Marty Pouwelse Photography

31/03/2026

Wheeled out an old classic and reprocessed it from the original RAW files for a new canvas for a client recently. Thanks to Prolab for their beautiful quality and consistently brilliant eye for detail.

27/02/2026

Recent cruise to New Zealand - so much fun! Click through for descriptions...

22/01/2026

A bit of aurora pink last night shortly after the end of astronomical twilight. Sequence is about 8:20pm to 9:30pm 21st Jan from Boyland, Queensland. Enough satellites for you? 🤨

21/01/2026

One of the awesome blue pillars that drifted through around 11pm last night - just barely visible in the timelapse. Still can't believe this was visible (to the camera at least) in Queensland!

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21/01/2026

Aurora timelapse from last night at Boyland, Queensland!

21/01/2026

Rare aurora glimpse from our place in Mundoolun, Queensland! 😱

06/01/2026

Aerial of yesterday's storm as it approached Beaudesert which ended up producing plenty of rain through the Lockyer Valley where Brisbane's east and north largely missed out.

31/12/2025

Bludging in Beachmere. Happy New Year! 🍾

25/12/2025

Parts of South East Queensland were treated to a colourful Christmas Eve sunset light show. Merry Christmas! 🎅🏼

Mundoolun and surrounds are treated to a colourful Christmas Eve sunset light show.

16/12/2025

⚡ Rare 3D Lightning! ⚡

One for the 3D geeks. Cross your eyes on the left pair or relax your eyes on the right pair to see this bolt from 23rd Nov in SEQ in 3D!

Thanks to fellow storm chaser Neil Pennell for one of these photos.

Some background: normally 3D stereo images are taken with a stereo camera or computer generated. The two images in the pair both face the subject but are captured from a slightly different perspective - the difference traditionally is the same as the distance between your two eyes. If you can get one eye to look at one image and other to look at the second image (it takes some practice!) your brain perceives a perfectly convincing 3D image.

However, because of the scale of lightning, a standard 3D camera isn't likely to show much perspective difference, so consequently not much depth. The difference here and the reason this is so rare is that these two images were taken kilometres apart: one by me near Roadvale and the other by Neil at Kalbar (both north-ish of Boonah).

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲! 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮!

There were minor adjustments to the images to make it easier for 3D viewing, like making the colours similar and applying the tree line on the horizon to both images.

Let us know in the comments whether you can see it 😊

30/11/2025

Photos and amazing timelapse from Thursday of the incredible rock solid updrafts and awesome lightning display around the Scenic Rim in Queensland.

A highly volatile atmosphere produces rock solid updrafts and incredible lightning displays across the south east.