Articles - Australia

This past Queen's Birthday Weekend, we headed into the Blue Mountains for a restful few days in the wintery, country air, away from the crazy, lop-sided work hours, lack of sleep and constant illness I had been battling in the weeks leading up to it.  Arriving on Saturday afternoon, we stayed in Leura, and decided [ continue reading ]

It has been quite a while since I shot portraits — over eighteen months, in fact.  Until today, my last portraits shoot was in November of 2010.  I decided to take a break from shooting portraits, and as it turned out, I spent most of 2011 shooting images outside the scope of my main two [ continue reading ]

As a landscape/seascape photographer, sometimes one returns to a previously photographed location in order to shoot the same subject again under the 'right' conditions (or different conditions).  And sometimes it happens unintentionally.  Here is an image of a large rock I photographed at Narrabeen a fortnight ago under a magical dawn sky: As a point [ continue reading ]

The 2012 anniversary of the day I took up residence on this here planet fell quite recently, and Xenedette decided to surprise me with a short trip away and some very pleasurable experiences (get your minds out of the gutter).  I had known for a few weeks that we were going away, but I was [ continue reading ]

As I mentioned in my previous update, the dawn/sunrise on Easter Saturday was stunning.  So far I have processed 13 images I would consider 'keepers' (ie, of a sufficiently high standard that I would publish them).  For a fussy shooter as indeed I am, that is an extraordinarily high number of images for a single [ continue reading ]

This morning I headed out for a dawn shoot at Narrabeen with some seascaping buddies.  After checking SkippySky during the week, and again last night, it looked promising.  As we made our way to the rock shelf in the darkness, I could see an intense red glow near the horizon.  My experience tells me that [ continue reading ]