Bob Simpson Landscape Photography

Bob Simpson

Bob Simpson lives in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in south east Queensland, Australia. He has been taking photographs for more than 40 years, the last five of those as a full-time landscape photographer. His landscape and seascape images have featured in a number of Australian and international magazines and in a recently-released book of Australian landscape photography. Bob has also blogged for several photography websites in recent years as well as writing regularly for his own website.

Bob Simpson

Tuesday, 08 January 2019

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Three nights at Girraween

Despite the ultra-dry conditions, I decided to head back to Girraween National Park in September to spend three nights hiking and exploring some of the eastern parts of the Park. Water was easy to find as long as I stayed near Paling Yard Creek or on...

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Monday, 01 January 2018

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Best of 2017

In 2017 I clocked up around 60 sunrise photo sessions as well as a handful of sunsets and daytime wanderings. That amounts to lots of great outdoor experiences, but there was a clear winner when it comes to my favourite morning of the year. I capture...

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Sunday, 14 May 2017

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Old Man Hat

After a hot summer on the coast, the promise of some cool-weather bushwalking saw me heading for the high country of Gibraltar Range National Park in early May. This year I decided to look beyond the network of walking trails I've trodden so many tim...

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Saturday, 07 January 2017

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Gibraltar Range - June 2016

In June I spent four days exploring one of my favourite winter locations, Gibraltar Range National Park in New South Wales. I've been coming to this rocky, rugged area high in the Great Dividing Range for 9 years now and one thing I've learnt is to p...

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Saturday, 31 December 2016

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Images of 2016

Looking north from Pincushion Island to Mount Coolum and Mudjimba Island

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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

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Images of 2015

It's the time of year again to review what I've been up to over the last 12 months - lots of new images to add to the collection and some excellent adventures had along the way. In some ways I don't really enjoy this exercise because it means leaving...

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Bob Simpson

05 May 2011

Photographing Girraween National Park

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Published in the May 2011 issue of Australian Photography magazineTo many visitors from the southern states, south-east Queensland is a land of glitzy beachside tourist strips, surf beaches, and mangr...

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04 June 2014

Boonoo Boonoo and Bald Rock

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Boonoo Boonoo National ParkEarly in May I visited Boonoo Boonoo (pronounced "Bunna Bunnoo") National Park in northern New South Wales. The Park lies just to the east of Bald Rock and Girraween Nationa...

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27 December 2014

Through the past, lightly - images of 2014

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I snapped the image above from a rock outcrop in Mount Kaputar National Park in July 2014. I remember how good the first sunlight of the day felt on my face after an hour or more of scrambling about t...

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Bob Simpson

15 October 2010

Exposure blending

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This is a technique I use on a lot of my images to try and show the full dynamic range of a scene as is visible to the human eye. Digital camera sensors are very good at what they do but they are no m...

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07 July 2014

Summit Falls

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I first heard of Washpool National Park more than 25 years ago when I was given a coffee-table book of Australia's wilderness areas for Christmas. To a boy from a farm in rural Victoria, the ima...

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