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Lake Matheson is a photographers dream. Without any real evidence I am willing to wager that it is one of the top three most photographed locations in the whole of the country. Famous for its perfect reflections of mount cook framed by the surrounding trees and vegetation it is THE picture postcard shot of New [...]
After spending last week putting our New Zealand photobook together I came to realise how many photo’s I still have left to share with the world, so after a 6 month break I’m returning to a NZ themed post. Milford Sound was the absolute highlight of our trip around the south island last xmas, not [...]
My New Zealand holiday photos had been sitting around on my hard drive for about six months already, all the while I’ve been intending to get around to putting a photobook together. Well, this week Sonia and I told ourselves enough was enough and we spent a few nights after work picking our best shots, [...]
Well it’s taken me long enough to get there, but I finally found a new wordpress design that gives me the look and feel that I have been striving for for some time, but is also easy enough for me to make the odd hack here and there to tweak things to my liking. Things [...]
Driving around Sydney this weekend around the golden hour Sonia and I stopped off at Cremorne Point to get some shots of the city skyline from across the river. Here is a couple of similar shots in terms of subject and composition, the only real difference being the 45 minutes (ok so an hour sounded [...]
I find it fascinating that this following tip actually works. I have heard people say that scratches lenses dont particularly bother them and that the image quality doesn’t noticeably suffer depending on the type of shot they are taking. The tip is that if you want to make a scratch “dissappear” then you need to [...]
After a little while away from my camera I finally got a chance to get out and snap some more portraits last weekend. We have at last found and settled into a new flat in Sutherland which makes Cronulla our new local beach, so off we trotted with a camera and a couple of strobes [...]
Good morrow kind sirs, I decided to give Sonia a break from modelling for me last night by giving some self portraits a go as she went off and did her thing taking some twilight shots of the Opera House and city skyline. I felt a little dorky setting up my tripod and light stand [...]
Hello! I was out and about with my camera again tonight and have a handful of new images to share with the world. I had another go at some off-camera lighting using my 2 new Cactus flashes at a local park after finding a cool graffiti wall there as to use as a background for some [...]
Hey there, Well what do you know, two posts in two days – must be some kind of miracle! Today I am sharing the results of my first try at shooting some sunset portraits with off camera flash. I had planned to have a go at using an underexposed sunset as my backdrop and my [...]
Well its been long enough, but I eventually got myself a couple of flash units, light stands and umbrellas so that I could try my hand at some strobist-style photography. I went the budget route, getting a couple of Cactus KF36 flashes and some cactus v4 wireless triggers from gadgetinfinity.com and then a couple of [...]
Today is Australia Day, the countries national holiday to celebrate the anniversary of colonisation by captain cook and his folk 200 and something years ago. There’s always a tonne of stuff going on around Sydney but the highlight for me is the classic car show in the streets between Hyde Park and the Domain. It [...]
Southern Alps, New Zealand I’ve taken my sweet time in uploading my next set of shots from New Zealand, but here it is after 2 weeks or so since my last effort. This collection is from a little helicopter tourist flight we took over the mount cook range. It was an experience of mixed emotions. [...]
Lightroom’s Default Develop Settings: If you are anything like me, then you have spent all too long wondering a couple of things about lightroom (I use version 2.2) regarding importing RAW files and the default settings that Lightroom applies to them before you begin working on editing them. Firstly, I wondered how to CHANGE those [...]
Hey there! I figured it was time to share my next bunch of photo’s from my recent New Zealand trip, so here is a set taken from along the Mount Cook road which runs all the way from the bottom of Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook Village near the foot of the mountain. About 50 [...]
Greetings friends and happy new year to you all! I have just returned home from a 3 week trip to New Zealand where Sonia and I spent our holiday period and as you can imagine I was like a kid in a sweetshop, spoiled with all the wonderous photographic opportunities all around me the whole [...]
My trip to the zoo yesterday led me to take this shot of another critically endangered species, the Sumatran Tiger. The Sumatran Tiger is the smallest of all Tiger subspecies, making it easier for them to move through dense rain forrests. It is also a fast swimmer due to the webbing between its toes which [...]
Luk Chai is Australia’s first Asian Elephant calf, born on July 4th this year at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. I had the pleasure of seeing him today as I visited the zoo with my girlfriend Sonia and we were lucky enough to see him out and about in the enclosure feeding, mucking around in the mud [...]
Hello Internet! I recently spent a couple of days at the Hunter Valley, New South Wales’ famous wine region. It’s a short and scenic 2-3 hour drive north of Sydney and is well worth a visit whether you like your wines or not. Here is a small selection of photo’s I made over my visit. [...]
Well you have no doubt seen or heard about the amazing dust storms that hit Sydney today so I won’t bore you with detail. I just thought I would share my view of the phenomenon as I took my short daily walk from Elizabeth Street to Wynyard, through Martin Place. Castlereagh Street Martin Place tube [...]
Heres a new set of images that I took from Cremorne Point, just a 10 minute ferry ride across the river from Circular Quay. The weather had been tempremental all day but the rain held off for long enough periods to let me get some nice shots of the brooding clouds over the city skyline. [...]
Here’s another handful of shots of the Opera House that I took from another trip to Macquarie Point a week or two ago. I have been in Sydney for less than a year so I am still in awe at how every sunset seems to give you something different to shoot. The colours on this [...]
La Perouse is quickly becoming one of my favourite local places to shoot. A couple of weekends ago Sonia and I headed off on a walk from Yarra Bay, along Frenchmans Bay and onto La Perouse and Bare Island. It took about 1 1/2 hours at a leisurely pace and we got some nice images [...]
Welcome to my fifth photo blog post! Today I bring you a series of images that I took last night at a place named Mrs Macquarie’s Point in Sydney which offers stunning views across the bay to the city skyline, Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge. Cinematic view of the Opera House The two [...]