Another year comes to an end and my photo journey continues. This year we continued to muddle through the pandemic but by mid-year had moved out of lockdowns and constant mask wearing to a somewhat more normal lifestyle (albeit, for me at least, mostly working from home, endless Zoom meetings and very limited travel). I … More 2022 – Photo Year in Review
In late September this year, I travelled to Cairns for a week for a research project I am coordinating on community responses to coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (you can read more about this project here). While the days were filled with interviews with marine tourism operators and environmental organisations, I also took … More A Week in Far North Queensland
Recently I was interviewed by Grant Swinbourne on his excellent Landscape Photography World podcast. In the interview I talked about my photography journey over the last thirty years. This included my early years growing up on Sydney Harbour, using my first cameras to capture the beauty of the ocean as well as fishing trips to … More My Photography Journey – interview
Over the last few years as the pandemic has worn on, I’ve become increasingly addicted to landscape photography and discovering the joys of waterfalls! In this post I thought I’d share my experiences of finding and photographing waterfalls in different contexts. The last two summers in eastern Australia have been unseasonably wet, fueled by La … More Chasing Waterfalls
Well, another very strange pandemic year of lockdowns, social distancing, masks, vaccines, and endless Zoom meetings has come and gone! For my photography this has meant a year focused very much on landscape images – lots of seascapes at sunrise and sunset along the northern beaches, chasing waterfalls when the heavy rains have arrived, and … More 2021 – A Photo Recap
Well what a year it’s been! Raging bushfires along the east coast of Australia during December and January; those harrowing videos of the outbreak of COVID in China in February; the global spread of the disease to Spain and Italy during March and its escalation into a global pandemic; the curtailing of international travel and … More 2020 – A Photo Retrospective
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to visit the famous Warrumbungle National Park for two days of landscape photography. Prior to this trip I knew very little about the area nor its famous bush walks and volcanic peaks. However, once the chance to visit firmed up, I immersed myself in blogs and websites … More Photographing the Warrumbungles
Over the last few months I’ve been exploring new landscape photography options. Much of this has been driven by my growing appreciation of the Olympus M.Zuiko 7-14PRO lens which has really opened my eyes to the advantages of an ultra-wide angle lenses for landscape compositions. I’d been holding off on purchasing the 7-14PRO lens for several years. However, … More Landscape Photography Kit
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