If you ever visit Dove Lake and Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, it's worth doing the walk around the lake.

There is some fantastic scenery as the track makes its way around the lake, and in some places, it's a wooden walkway bolted to the rock cliff, as shown in the photo below (with Cradle Mountain in the background).

walkway around Dove Lake

Cradle Mountain, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @10mm, 1/25 sec, f/8, ISO200

Other sections of the track will take you through a temperate rainforest called the Ballroom Forest.

The walk is 6km, and takes approximately 2 hours (depending on how fit you are, how fast you walk, how frequently you stop to take photos, etc). It's a relatively easy walk, and is mostly flat.

Tourists' footprints show up in the snow on the boardwalk along the north-east end of Lake Louise.

footprints on the boardwalk

Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @10mm, 1/160 sec, f/8, ISO400

The lake was still iced over when I was there last month, with approximately a metre or two of clear water around the lake edge.

Taken during an early morning shoot in Matilda Bay, this 4 second exposure shows one of the jetties at Matilda Bay, with the Perth city skyline in the background on the right hand side.

peaceful waters

jetty at Matilda Bay before sunrise

Matilda Bay, Crawley, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @16mm, 4 sec, f/7.1, ISO100

Early on Friday morning, a few keen souls met near the Old Swan Brewery to get some sunrise photos.
Once the sun was up, we then made our way up the river to the Crawley Edge Boatshed. This iconic boatshed must feature in a lot of photos, and on weekends, you can often see wedding parties being photographed on the jetty that leads to this boatshed.

Geoff shooting the 'shed

Crawley Edge Boatshed

Crawley, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @22mm, 1/500 sec, f/6.3, ISO100

When taking landscape photos, including something in the foreground of the photo will often improve the composition of the photo.
In this photo, taken at a recent shoot in South Perth, the rocks and pebbles on the shore provide the foreground interest, with the Perth city skyline and its reflection in the Swan River filling the rest of the frame.

Perth City Skyline in duotone

South Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @24mm, 1/80 sec, f/7.1, ISO400

This is a slightly different composition to the Pelican and the Paddle Steamer Decoy photo I posted recently, also from our South Perth photoshoot.
This version brings the Paddle Steamer Decoy and Perth city skyline closer together, allowing the image to be more tightly cropped, without as much empty sky.

Click the image below to see a larger version of it to better appreciate it.

Paddle Steamer Decoy and Perth city skyline

South Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @24mm, 1/1000 sec, f/2.8, ISO100

In hindsight, it's almost exactly the same composition as another photo taken about 12 months ago, but this time, the early morning lighting provided a much more golden glow on the Paddle Steamer Decoy and its reflection.

The early morning sun highlights the Paddle Steamer Decoy at the Mends Street Jetty, as a pelican swims past, with the Perth city skyline in the background.

This is another photo from our early morning meet last week.

pelican and the Paddle Steamer Decoy

South Perth, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @24mm, 1/320 sec, f/4.5, ISO100

This is the view from a boat ramp, looking back towards Rockingham Beach, with the Kwinana Grain Terminal visible at the far left of the frame.

Still Water

Rockingham Beach, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @12mm, 1/160 sec, f/10, ISO100

Taken during a boat cruise on the Tamar River, in Launceston, Tasmania.
The stark shape of the silos against the dark stormy clouds drew me to this, and the reflection of the silos in the river balances the image.

Tamar River reflections

Tamar River, Launceston, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 17-85mm IS @26mm, 1/50 sec, f/11, ISO100

Taken late one afternoon at Rockingham Beach, this shot shows the interesting shadows created by the corrugations in the sand on the ocean floor. The blue and white structure in the distance on the left hand side is the Kwinana Grain Terminal.

shadows in the water

Rockingham Beach, Western Australia
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @10mm, 1/200 sec, f/10, ISO100