"OK, I got the ball in a nice casual pose, is the sun lighting up my fur right? You've got my good side? Background OK? OK, I'm in position, tail's up, take the shot!"
(This is not my dog. But get a Lab in front of a camera, and for the Lab this becomes an irrelevant issue.)
This is still in Burrows Park Clovelly, to the south of Waverley Park Cemetery. I would guess that the headlands off in the distance would be Maroubra Caves (about 3km away), and Malabar (about 5km away).