On the drive home to Perth, we decided to go take the coast road and stopped for a visit at the Pinnacles. We were just going to do a very brief stop and quick drive by but it cost $11 per car to get in so we decided to make the most of it. We visited the discovery centre then took the girls for a walk around the rocks. They loved them and it was a great break and of course a chance to take more photos!

My session this week chose to keep their blog preview private, so I don’t have anything to show. However, I was inspired to stop at a location I’ve been meaning to check out for a long time on the way home and take some photos.

I had been wanting to take the girls here for some environmental portraits, but maybe not:

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We’ve been taking the dogs down to the dog beach in Rockingham, as its pretty quiet this time of year and the dogs love running in the sand.

I keep meaning to take my camera with me so yesterday I did and here are some of the shots. Must remember to take my camera out more often for random photos

Whee!

Ick

My favourite

Just another sunset in the west

We took the girls down to the Rockingham foreshore on the weekend and just as we arrived there was this imposing cloud alone in the sky. I love these kinds of clouds, they remind me of angel wings. I took a few shots but before long it had stretched across the sky and then vanished.

I have been doing some photos of thrombolites and sedgelands for the DEC and local council, to be used on new interpretative signs at Lake Richmond. I can’t begin to explain how liberated doing this work is making me feel and am forever grateful to my friend Christine, who organised it.

Natural environments always draw me, but in the past I have wanted to photograph portraits in the landscape, not simply the environment itself. Which inevitably resulted in frustration that my models (aka my children) wouldn’t behave as I wanted (with some exceptions of happy “accidents” where what they wanted to do was actually perfect). Going into the environment and accepting it as it is, seeking its beauty rather than trying to force my own ideals is probably something most photographers instinctively do but for me is new and exciting.

I’ve not included the client photos in this blog post but just a couple of shots I took out of personal interest.  Old things like this always strike me as treasure.

These swans followed me around the lake and when I stopped for a time at the far end they started swimming back and forth in front of me, teasing each other and showing off. This isn’t a great shot but I thought they might be offended if I didn’t include them!