Studio Portrait

This portrait was made in the studio. The original 35mm color transparency (slide) was rendered into black and white through a Black and White Adjustment Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I also utilized a Curves Adjustment Layer in CS4 to apply a subtle cool bluish tone to the shadows and a lovely warm apricot tone [...]

Pic of the Week_Sunrise_Squeaky Beach_Wilsons Promontory National Park

Squeaky Beach is a favourite location for visitors to Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria, Australia. This image was made at sunset. As I was facing the sun the difference in brightness between the dark foreground rocks and the much brighter sky was extreme. As a result the rocks were rendered as a silhouette. This [...]

Serenity_Hopetoun Falls_Great Otway National Park

Here’s an image featuring Hopetoun Falls in the Great Otway National Park in Victoria, Australia. A very slow 4-second Shutter Speed was employed to provide an ethereal quality to the moving water. I had to stop the lens’s aperture right down to f22 to achieve the desired Shutter Speed.
Interestingly the vibrant greens and blues of [...]

Market Scene_Yangon_Myanmar

 
I made this shot at a local market in Yangon, Myanmar. The variety, color and texture of the goods caught my attention, as did the circular and triangular shapes formed by the baskets and the produce on display.
While I wanted to include the store operator in the image, she wasn’t too keen on being directed, [...]

The Cathedral_Mount Buffalo National Park

 
The above image was made at sunset and marked the completion of a wonderful day’s photography in the Victorian Alps. I’d spent the day photographing on Mount Buffalo and ended the day with this sunset shot of the large rock outcrop known as the Cathedral. The direction of the strong side light emphasized the shape [...]

London Arch_Great Ocean Road

 
Here’s an image from one of my all time favourite shooting locations: Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. Around 30 minutes drive further west from the famous Twelve Apostles will take you to London Arch. Formerly known as London Bridge the middle section of this once double-span natural bridge collapsed in 1990. While the similarity with its [...]

Fire Dancing_Myanmar

 
Here’s a bit of fun. I was on route between major points of interest in Myanmar when I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, a group of local folk literally dancing with fire. I was able to make a quick snap as I passed by. Within moments the fires were out and any [...]

Photographing Reflections

 
Photographing this scene was an incredible experience. I was spending the night camping with a few photography friends at the Pink Lakes National Park in Sunset Country 70 km west of Ouyen, along the Mallee Highway, in far North West Victoria, Australia. The Pink Lakes get their name from the deep red pigment carotene that [...]

Photography Opportunities in Central Victoria

 
The Central Victorian gold rush of the 1850’s largely funded the economic and construction of the state’s capital Melbourne as well as the important regional cities of Ballarat and Bendigo.

A Sunburnt Country

 

Our environment is under siege. Most of Australia has experienced a prolonged drought over the last 10 years. The water supply to the city where I live, Melbourne, is down to around 1/3 capacity. The landscape throughout most of the country is parched and the heat wave that has affected South Eastern states over the [...]