Gold Coast Queensland Kids Hoodies

Danbo couldn't help but get involved in all the food photography happening at the Problogger Event on the Gold Coast!

Waves crashing into the rock pools at Currumbin on the Gold Coast just after sunrise. Further out to sea, paddleboarders are following the whales that came in incredibly close to shore.

This morning was a great morning to be out on the rocks at Currumbin. The nearly-high-tide waves were crashing over the rocks and there was a gorgeous sunrise...once it appeared from behind the clouds on the horizon!

I didn't quite make it down to the coast for the first sunrise of the new year, but I didn't wait long to catch a sunrise in 2016. I've never been to this spot on Miami Beach before, so it was a great new spot to start a new year of shooting.

Early morning light on Elephant Rock at Currumbin. Can you see the elephant? If he's where I think he is, he's fallen over and is now taking a quick nap.

The incoming tide smashing over the rocks at Currumbin Beach, on Queensland's Gold Coast, just before sunrise.

The full moon shoot I ran last night at Currumbin Beach was very successful! It's always good fun to see the reaction after someone takes a long exposure under the full moon. Even though we were standing on the rocks in darkness, their cameras were showing them a landscape lit as though it was the middle of the day. It's one of the many reasons I love night photography! This was one of my few shots from the night. The moon was very red as it rose above the horizon so it gave the whole scene a nice soft colour.

Waves roll in over the rocks at Miami Beach on the Gold Coast, just after sunrise on the second day of the year.

The highrises in Surfer's Paradise are so high that when you stand on the balcony and take photos, it makes the entire world underneath look like it's in miniature!

Waves break at Snapper Rocks near Coolangatta just after sunrise.

After tropical cyclone Marcia came through south east Queensland, dumping more than 200mm in parts, I had the urge to drive into the Gold Coast hinterland and check out the waterfalls. They did not disappoint (even in the pouring rain)! This view of Purlingbrook Falls, in Springbrook National Park, was unreal. I couldn't believe the sheer amount of water plummeting off the cliff! This was as close as anyone could get as well since the rest of the track was closed due to flooding from Purling Brook!

It was a struggle as we shot sunrise at Burleigh Heads on this Saturday morning in April -- should we take photos of the brilliant orange sunrise, or look in the opposite direction and shoot the crazy cloud descending over Surfers Paradise? In the end, we got a few of both...and I'm really happy I turned away from the sunrise for a little bit, since you don't see clouds like this every day. It reminded me of the one of the alien ships from Independence Day -- but luckily it didn't stop over Q1 and spectacularly blow it up!

The rocks and the waves glow gold in the early morning light at Snapper Rocks, near Coolangatta on the southern Gold Coast.

Two of the smaller waterfalls that make up Elabana Falls in Queensland's Lamington National Park. It was surprisingly easy to clamber up to this point…although getting down would have been a lot easier if I hadn't had camera gear. That said, I don't think I would have wanted to go for a swim in these cold waters!

Box Log Falls, in Lamington National Park and a short hike from O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat. It was so different to my previous visit, when it had so little water in it that it was two small parallel falls instead of this cascade. That meant the water was a lot higher too, so my feet got very wet in the process of finding this spot. Luckily they were already very wet from a number of other creek crossings so it didn't really matter!

A father and son chance the incoming tide to go fishing at Snapper Rocks as waves rebound off the rocks and crash into one another.

The sky lights up as the sun dips below the horizon, as seen on Ekka Day 2014 at Currumbin Rocks.

The twin falls of Box Logs Falls in Lamington National Park.

As they say, when life gives you lemons... In this case, we were supposed to be running a starry sky workshop, but the cloud cover across most of the sky meant we had to call it off shortly after I took this shot. That cloud cover made for a spectacular sunset though, so at least we were able to get a few photos out of our 200km round-trip drive!

Elabana Falls is one of the most photographed waterfalls in Lamington National Park, and with good reason. Not only is it only a 3km hike from the O'Reilly's Rainforest Resort (even though we took the long way and took 8km to get there), but it's also ridiculously photogenic!

A koala joey clings on to her mother as she naps in the trees at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

A paraglider steadies his chute as he prepares to takeoff from Rosin Park, near Beechmont in the Gold Coast Hinterland. What a place to just sit and watch as both paragliders and hang gliders took off and then circled around above us!

Here's a bit of an abstract one, but it really represents our morning. A gorgeous sunrise and a lot of waves from the incoming tide that seemed determined to take us (and our cameras) out to sea with it!

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

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The gorgeous Lip Falls near Beechmont. I always want to stay much longer here, partially because the water is such a nice temperature to stand in as I take photos, and partially because I am doing my best to avoid the steep staircase that leads out of here!