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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Often when the weather is at its worst we get moments of brilliance and this evening at North Narrabeen was no exception. Looking East the horizon was filled with grey looming clouds, the rain was on its way. I love that about Australia, the rain doesn’t sneak up on you like it might do in [...]

I was invited to join a Google Plus get together over the weekend by Jason Baker down at Cronulla’s sand dunes. I met Jason at one of my social events a month or so back and mentioned to him my interest in doing some light painting. This sort of light painting was a first for [...]

As I drive about I often look up to the sky to see what the weather is doing (I can be easily distracted). Even if I’m not out photographing I still try to predict what the sunset will be like to better my understanding. The more I know about the weather the more likely I [...]

Thanks to all that entered my Facebook print giveaway, the response was great I really appreciate all the Likes, Shares and new fans. A huge congratulations to Juha Mylläri from Finland, I hope the print looks amazing displayed in your home. Again thanks for all your support, who knows I may do this again in [...]

I had little hope for a decent sunset on Friday when I headed over to Bradleys Head. It could have been brilliant but it had really set in and there were no breaks in the cloud cover for the sun to peak through. I will have to visit this great spot again for the shot [...]

A bit different to my usual landscape, I shot this panoramic of Circular Quay whilst out teaching a private photography course. Photographed from the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout, an excellent place for panoramic views of the city, if only it stayed open after 5pm a sunset here would be amazing. This [...]

Photographed on the same evening as one of my all time favourites photographs of the area (thumbnail below), wow this was on amazing sunset. The location itself is stunning, Fairy Bower rock pool sits in Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve. It is a well known ocean pool in the area and a highlight of the [...]

South Curl Curl was going off (how Australian am I?). I had donned my boardies and reef shoes to get close to the surf as I normally do expecting to get a little wet. The surf was HUGE, there was no chance I was going anywhere near it without getting a little dead let alone wet. I [...]

The first time I visited North Narrabeen I was lost looking for Turimetta. I left that morning and have only just returned. The sunrise wasn’t looking that great with a bank of clouds sat on the horizon so instead of shooting the wooden walkway that dissects the rock pool I decided to venture out the back to [...]

Mona Vale rockpool. I had been waiting a while for a high tide to coincide with sunrise at this unique rockpool. I had marked it in my calendar after scanning through the Pocket Weather AU iPhone app looking for a suitable time. I wasn’t disappointed, the surf was huge, so big the pool was actually [...]

The first light this morning, about 45 minutes before dawn the sky was a really deep orange, worth a photograph on an otherwise uninteresting cloudless sunrise. I went out to my local beach with the Northern Beaches, Seascape Flickr group (check them out here) who are out most weekends, check out the video and you [...]

I don’t think I will ever be good at getting up in the morning. Even with these late starts, as winter finds its way South, I struggle. On Sunday high tide pretty much coincided with sunrise so myself and another local photographer Nick Fletcher decided to shoot Mona Vale rock pool. Arriving at 6am (45 [...]

The waves were massive at Dee Why when I arrived, I knew they would be big but hadn’t see anything like it for a while. The great thing about Dee Why is that you can literally stand only a few feet away from the surfers as they ride the break near the rock shelf. Around the back [...]

I’m pleased to finally release this years Cole Classic time-lapse tilt-shift video. Thanks to Danny Irvine for helping me out on this one, between us we managed to get some interesting perspectives and sequences. Danny drove down from the Central Coast to meet me at 5.30am, quite an achievement considering I struggled to roll out [...]

I had a suitable morning to get up early so decided to head to good ol’ Turimetta to catch the sunrise. I always feel getting up for sunrise is a gamble as you never know what the clouds are doing when its dark. This morning a bank of clouds sat just above the horizon, enough [...]

I was out teaching time lapse last night at Long Reef and decided to stick around for sunset. It gets very windy out there and last night was no exception. I decided to seek some shelter walking to the Northern side, my camera/tripod was getting blown over making it impossible to take long exposures. As [...]

An early morning visit to Long Reef didn’t result in the colourful sunrise I had hoped for. Instead the sun didn’t even make an apperance. Seeing the large band of cloud sat on the horizon most photographers would have given up favouring more sleep. A reassuring lesson on my part, good photos can be taken in [...]

Tis almost the season to be jolly, but with summer here I think my spirits are already somewhat lifted. I even got up at 5am this week to shoot a sunrise, completely out of character. So onto the news, wow, when I look back it’s been a productive time. First up, some free stuff. Print [...]

Gee sunrise is early these days, not that it was late in the olden days, it just the Australian summer. A 5am start was well worth it though, Curl Curl light up as the morning rays hit the beach giving great colour and contrast.

I’ve wanted to shoot Coogee for some time now. I lived there as a backpacker (don’t we all?) in 2003 so it’s somewhere close to my heart. The rock pool is an obvious focal point but I wanted to represent it in a unique way and choose a more minimalistic composition photographing from high above [...]

Turimetta in all it’s green glory. This wide angle panorama, photographed shortly after sunset shows the nights sky glowing a beautiful purple which contrasts against the green moss covered rocks. A popular spot with local photographers, Turimetta can get somewhat crowded. The beach is constantly evolving with sands being dumped and stripped from its shores [...]

I am pleased to introduce a wide range of education offerings for photographers of all skill levels with the addition of an education section to my website. My popular group and private day courses teach beginners/intermediate students from the ground up, learning to shoot fully manual, and how to create their very own master pieces. [...]

Long Reef on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. What looked to be a really bad sunset actually turned out great. Sometimes you’ve just got to find something to shoot and point in the direction of the nice light, there’s no shortage of leading lines on Long Reef at low tide.

Below is a series of images shot a couple weeks back titled Seven Days, Seven Photographs. The aim was to just get out and shoot, I don’t do as much of it as I should these days. I would also like to build my Northern Beaches portfolio so it was great to get a few [...]

Photographed on the final day of my week of photography. Looking up is something people rarely do in the city, all to often they are in a rush to get to work or home. When you next walk in the city take a moment to enjoy it, Sydney really has some beautiful buildings.

Photographed on day 6 of my week of photography. Fast moving clouds blur with a long exposure of 240 seconds. Here I used a B+W 10 stop Neutral Density filter to get the desired shutter speed. Canon 5D MkII Canon 17-40mm L Series Lens Exposure – 240s Aperture – f/16 Focal Length – 36mm ISO [...]