. Carrying every departure, every loss, every shift in tide and workforce. An atmospheric echo of a region that offers beauty in abundance but demands something back: patience, resilience, and a willingness to stand still while the coastline remakes itself around you.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G


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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Flinders Blowhole coast Mornington Peninsula for Water H2O Thursday

 


At Flinders Blowhole, the coast feels ancient and untamed, a place where the continent seems to breathe through its fissures. Along the wild edge of Cape Schanck on the Mornington Peninsula, the sea is never still; it coils and uncoils in restless whirls, slipping into crevices and exploding upward in sudden white plumes. The rocks—dark, jagged, and uncompromising—stand like the exposed bones of the earth, their edges sharp-pointed and raw, shaped by millennia of wind, salt, and ceaseless surf.

In the golden hour, the landscape softens but never surrenders its power. Light pours over the volcanic basalt headlands, catching on each facet as though the cliffs were lit from within. The blowhole itself pulses with the tide, inhaling the ocean’s force and releasing it in rhythmic bursts, as if reciting a story older than language. Shadows lengthen across the headland, and the sky takes on that fleeting hue between fire and dusk—an amber wash that gilds the furious motion of the sea.

Cape Schanck’s natural history is written into every cliff line and cove. Formed from ancient volcanic activity, the peninsula’s southern tip bears the hallmark of its fiery origins: basalt columns, fractured plateaus, and boulders that seem to have been flung into place by some prehistoric force. Over thousands of years, wind and waves carved the coast into its present rugged form, sculpting the blowhole where the sea funnels through a narrow passage and erupts against the stone.

The surrounding scrublands—windswept coastal tea-tree, hardy grasses, and pockets of low heath—cling to the slopes with stubborn resilience. This is a landscape accustomed to extremes: fierce summer heat, winter storms that lash straight from the Southern Ocean, and salt spray that coats every living surface. Sea birds wheel above the cliffs, taking advantage of the updrafts, while beneath them the waves roar against the chasm, grinding stone into sand grain by grain.

To stand here in the last light of day is to witness a meeting of elements in their purest form—rock, sea, and sky in an eternal conversation. Flinders Blowhole at golden hour becomes not just a viewpoint but a living theatre of the Mornington Peninsula’s deep natural history, lit briefly in gold before surrendering to the blue hush of evening.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G



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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Flinders Blowhole Melbourne for Treasure Tuesday

 


I haven’t visited this place for some time, and yet Flinders Blowhole at Cape Schanck greets me as though no days have passed. The rugged coastline stretches in quiet defiance against the ceaseless surge of the Southern Ocean, and in the distance, a solitary, large rock rises like a sentinel over the restless waters. Each wave that rushes forward tumbles over its surface, forming a miniature waterfall that never ceases, a constant, shimmering cascade that mirrors the relentless heartbeat of the sea.

As the sun leans toward the horizon, the golden hour bathes everything in its tender, amber glow. The light catches each droplet, turning spray into scattered sparks, and sets the rock aglow with a warmth that belies the ocean’s chill. Shadows lengthen across the sand and jagged cliffs, and the sound of the surf—deep, rhythmic, and insistent—fills the air with a meditative cadence.

There is a quiet poetry in the way nature balances motion and stillness here: the steadfast rock, the ever-moving water, the sky’s fleeting palette of gold and rose. Each moment feels suspended, as if time itself slows to honor the simple, profound beauty of the scene. I linger, drawn by the hypnotic rhythm of waves and light, feeling both small and infinite in the embrace of Cape Schanck’s wild, luminous edge.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G



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Monday, December 1, 2025

St Arnaud's silo art for Mural Monday

 


The mural is a recent addition to the evolving cultural tapestry of St Arnaud in regional Victoria, yet it already feels deeply rooted in the town’s identity. Like many of the artworks that grace its walls, it draws inspiration from the real people who shaped this place—its miners and pastoralists, its shopkeepers and shearers, its community elders whose stories linger in the main street as surely as their footsteps once did. Each face rendered in paint carries a quiet depth: a furrow that speaks of drought years endured, an uplifted gaze recalling moments of unexpected triumph, a stance that hints at the unrecorded, everyday heroism of country life. These murals are not mere decoration; they are a visual archive, a testament to resilience, memory and belonging.

As I pause before the artwork, I am struck by how its layered colours evoke emotion with surprising clarity—how a single expression can summon both pride and longing, how the careful shading brings a whole life into view. Today, though, contemplation must yield to the frenetic rhythm ahead. The workday promises to be relentless; the “silly season” has begun in earnest, that annual stretch when tempers fray and patience thins, and people seem to vibrate with a restlessness all their own. Yet even as the day threatens its usual chaos, the mural’s quiet dignity lingers with me—a reminder of the steadiness that built this town, and of the human stories that stand firm beneath the rush of passing days.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G


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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Pearses Bay Blairgowrie for Sunday Best

 


You may well grow weary of my sunset photographs from Pearses Bay in Blairgowrie, yet it remains the most convenient refuge whenever the weather softens and the winds permit. With Joel away in Adelaide for his weekend concert, I have embarked once more upon my solitary wanderings. Earlier, I accompanied my mother as she browsed the latest round of house auctions, drifting from one prospect to the next with quiet curiosity.

Meanwhile, a measure of discord has arisen from my recent contract work: the hospital has declined to honour the agreement even after the tasks were fully completed. It is, perhaps, another expression of the familiar tyranny of bureaucracy, a reminder of why the health system here languishes in such unwell condition. I have had to call upon my agent to advocate on my behalf, for fairness seldom comes unbidden.

And so I return to the shore—to the calm, to the last light spilling over the bay—where the day ends with more grace than any institution can muster.


Sony A7RV

FE 20-70mm f4 G

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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Mount Cook in New Zealand for Water H2O Thursday

 


There are countless photographs from my journey to New Zealand earlier this year that remain unshared, held back like quiet memories waiting for the right moment. I remember the scene with clarity: a sky veiled in cloud, its muted light softening the contours of the land, and below it the striking blue-green water of the lake—glacial, cold, and luminous—as if lit from within. Across the hills, snow settled lightly on the brown, wind-worn grasslands, creating a stark and beautiful contrast unique to this region.

Beyond these shifting elements rose Aoraki / Mount Cook, the great summit of the Southern Alps and the highest peak in New Zealand. Born of immense tectonic uplift where the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates collide, the mountain has been shaped over millennia by advancing glaciers, winter storms, and the long patience of erosion. To Ngāi Tahu, Aoraki is more than a landmark: he is an ancestor, a figure of sky and land intertwined, forever fixed in stone.

In the quiet interplay of clouded sky, glacial water, and ancient hills, the natural history of this place becomes almost audible—a reminder that these landscapes carry stories older than any traveller, and yet remain generous enough to offer new ones to those who stand in their presence.


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FE 70-200mm f4 G




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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Bi Shan Yan Temple, Neihu, Taipei for Sign2

 



I have shared photographs of this temple before, and now I have posted a few new ones. It stands not far from where I once lived in Taipei, a familiar presence along the mountainside. This place is woven tightly into my childhood memory. I often climbed the mountain with my father, step by step, until the red roof of the temple came into view. Those walks were quiet lessons in patience and wonder, the air scented with earth, incense, and the faint echo of bells drifting on the wind.

The first sign simply reads Bi Shan Yan — just that. Yet the name carries the weight of centuries.

Bi Shan Yan sits on a high ridge overlooking the basin below, a vantage point that feels both protective and timeless. Its origins stretch back to the early years of settlement, when a small shrine was first erected on the rocky slope. What began as a modest shelter of stone gradually grew into a full temple complex as generations added halls, terraces, and carved adornments. Over the years it has been rebuilt after storms, expanded by devoted hands, and shaped by the quiet resilience of the community around it.

The temple is dedicated to the revered protector known as the Kaizhang Holy King, a guardian spirit brought from the Fujian region by early migrants. His two loyal generals stand at his side, their presence carved into wood and stone with the solemnity of old devotion. These figures have watched over the hills and valleys for centuries, their legends mingling with the land itself.

Approaching the temple, one passes through a long ascent of stone steps, each bordered by greenery that shifts with the seasons — cherry blossoms in spring, thick shade in summer, the clear sharpness of winter air. The architecture is richly layered: sweeping rooflines adorned with dragons and phoenixes, bright ceramic tiles catching the sun, and columns carved with scenes from myth. The incense coils inside burn slowly, releasing a soft haze that turns the light golden.

From the upper terrace, Taipei stretches out like a living map — rivers winding, buildings rising, mountains holding the horizon. At night, the city becomes a tapestry of lights, and the temple feels like a silent guardian set high above the world.

For me, Bi Shan Yan is not merely a historic site but a place where memory settles gently. Each visit recalls those childhood climbs with my father, the warmth of his hand guiding me, the sense of arrival when the temple finally appeared above the trees. It remains a place where history and personal memory meet — steady, enduring, and filled with the quiet beauty of the past living on in the present.

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FE 20-70mm f4 G


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Monday, November 24, 2025

Gin distillery in Sorrento Mornington Peninsula for Mural Monday

 



A few months ago, Joel and I visited a small gin distillery, its car park walls enlivened by whimsical cartoons that caught the eye before one even reached the doorway. I took those photographs almost instinctively—quick reflexes, a moment of colour and charm preserved without a second thought—only to let them slip into the quiet darkness of my hard drive, forgotten until now.

In the time since that visit, life unfolded in its own peculiar symmetry. I was found to have hypothyroidism; Joel, soon after, was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. It seems we are friends bound not only by shared history but by parallel passages through unexpected chapters of health—an odd, intimate echo of each other’s burdens.

The distillery itself stood as a testament to the gentle renaissance of the gin industry on the Mornington Peninsula, particularly around Sorrento. What began as a modest coastal curiosity has grown into a craft movement rooted in the region’s crisp maritime air, its wild botanicals, and the quiet patience of makers who treat distillation as both science and art. Sorrento’s small-batch producers draw inspiration from the Peninsula’s salt-breeze gardens, native herbs, and citrus groves, capturing the landscape in each aromatic bottle. Their gins speak of limestone cliffs, shifting tides, and the bright, wind-swept mornings of the coast.

Remembering that day now—the murals, the subtle hum of copper stills, the clean bite of botanicals on the palate—feels like returning to a place where craft, companionship, and circumstance briefly converged. In those moments, before diagnoses and the weight of the months that followed, the world tasted simple, fragrant, and clear.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G



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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Pulpit Rock Cape Schanck for Sunday Best

 



It has been a long while since I last found myself here. These are a few frames gathered earlier in the year, moments I never quite managed to share until now. Returning to them feels a little like returning to the cliff’s edge itself—wind-washed, salt-stung, and alive with the ancient pulse of the coast.

Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck rises where Bass Strait exhales against the Mornington Peninsula, its basalt columns forged from volcanic fire long before any eye beheld them. The land here was shaped by eruptions millions of years ago, when lava cooled into dark, rugged stone that now stands like an altar to the restless sea. Beneath it, the waters swirl in ceaseless ceremony, carving, smoothing, and reshaping the shoreline with patient force.

Walking the boardwalk and tracing the steps down toward the rock, you feel the story of the headland underfoot—its long geological memory, its storms, its calm blue intervals, its steady endurance. These images carry traces of that place: the raw grandeur, the deep time etched into every cliff face, and the way the horizon always seems to pull a little farther into the unknown.

Perhaps that’s why I return, even after long absences. The land remembers, and the sea keeps speaking.

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FE 20-70mm f4 G

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Friday, November 21, 2025

Mount Alexander Post Box for Skywatch Friday

 


A mackerel sky hangs over Mount Alexander, its blue-cyan wash streaked with soft brown, as though the heavens themselves remember the dust and mineral veins that once drew thousands here. The mountain rises with the quiet assurance of an old storyteller, carrying in its ridges the memory of the gold rush that transformed Bendigo and Castlemaine, when hopeful hands sifted soil and the world’s footsteps converged on this corner of Victoria.

Along the roadside, the rustic tin mailboxes stand like humble sentinels—weather-beaten, crooked, and utterly honest. They belong to a landscape where history is not polished but lived in, where every dent and patch of rust feels like a faint echo of the pickaxes, tents, and fevered dreams that once pressed into this earth. And as the sky ripples overhead, Mount Alexander feels close—not just in distance from your home, but in spirit, a familiar presence holding centuries of stories beneath its quiet, enduring form.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G



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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Balnarring Jetty Mornington Peninsula for Water H2O Thurday

 


I have spent the past few days in a state of unrelenting toil, as if bound to some cruel taskmaster. The town in which I find myself—Mingham in New South Wales—is a place seemingly forsaken. There is no supermarket, no fast-food outlet, not even a solitary restaurant to offer relief. The unit I occupy is tainted with mould; dampness clings to the walls, and the bed linens, upon first touch, were sticky and sullied, as though long neglected. The local health service is scarcely better, staffed so poorly that it recalls the worst of neglected nursing homes. Fate, it seems, has played a bitter jest, offering hardship in abundance, comfort in none.

Yet, amidst this weariness, I have managed to compose a few posts, a small defiance against the exhaustion that presses upon me, before returning to endure the remainder of the shift.

In my mind, I often escape to a place long cherished: Balnarring Jetty, that weathered pier of Victoria. Its creaking boards, the gentle undulation of water beneath, the hush of the waves—these memories are a balm, a tender refuge far from the harshness of my present surroundings.

Mingham bears its own melancholy. Not long past, the town and its surrounds were consumed by floods of unprecedented fury. Torrential rains transformed roads into rivers, swallowing homes, and leaving streets marooned beneath waters swollen beyond memory. The river, once modest and tranquil, surged to heights unseen in a century, breaching its banks with merciless force. Entire neighborhoods were evacuated, bridges rendered impassable, and the land bore the scars of that relentless inundation for months thereafter.

In this place of lingering adversity, I find a strange resonance between the land and my own condition. Just as waters overflowed, unrestrained and unstoppable, so too has the neglect and hardship of this town broken through the fragile walls of my endurance. And yet, even amid such trials, the memory of Balnarring Jetty persists—a quiet, enduring symbol of stability and grace—reminding me that even in isolation and turmoil, beauty and calm can still be glimpsed.

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FE 20-70mm f4 


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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Pearses Bay Blairgowries for Sunday Best

 



Apart from my frequent photographs along the coast at Pearses Bay, Blairgowrie, I find myself increasingly drawn to the curious rock and sand formations that lie scattered across the shore. Their surfaces, hardened by time and tide, are edged with such sharpness that they can slice the skin with ease—nature’s own austere sculptures.

Today I set out for Manning, New South Wales, to undertake a locum contract. The decision was made at the last moment, prompted by a simple wish to replenish the coffers. As a result, I shall be less present online and slower to comment. I beg your indulgence for the coming week.


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FE 20-70mm f4 


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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Red Imported Fire Ants Melbourne for Saturday Critter

 


I am not sure if this is meat ants or red imported fire ants. They are certainly everywhere in summer here in melbourne. 


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A 200m f4 

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Friday, November 14, 2025

Cadillac Gorge San Remo for Skywatch Friday

 


The day at Cadillac Gorge unfolded beneath a brooding sky, the kind that promises both revelation and ruin. The rocks at the edge of San Remo glistened with the residue of centuries — dark volcanic shelves scarred by relentless tides, their surfaces mottled in lichen and salt. The wind carried the scent of brine and kelp, mingling with the low thunder of the Bass Strait. I had turned my lens toward the gorge, drawn to the strange geometry of stone carved by time and sea — but it was the sky that truly captivated me. The clouds swirled in elaborate layers, their forms restless and alive, the kind of sky that seems to think its own thoughts.

Five seconds later, the world turned. A rogue wave — silent until it wasn’t — rose from the depths like a living wall and struck the rocks with merciless force. I had no time to retreat. The surge crashed over me, drenching my gear, soaking through every seam and stitch, and in that instant, all sense of separation between self and sea dissolved. From the hill ridge behind, Joel was filming the scene — my small figure caught between water and wind, framed by the vast grey theatre of the Southern Ocean. Later, he said the footage looked almost staged — the sea claiming its own drama, the sky its witness — but in that moment, there was nothing contrived about it. Only the raw pulse of nature at Cadillac Gorge, San Remo — beautiful, treacherous, and impossibly alive.

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Pearses Bay Blairgowrie for Water H2O Thursday

 


Joel and I lingered far too long at the souvlaki shop on our way here, and by the time we arrived, dusk had already deepened into shadow. We hurried to our respective corners, cameras in hand, striving to capture what little light remained before the sun slipped entirely beyond the horizon. There was no time for the elegance of long exposure—only swift, instinctive shots taken in haste.

In my rush, I stumbled and twisted my ankle, the sharp pain dulled only by the chill of water seeping into my shoes. Joel, ever steadfast, came to my aid—only to meet misfortune himself, slipping and taking a fall soon after. Thus the evening unfolded: a pursuit of fading light, marked by mishap and the quiet grace of shared endurance.

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FE 20-70mm f4 G


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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Pearses Bay Sunset moment for Treasure Tuesday

 


Last weekend, Joel immersed himself in the intensity of a Metallica concert, their first Australian tour in eleven years—a testament to his enduring devotion to heavy metal music. I, on the other hand, wandered the coastline alone, finding quiet solace in the rhythmic rise and fall of the high tide. Pearses Bay, now celebrated as a prime vantage for sunsets, cast its golden reflections across the water, offering the perfect scene for my photography and a gentle reminder of the beauty found in solitary exploration.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G

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Monday, November 10, 2025

Wulai creek fruit mural, Taipei for Mural Monday

 


Last week, I wrote about the Wulai Creek region in Taipei. Recently, I came across a mural there depicting an assortment of fruits. The entire artwork has fallen into decay, its surface mottled with mould and weathered by time. Yet, in its deterioration, I found it hauntingly unique and strangely beautiful.


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FE 20-70mm f4 G


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