This place has been a daily sanctuary of sorts to me of late. A place where the fog of a night’s sleep is replaced by one of ethereal whimsy that envelopes surfers keen to cleanse themselves in the incoming waves.

The sky and the sea merged as one as if on a canvas of a watercolour painter. No colours but gently soothing tones of blue gold and pink, with hints of deeper turquoise captured my mind entirely.

It’s hard to keep fathoming the discontent in the world right now when you’re standing at the shoreline with such a vista before you.

It was addictive photographing people finding their own patch out in the water, their own personal enclave of watery salvation.

This paddle boarder really caught my eye and I couldn’t stop capturing him as he made his way out past the bank of breaking waves and into the calm of water surfers so lovingly refer to as “out the back.”

As I walked around the water’s edge, I constantly kept turning back and capturing the foggy mist that ensconced the coast as it made it’s way around to Point Lonsdale, whose famed lighthouse had disappeared in the morning’s sleepy haze.

You could almost hear the spray, as it wafted in from white caps breaking offshore, and it painted a picture of the most ethereal adventure park nature can put on offer.

These are the mornings that make you feel life can be rose-tinted without the glasses, if we are willing to just commit to making the effort to get out of the house. To walk, to immerse, to breathe, to take in the show that nature puts on every day.

You can crack the sads when you come to the beach at the wrong time according to ‘proper rules’ of photography. Yes I got back down to the beach with my camera as as the foggy cloud that engulfed the first braves souls to get out on their boards disappeared as the sun began to break over the sand dunes, and yes that was not ‘optimum’ light-wise.

But sometimes that extra challenge, that extra thinking required to make a composition work as the light becomes increasingly harsher, this is where we learn more, this is where we begin to think smarter as a photographer.

And besides, after the year that was 2020, it’s just great to get out and capture people enjoying the nature we have right on our doorstep again, right?

Hope you’ve been able to get out this weekend and get behind the lens again!

Much Love