The lonely AFL umpire.
There’s a total of 42 other people somewhere on this arena and I haven’t photoshopped anyone out.
He doesn’t exactly look like the ‘life of the party’ though does he?
Category Archives: personal
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The winter sporting landscape
14 April, 2010 – 10:01 pm
Easter Sunday
5 April, 2010 – 11:05 pm
Hello Lovelies,
I generally don’t blog non wedding work here but today I’ve made an exception.
The Age newspaper here in Melbourne asked me to document some Easter Sunday church services for a feature they were doing on the celebration of Easter and given that one the churches I was asked to attend I’d shot a wedding there the week before it seemed only fitting I share these images with you.
At 6am I arrived at St Pauls cathedral for their dawn candlelit service, it was beautiful with the cathedral only being lit by the candles the 100 or so people had lit on their way in. Later that morning it was the ‘Planet Shakers’ a big, slick rock n roll show/sermon playing to around 2000 people indispersed with bit sized bits of eulogy, smoke machines, loud music and along with Jesus Christ there were lots of Easter egg references. Christianity certainly comes in all shapes and sizes.
Mum #1
28 February, 2010 – 8:40 pm
My mum is now 87. She was a formidable person but with a heart of gold. She was charismatic, incredibly talented at anything she did including photography but she didn’t have it easy. She worked full time and raised 3 wayward boys on her own after my father died when I was 10 but that was a long time ago.
Old age and dementure have changed her, she has become a child again, the demons have left her and she has a lightness I never thought possible in her, nothing worries her, she only smiles and makes jokes, her neighbours upstairs don’t find her so endearing as she recently picked all their passionfruit while green making a still life display/sculpture in her kitchen from the ill gotten unripe fruit, the sort of thing people with dementure do.
I took this image of her recently testing a new lens (Sigma 50mm f1.4) I had purchased but when I put the camera to my eye I didn’t see the ‘little old lady’ I now know, I saw the woman I knew most of my life, someone I hadn’t seen for at least 7 years now.
Thank you!
14 February, 2010 – 5:58 pm
A big thanks to Rachelanne Schroeder and Nigel Carr who by booking me to capture their coming October wedding donated $300 to the Oxfam Haiti earthquake appeal.
Woof #1
11 February, 2010 – 4:13 pm
I’ve never had a dog in my life but I photographed hundreds of them.
This is ‘Rodeo’ a red heeler that lives at Preston Vineyards, Washington State, USA. He was photographed for a book called Winedogs I worked on.
Rodeo loves Filet Mignon and hates getting a bath.
Melbourne wedding photographer helps Haiti
21 January, 2010 – 10:02 pm
Hello Lovelies,
Like all of you I was shocked and saddened by the devastation in Haiti. There was one image on the news website of a boy about 3 or 4 crying being carried away by a rescuer, I couldn’t but help think he was probably now an orphan. Could you think of anything worse to happen a child of that age? So to do my bit I’m donating 10% of the fees for the next wedding booked direct to Red Cross. The donation will be made under the name of the couple booking so get on board, get married, get great photography and help the devastation in Haiti.
Year 7 graduation
18 December, 2009 – 9:59 pm
Noah finished primary school this year. It meant he got to wear a suit for the first time for his graduation dinner and play ‘oya coma va’ on bass in the school band at final assembly which he rocked.
He’s not usually keen on having his photo taken but he wanted himself in the suit recorded for posterity.
My heart just aches with pride and love right now.
First day of summer
10 November, 2009 – 10:03 am
Given the 30 something degree temprature here in Victoria on Sunday I was lucky enough to find myself on Jan Juc beach that afternoon.
As soon as I looked up the beach into the warm late afternoon light I felt summer was here, I knew the water would be cold but I had to dive in . If the waves were a bit more body surfable I would have stayed in longer or at least, thats what I told myself,instead I retreated to the beach to watch happy dogs and people enjoying the afternoon as much as I was.
Parental pride
23 October, 2009 – 9:22 pm
It was a chilly morning last week when I looked as I do to my left where some of Charlie, my oldest son’s sporting trophies sat on a dewy backlit window near my desk.
He’s not a sporting superstar but he has a few and I suspect I get far more enjoyment from them than he does.
melbourne wedding photographer – revealed
15 June, 2009 – 9:49 pm
As a wedding photographer I always approach the couple as the night is ending to see if they have any last requests
‘how about a photo with you?’ is one of the most frequent requests at which point one of my cameras is handed to someone of dubious sobriety
or a hand held self portrait follows.
Sometimes I can’t resist a reflection of myself……vain?….. no, curious I’d say. As a professional photographer I thinks its good for us to be on the other side occasionally too.
Much of our efforts are trying to help people feel at ease in front our cameras so its good to have empathy with the other side.
Me and bride, Joanna very late in the evening.
With ….. in front of a banner Jo and Milan they had made made for red carpet shots. I set up a studio flash system to give some real pizzaz. We photographed all the guests as they arrived,
it was a great way to start the day.
With Grieg and Kelly wrangling families for formals after the ceremony
Stalking my quarry, waiting to pounce!
couldn’t resist.
This the image I was really taking at the time
Self portrait with George and Donita very late in the evening, boy they knew how to party and beautiful people!
Me and George
