World of Canon EOS 1 Wall

A great and exciting opportunity came up this month to be part of the World of Canon EOS 1 Wall. Canon has invited photographers from around the world to set a challenge for photographers around the world. Anyone can enter but only the best images will make it through to the wall. So see if you are tough enough to get your work on my wall!

A special thanks to Jay Collier and Canon to give me this opportunity and to Nicolle Versteeg for taking my picture. I am looking forward to see some entries soon!

http://canon.com.au/worldofeos/1wall/home/

2011 Highlights

Another year has passed and I’ve neglected my blog. 2011 has been a wonderful year with lots happening in front and behind my camera. 2011 brought an award nomination, a mini me documentary (more about that in my next post) and great new clients. There seem to have appeared more and more handsome fit (very talented) men in front of my lens too!

So I thought not to keep you all deprived from any of last years excitement. And will promise to keep my blog up to date for 2012.

Enjoy!

DECEMBER 2011

Red Bull Lighthouse to Leighton Kite Surf Event for Red Bull Australia

NOVEMBER 2011

Bankwest Online Campaign [tea in the tower]

OCTOBER 2011

CHOGM 2011 campaign for TWA

SEPTEMBER 2011

AustralAsian Safari 2011

AUGUST 2011

BankWest West Coast Eagles 50th Anniversary

JULY 2011

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Underwear shoot with the Wallabies for pull-in Australia

Perth Cricketer Adam Gilchrist for Vodafone Australia

JUNE 2011

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PCP CLIP Award nomination (part of 21 finalist exhibiting at the PCP)

Lipton Chai Tea Winter Campaign for Unilever

MAY 2011

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Steve Hooker for Red Bull Australia

Concetta’s Food Experience

Artist Portrait Andrew Pickering

Men’s Health Australia’s Toughest Gym Feature

Australians are tough! But how tough can it get?

I spend a full day with Men’s Health writer Dominic Cadden at ‘The Mill’ in Fremantle WA. Pick up this months edition of Men’s Health and find out yourself. It’s been an awesome experience to learn what it’s all about from Australia’s own SAS. The Mill crew are amazing people. Thanks for having us.

Men’s Health David Pocock Shoot

Australia has a wonderful line up of great and fit looking athletes! I had the privilege to photograph David Pocock for the Australian Men’s Health Magazine last summer.

Jambo Kenya

Still half way home from Nairobi to Perth. I finished working for Ensemble shooting stills during the making of  a new Lipton Tea TVC. All top secrete off course,… so only a few images for now and more later for sure. It’s been a trip of a lifetime being part of this crazy creative tea crew in gorgeous Kenya. The locals are great and I have been very impressed with Lipton’s passion for tea and the way they look after their pluckers and their families.

Asante Sana Kenya for having me!

Client: Ensemble – Unilever

Location: Kericho Kenya

Colourful Kenya

Only just arrived in Nairobi and have a few hours to spear before my next job starts at the Kericho Tea Plantations.

I decide to try and capture a sunset over Nairobi city and on my drive around I ended up at Uhuru Park. A group of kids were skating their heart out and the light has been spectacular and so were the jumps.

Big thanks to Valz Sharzoul and all his mates from the Skateboarding Society of Kenya for entertaining me.

Porsche by Ferrari

Working with Jorge Ferrari during the Dubai Tennis Tournament has been great. I had the opportunity to see the master at work shooting a new Porsche model at sunset this week in Dubai.

Dubai

A different side of Dubai, roaming around the docks of Rigga Al Buteen and the Gold Souk with Sindy Thomas from Paris has been adventurous probably not as adventurous as the late night diner we shared once we were finished shooting!

Dubai Duty Free Tennis 2011

Two weeks, 32 men, 64 ladies, 156 single matches (and that’s without the qualifiers or the double matches) and over two and a half thousand edited images later I’m signing off another job. This assignment is huge and every year I look forward traveling to Dubai to cover it and every year I wonder how I seem to have forgotten about the 15 hour days we all are making for two weeks in a row.

Teaming up with Jorge Ferari ( http://www.ferrari-photos.com/ ) is a joy and catching up with fellow shooters from all over the world is inspiring. Both me and Jorge provide the tournament organizers with images including the branding which is much different from the photographers who work with the big agencies who need clean images without any branding. It’s a challenge to get a decent action shot include as much as branding as possible. These images will be used for print, websites press releases, financial yearly reports etc.

One of the interesting findings is a publication of Wosniacki who presents the DDF with an award after one of her matches. Looking at the picture printed in the local newspaper I noticed how ‘they’ photo-shopped her skirt to knee length and ‘pulled’ her top up. Nice example of press ethics!

Besides all the action shots we also shoot all the off court activities like kids day’s, training days, local school visits with some of the players and high end photo-shoots all around glamorous Dubai.

It’s been great to work with all these great athletes here in Dubai. For more images check out these links

http://www.dubaidutyfreetennischampionships.com/

http://www.atpworldtour.com/Media/Photo-Landing.aspx?gt=Dubai&q=Dubai+Duty+Free+Tennis+Championships|Dubai

Mama Gloria

Bali November 2010:On one of my travels I met this amazing lady Mama Gloria who runs a medical crisis center in the North of Bali. A true Australian with an amazing generous heart. I followed her out for a day during her visits to the people of Bali who urgently need medical care. Young and old people suffer from plain poverty, distress, malnutrition and more severe illnesses as cerebral palsy. The list is long and a cure might not always be possible. But Mama Gloria will go out of her way to make sure her patients are a comfortable as possible.

Her full story will appear soon. For now I would like to urge anyone to dig deep and donate to Mama Gloria’s Crisis Centre in Bali through this website www.balicrisiscare.org

Thank You!