The Indiana Coffeehouse in Cottesloe Beach is one of Western Australia's most famous viewpoints.  It is situated along the Sunset Strip overlooking the Indian Ocean.  To reach Cottesloe Beach, a 20 minutes drive from the town of Fremantle is necessary.  I have been to Perth four times in a span of five years and have never failed to visit this location on every visit.


This was my fourth time to this same location.  For this visit, I wanted to shoot the Indiana Coffeehouse during the blue hours of twilight.  I am extremely familiar with this location so much so that a recce was not necessary.  It was a 10 minutes walk from the parking spot.  I swear that I could still see my tripod marks from my three earlier visits.  The tripod was balanced precariously on top of slippery rocks just below the bridge at the far end of Cottesloe.  The coffeehouse was positioned off-center, using the Rules of 3rds compositional concept.  Sigh-Ray's 105 mm LB Warming Polarizer filter completed the set-up.  From there, it was a wait of around one hour for the sunset lighting to be almost perfect.  The very faint magenta tone in the sky was a bonus.


In Western Australia daylight ends pretty fast.  It was after dark when I had completed the shoot.  There was still another 10 minutes walk to the car park.  As temperatures were dropping pretty fast even during the summer, I wasted no time in packing up - the thought of walking back alone in the dark at minus 10 degrees Celsius did not appeal to me at all.  Since that summer in 2015, I had not returned to Perth ever since.  I have now shifted my sights to the South Island of New Zealand for more adventures.


EOS 5DS R / Lens EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM