This post’s photo was taken shortly before sunset, at 8.11 pm on 21 January 2023.
Near the southernmost kink in Aldinga Beach’s Lower Esplanade, I was standing on the top of the stairs to Silver Sands – the southern section of Aldinga’s long strand.
As had been true at the same time on the previous day, a cooling breeze was blowing.
Accordingly, sandgrains were dancing; click here to see a photo, taken at beach level, with a wide-angle (24 mm) rather than a telephoto (146 mm) lens.
Often, it is a good idea for camera and subject to be at or near to the same level, horizontally speaking.
If a photographer is trying to “immerse the viewer in the landscape”, it is usually also advantageous to pay keen attention to the foreground, including what is immediately in front of one’s feet.
That said, “looking down” offers a whole lot of other wonderful possibilities.
For instance, one has not fully experienced Australia’s “red heart” unless one has both “got out of the vehicle, and walked into/across the sand” and “got into the sky, in order to look down”.
As I hope you can see in this instance, even ascending a very small distance, can offer an entirely different view of the “same” place.
This series’ next several chapters all “look down”, but only some of them required me to climb into an airborne vehicle.
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