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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’m pleased to share a short film I produced of last weekends Cole Classic, Australia’s biggest ocean swim taking place in Manly, Sydney. This film comprises of a few thousand still images, one taken every second using a stills camera (Canon 5D MkII). For more information on the techniques used in this short film please [...]

Update: So I’ve got permission to shoot this weekends Cole Classic Australia’s largest ocean swim. I pick up my media pass at 7am from Shelly Beach, now all I need is somewhere to shoot from. Emails to local estate agents have not produced anything, Manly Council are dragging their heals and I’m running out of [...]

By the end of this (blog? life? paragraph?) I hope to produce a nice, arty video filmed in and around Manly, Sydney….where I call home. I’m doing this for love, I’ve seen many great tilt shift videos and thought why not do one of Manly. No idea what a tilt shift video is? Below is [...]

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 [...]