Black Boys_Millers Landing_Wilsons Promontory

Wilsons Promontory is one of my favorite locations for landscape photography. Situated on the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland the boundaries of the prom enclose a very special place: a haven for wildlife, remote wilderness and a national park with sensational walks and sublime natural beauty.
The above image, a close up of a Black [...]

Design found in Nature

Made last weekend at Chewton Lake in Central Victoria this image makes use of several key design elements. The water runs, in a diagonal line, from top left down to bottom right. This line leads the eye through the frame. The softness of the flowing water provides a strong contrast with the hardness of the [...]

Photographing Graffiti_Why?

What is the purpose of photographing graffiti? As man-made subject matter it’s more like photographing statues or architecture than the natural landscape. Is the idea to document someone else’s work, whether you consider it to be art or otherwise? If so, fine, make it a sharp accurate rendering.
But if you want to make art from [...]

Abstraction through Shape

Abstraction allows the artist to present the world in a way somewhat differently to how it would normally be perceived. I believe there are three ways by which the photographer can present the world: realism, by that I mean depicting the subject in a recognizable manner; suggestion, where the object is photographed in such a [...]

Fallen Tree_Yarra Ranges

Here’s the first of a series of images I’ll post over the next few days from a day exploring and photographing between Healesville and Warburton, including the fire ravaged town of Marysville. My friends Ashley and Edna accompanied me on the adventure.
The day’s beginning was unremarkable: grey overcast skies and relatively flat light. While not [...]

Tree and Rocks_Central Victoria

 
I made this shot late Sunday morning at an old mining site near Campbells Creek in Central Victoria. While the image features a tree trunk and parts of the surrounding landscape, it is really an image that explores design elements and perspective. The tree trunk produces a diagonal line through the centre of the image [...]

Managing High Contrast Conditions

 
Here are two images from a photographic workshop I ran two weeks ago in Central Victoria. Despite a fair amount of grey and dreary days of late, participants and I were fortunate to be blessed with beautiful sunny days for the duration of the workshop. But, bright light produces dark shadows. And the resulting high [...]

Architecture Bathed in Light

This is a largely design based image. Made at sunrise on Mandalay Hill in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) I remember being drawn to the scene by the color and shape of the architecture and the lovely quality of the light. I organised the composition to emphasize the line, shape, repetition and colors within the scene. I loved [...]

Pic of the Week – Reflection, Harcourt Reservoir, Central Victoria

 

I loved making this image. I was running a photography workshop in Central Victoria, Australia and had taken my group to a Reservoir just outside the township of Harcourt. It should be stated that, due to the extended drought in this part of the world, the reservoir is not particularly photographic during daylight hours. But [...]

Aerial Perspective

 
I made the above image during a wonderful morning helicopter flight that took in many of the most iconic locations along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The image features Johanna Beach, a wild and windswept beach on the south west coast.
A short drive, through rolling green hills, off the Great Ocean Road takes [...]