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AIPP Victorian Photography Awards – Finalist

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The Victorian AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards were held several weeks ago in Melbourne. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend in person this year as I was in Iceland on my summer workshop and was somewhere between Landmannalaugar and Vik at the time of the judging (so I also missed the live streaming). I was however very pleased to learn that I was a finalist in both the Landscape Photographer of the Year category and the Creative Photographer of the year category.

My Final haul for the state awards:

  • Finalist in the Landscape Category
  • Finalist in the Creative Category
  • 2 x Silver with Distinction Awards in the Landscape Category
  • 1 x Silver with Distinction Award in the Travel Category
  • 3 x Silver Awards in the Landscape Category
  • 3 X Silver Awards in the Travel Category

InFocus Australasia Magazine – Issue #4 An Arctic Journey

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Custom Made Media has just published issue number four of InFocus Magazine which includes a multi-page interview on my journey in photography. The article includes images from Iceland, South America and Antarctica. InFocus is a free photography magazine and is one of the new generation interactive magazines that is available for the iPad and other tablet devices.

Infocus Australasia is the ultimate in photography magazine experiences. Infocus will cater to the photography and cinema enthusiast across the board, serving to the reader world class tutorials, step-by-step instruction on taking better photographs and all the latest in equipment reviews. We also go behind the scene with some of the world’s leading professional photographers. We show you what they use, when they use it and how they use it. From the beginner right through to the professional, Infocus is everything any photographer would want in a magazine, and best of all it’s FREE! Subscribe now for your monthly issue to be sent directly to your iPad.

Australian Photography + Digital – Australian Landscape Photographer of the Year Judge

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I will be co-judging the Australian Photography + Digital Australian Amateur Landscape Photographer of the Year competition over the coming weeks. Be sure to get your entry in if you qualify – there are some great cash prizes.

Australian Photography + digital magazine and Fujifilm X have teamed up to find Australia and New Zealand’s best amateur* landscape photographers. With more than $10,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs it’s time to get your best landscape photos together and enter the inaugural Fujifilm X Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. To enter, simply upload your six best landscape images. An entry fee of $20 is payable for each set of six images and you may submit more than one portfolio. Entries close November 15, 2013.

The person named Landscape Photographer of the Year will win $5000 in cash and a Fujifilm X prize pack valued at $2000. In addition to the grand prize, one runner up will win an Eizo ColourEdge CX 240 monitor (valued at over $2100). Eight finalists will share in more than $2000 worth of prizes from supporting sponsors Cokin, SanDisk, InkFX Printing and CATC Design School.

All portfolios will be available to view on www.australianphotography.com for the duration of the competition, with a selection of the best images published in Australian Photography + digital magazine.

Entries will be shortlisted by the editorial staff of Australian Photography + digital and then judged by leading professional photographers Joshua Holko, Tim Levy, Nick Melidonis, Chris Sisarich, and editor of Australian Photography + digital Robert Keeley.

Winners will be announced on 23 January 2014 on this website and in the February 2014 issue of Australian Photography + digital magazine.

* For the purposes of this competition an amateur photographer is defined as someone who earns less than $2000 a year from photography.

Gura Gear Pro Team

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The good folks at Gura Gear who make my favourite camera bags recently launched their new Pro Team of photographers. I admit…. I knew this was coming; but am nevertheless very pleased to be included in this select group of photographers.  If you are a regular reader of my blog look for updates on the Gura Gear Monarch over the coming two months as it travels with me through Iceland the Arctic. Updates to my blog might be a bit thin over the coming two months whilst I am away on workshop but I do intend to try and post some images and updates whenever I have some down time and internet access. I include this next bit also as a teaser easter egg for those of you who read my blog in full. Standby for a very exciting announcement for a unique and very special expedition to South Georgia Island and Antarctica in November 2014.  This has been many months in the planning and we (myself and fellow co-leaders who will shortly be named) are almost ready to announce the trip details. It is super exciting and we are champing at the bit to spill the beans. Stay tuned!

Gura Gear has a passion for excellence in everything we do. This passion is evident in our Pro Team. We’ve teamed up with these great photographers that have work, personalities, and passion that describes Gura Gear in every way.​ Now you can learn a little more about what makes them great and what they find great in Gura Gear.

Elected to the AIPP Victorian State Council – 2013

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I was honoured this week to be elected to the Victorian State Council of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP). Serving on the Victorian council is a privilege and I am looking forward to working with my fellow council and Victorian members over the coming year. The AIPP have some very exciting events coming up over the coming months and the council has some great plans to continually improve it’s events and membership return on investment. It is an exciting time to be joining the council and I am looking forward to the year ahead. If you are considering joining the AIPP I would strongly encourage you to attend one of the upcoming events and get involved in the peak Australian body for Photography. Our next event is the Print Critique evening on the 3rd of July at the Melbourne head office in Box Hill at 6:30pm.