Most people drive David Low Way between Peregian Beach and Coolum without stopping. It’s one of those roads that exists to get you somewhere else – the beach to one side, the coastal scrub to the other, the kind of vegetation that registers as background rather than subject.

But pull over at the right spot, at the right time of morning, and the fern forest lining the roadside has a quality that stops you. The light filters through the canopy in a particular way on the Sunshine Coast’s northern beaches – soft, green, directional enough to give the ferns depth and texture but diffused enough to hold the whole scene together without harsh shadows. It’s genuinely beautiful, and almost nobody photographs it because it doesn’t announce itself the way the beach does.

Fern Forest is a 4:1 ultra-wide panoramic fine art print of the coastal fern forest on David Low Way, Peregian Beach, Sunshine Coast, Queensland. The ultra-wide format is the right choice here because the forest extends horizontally along the roadside – it’s a wide, low landscape rather than a tall canopy scene. At 4:1, the ferns spread across the full width of the frame, the light working its way through the vegetation from one edge to the other, the whole composition breathing in a way a narrower format wouldn’t allow.

This is a print for people who know this stretch of road – and for anyone who responds to the particular, unhurried beauty of coastal Queensland scrub doing something extraordinary in the right light.

Available as a fine art photographic print, stretched canvas, or glass-mounted acrylic. Custom sizing available on request.