RHH's photos with the keyword: mount coonowrin

These are two of the Glasshouse Mountains north of Brisbane, Mount Coonowrin and Mount Beerwah, photographed from the summit of Mount Ngunngun. The glasshouse Mountains were so named by Captain Cook and are old volcanic plugs. We had hiked Mount Ngunngun, another of these mountains when this photo was taken by my wife. She knows, I think, the rule of thirds and knows that it is not always effective to center one's subject, but in this case broke both rules successfully, or so I thought.

These are two of the Glasshouse Mountains north of Brisbane, Australia, so named by Captain Cook who fancied a resemblance to the glasshouses he had known in England (he had been away for a very long time, and that perhaps explains the fact that he gave them this name). Each of the individual peaks has a native Australian name, in this case Mount Coonowrin, the nearest of the two and Mount Beerwah, the further peak. We climbed a third peak yesterday, June 20th, and this photo was taken from that peak, named Mount Ngun Ngun. All of the Glasshouse Mountains are volcanic plugs whose surroundings have eroded away.