A bit different to my usual landscape, I shot this panoramic of Circular Quay whilst out teaching a private photography course. Photographed from the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout, an excellent place for panoramic views of the city, if only it stayed open after 5pm a sunset here would be amazing. This…
DetailsBeing from Scotland it’s nice to visit the Blue Mountains in the freezing cold of winter. It reminds me of Scotland, actually Scotland would be 10-20 degrees colder. All this beautiful Australian weather has turned me soft and 13C is now unbearable. Anyway, I took these whilst up in the Blue Mountains teaching a group my…
DetailsSouth Curl Curl was going off (how Australian am I?). I had donned my boardies and reef shoes to get close to the surf as I normally do expecting to get a little wet. The surf was HUGE, there was no chance I was going anywhere near it without getting a little dead let alone wet. I…
DetailsThe first time I visited North Narrabeen I was lost looking for Turimetta. I left that morning and have only just returned. The sunrise wasn’t looking that great with a bank of clouds sat on the horizon so instead of shooting the wooden walkway that dissects the rock pool I decided to venture out the back to…
DetailsThe top 50 places have just been announced for this years Epson International Photographic Pano Awards. I’m pleased to announce I placed 13th in the Open Nature Category, lucky for some! This is a massive achievement, the calibre of photography posted year on year makes it extremely difficult to get any award let alone to place in the…
DetailsThanks to all that attended my first weekend workshop. Everything seemed to fall into place and we managed to balance time spent in the classroom with some fun photographic shoots in the surrounding Blue Mountains National Park. There were some great photos captured and processed over the weekend. It was great to see everyone making the effort to…
DetailsA first for me, the elusive Silver Award at this years Epson International Pano Awards 2012. I must be doing something right, well at least better. All my entry’s were awarded, with two of the Bronze awards falling just short of a silver. The first year I entered the competition no one was awarded a…
DetailsGood Photoshop technique is paramount to giving your images pop whilst maintaining a realistic result using invisible non destructive adjustments. When displaying small web sized images you really can get away with a multitude of sins. It’s not until we look at an image at 100% magnification you can tell if a photographer really knows…
DetailsMona Vale rockpool. I had been waiting a while for a high tide to coincide with sunrise at this unique rockpool. I had marked it in my calendar after scanning through the Pocket Weather AU iPhone app looking for a suitable time. I wasn’t disappointed, the surf was huge, so big the pool was actually…
DetailsWell I managed to ‘one up’ my previous efforts at the NSW AIPP Photography awards, this time I was awarded two silvers (as apposed to one). I hope these images do just as well in the APPA’s (Australia wide competition) next month. I’m looking for at least two silvers and the associated points to go…
DetailsOk so technically the first image is from Hong Island, but it’s close to Railay Bay. In fact it is a short boat ride and well worth the visit. If you go there say hello to my little friend, Pavel. Oh how I miss you Thailand! I spend half a year in Thailand back in…
DetailsIf you ever wondered how good my acting was, well now you can find out with the release of my Photography Education promotional video. I know what you are thinking, what a natural! Or was it…he doesn’t smile much and wow he talks a lot! Well I was actually training the basics to my willing…
DetailsI don’t think I will ever be good at getting up in the morning. Even with these late starts, as winter finds its way South, I struggle. On Sunday high tide pretty much coincided with sunrise so myself and another local photographer Nick Fletcher decided to shoot Mona Vale rock pool. Arriving at 6am (45…
DetailsI’m pleased to finally release this years Cole Classic time-lapse tilt-shift video. Thanks to Danny Irvine for helping me out on this one, between us we managed to get some interesting perspectives and sequences. Danny drove down from the Central Coast to meet me at 5.30am, quite an achievement considering I struggled to roll out…
DetailsLast night I spent a few hours playing with lighting at Silverpixel, Newtown. Here’s a photo of me messing around taken with a Hasselblad H3DII, a 39Mp back, and an 80mm F2.8 lens. I didn’t want to give it back but considering it’s worth about $20K I felt obliged to. Obviously the detail is outstanding….I…
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