A recipe for quiet delight…
1: Be in a place with dramatic topography (ideally, clad with both forest and exposed rock faces and/or outcrops) and oft-changing weather.
2: Find a comfortable vantage point, with late afternoon sun behind you, dramatic topography in front, and a sky that is neither cloudless nor overcast. Ideally, bring camera/s and/or binoculars.
3: Watch closely, as clouds form, dance, dissolve, whilst the sunlight becomes progressively lovelier as its daily “disappearance” draws closer.
A “static” landscape – even a “stolid” one – becomes deliciously dynamic when “golden hour” sunlight and shadows move across it.
(The southwestern corner of Flinders Island is an ideal location)
All photos in this post were taken within a “window” of less than two minutes.
The featured image looks east to the “foot” of the range that dominates Strzelecki National Park.
The photo below looks in the same direction, but up.
The final photo’s vantage point essentially the same, but the picture looks south-east.
