Hawaii 2009
In July-August last year Jenny and I visited Hawaii. What a place! After we got through the heatwave of the first few days the weather was great although getting back into our air-conditioned Dodge...
View ArticlePhotographing music gear
I love taking photos of musical instruments and I’m quite fortunate to own a bit of gear including a Nord Stage EX keyboard, Pearl ELX drumkit and Fender S1 Jazz bass guitar. Unfortunately I had to...
View ArticleFood photography
I love to cook and I think well-made dishes make great photography subjects. In fact one of the reasons I put in the effort to prepare a nice-looking dish and to take care to plate it well is so I can...
View ArticleCold weekend at the coast
So we wait until the long weekend to go down the coast, but only go down for one night … which means we could go any weekend and not wait until a 3-day weekend. Anyway, we have things we need to get...
View ArticleExperimenting with flash
I was dead against flash photography until a year ago before our trip to Hawaii when I decided I really should give it a go otherwise I would risk missing out on some great photo opportunities on our...
View ArticleMy shopping list, June 2010
From Lensbaby to use with my Composer: Pinhole/Zone Plate optic Super Wide Angle lens General photographic supplies, which I’ll probably get from D D Photographics in Sydney. Lumiquest Pocket Bouncer...
View ArticleMy trip to Sydney, June 2010
I’ve been in Sydney the last couple of days catching up with friends, following up a few work opportunities and of course taking photos. View the full set of photos from my trip to Sydney on Flickr....
View ArticleExperimenting with Photoshop Actions
Most of the time when processing my photos I’ll tweak and fiddle around with various settings, filters and effects. I also have a few actions for sharpening and applying vignette that a friend gave me....
View ArticleDon’t worry about all this processing
My photostream on Flickr has become a bit of a mess of highly post-processed images in the last week. It’s just a temporary phase, playing around with channel mixing in CMYK mode, and applying my grain...
View ArticleI won this fortnight’s Canberra Flickr theme comp “Winter”
I won this fortnight’s Canberra Flickr group competition where members had to post their best three photos associated with “winter”. My entry that won was this photo taken at Kosciusko National Park in...
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