Painting with Light
I love the ‘grunginess’ of the patina that man-made structures develop with time and how natural light highlights the contrasts of their rich textures and colours with more recent structures and those of the natural world.
I love the juxaposition of the old derelict base of the wharf with the newer buildings on the surface - Docklands Melbourne Australia
Midday sun shining through the grunge of the shopping centre ceiling
You can find beauty in the strangest places
Edge of CBD area in Ballarat
I just loved the colour palette and marketing message of this wonderful blue shed, (near Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia 2022) contrasted against the surrounding countryside. Indian Root pills first distributed in the USA 1833 were last distributed in Australia in 1992, making the advertisement at least 30 years out of date.
Spring Street City View
Mordialloc Creek Melbourne Victoria
Flinders Street Melbourne
Wheat Silos at dusk on a stormy summer evening Echuca, Victoria Australia
Floods on the Campaspe River Spillway 2023
Abandoned Farm buildings, on Dargo Plains, Gippsland, Victoria Australia
As seen from the pier at Docklands
Old Train Station at Echuca Victoria
Old abandoned Tractor at St Albans Hawksbury Valley NSW
Maldon Victoria Australia
Palermo Italy - As captured. Winner of AIPP Silver Linings National Competition - Professional Photographic Awards - 2021 - Away Category - https://www.australianphotography.com/news/the-winners-of-the-aipp-s-2021-silver-lining-awards
Most of my landscape photography is within Australia, mostly because I love how the light in the southern hemisphere renders such saturated primary colours in the sky and richness and textures in the rugged rocks and trees.
Port Douglas Wharf and Storage Shed built in 1904 and survivor of numerous cyclones.
Misty rainy summer afernoon on Lake Wanaka, South Island in New Zealand. The low afternoon filtered light highlighted the lime green leaves against the cyan blue of the lake.
Sunrise on Lake Wendouree - Ballarat, Victoria
This shoot was commissioned by the Royal Auto Magazine with a brief specifying a moody shot of Lake Elizabeth, near Forrest in the Victorian Otway Ranges. The previous evenings sunset was dismal so required an early morning hike up the mountain to arrive just in time to catch the sunrise on the fog.
The fog highlights the golden rays of the early morning sun over the Kiewa Valley in the Victorian Alps.
The fiery reds of the early morning sunrise constrast against the smokey clouds of the receding storm and highlight the texture of the shoreline. Koh Phangan Island - Thailand
Michell River Paynesville Victoria
The early morning light highlights the new golden growth of the Eucalypts that survived the 2019 Blue Mountains NSW bushfires.
This was one of those magical moments when the sun comes out just after a storm has washed the countryside clean.
Farmland in central Tasmania Australia, near New Norfolk, after successive years of drought, 2021.
Dawn overlooking Buchan Valley Gipplsand Victoria
Dead drought Stricken Trees Central Highlands Tasmania
The late afternoon sunlight highlighted the eeriness of the etched silver skeletons of the Eucalypt trees burnt in the March 2003 bushfires.
Krka National Park located on the Krka River in southern Croatia, is incredibly picturesque with its ghostly skeletal trees highlighted against is cyan coloured waterways.
Eastern New South Wales Australia
These images represent the intersection of my two greatest passions: photography and plants. When my university botany studies required me to sketch plant specimens, it only served to prove that my artistic skills were woeful. However, photography provides me the tools to capture the magic in plants, the intricacies of each plant’s unique and delicate structure and the purity of their colours. So was born my passion for photographing and recording the structural changes to my garden over each seasonal cycle. My plants are my botanical children, and like a proud parent I try and capture along with their beauty, the quirkiness of their unique personalities both across the seasons and throughout their life cycle. I hope these images inspire you to either do the same, or if not, just provide you with an insight into the spirituality of nature’s beauty and instill within you a sense of peace. Later in 2022 I will be publishing my latest book - Botanical Portraits which includes my full collection from the past two years of lockdown.
Sweet Ruffled Burgundy Iris Iris germanica.One of my favourite flowers, each Iris flower is unique and structurally complex. Shot using , in Situ in my garden with natural light and fill flash
Australian Native orchid - Dendrobium 'Bardo Rose'- Like most orchids, it remains unattractive for 11 months of the year but absolutely stunning when flowering.
Misty rain on Erlicheer Jonquils, their heady fragrance is a heralding of spring
Chocolate Cosmos - Cosmos atrosanquineus using Fill Flash and Natural Light, Heronsford Gardens Victoria
Commonly named the Dogwood Tree (cornus florida). The petals are almost transluscent in the low morning light.
Vine leaf Daintree Forrest
Dwarf Pomegranate Punica granatum 'Nana' . Another very old plant in my 100 year old garden. Although the fruit looks so rich and juicy unfortnately they are extremely bitter and inedible so I just use the scarlet seed pods for Autumn floral decoration in my vases.
Composite of two images a still and overlayed with a 'swooshed' image of the same leaves.
Diptych - Red Flags + Painted Tutu
Dogwood Tree Flowers- Cornus florida - The flowers are prolific for about two weeks covering the tree in the softest pink blossoms
Bird of Paradise Flower - Strelitziaceae. Structurally extremely complex and varying between specimens. Their tall regal elegance combined with their striking complementary vivid colours make them stunning.
White Viola -Viola tricolor - The delicate purity of colour and structure is breathtaking
Architectural Structures are a work of art. One of our favourite clients is Ardent Architects whose work in residential, commercial and government, features on these pages
Overseas travel provides opportunities to photograph under different lighting conditions and colours and textures not found in Australia. I particularly like to visit countries with cultures and history foreign to my personal experiences.
View from the upper storey window of the Blue Mosque with the Hagia Sophia in the background
Europeans are much more adventurous than Australians when it comes to selecting paint colours for their houses.
Agha Bozorg Mosque - Kashan - built 1834 and is very unusual design for a mosque as it has 5 storeys
Breathtaking Architectural masterpiece built in 1971 in commemoration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.
Just as we were returning to our ship a storm was rising over the harbour, highlighting the lovely pastel colours of the water and buildings
The late afternoon winter sun bathed this this historic tower just glow. It is situated in the center of Zagreb adjacent to the Roman Catholic Cathedra, Croatia’s northwestern capital, which is distinguished by its 18th- and 19th-century Austro-Hungarian architecture.
The attraction of this image was the geometry and stark complementary colours complemented by the very rigid stance of the sentry. Taken at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Ankara Turkey - the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey.
Cairo Egypt
Malthouse Theatre Melbourne - I waited for ages for the maintenance man to move into the shaft of light right at the intersection of the steps.
Whilst I enjoy the technical challenges of capturing the more traditional photographic genres of Nature, Architecture and Landscapes, I love the challenge of exploring the creative side of compositing several images to create a piece of art or alternatively composing objects into a still life.
Inspired by dealing with the Australian Medical system - if you have the money you get specialist treatment immediately, otherwise you wait your turn and it may be too late
Collage of images photographed in Iran 2017
Inspired by the images produced by the old Dutch painters
Inspired by the block type prints of nature created by William Morris in the mid 19th Century. This image was a semi-finalist in the AIPP Silver Linings National Competition 2020.
This image was created in the midst of our first lockdown for Covid 19 when it seemed like we would never entertain guests again. It portends the next 2 years when we have several waves of variants and lockdowns before we started to feel a degree of freedom in early 2022.
Composite of rocks and nature photographed North Western Australia
Collage of images depicting the plight of north central Victoria due to drought and climate change
Man made objects juxtaposed to nature
Typical Santorini house at the top of the hill in Fira. I just loved the harmonising aesthetics of the blue and white building with the blue and white sky. The clouds in the background portend the hurricane that hit the island the next day.
Croatia is all about the sea and its relationship with the land. Rovinj Croatian Fishing Port - Istrian Peninsular.
Green Island Pier
Sydney Opera House on a High Key day
Portraits are images about people rather than images of people. I try to work with the subject using posing , lighting and environment to capture within the narrative of the image, some or all of their personality, identity and attitudes.
Published in the Spectrum Section of The Age newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald - May 1st 2017 - https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/lunch-with-ruby-wax-everyone-feels-crazy-20170501-gvw949.html
Portrait commissioned for the Spectrum Section of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald - May 2017 - https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/lunch-with-jimmy-barnes-20170525-gwcy2i.html
Homage to Edward Steichen's image of actress Gloria Swanson in a net veil
Young girl in garden
Nothing can surpass Mother Nature for her ability to combine colours, textures and shapes thus providing the most inspirational photographic subjects.
The ripples in the pond below are reflected in the sheen of the Herons feathers.
The late low afternoon sunlight really brought out the colours of the feathers of this bird
Australian White Ibis
Australian Green Sea Turtle swimming of the Broome Town Pier, Northern Western Australia
Gippsland Water Dragon, Den of Nargan, Gippsland Victoria Australia
Broome, North Western Australia
Daylesford - Lake Jubilee Central Victoria
Found this spider whilst walking through the National Park on Green Island. It is a female Nephila pilipes (northern golden orb weaver or giant golden orb weaver) around 15cms in size, its web stretched almost 2 metres in diameter. We visited its web every day for a week in which time it barely moved, so a joy to photograph.
Later afternoon reflections in the Daintree River
Golden Orb Spiders web on a foggy morning in the Buchan Valley
Lake Wendouree - Ballarat Victoria
Zebras at Melbourne Zoo
Hippopotamus - Werribee Zoo Victoria
I am always on the lookout for how the direction, quality and colour of the natural light will make subjects glow and their colours ‘pop’.
Bungendore railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Bombala line in New South Wales, Australia, servicing the township of Bungendore. The primary colours and beautiful low morning light drew me to try and record this old world scenario.
Morning light reflections Hobart Tasmania Australia
Enjoying lunch with colleagues I saw these boats just glowing with colour in the beautiful Venetian light
Melbourne laneways are renowned internationally for their colourful graffiti
This unused car yard absolutely glowed flurescent red when bathed in the late afternoon winter sunlight. Mildura, North Western Victoria, Australia
As a prolific reader, I am always fascinated by how you can ‘tell a book from its cover’; as good imagery on the cover should distill the essence of the narrative. Designing covers has two great benefits in that I get to read the books from a different perspective and then utilise my imagination to access my extensive library of photographs to create the appropriate cover image.
This series of novels intertwines local village life in England with inter-galactic conflict inspired by ancient Celtic folklore. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N7HNTFQ?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk
This series intertwines local village life in England with inter-galactic conflict inspired by ancient Celtic folklore. See https://www.amazon.com.au/Morgana-Chronicles-Portal-Conflict-ebook/dp/B08839JXRL
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