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Surfer’s Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Posted in Australia, Gold Coast

Surfer's Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

I’m back from the Easter holidays. Spent a few days on Gold Coast in Queensland. This is Surfer’s Paradise after sunset. View from Q1 building – the tallest residential building in Southern Hemisphere.

Had to use thick black cloth to cover camera and lens to eliminate reflections in the window. Used duct tape to attach the cloth to the window. It was quite funny. I was looking like the old photographer – camera and head covered with the cloth.

Q1 building on Wikipedia
Surfers Paradise, Queensland

More images: Gold Coast Stock Images | Australia Stock Images.



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by Ilya Genkin

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April 15, 2009 - 10:56 pm Beau - Great work, mate! I like the vibrant colours... It's fairly difficult to get photos without reflections up there, so the cloth + duct tape idea is a good one. I wish I had have thought of it when I was up there last time.

April 15, 2009 - 11:48 pm mervfrench - Great shot Ilya, I love it. " The tallest living building in the Southern Hemisphere" .... is there a taller dead one? (:

April 16, 2009 - 8:58 am Ilya Genkin - Beau, a couple of years ago I was shooting in Seoul, Korea from their UHF/VHF tower and wasn't able to elimitate reflections with polarizer filter and suddenly my wife step aside and blocked some light. I said: "A-ha!!!! Eureka!!!!" And we opened two umbrellas. They worked perfectly. After that I decided to make a "special large and soft" blend from a black cloth. But I'm too lazy for that so I actually attached the cloth with duct tape. :-) Merv, ha-ha-ha!!! Good one! Sure I had to say "residential".

April 16, 2009 - 4:41 pm KD - I'm sure you must have got some strange looks from others, but it was worth the effort.

April 16, 2009 - 8:22 pm joshi daniel - nice shot!

April 17, 2009 - 5:44 pm Michael Olive - Hi Ilya Love the exposure on this shot, the colours just leap off the screen. Very nice.

April 18, 2009 - 7:53 am Hoai Bao Photography - Beautiful long exposure. The colors are magnificent. Such a stunning shot.

April 21, 2009 - 8:48 am Ilya Genkin - Thanks, folks!!! Kevin, I thought I might look like a terrorist and being arrested by security. :-) But everything went fine. Looks like they get used to strange people with tripods and big backpacks. :-)

April 22, 2009 - 11:26 pm Phillip Minnis - Wow! What fantastic images! A pleasure to view, and quality of images to aspire to achieve! Cheers Phil

April 25, 2009 - 12:50 am Clara - Wow this is an amazing picture! I really love the colours.

April 10, 2010 - 2:57 am courses gold coast - Nice captured.Love vibrant colours.

November 21, 2010 - 2:09 pm Gold Coast Excavators - Nice Picture, I assume the Gold Coast, Q1. Also I'd like to try the cloth, to eliminate reflections. Your photography looks great.

July 15, 2009 - 8:46 pm Seoul city at Dusk, View from N Seoul Tower, Seoul, South Korea | Ilya Genkin Travel Photography Blog - [...] help. I had to use two black umbrellas to cover the entire camera. Later when I was shooting Surfers Paradise on Gold Coast, Queensland I was using black cloth to cover the camera and attached it to the window with duct [...]

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