Every year Capture Magazine (Australia’s top-selling Pro Photography Magazine) releases an Annual Edition with the some of the best professional photography for the year featured throughout its pages. Over 2100 photographs were submitted for potential inclusion in the annual this year and less than 130 made the final print edition. This year I am thrilled to have two of my photographs from Iceland included in the Special Annual on pages 30 and page 50. I am doubly thrilled that it is one of my personal favourite photographs from Iceland, ‘Well of Life’ that heads the landscape category.

Other categories in the 2011 Annual include Art, Advertising, Portrait, Documentary/Photojournalism, Editorial, Wedding, Fashion, Sport, Travel and a category for Emerging photographers. Also included are some very interesting surveys straight from the mouths of professional photographers on their favourite websites, blogs, software, studios, applications, equipment and more. Its a wonderful summary of some fabulous photography from throughout the year and a fascinating insight into the preferred tools, website hang outs and more of professional shooters. Capture magazine can be purchased at all good newsagents or subscribed to online at Yaffa Publishing.

My local newspaper – ‘The Manningham Leader’ interviewed me last week for the Silvershotz 2011 Annual Award and the edition came out today on Page eight – 3/4 page spread. Click HERE to download a higher resolution copy of the article.

Photo Plus Expo in New York, USA has now come and gone for another year. If you were fortunate enough to be able to attend I hope you were able to make it over to the Moab Stand where some of my photography was on display on my absolute favourite paper – Moab Somerset Museum Rag. My new exhibition ‘Colors of Iceland’, opening on the 2nd of December this year at the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania  is printed exclusively on this beautiful paper. I also recently talked about my printing and printing papers in an interview over at CPS Canon Australia; which may be of interest.

I am a few days late updating the photograph of the month as I have been both under the weather for the last few days with a rather nasty tummy bug and otherwise snowed under. With departure looming for my trip to Antarctica in only a few weeks I have been busy running around securing additional memory cards, bags, clothes, accessories etc. as well as attending to the usual office duties. I will endeavour to get up to date later this evening.

Edit – I have updated the Photo of the Month for November 2011.

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 selected by the panel of international judges for inclusion in the 2011 Silvershotz annual. Silvershotz distributes 10,000 folio journals to 1400 bookstores in 17 countries. A further 2000 journals are mailed free of charge to leading galleries and institutions in 19 countries. A copy of the official Press Release can be downloaded HERE. Limited copies of the 2011 Annual can be purchased online at www.silvershotz.com for the next ten days.