What a wonderful week-end we had at the Blue Dog Photography retreat located on Tamborine Mountian. I could say we were transported from the urbane chaos of Surfers Paradise to the tranquilly of the rainforest, but I would be lying. Personally, as a former desert rat, I was on sensory overload! We watched sunrises and sunsets and as the night approached midnight saw glow worms on the cliffs alongside a ghostly waterfall. We walked both above the rainforest canopy and below. We saw light, ethereal waterfalls and the dark, oppressive strangler trees. The crescendo of birdcalls and cascading waterfalls provided us with discordant jazz. The rich smell of earth recycling, highlighted by the gum tree’s crisp aroma, offered us a tantalizing feast of scents. All this, plus trying to capture the essence through the camera’s eye while fast-paced clouds quickly changed form and light and fingers that became thumbs as I used new photographic techniques.
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