Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
Mount Coot-tha botanical gardens, again. It seems we have been here almost every visit to Brisbane over the last few years. We have done a fair bit of exploring around the Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast areas. The usual sights and sounds that tourists do, the wheel, the Brisbane sign, the river, the city beach,…
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I have not seen my daughter and son-in-law in quite a while and sure we talk online and on the phone, but ask any Mum whose baby lives well away from home, it’s just not the same. I needed some facetime. Her birthday was coming up and we decided it might be fun to surprise…
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Ahhh Melbourne, cold wet and bleh! Thursday we made a surprise visit to our daughter and son-in-law for her birthday, nothing auspicious, it’s just been so long (nearly 12 months) since I could last hug her. So we decided to head to sunny Brisbane (Queensland) and spend a few days with them. It was a…
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While visiting our daughter in Brisbane, one spot which has become a favourite is Mount Coot-tha, we love the Botanical Gardens and the Lookout and decided to drag our daughter along this time as well. I especially love the Japanese Gardens. Our last visit was so hot, but this time was much cooler and we…
Read MoreThis is a scheduled post…I have been up on the Gold Coast in Queensland (Australia) for the last few days, today we are planning on going to Sea World and then off to see this crazy bunch for a few days. These were taken in Jan this year, and I know the Pup and Kitten…
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Our last full day here, so we got up early (yes again), and drove the two hours to Byron Bay in NSW, silly me forgot about the 1 hour time difference (QLD Does not have daylight savings) and essentially we lost an hour and arrived at the Lighthouse at Cape Byron much later than I…
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Yes, you guessed it, up early again, the heat and humidity was the biggest issue we battled and getting up early is the only way to get things done. We went back into the city to photograph a few Bridges as well (another reason to get up early beat the traffic and find car parks!)…
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This week I will feature the last three days of our trip to Brisbane… Got up even earlier to drive out to Redlands before it got too hot, it was really nice to see some blue sky and fluffy white clouds, this is the QLD I wanted, “beautiful one day, perfect the next”. We drove…
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We visited Redcliffe, Woody Point, Dicky Beach, Caloundra, Nudgee Beach.
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Australia Zoo and The Glass House Mountains, about 1 hour drive from Brisbane
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Julie Powell - Photographer & Graphic Artist 