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I’m definitely more of a “quality over quantity” kind of guy, but I think I found a nice mid ground on this particular trip to Japan. Whilst there were several places we visited during our time in Japan that were obviously incredibly beautiful and worthy of a photo (did someone say Hokkaido? ), sometimes it’s the simple, non-touristy scenes that require the most attention, photographically speaking. This was my second time visiting Japan and I’m CERTAIN it won’t be my last. These trips are often difficult to photograph as the itineraries aren’t necessarily catered towards photographers (or at least nature based photographers), so I think a solo trip is in order to truly do this amazing country justice.

Don’t get me wrong, Canberra is a beautiful place to visit as an everyday tourist, but just how much landscape and nature was there to photograph? The big building filled with art installations, sculptures, illustrations, paintings etc. finds itself in my list of places to photograph nature whilst in Canberra. Legoland, located in Namadgi National Park (a place worth visiting in it’s own right), is just under an hours drive from Canberra and about  a 15 minute light scramble through the bush from there. If Canberra was never on your list for the sheer amount of culture and activities for the everyday tourist, then maybe now it’s worth putting on your list of places to visit and explore the beautiful landscape it has to offer.

16-35mm, 17-40mm, 14-24mm and even Sony’s relatively new 12-24mm lens. Could the Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 FE* (Sony full frame E-Mount) be the next lens in my kit? Also, the images featured in this post were shot with the Laowa 10-18mm lens – excluding the image OF the 10-18mm lens, which was shot with the Laowa 60mm 2:1 Macro lens. Huge thanks to Adam at Radbitz, the Australian distributor of Laowa products, for loaning me the Laowa 10-18mm lens for the last few days (amongst other lenses

We spent our first 2 nights (4 nights total in Tasmania) in Freycinet National Park in a place called Freycinet Lodge (my new favourite accommodation in Tasmania, by the way). And finally, the third image WAS actually taken from the summit of Mount Amos, but can also be seen from the Wineglass Bay lookout, and of course Wineglass Bay itself. We spent night 3 along the Bay of Fires which is located a little further North of Freycinet National Park, beginning at Binalong Bay in the South and stretching some 50km North to Eddystone Point. Barnbougle and the road to Launceston Our final ~24 hours was spent travelling to our final destination (Barnbougle), exploring the Barnbougle Dunes and eventually making our way back to Launceston Airport… we opted for the scenic route, obviously!