Sculpture by the Sea: Tamarama to Bondi Sculpture by the Sea has returned this year to line the coast walk between Tamarama and Bondi beach. This year my youngest son was keen to come down and shoot some pictures too. So, with alarm set at 4.58am and everything organised the night before, we jumped in the…
Tag: Landscape
Vivid Light Festival: Sydney Opera House
Well, it’s that time of year again and Sydney is once again playing host the Vivid Light Festival. The photo’s I’ll share tonight will only focus on the Opera House as I didn’t head down there until 10.20pm (and the lights go off at 11pm!). Hopefully, I will make it out a few more times over the…
Obelisk Beach sunrise, Sydney, Australia
The other week, I awoke on the lounge with a crook in my neck and the usual bad back from falling asleep in some ridiculous position. It’s usually at times like this when I take this exact opportunity to go out and take some sunrise photo’s. I confess to thinking I would just head back down to Bronte…
Bare Island, Sydney, Australia
Bare Island, La Perouse. Ever since I saw the movie Mission Impossible II (that’s the particularly crap one, IMHO), I had made a mental note of visiting Bare Island. It’s about a 40 minute, traffic riddled, cross-town drive from my place but that’s no excuse for taking so long (actually, years) to finally venture out there….
New years day sunrise at Bronte beach, Sydney, Australia
New Years Day Sunrise Well, after an hour and ten minutes of sleep I managed to get down to Bronte Beach to see the rising sun usher in a new year. It was a glorious, kind of ‘goldilocks’ morning – not-too-hot, not-too-cold, just right. Hope you’re having a lovely day in your neck of the…
Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia
A couple of weeks ago, I was down in country Victoria again for the annual Port Fairy Folk Festival. I’ve been going now for about 15 years and have met and made many friends over this time. Not so long ago, I used to lug my guitar down as a group of us used to play…
Bronte just after sunrise: Last day of summer, Sydney
Early Morning Procrastination I fell asleep on the lounge yesterday and woke at 5.55am. The dilemma I face whenever this happens is whether or not to crawl up to be bed for a couple of extra hours snooze time or to grab the camera and go take some photo’s. You can see by this post that…
Sunrise over Jimmy’s Beach, Hawks Nest
Well, its been business as usual back at work these last couple of weeks. The new year’s break is fading day by day and here we are already in February! All I can say is, Where did January go?!?! Caramba! Anyway, the small set of photo’s in today’s post come from our recent trip up…
Sunrise to sunset: 2015 New years day, Sydney, Australia
Above: High tide at Bronte just before the first sunrise of the new year. Sunrise at Bronte If you saw my previous post about Sydney’s New Years Eve fireworks, you’d know I was hoping for a little more than an hour’s sleep before having to get up for sunrise photo’s. In the end, all I could…
Sunrise over Mackenzies beach (and Bronte), Sydney, Australia
Sydney has had a wild start to summer this year. Every day has been above 30C (86F) with almost 100% humidity and every afternoon we’ve been struck by wild storms. They said on the News tonight that we’ve had more than 20,000 lightning strikes in the last 7 days! Despite the strange weather, I was…
Sunrise over Bronte beach, Sydney, Australia
Sunrise over Bronte Beach Last weekend I decided to set an early alarm and visit Bronte beach again. It’s been quite a few months since my last visit and with the weather warming up down here in the southern hemisphere I didn’t have the excuse of a cold winter morning to dissuade me. It was a…
Cycling side trip to the town of Damme, Belgium
Bruges is a small and compact town, easily traversed by foot. Since I had 4 day’s here prior to my conference, I decided to spend my third morning cycling out to the village of Damme. Hiring a bike for half a day, I set off to the north east and peddled the 6 kilometres to…
Bruges, Belgium; and the trouble with taking photo’s through a tourists’ eyes
I know, I know! I can’t believe its been 3 and a half weeks since my last post. Rather shamefully, I’ve been sitting and stewing on my images from Bruges because I’ve been at a loss as to what to share. It’s not that they’re terrible photo’s, I just kind of feel that they’re not particularly great either. So,…
An evening in Bruges and a whirlwind 6 weeks!
Wow, the past 6 weeks have been an incredible ride! Here’s some brief highlights (that also account for the recent poverty of posts); About 2 months ago I was contacted by Apple asking if they could use an image I took of climbers on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite, USA. 6 weeks ago, that image…
Eiffel Tower and surrounds, Paris
It’s been an incredibly busy couple of months both at work and with my photography. I’m happy to report that I recently shot my first wedding; did a 2 day cycling event in Victoria; a gig for the NSW Ministry of Health and a large job for our own education department at work (which wasn’t…
Fitzroy Falls and the Milky Way (Astro-photography)
I’m back! Well, all I can say is that its been a while. I could try to contrive a bit of a sob story but to be honest, my time has just been divided amongst too many things. Work, family, friends, photo business… it can be a delicate balancing act sometimes, can’t it? If you’ve…
Good Morning 2014: Balmoral beach, Sydney
It had been my intention to go back down to Bronte beach for the first set of sunrise photo’s for 2014 but my plans changed slightly. After checking my weather app, I noted that we were expecting a high tide which is my least favourite time to shoot Bronte. I’ve always preferred low tide there…
Random Black and White shots around Cambridge, UK
These are a few randoms from my recent visit to Cambridge. I’ve tried my hand at a little black and white post-processing which I still find quite challenging. My favourite shot is the one above of the couple embracing down the lane way. Now, back to tinkering with my new self-hosted website which will focus…
Strolling around Cambridge, UK
Gee, its been a busy couple of weeks at work but fortunately the weekend’s in sight now. Yay! Today’s post is of some photo’s I took when I was in Cambridge recently for a conference. I was only in town for about 2 and half day’s, most of which was spent at the conference venue….
Gorgeous sunrise and some early morning surfers, Bronte beach, Sydney
Yesterday morning I decided to head out again for another crack at some sunrise photo’s. This time I went back to one of my old favourite locations – Bronte beach. I was desperately hoping the colourful sunrise that had eluded me earlier in the week could be rectified (see that blog post here). I have…
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