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The perfect white sands of Whitehaven Beach, turned into ripples by the wind.

I never thought I'd be able to shoot a 30 second exposure of a tree without it moving, but that's how calm our first night on Hamilton Island was. A stark change from a few days later, when the winds were 20-25 knots!

The sky lights up in colour as the sun sets over Burleigh Heads and the Gold Coast.

All summer, I've been trying to plan a weekend to head out to the Darling Downs and go looking for sunflowers. Imagine my surprise, then, when I realised they were still out during my trip there in late March! I could have taken photos of these flowers for hours...except for the fact that I didn't have tall boots on and I was terrified of coming across an angry snake (not all that unlikely, given the number of holes in the ground all around the sunflowers).

I didn't plan on getting up to watch the sunrise on our last morning in Queenstown, but when I woke up at 5.15am and my whole hotel room was lit up in pink, I grabbed my camera and ran to the lakeshore, which was luckily just across the road from the hotel. It was definitely worth it!

The sky fades into pinks and purples as the last light fades from the sky over Denison Beach on Tasmania's east coast, just north of Bicheno.

Luckily, our trip out to Warwick last Friday offered a number of other photo opportunities aside from the sunflowers that we were searching for (and that we found were mostly already in seed). This shot comes from a quick stop to look at the storm clouds that were welling up and heading over Cunningham Gap towards the coast. I love how vibrant the colours in Australia are!

A gorgeous sky reflects off the very aptly-named Brown Lake on Queensland's North Stradbroke Island.

Golden early morning light lights up the orange lichen-covered rocks on the beach at Bicheno on Tasmania's east coast.

This was the view we climbed Mount Amos for, and it absolutely did not disappoint. What a spot to have a picnic lunch!

This section of road, stretching along the eastern shores of Lake Wakatipu, has earned itself the name 'the Devil's Staircase' due to its continuous turns, ascents, and descents. Unlike the Devil's Staircase on the Tongariro Crossing, which really did have me swearing by the end, this one was a lot of fun!

The gorgeous hues of early morning lighting up the sky, as seen from One Tree Hill on Hamilton Island.

Footprints in the sand at Huntington Beach narrowly avoiding being washed away by the incoming tide at sunset.

The brilliant Milky Way stretching over the Tasman Sea, as seen from Bicheno. There's very few places where I've been able to see the Milky Way as clearly -- and with my own eyes -- as here.

When I headed down to the small town of Laurieton in New South Wales' Mid North Coast a few weeks ago, I knew I had to make it out to the beach for at least one sunrise. While the colours weren't spectacular, the sunrise and the early morning golden light still did not disappoint as I wandered along the rocky edge of the beach at Camden Head.

I went to Camden Head to see the beach, so it was just happenstance that I saw a sign for a lookout and headed up to the Charles Hamey lookout. Just off the carpark, you can almost see this view; a short, ~1km walk will take you further into the woods and eventually bring you out to this amazing lookout, where you can look across the ocean and inland towards Dunbogan and Laurieton.

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How lucky was it that my first photo of the night also had the brightest shooting star of the night? The skies over Bicheno on Tassie's east coast left me completely in awe.

Wineglass Bay, as seen from the summit of Mount Amos, part of the Hazards Range in Freycinet National Park.

On the McWay waterfall track in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, you get an amazing view of McWay Falls plummeting over the cliffs and onto the beach below. I found it very hard to tear myself away from that view, but I had to so I could move further up the track and watch the sunset over the ocean. What a perfect way to end the day. I'm a bit jealous of Julia Pfeiffer Burns, who used to live in this area and got to see this view whenever she wanted!

The sun comes up over Whitsunday Island and Hamilton Island's Passage Peak, as seen from the rocks at Catseye Beach.

On our last morning at Cradle Mountain, we woke up to a winter wonderland. Everything was coated in a fine layer of snow, and since we knew we had to leave the area reasonably early, we got down to Dove Lake so early that we saw much of it completely untouched -- and completely silent. I'd forgotten how much I loved the feeling of standing in the complete and utter silence as snow falls all around me.

The sky begins to light up in pink (about 20 mins before sunrise) over one of the many boathouses standing on the southern edge of the Maroochy River on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

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A figure peeks out from behind the front facade of Helsinki Cathedral on a golden summer evening.

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The Milky Way lights up the sky above the Boathouse at the Bicheno Hideaway on Tasmania's east coast. There's few places that I've seen more stars!

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On our last day on Hamilton Island, we decided to take the plunge and book a helicopter ride over Whitehaven Beach. It was 20 minutes of beautiful island and reef views, capped by this amazing scene at Whitehaven's Hill Inlet.

Waves crash ashore as a storm rolls in to Bicheno on Tasmania’s east coast.

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The clouds explode into colour over the Marin Headlands, taken from the Golden Gate Bridge lookout at Battery Spencer.

It's a double rainbow -- just. The faint double rainbow is really trying to come out! Taken on the drive between Bicheno and St Marys on Tasmania's east coast.

We were worried that the Bicheno Blowhole wasn't going to be very impressive, but just before we walked away, a massive wave crashed in underneath the rocks and created this massive blow. It was pretty cool -- and very loud!

The gorgeous colours of Stockholm on a perfect summer's day.