I have included this photo not for it’s artistic merit but for it’s content, or lack of it. A couple of years back I had a job to photograph a number of outback pubs. I had just finished photographing the deserted Hatfield Hotel and my next job was the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel at Booligal, my [...]
Wellington, New Zealand. I rose early on the last day of our trip to New Zealand in the hope of taking some great sunrise photos. The weather was against me, rain and total grey overcast. I returned with only a few images, I thought this HDR image of the Wharf Offices was quite pleasing.
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Dry lake bed of Lake Boga during the great drought (composite photo). The Swan Hill area has suffered drought for almost 10 years, most farmers have only seen minimum production on their dry land farms during this time. Ironically last month we have had 79.6mm of rain which will most likely severely damage most crops that are ready [...]
The golden glimmer of sunrise breaks over the horizon as we sail through the Heads of Port Philip Bay into Bass Straight on the 31st of November this year. Who would think this is one of the worlds most dangerous stretches of waters that has taken over 100 ships to their graves. Taken with a [...]
Yarra river, Melbourne - HDR Pano.
This image was taken with a 20D, it is made up of 3 bracketed images (9 images in total) the images were process into 3 separate HDR images using LREnfuse, a Lightroom plug-in. The images were then stitched together using AutoPano Pro with further processing in Lightroom and Photoshop. The image was [...]
Had an unusual job a couple of weeks back, I was asked to photograph various meat cuts from a side of lamb. I have done a lot of product photography including food that has been cooked but not uncooked meat. First of all everything was kept cool with an esky and frozen cool packs, this kept [...]
I have had a number of customers ask me if such and such a photo is suitable to print at say 6 meters x 4 meters. Well it all comes down to viewing distance, large billboard prints are almost always viewed from a distance, so are often printed using only a 12 dpi image. We don’t print many [...]
Take US$ lots of low value notes $1, $5 and $10.
Don’t keep all your money in one place.
Keep photocopies of your passport and travel documents in your luggage.
Use a water purifier, I used a Steripen brilliant.
If travelling make sure you have a knowledgeable guide.
If fuel is not available at the service station, check the local pub etc. [...]
Some images from our recent trip to Zimbabwe.
I hope to have a number of images process and on stockphoto.com.au soon.
We spent 2 weeks in Zim, Travelled with my wife, Glenys and two sons, Wade and Kirk, the first week was with our soon to be new family members, our other son Eric was to be [...]