Articles - 2013
I captured this twilight view of Sydney on 18/12/2013, which was the first photography outing for me in over six months. It has been an even longer time since I photographed the Sydney skyline, and the presence of a substantial number of cranes at Barangaroo, which is now a major development site, is testimony to [ continue reading ]
There is nothing more rewarding than heading out for a dawn landscape shoot in inclement weather, knowing that the conditions will probably be quite dreadful, and then encountering an utterly amazing sky during a small window of opportunity so familiar to landscape photographers. This is an awesome sunrise on Mount Mee, north-west of Brisbane in [ continue reading ]
Yesterday I went for out a shoot for the first time in six months. Yes, it has been that long! For quite a while I had wanted to shoot the Sydney skyline from a different vantage point to the usual places, and Ballaarat Park on Darling Island in Pyrmont was the place I had in mind [ continue reading ]
Sometimes it is good to go back through older images with fresh eyes and see if there is anything which was captured and forgotten, but which has potential to be a great image. The other day I went back through my shots of Rockfig Jr, a magnificent female leopard we encountered in the Timbavati region [ continue reading ]
Over the years, I have received numerous requests to use my images in publications. This morning I received another. As usual, the person wanted the image for zero cost, offering only to provide credit if I waived my fee. Naturally, I declined. I really wish the general public would divorce itself of the notion that [ continue reading ]
On a wet and cold Sunday, I decided to re-visit a six-year old image and process it quite differently. Firstly, here is the result: In this version, the distortion has been corrected, and the contrast is much less aggressive. As a point of comparison, here is the original version: Naturally the perspective correction resulted in [ continue reading ]