Category Archives: Landscape Photography

Beneath our Southern Skies

Posted on Saturday, 26 May, 2012 by

This morning I headed down to Cathedral Rocks at Kiama Downs for a dawn seascape session with Stanley Kozak. The forecast was for decent cloud over, but unusually, it turned out to be wrong, and the sky was completely cloudless, apart … Continue reading →

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A Wonderful Hunter Birthday Weekend

Posted on Saturday, 14 April, 2012 by

The 2012 anniversary of the day I took up residence on this here planet fell quite recently, and Xenedette decided to surprise me with a short trip away and some very pleasurable experiences (get your minds out of the gutter). … Continue reading →

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ND Shutter Speed Cheat Sheet (Updated)

Posted on Saturday, 10 March, 2012 by

In 2011 I published my ND Shutter Speed Cheat Sheet, which consists of a table which lists, in third-stop intervals, every unfiltered shutter speed from 1/8000th to 30 seconds, and the corresponding shutter speeds to use after reducing light intake from … Continue reading →

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560km Drive for a Windmill

Posted on Monday, 9 January, 2012 by

Last Thursday, Dave, myself and our patient better halves headed out for a landscape photographic day trip in South-East Queensland, with the intention to shoot in the Bunya Mountains, followed by twilight and early evening at Lake Moogerah, many miles … Continue reading →

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Recce at Soldiers Point

Posted on Tuesday, 27 December, 2011 by

We’ve come up to the Central Coast of NSW for a short holiday. Since arriving this afternoon, we’ve gone to Norah Head Lighthouse, and as I type this, I’m sitting on a rock on Soldiers Point, a fantastic rock shelf … Continue reading →

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Feature Article in Australian Photography Magazine – November, 2011

Posted on Sunday, 27 November, 2011 by

A few months ago, I was asked by Robert Keeley, the editor of Australian Photography magazine, if I would consider writing a feature for the magazine. I had sent some images for the magazine’s competition, and when he received them … Continue reading →

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Lonely Darkroom: Light Painting Revisited

Posted on Saturday, 29 October, 2011 by

Here’s a nocturnal urban landscape I shot at Sydney’s Middle Head Fort using creative light painting techniques back in 2009. I had never published it until now. To create this image I used a combination of fluorescent white light and … Continue reading →

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Sylvania Jetty Revisited

Posted on Tuesday, 9 August, 2011 by

I decided to head out for a dawn shoot this morning after some scheduled overnight work. I took my gear with me to work last night on the off-chance that the sky would be interesting, but by the time I … Continue reading →

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To Shoot or Not to Shoot…

Posted on Sunday, 24 July, 2011 by

I headed out for a dawn seascape shoot this morning, and to my disappointment, the conditions were appalling. The sky was mostly plain, with the fairly typical annoying clump of dark cloud right on the horizon.  The very few patches … Continue reading →

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ND Filter Shutter Speed Cheat Sheet

Posted on Wednesday, 20 July, 2011 by

During an entirely sleepless night last night, I came up with the idea of compiling a cheat sheet for determining the correct shutter speed to use after applying ND filters of varying strengths. Quite simply, it is a table which … Continue reading →

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