Tag: beach

  • Tribe Tropical Swimwear

    Tribe Tropical Swimwear

    I’m beyond excited that my surface pattern design ‘Shelley Beach’ has been licensed by the wonderful Tribe Tropical for a range of sunsafe swimwear. Tribe Tropical founder Emily has had first-hand experience of skin cancer which inspired her to start her brand of beautiful, tropical-inspired sunsafe swimwear. I have been a big fan of the…

  • Lennox Head photo diary
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    Lennox Head photo diary

    It is the winter school holidays here in Queensland and we were lucky to spend a few days at Lennox Head in northern New South Wales last week. Winter is my FAVOURITE time of year to be at the beach The only downside… freezing your feet running over the cold sand to the ‘warm’ wet…

  • Nature Inspiration for Pattern Design
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    Nature Inspiration for Pattern Design

    I often like to reflect on my art style and my source of inspiration for pattern design. Most of the time this inspiration is nature – especially anything to do with the beach and ocean or the tropics. The motifs I always seems to be drawn to are shells, palms, tropical flowers, reef fish, bright…

  • Minjerribah Photo Diary

    Minjerribah Photo Diary

    Minjerribah (also known as North Stradbroke Island) is one of my favourite holiday destinations ever – it is so close to Brisbane city and I just love spending time on this magical island! I spent a few glorious summer days here last summer, and as you can see in this photo diary of Minjerribah it…

  • Beach Mornings

    Beach Mornings

    The Sunshine Coast which is where I first started to get passionate about beach photography. It is about 1.5 hours drive north of Brisbane, and all my family live there so I visit quite often. My absolute favourite thing to do is to be at the beach very early in the morning, ideally half an…

  • Mudjimba Sunrise Photos Part 2
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    Mudjimba Sunrise Photos Part 2

    This is the second set of photos of a beautiful morning’s sunrise at Mudjimba Beach on the Sunshine Coast. You can check out the first set of photos here. On this particular morning the sky was an array of amazing warm colours, and the clouds spectacularly reflected the changing hues. Adobe Lightroom was used to…

  • Mudjimba Sunrise
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    Mudjimba Sunrise

    I am slowly slowly going through a set of sunrise photos I took at Mudjimba Beach back in February. This was the last beach weekend I had before travel restrictions came in (happily I finally got back to the beach last weekend!). I was so lucky to have two amazing mornings down on the beach,…

  • Sunshine Coast shells

    Sunshine Coast shells

    As I’ve just joined Spoonflower as a designer, I’m now able to enter their design challenges. There is a different theme each week and a recent theme that stood out to me was ‘Hometown Tea Towel’. I’ve wanted to create a Sunshine Coast-themed tea towel design for awhile now so this challenge was a great…

  • Peregian Photo Diary Part 2
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    Peregian Photo Diary Part 2

    More images from my early morning wanderings at Peregian Beach – you can see Part 1 here 🙂

  • Peregian Photo Diary part 1
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    Peregian Photo Diary part 1

    I was lucky to spend just over a week in an old beach house at Peregian Beach earlier this year (my international in-laws were visiting and I wanted to show them how beautiful the Sunshine Coast is!). I’ve only recently had a chance to look through the many many pics I took and have put…