Category Archives: Landscape

Aug21

Mount Peel Bushland Reserve

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Mount Peel Bushland Reserve

Located just a stone’s throw from urban Toowoomba, Mount Peel Bushland Reserve offers some excellent photographic opportunities. Consisting of two rocky hills and a pleasant grassland saddle between the two, an outing here can be as relaxing or energetic as you wish. This gallery provides some more intimate shots, however there are plenty of vista opportunities to be taken advantage of from several vantage points.

Several of the images here have been tweaked to boost the colours and contrast.

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Aug19

A walk in the Lockyer Valley

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A walk in the Lockyer Valley

August 8, 2012 was a bright sunny day and ideal for taking a short drive and heading off to explore some bush. The location was Lockyer Creek. This was one of several creeks that had large volumes of water rushing down them following a torrential downpour in January 11, 2011.

The region has an old sandstone as its bedrock and in commercially minded and sold as Helidon Sandstone. This is also the name given to the type of sandstone and has been aged at around 250 million years old.

The day, alternating between walking the creekline, scrambling up a steep cliff and again meandering along Alice Creek back to its confluence with Lockyer Creek. provided a wonderful mix on landscape and closeup photography. In some parts many hours could easily be spent filling up a memory card with images.

Here I present a selection of the 120 or so pictures I took that day using my new compact camera, a Panasonic Lumx TZ20 for those who have a technical interest.

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Jul15

Images from near and far

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Images from near and far

Jumping in the car and getting to new places is always exciting, especially when viewed with a photographer’s eye. How many times have you taken a walk on ocean rocks and been distracted by the big picture. How easy it is to gaze out to sea or across the water when there is a world of amazement at your feet.

Sometimes it is the glint of sun on a piece of broken glass that causes you to pause and look again, and view the item from a number of different angles.

Looking at the world from a different perspective can reveal a flood of opportunities.

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