Wow, didn’t expect that, three out of four prints submitted winning a Silver Award at this years NSW AIPP Epson Professional Photographer of the Year Awards. That’s my best result yet at the state awards, hopefully my success will continue onto the Nationals where each Silver award gets me closer to Accreditation and my Masters [...]

As you may already know I’m an administrator for a great photography resource freephotoguides.com. I’ll let you check it out and find out what it is all about on your own. If you love shooting waterfalls then I’ve just posted a location guide for Hazelbrook, a short drive from Sydney and a great spot to [...]

Welcome to my Before and After Photoshop confess all post. I hope this gives you better understanding of the power of Photoshop and why good post processing technique is so important in a photographers workflow. Now in my defence some of my images require very little post processing work where as others I stuffed up [...]

Wow isn't the year just flying by! Not long until I'll be completely consumed by my forthcoming wedding (December) and photography will be put on the back burner (and rightfully so). Well that seems to have somewhat already happened actually, my camera has been out of action for the last month. My poor camera took a [...]

After teaching Photoshop up in Newcastle I thought it would be rude not to squeeze in a shoot. What better place to spend some precious photography time than at the mightily impressive Stockton Beach and its towering sand dunes. This is the second time I’ve been to Stockton and it still fills me with giddiness [...]

After a ton of rain a couple weeks back, pictures of the now raging waterfalls of Blue Mountains National Park where whetting my appetite (oh dear). With the continued rain I pulled the pin on a photography course I was taking that day and headed to Hazelbrook, a new place for me to explore. On [...]

The third Google+ Landscape Photographer live hangout was held a couple weeks back with Australia landscape photographers Lee Duguid (me), Jérôme Berbigier, and Antonio Ranieri. In this session we discussed photography competitions, what competitions we enter, why we enter them, and our general thoughts about this aspect of photography. All comments can be viewed over [...]

The Big Stopper by Lee Filters is an amazingly popular 10 stop Neutral Density filter allowing photographers to shoot 30+ second exposures in the brightest of conditions. Easily mistaken for black welding glass this is a great creative tool and a must for all landscape photographers. Having owned the similar B+W 10 stop (3.0) ND [...]

After much deliberating I finally took the plunge and got a Apple Macbook Air. With all the travel I have coming up over the next two years it was time to go portable. For the last six months I’ve been lugging my 27 inch iMac to my Photoshop courses and with some further afield courses [...]

A mistake we all have to learn from is uploading images to the web in the wrong colour space. I was doing this a few years back and couldn’t figure out why there was such a large colour shift between Photoshop and what was viewable on the web (including my website and Flickr). So what was going [...]

The second Google+ Landscape Photographer live hangout was held a couple weeks back where a bunch of Australia landscape photographers Lee Duguid, Kah Kit Yoong, Jérôme Berbigier, Ricardo Da Cunha & Everlook Photography invited viewers to submit images for critique. Take a look at all the submitted images over on FreePhotoGuides.com where the hangout was [...]

So back to it, I trust everyone had a great holiday? After a busy 2012 I decided not to run any courses on the lead up to Christmas. It always gets a little crazy with bookings, print purchases, inquiries, social events etc. Christmas 2012 was no exception. I’m not sure how I will manage Christmas 2013 [...]

It’s amazing to think what I have achieved over the last year, I didn’t realise the number of great photos (in my opinion) I had taken until I put this video together. Thanks to everyone that has taken an interest in my photography. There are some exciting times coming up so please stick around for [...]

Well what better way to celebrate Christmas than with lots of cool out of focus photographs? These aren’t any normal out of focus photos, these are Christmas themed out of focus photos. First to Wikipedia for the science: “Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”. However, differences in lens aberrations and aperture [...]

Well what to say about the amazing Claustral Canyon…first up a word of warning. For anyone that might be inspired to venture to Claustral Canyon please note doing so is extremely dangerous and has resulted in death for a number of people. It should only be undertaken by those who are fit and experienced in [...]

So the individual results are in and as it is with almost every competition there has been a degree of contention regarding the results. This has been further exacerbated for the Loupe Awards by the introduction of a more open judging process. This year each entrant has been provided with scores from each judge rather [...]

Thursday (29th November 2012) evening I had the pleasure of hosting an online Google+ Hangout with some of Australia’s leading landscape photographers: Kah Kit Yoong, Jérôme Berbigier, Ricardo Da Cunha & Everlook Photography. This involved us talking shop for almost 2 hours and broadcasting it live on YouTube. We covered some great capture tips, taked [...]

A great gift for a loved one or yourself, what better way to stay organised than with an inspirational 2013 Calendar. This first calendar is a mixture of new and old work from all over the world. I’m selling it at cost as I would prefer you to have it and enjoy my work than [...]

Good questions Lee. Well my opinion has changed considerably as I learn my craft and try to perfect the art of image making. Yes as a photographer we make images. First we pre-visualise an image, then capture the scene using our camera, and finally we process the resulting image to some degree. This can either happen [...]

I’ve only spent one evening in my entire life at a camera club meeting. I never found the desire or need to be part of one. The closest I have got to this sort of community has been with the Focus Flickr group. They are a great bunch of guys, and with almost 500 members [...]

What better way of celebrating the arrival of summer than to grow a moustache. The month of Movember is well upon us and this time I’ve signed up for some strange looks all in the name of charity. If you are after a laugh at my expense or have no idea what I’m on about [...]

For photographers who want help and guidance over a longer period of time I now offer a mentoring program. This is perfect for those starting out, have had training but feel they are not progressing or even for those who just want to keep pushing themselves to learn new things. Purchase 6 or 12 mentoring [...]

This shot came to me the other day for some reason and Sunday was the day to shoot it. What you are looking at is a transition from day to night. The right hand side of the image was photographed at sunset which casts a beautiful warming light, the left light by the almost full [...]

Yes I use photoshop, most photographers do these days. Is it cheating, no….if you would like to hear my justification here it is: Do you use photoshop? How much Photoshop do I use? Well I’ll let you decide, here’s a video starting from the output of my RAW file, gradually adding each layer to the [...]

I’ve been back to Turimetta a couple of times over the last few week. I find myself drawn to Turimetta and Long Reef as they are close to where I live and have numerous fantastic photographic opportunities. Plus I’m always running late and don’t have the time to explore any further. Here are my latest [...]

Straight from France is this years Kolor Panobook 2012. I’m delighted to have two of my panoramic images included in this years edition after submitting my images to their annual competition. I use Kolor’s excellent software to stitch my panoramic photos together. It offers many powerful tools for stitching panoramic images and I wouldn’t hesitate [...]

The best camera is the one that’s with you, unfortunately the camera in question is generally my iPhone. That’s the thing with fancy camera’s (my 5DmkII), they are big, heavy and not so discrete. Especially when you want to shoot time lapse in a revolving restaraunt whilst out with the mother in law. So the [...]

Being a new member to the AIPP I was extremely excited to attend this years AIPP ‘The Event’ in Hunter Valley, Australia. As an added bonus Robert Gatto the MD of Kayell invited me to a private dinner at the amazing Tempus Two Winery. I was sat at the big boys table with Peter Eastway [...]

I have the pleasure of gracing the cover of next months Australian Photography + Digital magazine don’t you know. Well one of my photos is, to have a photo of me might not ‘shift’ magazines so well. The photo is of the amazing Walls of China, Mungo National Park a location I will never forget [...]

Overlooking the expanse of Alpine National Park, the iconic Craig’s Hut is surrounded by the beauty of Mount Stirling in Victoria’s High Country. Craig’s Hut was originally built for the Australian film “The Man from Snowy River“. The original hut was burnt down in bush fires (2006) but has recently been rebuilt allowing for the [...]