I've sat on these photos for a couple months now and thought it about time to share them with you. Photographed down at Manly beach on a glorious evening, I just wish I been more organised to go out and take some landscapes, not to worry it's all good practice.

For the photographers, these photos are a great example of how telephoto lenses compact distance. Shot at 200mm the surfers are about 1km from the headland although looking at the photos you would never tell.

Another shot from the weekend of the Parkour guys running around Glebe Tram Station, Sydney. Urban landscapes to follow.

Spent most of today at the old tram station in Glebe. Urban landscapes and panoramas to follow but for now I thought I would share this one with you. It's amazing who you bump into when sneaking around old derelict buildings. These guys, 'Team 9Lives' from the Parkour club based in Fairfield are immense, check them out here.

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Here are some photos from I recent shoot I did for a friend Heidi. Photographed locally at Fairlight rock pool a month or so back I used only available light, no flash, no bounce sheet. Enjoy!

Thanks to the model Heidi for all her hard work :)

Whilst in NZ I managed to shoot some time lapse photography. This is my first attempt and I made some mistakes but you live and learn. Time wasn't a luxury I had so the video is quite short. It's a start, a great experience, learning curve and something I'll be sure to do some more of around Manly.

The tilt shift effect which makes everything look tiny and toy like is achieved either using a specialised lens or as in this case in post processing via Photoshop. A process sometimes known as miniature faking. I've been meaning to release a tutorial on how to do this as well as the action script I used to automate this process, stay tuned.

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Port of Napier, New Zealand from Lee Duguid on Vimeo.

I've been taking some photos and processing them exclusively using my iPhone. There are a couple of great apps for processing which I use in combination to get the desired results, Best Camera by Chase Jarvis and PS Mobile. Here are some shots taken over the holidays, enjoy!

I've been busy photographing landscapes for a future article on point and shoot cameras a fellow camera enthusiast Dave Turner is writing for Digital Photography + Design magazine. Dave wanted to see what results I could get out of a point and shoot so gave me a Ricoh GRD III to play with. Given time I think I could improve on these but for a first go I'm quite pleased with the results. Lets hope they get published.

Left: Valley of Waters, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Right: Empress Falls, Valley of Waters, Blue Mountains, Australia

Both: Turimetta Beach, Sydney's Northern Beaches, NSW, Australia

I took this one the other day a short while after sunset. It is the result of a 30 second exposure. I'm not sure if anyone would really like to buy it for their wall (but you never know!) so I haven't got it for sale in a gallery. I do like it though, maybe I'll print it one day.

I recently had the pleasure of photographing the singer song writer Sophie O'Sullivan. Photographed at Middle Head Fort, Sydney I used an off camera flash bounced in an umbrella to created the dynamic lighting I needed.

On a recent trip back to my native Scotland a walk with my father in the nearby foothills of the Pentlands, Edinburgh produced these two photos.

Here are some poi fire stick photos I took the other week whilst camping up at Seal Rocks. I fired off the flash a couple of times to freeze the action. Enjoy!

I decided to take my camera along to Sydney's Mardi Gras the other week as I knew we were going to a prime viewing position and I wouldn't be fighting my way through the crowds. I didn't take my tripod so ended up steadying my camera against walls or whatever I could find.

Here are the results:

Today I went taking some promo shots for a mate who is about to depart on a cycling trip from South to the North of Australia (the mad man!). Here are some shots from the outing at Manly Dam on Sydney's Northern Beaches. The aim was to include the trailer but not do the usual low wide angle shots that so many mountain biking magazines do.

Check out his website and blog about all things cycle related: www.mushypea.net