We did manage 1 full day shoot and 2 sessions of a couple of hours each....
We started out the month with a full day shooting session that covered several locations. We began the day at Southport Spit on the Gold Coast hoping to capture some good shots of the sun rising over the ocean. Unfortunately, we didn't get our camera settings right and none of the photos where of a commercial quality.
After a wonderful breakfast at Elephant Rock Cafe we proceeded around the corner to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. If you ever have the chance to visit South East Queensland, we highly recommend a visit to this wildlife park, they have a very large collection of Australian Wildlife and you can easily spend an entire day wandering around the paths visiting all the different animal enclosures and various shows.
The day we visited the park they were holding a fund raiser for the sanctuary, and there where thousands of people visiting, but it turned out as a bonus for us as they where offering a substantial discount on the entry fee for local visitors. We spent about 6 hours wandering around and taking as many photos as possible, and we even had our photo taken holding a Wedge Tail Eagle.
The best photos of the day where (from our Mostphoto album):
(Native Australian Bird)
(Kookaburra)
(Wombat)
Our second location was a re-visit to Roma St Parklands for a short 2 hour photo session we managed to squeeze in after work before loosing the light. The best photos of the day where (from our Mostphoto album):
(Green and white Ribbon Plant)
(Kangaroo Paw - Plant)
For our last location, we decided to revisit Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary specifically to shoot photos of Kangaroos and Wallabies. This decision was a commercial one as one of our photos of a kangaroo from our first visit had sold several times on one of the microstock sites early in the month. We arrived just after opening time before all the tourists and tour groups arrived, and managed to get a lot of photos of the kangaroos, wallabies and emus before they where too disturbed by groups of people. We also did our bit for Queensland tourism by showing a lot of the overseas visitors that were too scared to approach the kangaroos how to hand feed and pet them.
Best photos of the day where (from our Mostphoto album):
(Large male Kangaroo - this male is over 5ft tall)
(Small Wallaby - this little one was only knee high)
(Emu)
Several of the female kangaroos had joeys in the pouch that where just starting to venture out.
(Baby Joey)
And the one photo that makes us laugh every time we see it........this kangaroo just looks sooooo confused.
(Confused Kangaroo)
Next month we're off for a 5 day photography holiday to Tasmania.....so we should have a lot of photos to share in Shooting Location post for July.
Cheers
Fiona
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