Brisbane was my final Australian Capital City to visit. Over our 10 years in Australia, somehow I had missed out on Brisbane. We had visited Queensland a couple of times, but we skipped over Brisbane in favor of heading up to far north Queensland – a couple of times. Finally, over the last Christmas holiday, we did get to spend a few days in Brisbane. Quite a nice, small city, pretty relaxed, easy to get around.

Never one to leave the camera in the bag, we dragged our friends out to Kangaroo Point Cliffs (or maybe more accurately, they showed us the way). My goal was to get a ‘classic Brisbane skyline’ type shot. I wanted to smooth the water, to give it a bit of glass-look, so I took this shot in a long exposure, with a ND3 neutral density filter. As a result, there was a couple sitting on the rocks in the corner of my picture, and they moved a bit during the shot, which blurred them out – which I kind of like.

Sony A7R IV | Sony 24-70 f/2.8 GM | f/4.5 | 25s | ISO100