... another one from the Calendar....

OK, I have another image from the calendar.  This time of Rixy. Great bloke.  He was really great to work with.  Working on that wire ladder is bloody difficult, and to hang around and try and get into position is a great dare harder than it looks.  The rest of the images were great from the shoot... but this is the final image.

Very happy with it, well done mate.  Hope the new adventures go well.



Welcome to 2012...

Well for those of us in Oz, welcome to 2012.  Those buddies in far off countries, enjoy your New Years Eve.

Now to start 2012 off with a bang, I thought I would share one of my all time favourite images.  This one is of my buddy Damien, who is a professional diver, and we did a shoot for a fundraising campaign which we are expecting to be launched this year.

I really like this image and had the opportunity to shoot it twice... first whilst we were scouting locations, then again many months later.  Now what you don't see is the crew (Craig and Paul) getting very wet and trying to avoid getting the flash equipment wet, and myself dropping my flash remote in the water, and copping a full wave in the face!  Thank goodness for pro-gear with good seals!

Anyways ladies and gents... welcome to the new year and I hope you enjoy this image and get to see the final image in the production that it was created for... more to come...


Blue and Black....

Last night I had some time to look through the 55k+ images in the library, and I came across this one.  Interestingly I had rated it as a 1-star when I did the inital edit, but when I was skimming through the images last night it just jumped out at me.  Its currently on the printer on its way out.

Let me know what you think.


black glory.... revisited...

Afternoon all. Yes I have been a bit quiet lately, with the war wound and all.

Good news on the thumb front, its healing REALLY well.  So much so I was even out with the camera today.  Anyways, I have recently got into Phase One Capture One  software as my principal RAW processor.  I'm VERY impressed with it.  Anyhoo... I've been having a look at a number of my iconic shots recently and reprocessing and reinterpreting them.

The one I have had a look at again over the weekend was an image I called Black Glory.  I orginally produced as an A2 piece for a very dear friend for a Christmas present, and looks very striking.  You can find the original post of this one here Black Glory - Original.

The reinterpretation?  I'm glad you asked... I found the that the colour saturation and contrast and blue highlights work really well.  The finished piece... for you.



Do you like it?

'X' marks the spot...



Yes, I know, this is similar to an image I posted recently... but... this one started me off on another project.  The alphabet in images and form.  This one, yes, X.  I'm still going on the project...but it should be good when it is finished.

in the car park....


Another find on a personal photowalk... in a desolate (second time I have used that word in two posts!) and derilict part of Perth, in a disused church car park.  I was taken by the light hitting the grass seed heads... hmmm... reminants of a warm summer day.