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6 months ago, on a hot sunny day, I visited the Botanic Gardens in Coffs Harbour. Last weekend I went back for another look… I have a feeling I will be back again soon.

A spontaneous sunset shot from the other night was completed by the random coincidence of someone driving down the road, giving me the wonderful light flares and trails through the mid-area of the shot. Everything was coming up Millhouse!

It was a full moon the other night and such still conditions down at the jetty.

Keeping in tune with the beach theme, I decided it was time to do a morning shoot. I painfully awoke at 4:45am and headed out to the recently uncovered shipwreck at Woolgoolga Beach.

I misread the tide time and height and was expecting water to be surrounding the ship ruins, but unfortunately the lower than expected tide didn’t provide a watery foreground. It was so nice watching the sun rise there I would happily shoot it again, so I may head back in the coming weeks.

Sunset at Mullaway Beach… glorious.

Some of these shots I captured from someone exhaling smoke, others came from a cigarette burning in an ashtray. All of them have had minor levels adjustments and saturation reduction in some cases, otherwise they are simply straight off the camera.