Turimetta Beach, Sydney, Australia

What a gem, I have never even heard of this beach until two days ago. The funny thing is that I have been to both North Narrabeen and Mona Vale beach on either side of it. We started at the northern end of the beach and worked our way along the beach to the southern end.

The southern end has much more to offer a photographer. I will be coming back for some pre dawn and sunrise shots in the very near future.

Here are some of my shots from the southern end of Turimetta beach.



The walk back to the northern end and the climb back up to where the car was parked was a killer. Next time park at the southern end, less walking and more time for photography.

Middle Head, Sydney, Australia

What an interesting place to visit and photograph. I have always wanted to check this place out. I first saw this place in the Australian movie "Stone". The day started out fine but was overcast by about lunchtime.

So if you live in Sydney and looking for interesting places to photograph. I highly recommend that you get down there. You won't be disappointed.

Will definitely revisit to explore more of the tunnels and get more interesting shots. Here are some of the shots from my visit.




Here are some interesting facts about Middle Head.

The first battery was built in 1871 and was designed by James Barnet, a colonial architect. The fort was built on a strategic location and received many additions until 1911. It formed part of a network of 'outer harbour' defences. They were designed to fire at enemy ships as they entered the harbour. The whole area is linked by an extensive network of underground tunnels, ancillary rooms, gunpowder magazine and a disappearing gun emplacement.

Jervis Bay

Mark organised a weekend trip down to Jervis Bay for a shoot. We stayed at Eugene's parents holiday house down in Culburra Beach.

We started off at Murrays Beach, then across to Cape St.George and later on in the afternoon we walked down to Penguins Head for some dusk shots.

Eugene cooked dinner, it was pasta with a spicy chorizo sauce and a lovely salad with avocado, tomato, cucumber and lettuce. They pasta was very very tasty.

Eugene also brought along his Xbox 360 along for some after dinner entertainment. The boys enjoyed playing Halo 3 and especially geometry wars. Mark and Jeff kept trying to outdo one another all night, the eventual high score went to Mark at over 90,000. However, they couldn't touch Eugene at over 200,000 but I was rubbish at it.

Eugene took some fantastic shots of Mark's facial expressions whilst he was playing geometry wars. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the shots, they were hilarious.

Stayed up to watched Cadel Evans lose the Tour De France

The plan was to stop at any interesting photo op on the way back to Sydney. Unfortunately, the weather was awful and the light was really shit. We stopped off in Bowral for some pies at the Gumnut Patisserie. I had a steak mushroom and a chicken leek pie. They were very yummy indeed, especially on such a cold day. It helped that the store won best patisserie in NSW for 4 years running.

We also planned to stop off at the Mount Annan Botanical Gardens on the way home but it started raining down slushy ice just as we got there. Ah well, next time..

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Robertsons Point Lighthouse

It was a toss up whether to venture out into inclement weather for a shoot. The prediction was for showers that morning. We decided to brave it and luckily for us the weatherman got it wrong. We drove out to Cremone Point to checkout this lighthouse that we had found on Google Earth the previous week. There was still a light mist when we got there and it was quite tricky to get down the ladder (bolted into the side of the cliff), as it was still dewy and very slippery, carrying the tripod and the heavy camera backpack. It was definitely well worth the effort.

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