Festival time
Well, I have been slack with blogging this year. No excuses, but you can imagine why. We love November for the festivals that roll around in our area then. We were employed to capture both the Tweed River Festival and the Tweed Foodie Fest this year. Weather and atmosphere were great - hope you enjoy the photos and its a shame you can’t hear the music (the Samba Blisstas were phenomenal as usual) or taste the food. Unless you turn up next year! First the Tweed River Festival, about which we produced a short video that you can see here.
And here are a few photos from a glorious evening in Murwillumbah for the Tweed Foodie-fest, including one of guest speaker, Costa Georgiadis.
Why use a Pro?
05/03/14 19:41 Filed in: Professional
The other day I finally got around to completing my accreditation process with the AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography). What does this mean? Well, for one, my work’s been assessed as reaching a professional standard. It also means our business adheres to a very stringent code of professional practice (but you all knew we were ethical nice guys anyway, right)? It also means I’m committed to ongoing professional development and will probably get more involved in AIPP run events, workshops and competitions, which will all be good inspiration for us both. Yes, even though Alan hasn’t got around to the accreditation, I’ll let him in on all the secret stuff I learn!
So here’s the logo I can now use:
So here’s the logo I can now use:
Fingal Rocks
Last month, we finally got around to something we’d been wanting to do for years. That is to photograph the dawn out at Fingal Rocks, also known as the Giants Causeway. Its an amazing example of geology on show. The columns of basalt rock were formed when lava flows from the Tweed Volcano cooled suddenly. Anyway we were suddenly inspired, so we went out the evening before to check out timing, access and angles. We were the only photographers, but there were plenty of couples holding hands as they watched the sunset. Very romantic, except for us who were scrambling over the rocks taking photos as usual. We stayed overnight at Kingscliff so that we could be there before dawn. We were surprised to find there were about 6 other photographers all vying for the best spots. It turned out they were an enthusiastic Flickr group who had come down from Brisbane with the same idea. So here are some of our favourites from the morning, plus one of Alan during the scouting process. One of these photos (the sunrise shot at the bottom) is going to be featured in a display at a new guests lounge at the Tweed Billabong Holiday Park, together with several other of our photos. More on that later!
Storms and skies
22/01/14 14:11 Filed in: Landscape | Mount Warning
This summer has brought us some amazing storms - but not much rain yet. Great for photography, not so good for the garden, even our rainforest is looking a bit subdued as it waits for some good soaking rain. Here are some recent sky and land-scapes. My favourite is the sunset with lightning - a very rare combination!
A road-trip to Canberra
This month we headed down to Canberra to attend a workshop. Seizing the opportunity of a road trip we put the car into camping mode and headed off for ten days, leaving the dogs, llamas, fish and everything else in the capable hands of our friend and house-sitter, Barb. We went down the coastal way and back via the Blue Mountains and the New England Highway. As usual there wasn’t enough time to explore and photograph as thoroughly as we’d like but its given us some great ideas and inspiration for future trips! Below are some of our favourite photos from the trip. Hope you enjoy them!
Sunset at Myall Lakes
Sunrise the next morning at Myall Lakes (the ones below too)
Dingo in the dunes at Myall Lakes - he was so curious and came so close to the car.
Windfarm near Lake George
Blossom tree in Canberra - October’s a good time to visit
Floriade (above and below)
My god-daughter, Tiana, taken at a local park
Quinces in a Leura cafe
The Three Sisters Katoomba - everyone has to photograph them once don’t you think?
Distant view from the Garden of Stone National Park
A dogwood tree somewhere along the way.
Evening light, Lake Glenbawn
Poplar drive near Glen Innes
Sheep or rocks? near Glen Innes
The humble dandelion
Mount Warning views this year
We’ve been so fortunate to live with this amazing view of Mount Warning for 11 years now. Sometimes we take it for granted, at others it takes our breath away. Here are a few recent moments that we’ve captured over many different times of day. Looking out over the hushed valley as the moon sets is definitely an unforgettable experience. We will also be redoing our stock photography section of our photo cart soon as we hope to share these photos and all this beauty with a wider audience.
Brooding Sunset
Wrapped in Cloud
Into the Lava
Moonlight Rhapsody
Streaks of Cloud