Landscape at 140mm

Growing up in South East Queensland I never realised how precious that paradise was. I never realised what a rare commodity the rainforest was, nor how much mountains (even small ones) can affect the weather, or valued being able to walk  barefoot on green grass.

On recent visit to Bribie Island, just north of Brisbane, we spent some time on the beach of the passage between the island and the mainland. It was a beautiful day, clear as a bell. You could see the Glass House Mountains in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland across the passage in a blue haze. So very blue.

Of course, they were quite a way a ways, therefore the trusty 18-200mm was zoomed in to a 140mm focal length. Not your typical landscape focal length, but I was pretty pleased with the results. I have cropped this image to be a panoramic size, and tweaked the colours slightly in Photoshop and added a post-crop vignette.

Glass House Mountains. Canon EOS 50D f/5.6 1/2000 shutter, ISO 160, +2 step exposure bias, 140mm. 

Of course, it has dawned on me that as I write this, I am sitting in my lounge at 9:20pm watching British comedy. I can multi-task. (I said the same thing about my homework in high school). But as you are reading this I will be in some real mountains. Big mountains. Called the Andes - hiking up to Maccu Pichu in Peru to be exact. Hopefully safe. Hopefully this is a self-fulling prophesy - we are having an amazing time and sometime in 2014 you will be seeing some South America pictures on this blog! God willing my camera and memory cards are not stolen. And I am not killed in a terrifying plane crash. OK, it's 9:30 and the paranoia is creeping in so I had better sign off. Hope you like the Glass House Mountains and I look forward to sharing the Andes with you in good time.