Sulhan Photography

I had a chance to do a short outing to the Brisbane Ranges area recently.  Didn’t know that there is so much photo opportunities there.  Recovering from a forest fire a few years back, the whole Brisbane Ranges Forest Reserve is really a nice place full of hidden natural secrets.  Here are some of the selected shots form the outing.

The area right above Weribee and Geelong region – where the Brisbane Ranges  is located is rather flat.  Spanning across this region are large chains of electrical power lines.  The Brisbane Ranges is a National Park,  home of a great diverse range of flora and fauna.  Due to a forest fire in 2006, large amount of the forest is now undergoing recovery form the unfortunate event.  There are several water catchment and creeks that exist in that area – being a natural source of water for wildlife such as Koala Bears, Echidna and more.

We manage to find a nice section of the peaceful Stoney Creek catchment area.  The perimeter was fenced up but we were lucky to find a fallen tree that had crushed an opening in the fences just nice to allow us to have an unobstructed view of the catchment area.  It was a really hot day with no clouds in the open blue sky and you can see large dead and dried tree branches and twigs reaching out to the blue sky like human hands reaching to the sky.

We had a chance to capture the daytime moon which was right above our heads.  The cloudless sky presents a rich blue background to the white moon.

The young re-growing trees surround the once burnt down forest creates a unique sight as it surrounds the dried white and black dead trees.

The log that paved the way for us across the fencing had an interesting set of annular rings.   Strong star shake cracks internal to the tree trunk also showed signs of strong wind activities in this area.  Can also be seen within the core of the annular rings, that it had survived at least 4 to 5 forest fires throughout its lifetime.

Interesting vertical growing shrub with curly needle shaped leaves curling in a pattern.

We had a stopover at Anakie Gorge.  This unplanned stop-over opens up a new playground for us for nature & landscape photography. Surely a great place to visit in all the different seasons.  This area was also affected by the forest fires and fallen burnt down logs can be seen lying around in the gorge.  This section was actually closed to public at this point of time due to recent flooding that have hit that area.

Cracked and exfoliated burnt log lying in the shrubs exposes interesting tone of colors as the log was exposed to the suns bleaching power.

Its late January and you can see that the Anakie Gorge area was filled with butterflies.   Its a nature photographers heaven with many different species of Butterflies can be seen flying around as we trek through the park.

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