Glasshouse Mountains from One Tree Hill

[Laurence Griffiths]

On Sunday evening, while on my way home from spending the weekend at my brother's place on the Sunshine Coast, I took a detour via Mountain View Road, Maleny to take a long promised (to myself) sunset / golden hour photo of the Glasshouse Mountains from One Tree Hill. The light wasn't all that kind to me and the "golden hour" wasn't all that golden. The light was also rather hazy. I took many photos as the sun set to my right.

This is one of the better ones.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Wow! Quite an impressive view. Love the crop, the colours and all of it. Congratulations.

 

[Laurence Griffiths]

Wow! Quite an impressive view. Love the crop, the colours and all of it. Congratulations.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

The view certainly lends itself to the 65:24 / XPAN aspect ratio. - That gave me the opportunity to crop out the fence in the foreground and the excess sky.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

The view certainly lends itself to the 65:24 / XPAN aspect ratio

Generally speaking, I'm not a fan of panoramic photos, but in this case I agree that your choice was perfect.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Agreed. That's just perfection. Oh, to spend an evening there...

 

[Gary Ayala]

Wow! Wow! Wow! Great timing and perfect framing. Nice processing rendering the image a painterly appearance. Plus the severely eroded mountain tops in the background speaks to a painting with imagined elements and not a documentary photograph. I suspect this is the "Sunshine Coast" in Queensland? Again ... Well Done.

 

[Laurence Griffiths]

Agreed. That's just perfection. Oh, to spend an evening there...

Usually it is a lovely place to spend an evening..... Watching the encroaching darkness and the change of colours in the sky. I just wished I lived closer. I live about 100km away. - Just a bit too far to do battle with the traffic on the Bruce Highway on a whim.

 

[Laurence Griffiths]

Wow! Wow! Wow! Great timing and perfect framing. Nice processing rendering the image a painterly appearance. Plus the severely eroded mountain tops in the background speaks to a painting with imagined elements and not a documentary photograph. I suspect this is the "Sunshine Coast" in Queensland? Again ... Well Done.

Thank you. I was referring to Queensland's Sunshine Coast. This photo was taken in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland:

One Tree Hill viewing point

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the Glass House Mountains.

 

[Laurence Griffiths]

Looking the other way from the photo above:

Mountain View Road by Laurence Griffiths, on Flickr​

 

[Gary Ayala]

I grew up in an agricultural community 35 miles east of Los Angeles ... this photo (Mountain View Road above) could have been shot there. BTW- are you cropping in post or the OM-1 has a pano setting which you have dialed in?

 

[Laurence Griffiths]

I grew up in an agricultural community 35 miles east of Los Angeles ... this photo (Mountain View Road above) could have been shot there. BTW- are you cropping in post or the OM-1 has a pano setting which you have dialed in?

I am cropping in post. That gives me more flexibility in how I crop and helps me give the photo a more "balanced" look.

 

[Laurence Griffiths]

Last one - From Mountain View Road on my way back to the car park.

Mountain View Road after Sunset by Laurence Griffiths, on Flickr​