Natural Arch

Landscapes are among the most commonly seen photographs. The renowned pioneer photographer Ansel Adams specialised in landscapes and helped promote the genre to its current levels of popularity. Magazines such as National Geographic devote their pages to landscapes from all over the world. Indeed, you could argue that, for many of us, it is via landscape photography that we have formed our impressions of the world.

Landscape photographers need to be hardy souls, because their art form often involves lots of walking and climbing while carrying a load of cameras, lenses, flashes and a tripod. Although today's cameras are much smaller than the large format cameras and heavy tripods that were carried by Adams, there are still many kilograms of equipment involved. But the results are rewarding, whether the images are to be shown in National Geographic or hung on the wall at home.

Today's photos are from the Natural Arch, which is on the border of Queensland and New South Wales in Springbrook National Park. Water has eroded a hole in the roof of a cave, and created a waterfall that sparkles in sunlight, lighting up the interior of the cave. The images are best viewed at a larger size - just click on them.

EXIF: Nikon D70; Nikkor 50mm; ISO 200; 1/2 sec; f8.

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