Week 7 – Australia Day Sunrise

Week 7 – Australia Day Sunrise saw an epic mission unfold! As touched upon in Week 6.. the Australia Day long weekend for 2011 turned out to be epic! Basically a 5 day weekend was formed and myself and a few friends used this to our advantage. We decided to head down south for the first time.. to a little place called Coalcliff which is just south of the Royal National Park. There has been much said about this location for seascapes and sunrises and with Dan suggesting an all night journey.. how could we resist?

So indeed an all night journey it was.. I suggested we head further south to Kiama for some star trails and the light house.. it was (unfortunately) a little underwhelming the light house and even though I was able to capture some good shots of it (which you can see here.) it added an extra 1.5 hours to the driving during the night and took it’s toll on everyone in the end. We arrived at Coalcliff in the dark and searched around the large rock platform for a place to setup. Everyone headed over to under near where the Seacliff bridge is and the rock ledge and I decided to head back further towards the beach and the ocean pool. I found a spot to shoot some reflections in the pools and some rocks before tackling some longer exposures in knee deep water before finding a nice rock to perch myself on. I have yet to revisit many shots from that morning, but I may do so over the next few months when I have less time for seascapes as wedding season kicks off again.

Hope you like.. Ill speed up the updates with these shots to get through them and add some more.. I just returned from a wonderful trip to Newcastle and cant wait to share some of my shots from the trip.

Till next time..