Whale Beach

February 17, 2012 by Ben Coope | Leave a comment

This year I am making an effort to visit beaches I havent been to (for photography purposes anyway) around Sydney.

Whale Beach is one of Sydney’s most northern beaches, its a bit of a trek to get to during the day so i never really though about getting there for sunrise as I assumed it would take too long and I would be stuck in the car watching a beautiful sunrise while driving. But it turns out its not really that much further than my usual drive to the beaches as between 4-6am on a weekend (sunday especially) there is no traffic and you have to be really unlucky to catch all the traffic lights on the way.

A group of us decided to check out Whale Beach on Sunday morning and loved it, will definitely be going back there again, and further up to Palm beach.

 

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Maroubra Beach

February 10, 2012 by Ben Coope | Leave a comment

There are so many beautiful beaches in Sydney and so far ive been concentrating on the northern beaches so this year im making the effort to get to some of the beaches to the south.

A few weekends back I visited Maroubra Beach to check it out and see what it had on offer.

 

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The Misty Mountains

February 4, 2012 by Ben Coope | Leave a comment

A few weekends ago i spent the a day Canyoning in the Blue Mountains. Jenni and I did Empress Canyon with ASM as an introduction and absolutely loved it.

Unfortunately i could not take pictures, my water proof setup is huge (D90 in a pelican case) so with the large group we went with it would have slowed everyone down to get the camera out and dry my hands etc and i don’t have a waterproof compact (i think a GoPro Hero would be perfect for a small camera in a canyon).

But since it was an amazing misty day i did get to take photos around Katoomba later in the evening, it was great to wander around the mountains in the mist with nobody about (that i could see anyways, the mist was that think). These are some of the photos.

 

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Dee Why

January 20, 2012 by Ben Coope | Leave a comment

The area around Long Reef is one of my favorite places for sunrise, I’m going to have to get there for sunset one day too.

The area i like is everything around the Long Reef headland this extends down into Dee Why (northern end of the beach) and over to collaroy pool.
There is so much variety to this section depending on the tides and light that I have never been bored here and I’m always surprised at new rock formations, patterns and compositions even after many visits this last year.
A few weeks back I got down to the northern end of Dee Why for dawn and the colours in the sky were amazing, here are a few photos from that morning.

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Victoria Falls

January 16, 2012 by Ben Coope | Leave a comment

Victoria falls, January 2012

Getting down to Victoria falls is a massive effort, its further into the mountains than I usually go (12kms past Katoomba), has 5kms of dirt rd to get to the start of the path and then 2kms of steep descent. But…

It’s worth it.

We even went on a terrible day for photography, full sun, no clouds and really hot. But once down at the cascades and waterfall it was great, we had the entire place to ourselves and the scenery was beautiful.

Will definitely be visiting this location again.

Panorama of the view from the lookout and the top of the trail and below some images from the day.

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Avalon

January 9, 2012 by Ben Coope | Leave a comment

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Avalon Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches.
A beautiful spot and well worth the extra time it takes to get there (for me anyway). Avalon also has such a great vibe its like being on holidays up the coast in a little beach side town, there are some fantastic places for breakfast too, which is well deserved after a early morning shoot.

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