Pic of the Week_Salt and Sky_South Australia

In the arid north of South Australia I photographed this scene situated on the edge of a huge saltpan. I was attracted to the vivid sky and the textural similarities between the clouds and the salt encrusted ridge in the foreground. A narrow aperture (e.g. f16) produced the large depth of field (DOF) required to [...]

Panoramic Photography_An Alternative Approach

I’m sure most folks think of panoramic photography as being ultra-wide representations of grand vistas and, while I’ve made my fair share, I also enjoy taking a slightly unusual approach when working with a panoramic camera. When the scene allows it, as in the case of a waterfall, a vertical (portrait) orientation is an interesting [...]

Pic of the Week_In Through the Out Door

This image features the front of an old building in Maldon, Victoria. I was initially drawn to the dark, roughly textured wood and the graphic design elements of the windows and door. While the scene looked good in color, I felt the red painted door was too dominant. I’m happy that the black and white [...]

River Mouth and Sea

 
I made this image from a helicopter while taking a tourist flight along a section of the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. It was a beautiful clear morning with very little wind, ideal for aerial photography. The expanded shape of the river’s mouth provided a visually strong shape from my elevated position above the [...]

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 [...]

River Transport_U-Beins Bridge_Myanmar

 
I made this image from U-Beins Bridge in Myanmar (Burma) with the aid of warm, early morning light skimming over the cart and water. The texture in the water and the triangular shape, formed between the two white oxen and the driver’s hat, add a sense of direction and movement through the frame.
It’s certainly an [...]

Pic of the Week – Sunset_Oberon Bay_Wilsons Promontory National Park

 
Oberon Bay is a lovely pocket within the magnificent Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria, Australia. This image was made at sunset with the warm sunlight illuminating the clouds and reflecting back into the water. The fact that the sky and water were relatively bright, in relation to the sand, required careful exposure to ensure [...]

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 [...]

Kangaroo Bones

 
I had a lot of fun making this image while running a photography workshop with my good friend and colleague, photographer Joseph Tompa, in Central Victoria. I had taken the group to an old gold mining area for some landscape photography. It’s a tough environment and the stony, red cracked earth and big blue sky [...]

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 [...]