South 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…
The 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…
Thanks 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…
Mona 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…
Well 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…
If 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…
I 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…
I’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…
I was out teaching time lapse last night at Long Reef and decided to stick around for sunset. It gets very windy out there and last night was no exception. I decided to seek some shelter walking to the Northern side, my camera/tripod was getting blown over making it impossible to take long exposures. As…
An early morning visit to Long Reef didn’t result in the colourful sunrise I had hoped for. Instead the sun didn’t even make an apperance. Seeing the large band of cloud sat on the horizon most photographers would have given up favouring more sleep. A reassuring lesson on my part, good photos can be taken in…
I’ve wanted to shoot Coogee for some time now. I lived there as a backpacker (don’t we all?) in 2003 so it’s somewhere close to my heart. The rock pool is an obvious focal point but I wanted to represent it in a unique way and choose a more minimalistic composition photographing from high above…
Long Reef on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. What looked to be a really bad sunset actually turned out great. Sometimes you’ve just got to find something to shoot and point in the direction of the nice light, there’s no shortage of leading lines on Long Reef at low tide.
Below is a series of images shot a couple weeks back titled Seven Days, Seven Photographs. The aim was to just get out and shoot, I don’t do as much of it as I should these days. I would also like to build my Northern Beaches portfolio so it was great to get a few…
Tucked under Roseville Bridge, Garigal National Park, Sydney photographed on a winters morning shrouded in fog. Photographed on day 3 of my week of photography.
I’m pleased to share a short film I produced of last weekends Cole Classic, Australia’s biggest ocean swim taking place in Manly, Sydney. This film comprises of a few thousand still images, one taken every second using a stills camera (Canon 5D MkII). For more information on the techniques used in this short film please…