February 18, 2012 – 2:18 pm
The current February / March edition of Australian Digital Photography magazine that is just hitting the news stands is tagged as ‘The Landscape Issue’ and has an eight page feature article on my photography (sub-titled ‘Insights into the world of extreme landscape photography’) from Iceland. This was an interesting interview for me as much of [...]
February 13, 2012 – 3:55 pm
I had been planning to announce that registrations are now officially open for the July workshop I am leading to Iceland in 2013. However, due to client expressions of interest, pre-registration and bookings the expedition is already sold out. If you are interested in photographing in the amazingly geologically diverse country of Iceland then you can still [...]
February 11, 2012 – 8:03 am
The Internet forums were abuzz with talk of the merging of the Canon 1DS and 1D lines into the new ‘multi-media powerhouse’ 1DX DSLR, when Canon announced it late in 2011. I actually predicted the merging of the 1DS and 1D lines in my blog HERE just prior to leaving for Antarctica. However, I was [...]
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 [...]
February 1, 2012 – 12:55 am
Having a photograph published in a photography magazine (or any magazine for that matter) is a lot of fun and will always puts a smile on a photographers face. Being interviewed and having a multi-page feature on your photography published in that magazine will fix that smile for at least as long as the issue [...]
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 17, 2012 – 9:09 pm
I am heading off to Tasmania this weekend for a few days to visit the Wilderness Gallery where my latest exhibition ‘Colours of Iceland‘ is currently on display. I always enjoy going to Tasmania and am looking forward to spending some time photographing around Dove Lake at Cradle Mountain; weather and light permitting. The weather [...]
January 10, 2012 – 4:23 pm
From Adobe’s Blog: The Lightroom team is proud to introduce the fourth major version of the product designed for and by photographers. It was 6 years ago today when we introduced the very first public beta of Lightroom at MacWorld on January 9, 2006. (Yes, it was Mac only, smaller in footprint than most raw files [...]
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 5, 2012 – 9:06 am
The 2011 (APPA Australian Professional Photography Awards) Gold award images are now finally online and available for viewing at the APPA website (although the Silver with Distinction and Silver awards have not yet been uploaded as of this time). The APPA awards are widely regarded as one of the toughest photographic competition in the world today [...]
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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Posted in Antarctica, Landscape Photographs, News and Updates, Photographs, Photography Equipment, Travel Photography, Wildlife Photographs
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Also tagged Nature, Photography, Photography Equipment, Photography Software, Wilderness, Wildlife
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January 1, 2012 – 11:18 am
With 2011 now done and dusted, I just want to say thank you to all of you who regularly come back and visit my Landscape Photography Blog to check out my latest posts. It has been personally rewarding for me to watch the blog grow, and I am very appreciative of the many emails that [...]
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 [...]
