THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG – FEATURE MAGAZINE ARTICLE FEBRUARY / MARCH 2012

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 the talk was about equipment, technique and the process, rather than discussion of the actual photographs themselves. A high resolution copy of the article can be downloaded HERE.

ICELAND 2013 EXPEDITION : JULY 13th – JULY 22nd WAITING LIST ONLY

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 register your interest and be placed on the waiting list. This workshop is for a maximum of 6 participants who are serious about their photography and are willing to put in long hours in the field and work for their images. Working with a small number of photographers means we can get to more inaccessible locations when the light is at its absolute best. We can move quickly from location to location as the light changes; or maximise our time in the one location when the light is magical. 

If you want to be able to take photographs like this under the spectacular midnight sun then please contact me with your registration of interest. I am currently investigating if it is logistically possible to run a second trip in the Icelandic winter and if so those who have previously expressed interest or are already on the waiting list will be contacted first. All expeditions are strictly limited to a maximum of six participants, plus leader and guide and places are reserved on a first come, first served basis. For further queries please contact me directly.

Fire and Ice

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY+DESIGN – COVER AND FEATURE ARTICLE FEBRUARY / MARCH EDITION

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 remains on the news stands. Scoring the cover photograph in the very same issue is the home run that hits the ball well and truly out of the park. In a home run for me, the latest February / March edition of the Australia’s top selling digital imaging magazine Digital Photography + Design features an interview and six page spread of my photography, as well as sporting one of my most well known photographs from Iceland on the cover. A PDF of the complete article can be downloaded HERE.

CRADLE MOUNTAIN – TASMANIA ‘COLOURS OF ICELAND’ EXHIBITION

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 at Cradle Mountain can be fickle and very much does its own thing – irrespective of what the weather man has to say. The last few times I have been there the weather has been very overcast, dreary and wet; which in and of itself I don’t normally mind. However, it would be nice to get some good colour in the sky at sunrise or sunset to contrast the overcast conditions I have previously experienced. Fingers crossed….

Invitation

2011 APPA GOLD AWARDS ARE FINALLY ONLINE

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 and are one of the few photographic competitions that still actually judge the ‘printed image’ in the majority of the categories. The 2012 APPA awards are now only months away and it is definitely time to start considering entries for the year. My 2011 APPA Gold print; ‘Abandoned Blue Berg’, is currently on display as part of my ‘Colours of Iceland’ exhibition at the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain Tasmania. All of the prints in the exhibition are printed on my personal favourite paper – Moab Somerset Museum Rag.