Abbey Road Aquatic

• Photographer
  Peter Ogden
• Technical Info
  Iso220 18-135mm @135mm. F/11. 1/500s
• Photo Date
  SEPT 15TH 2024

Further proof that I should keep on looking back at a scene even though I think I have captured everything. There’s ALWAYS something to see in the rear view… A wander around Long Reef Headland, NSW, Australia, blew away the cobwebs, thanks to some incoming gnarly weather, and I snapped away at the expected clouds and big waves. I was heading towards the car park when I turned for one last look across the reef and saw John, Paul, George and Ringo heading home too, before the impending darkness behind them hit. Luckily the photography gods aligned on just one frame, and that's all you need.

Australia is a landscape unique in its savagery and spectacle. Being UK born, I first arrived in Perth and that first experience saw me in the Nambung National Park whilst using a big stick to fend off brown snakes. I was the art director on a commercial photography shoot – keeping one eye on the back of the camera, the other firmly on the red dirt around the tripod. That juxtaposition, the incredibly beautiful landscape combined with the incredibly scary natural critters, has fascinated me ever since.