Lost in West Head Ed. 1 of 20

I went out looking for inspiration and drove into it at 80kmph.

Just when you think you’ve seen everything that the park has to offer, you drive into a wall of mist. The road to West Head Lookout often throws up surprising pockets of early morning sea mist that drift across from Cowan Creek to Pittwater.

The mist clings to the land and often refuses to leave…transforming usually serene bushwalking tracks into something not too far short of ‘Burtonesque’. Just to further add to that sensation of ‘uh ho’, the temperature drops considerably in these pockets and the mist ensures everything is covered in dew.

As you walk along the track, you can hear water dripping from every tree and bush. Wandering around Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park in the morning mist…nothing better to clear the mind.

Image printed on the finest archival acid-free paper.
I prefer Canson for a more textured, matte-type finish.
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Peter Ogden is a landscape photographer based in Sydney, Australia. He studied sculpture at Rochdale College of Art, graphic design at Stockport Tech College and film set design at Chelsea College or Art, all in the UK.

Peter’s day job is Creative Director at a Sydney advertising agency, where he gets to use the skills that he has acquired over the years – writing, art direction and design. At the weekends, early mornings, and late nights, Peter gets to scratch his other creative itch – documenting the Australian landscape.

As a boy born in industrial Manchester, UK, the contrast of Australia’s savagery and spectacle was never more apparent to him than when he first arrived in Perth in 1996. That first experience saw him basking in the stunning vistas of the Nambung National Park whilst using a big stick to fend off large brown snakes as the art director on a commercial photography shoot. That juxtaposition, the incredibly beautiful combined with the incredibly savage, has fascinated him ever since...