Just turn up.............

I was privileged to attend a workshop about 2 years ago hosted by the amazing landscape photographer Ken Duncan. Ken comes from the beautiful Central Coast and I can understand where his passion for capturing this amazing coastline comes from. Part of his talk, which attracted many laughs, was that the hardest part of landscape photography had to be making the effort to "get out of bed and just turn up"!
Once you are there, you hope and pray for the right conditions..........

Well, this morning it was SO worth the effort to turn up. These colours are basically as they appeared and started a good 40 minutes before sunrise. I enjoyed my morning immensely, the solitude , the beauty.....


Ken goes on to say....

“Occasionally I’ll put a person in a photo just to give scale, but one reason I love shooting landscapes is because I’m trying to let people come to terms with who they are,” he says. “People avoid going into nature because they’re scared to face who they are. There’s something about a beautiful landscape or a pristine area that challenges you to put yourself in that scene, in scale with everything that’s around you.

“My job is to bring peace into people’s lives. If you put one of these landscapes in your house, the one that speaks to you, it’s amazing how over the years you’ll just go ‘wow.’ It’s not because it’s about me, it’s because you’re looking at a slice of God’s creation, a moment in time. It has the ability to touch you.”