Articles Tagged 'New South Wales'

Turimetta Swell

This is an image I shot in January of 2012 at Sydney's well-photographed Turimetta Beach. This particular scene is further away from the main gorge and rocks featured in so many images. The morning brought a few successful images, but this one had sat untouched and unpublished for the past three years. A moody, rain-laden [ read more ]

Enter the Darkness

This view of a tempestuous sky in South Cronulla was an image I shot over four years ago, and originally processed and published in black and white. Here is a newly-processed colour version. To my eyes years later, it looks just as effective in colour as it does in black and white [ read more ]

2014 Retrospective: Low-Output Year, but Such is Life

While we are not quite done with the year 2014 yet, it is close enough to publish a retrospective of the year from a photographic perspective. Firstly, it was my most low-output year on record; but with other commitments and interests, and a waning interest in photography, I can live with that. I only published [ read more ]

It is Worth Looking Back Through Your Archives

Last night I attended the Focus Photography 2014 Annual Awards with many photography friends and associates, and being in the company of such people and such images can often give one a bit of a kick-start. While my photographic output in 2014 has been very low, after hearing the winner of one of the awards [ read more ]

Away with David and Clare Oliver

Last weekend I ventured off to the Hunter Valley to attend a portrait and landscape workshop hosted by David Oliver, GM Photog., and his daughter Clare - the creative father-daughter team behind David Oliver Photography. The two-day workshop consisted of two portraiture sessions using natural light, an afternoon landscape shoot, an early-morning aerial landscape shoot and [ read more ]

Highlights of Jenolan Caves

In May we headed to Jenolan Caves for a few days as a getaway.  That was almost two months ago, but time has sure flown since then. We drove down to Jenolan on Thursday, and had two cave tours booked for the day. After arriving mid-morning, we soon headed to our tour of the Lucas Cave [ read more ]