Golden Reflections on Water_Mildura

The city of Mildura is an oasis in the semi-arid Sunraysia region on the Victorian side of the border with NSW. A major producer of citrus fruits, grapes and wine Mildura has become a burgeoning tourist market providing the visitor with lots of photographic opportunities.
I will be spending quite a bit of time in Mildura [...]

Water Lily_Kakadu

 
Kakadu National Park is one of Australia’s most important and spectacular national parks. Providing the visitor with a great introduction to many of the regions key elements: landscape, wildlife and weather. While interaction with indigenous people is usually limited, dialogue with local tour operators, guides and national park officers provide the visitor with fascinating insights [...]

Looking Seaward_Port Campbell National Park

The above image was made along the Great Ocean Road in the Port Campbell National Park. The image was made during twilight at the end of a wonderfully long day of travel and photography. I remember the mood being quite eerie as the approaching gloom of the blue, stormy sky began to overcome the last [...]

Rock Detail_Moonlight Head_Great Ocean Road

I made the above image at Moonlight Head on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. The use of a panoramic camera, such as the Hasselblad X-PAN II camera, is usually isolated to more distant landscapes. But by moving in closer the panoramic format allows the photographer to monumentalize a specific detail within the larger landscape.
I love the [...]

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 [...]

Turmoil_Chewton Lake_Central Victoria

Here’s another image I made last weekend while running a workshop in and around the town of Chewton in Central Victoria. This image is all about the power of water as it cascades over rock and cuts its way through the landscape on its downward journey to the sea.
My starting point Shutter Speed when photographing [...]

Grasses_Lake Chewton_Central Victoria

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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 [...]

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_Breaking Wave_Great Ocean Road

This image was made with the aid of late afternoon light in the Port Campbell National Park along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia.
The trick when photographing action as it peaks, as in the case of this wave, is to anticipate the moment and squeeze (pushing will likely cause camera shake) the camera’s shutter [...]