VISUAL SYNERGY EXHIBITION

My latest exhibition is called 'Visual Synergy'. It is being exhibited in the Red Wall Gallery in the Republic Bar and Cafe, Elizabeth St, North Hobart June 21st - Aug 8th. The opening was a great night. Plenty of good people, good wine and beautiful Flamenco guitar by the legendary Paul Gerrard (thanks again Paul!). And good sales too!

AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - Epilogue

Well, I'm just getting my feet back on the ground in Tassie after an amazing couple of weeks in Sydney. To summarise my APPA Results...

Highest Scoring Print and Gold with Distinction Award in the Self-Commisioned Category.

Silver with Distinction Award in the Landscape Category.

Silver with Distinction Award in the Environmental Portrait Category.

78 Bronze Point Award in the Wedding Photojournalism Category.

Talk about stoked!!! I'll be having another go again in Melbourne next year for sure. Such a wonderful event - so much talent and hard work on display. I really got a sense of how much passion and comittment Australian photographers have for their craft, and also the depth of tradition and history in the AIPP organisation. I felt very welcomed as a newcomer and relished meeting so many gifted people. Peter Eastway, Christian Fletcher and Jackie Chan all gave me so much of their time - Jackie a whole day later in the week - I never expected such legendary photographers to be so open and giving with their time!!!

This is the other entry that won silver distinction in the environmental portrait category and the wedding photojournalism entry.

over and out for now...

AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Well, here I am up in Sydney mixing it up with some of the best photographers in the country. The standard of work is exceptional and it's been wonderful to meet some of the photographers I've looked up to.

Things certainly started off with a bang for me. I'd only been there two minutes and Alan Moyle pulls me aside to let me know my first print "Desert Dreamscape" won a Gold with Distinction Award - the highest award you can achieve. Wow, that's quite an honour! A few minutes later my second print of this wave 'Touched By Light" won a Silver with Distinction Award in the Landscape Category. Talk about stoked!!! I'm off there again now to see how my other two prints go and learn a few things from the Master photographers offering workshops today. Here we go...

TASMANIAN PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Well last night was the night of nights for the Tasmanian Professional Photography Community with a day of intense and passionate judging across four categories, followed by the awards dinner. I won two silver and two silver with distinction awards for photographic excellence, had the highest scoring print in both the Wedding and Open categories and took out the Major Award for the highest scoring print of the whole event. Not bad for a first time entrant!

The images above are in order of lowest to highest scoring - with the last print above the text being the overall winner. Till next time...

Coldwater Classic Surfing Contest

This weekend I trekked out to the remote West Coast community of Marrawah to meet up with some of the best surfers in the world and get some shots them weaving their magic in the O'Neill Coldwater Classic. It lived up to all my expectations and more. These guys are true athletes. On the last day of the contest I lucked into the best seat in the house on a boat in the channel next to macking 6-8 foot barrels racing across Bluff reef - that's me in the middle on the boat. The surfers featured in order are... Damien Hobgood, Jordy Smith and Pat Gaudaskas - absolutely ripping...  Hopefully I'll get some of these published in ASL magazine.

Touched by Light Exhibition

My first true solo exhibition was held in Hobart in October last year entitled "Touched By Light". It represents a series of moments and places from throughout America, New Zealand and Australia that touched a chord deep within me, and stay with me still. A certain kind of light seems to reveal the magic in such moments...

HPS Group Exhibition

Here are a selection of images from a current exhibition by the Hobart Photographic Society showing on the waterfront here in Hobart over the next few weeks. Everything is photographed with my point and shoot Canon G10. I wanted to explore a bit of abstract texture and also wanted to express how a collection or collaboration of images can sometimes create a bigger presence around a subject. Enjoy!