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2011 In Summary & Karijini National Park

2011 has been a busy year for me with many photography trips around the country, and print sales increasing and surpassing previous years. I visited the South West region of Western Australia several times early in the year which rewarded me with some of my favourite photographs, including “Meelup Sunrise“, “Enchanted Skies“, and “Sugarloaf Rock“. [...]

Eastern Guardian

I’ve recently returned from a trip to the Gold Coast to catch up with a good friend of mine, Darren Tierney. We were lucky enough to head south and spend a day at Byron Bay in New South Wales under perfect weather conditions. Watching the clouds build a couple of hours before sun set, we [...]

Sugarloaf Rock

After a bit of a hiatus from blogging and photographing, I have just returned from an epic, although short, trip to the South-West of Western Australia with something to share. Sugarloaf Rock is one of my favourite spots to photograph around Dunsborough, and a few days ago I had the opportunity to photograph it at [...]

Fiery Sunset at Cottesloe Beach

Photo Details: Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 35mm, 1 Second, f/14, ISO125 A few nights ago I witnessed one of the best sunsets I’ve seen for a long time. Simon Beedle and I noticed some nice cloud in the sky a bit earlier in the afternoon so we headed towards [...]

Matilda Bay Sunset

Photo Details: Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 40mm, 2.5 Seconds, f/18, ISO50 A couple of nights ago Simon Beedle and I took a drive around the Swan River and ended up at Matilda Bay to shoot the sunset. We had been watching these amazingly large, puffy white clouds all day, [...]

Deepwater Point Jetty

The jetty at Deepwater Point in Applecross is a subject I have been trying to get a good photograph of for some time. After many attempts, I quite like the way this one has turned out. A 3 minute exposure has smoothed out the water and sky, leaving only the jetty and the iconic Perth [...]

Help! & Colours of Cottesloe

“Colours of Cottesloe” (click on the image to view it larger) Attention! Tony Middleton, a fellow landscape photographer of mine, has had his home broken into and all of his photography gear stolen, including several thousand dollars worth of camera equipment, and hard drives with over 10 YEARS WORTH of photographs, amongst a few other [...]

Matilda Bay Boatshed

Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 30mm, 120 Seconds, f/18, ISO50 A couple of nights ago I was showing Simon around to a few of the popular local Perth photo locations along the Swan River. We decided to stop by the Matilda Bay Boatshed to take a few photographs at sunset. [...]

The Maheno Shipwreck

Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40mm F4 L USM @ 30mm, 0.6 Second, f/16, ISO50 In 1935, the SS Maheno drifted ashore on the coast of Fraser Island during a strong cyclone while being towed from Melbourne to Japan to be pulled apart for scrap metal. 75 years later it is one impressive piece of [...]

From Photograph To Painting

Over the past few weeks artist Michael J Summers has been loosely recreating some of my photographs using acrylic paint on canvas. This morning I stopped by Michael’s gallery / studio and got to see the work he’d been doing with my photos. The vivid colours in my photographs – captured at sunset – caught [...]