February 24, 2012 – 10:04 am
I am very pleased and excited to announce my upcoming exhibition of landscape, nature and wilderness photographs from Antarctica, Iceland and New Zealand’s South Island at Source Photographica in Brighton Melbourne. The exhibition will open on the 20th of March 2012 and will run for a strictly limited time of two weeks. The exhibition includes [...]
February 4, 2012 – 8:37 pm
An overtly strong preconception of how a new location or subject will photograph is an all too-easy pitfall for the landscape photographer to fall into. It is a problem I have discussed with other photographers, and I find myself struggling with the problem every now and then. As a landscape photographer who is forever chasing [...]
February 1, 2012 – 6:02 pm
I have updated the photograph of the month for February with one of my favourite landscape / wildlife images from my expedition to Antarctica late last year. This photograph of penguins adrift on an iceberg was taken during overcast conditions and very heavy snow fall from the deck of our ship the Ocean Nova. What [...]
January 26, 2012 – 7:46 pm
On the surface of it, Antarctica might well be considered an environment that is seemingly devoid of colour and monochromatic in nature. This is a reasonable assumption because the great white continent is renowned for its brilliant white ice and dark brooding seas. Such dichotomy is simply wonderful for black and white photography and consequently [...]
January 20, 2012 – 3:39 pm
It is a very rare occasion in my photography when I click the shutter and instantly know I have managed to capture something special and out of the ordinary. It has probably happened to me only a few times during my photography career. I recall one such moment, which took place more than a decade [...]
January 6, 2012 – 6:11 pm
2011 was a big year for my photography. I travelled to many wild and wonderful locations throughout the year including Tasmania, the South Island of New Zealand (I never get tired of New Zealand’s amazing landscapes), Antarctica; which was a life long ambition and an absolutely amazing experience, and many more places throughout Australia. I [...]
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January 2, 2012 – 6:30 pm
It has taken me longer than I had hoped to pull together this post Antarctica round-up debrief. Between jet-lag (which I just seem to take an inordinate amount of time to get over when crossing so many time zones – particularly between the Americas and Australia), Christmas, New Year social functions, a stomach upset, my [...]
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December 19, 2011 – 7:33 pm
As has become customary after returning from a significant overseas photographic expedition I have been more or less hibernating for the last few days whilst I attempt to recover from a nasty case of jet lag and general post trip exhaustion. The combination of long waking hours (from shooting well into the small hours), irregular [...]
December 12, 2011 – 1:46 am
There are no words that any poet could pen that could possibly do justice to the raw beauty, grandeur and natural wonder that is Antarctica. The white continent is quite simply a thing of unbridled, unhinged primordial beauty that is breathtaking in the extreme. It truly feels like an unexplored prehistoric world – a last [...]
December 1, 2011 – 2:34 am
The time has finally arrived and shortly after I complete the upload of this post I will be heading out to the docks with all my luggage and camera gear to board our ship ‘The Ocean Nova’ for two days sailing across the notorious Drake passage to Antarctica. The last few days in Ushuaia has [...]
November 26, 2011 – 8:34 pm
The last few days in Buenos Aires seem to have passed with some degree of speed – I guess that is just the way it goes the first time you visit a new city when there is so much to see and do in a limited amount of time. My friend Martyn and I are [...]
November 24, 2011 – 11:15 pm
A more pointed example than Buenos Aires that big cities are just not my cup of tea I cannot imagine. The sprawling, seething urban metropolis ticks all the boxes for things I dislike about big cities – pollution, over-crowding, poverty, crime, grime, the list goes on. And to top it all off its far too [...]
November 22, 2011 – 9:21 pm
Pinch me and call me excited! After a year and a half of waiting the date of departure has finally arrived and I am flying out very early AM tomorrow morning for Buenos Aires on my way to Ushuaia and then Antarctica. I booked this expedition well over a year ago now and to be [...]
October 28, 2011 – 8:42 pm
I was recently interviewed for Canon Australia’s CPS Pro website and the content of the interview is now online at CPS Australia. Although the discussion was wide ranging and varied there was an emphasis on large format printing and the fact that I do all of my own printing in-house. Printing is a critical part [...]
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October 26, 2011 – 9:59 pm
For those of you that follow my blog on a regular basis you will be well aware that I am a big fan of the Gura Gear Kiboko 30L camera bag. Like most photographers I have a cupboard full of camera bags; but since I purchased and started using the Gura Gear Kiboko 30L about a year and a [...]
October 24, 2011 – 11:44 am
I am very pleased to announce the release the official Silvershotz 2011 Portfolio Award Press Release. I received notification a few weeks ago that my photography had been selected to be included in the prestiguous 2011 Folio Annual as one of 31 sucessful photographers from 12 countries around the world. I am extremely honoured to have been [...]
October 17, 2011 – 2:27 pm
I have written before quite extensively on the subject of outdoor photography gloves for cold weather and as of my last ‘glove find post‘ I thought I had finally found the best option out there – the Seal Skinz. I still believe the Seal Skinz are an excellent glove for outdoor photography in cold weather. [...]
October 11, 2011 – 3:54 pm
Over recent years traditional paper magazines have been adding more and more online content to their websites in an effort to keep their readers interested, engaged and to maintain their relevance in a world increasingly enamoured with (must have it now) online content. These magazines walk a somewhat tenuous line between satisfying their traditional readership [...]
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October 3, 2011 – 2:24 pm
Every second month Canon Australia asks a professional photographer to set a challenge and guest judge the Canon EOS 1 Wall. 1Wall is exactly that: A wall that only the very best photos submitted for judging make it onto. The pro photographer sets a theme, and participants have the chance to submit the best photograph [...]
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Also posted in Australia, Iceland, Landscape Photographs, New Zealand, News and Updates, Photographs, Scotland, Tasmania, Travel Photography
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September 27, 2011 – 4:49 pm
For the regular readers of my blog it will come as no surprise that I am a big fan of the 66 North brand of clothing from Iceland. It is therefore a fait accompli that 66 North is high on my packing list for Antarctica in November this year. For those of you who may [...]
