On the last weekend of May, I was finally able to check off my first backpacking trek of the year, some months later than I’d hoped. The endless La Niná rain has delayed many of my ideas, but now it’s time to get them done.
Read MoreMy mate Nat and I headed out to Mount Maroon for a sunrise and an early morning hike up one of our favourite local mountains, shot on my new Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R lens.
Read MoreWhether or not the flooding or the damage matches that of the infamous 2011 floods in Brisbane, the flooding here in Brisbane after this torrential downpour is extensive and many people have lost their homes and some even their lives. Here are a handful of photos taken on Monday 28th February 2022 down at the south west end of my home suburb of West End.
Read MoreIsn’t film magical? The right film for the right scene will add emotion and memory to the light that shaped it that a digital camera by default will never do, and it’s a vital ingredient in evoking a response by the viewer.
Read MoreHere is an update on just where the heck I've been for the past few years. Plus, I hiked up Mount Cordeaux / Bare Rock in the fog and created some new portfolio landscape photographs for your viewing pleasure.
Read MoreI’ve been waiting for these kinds of conditions for a long time, and I was glad that I took along the full landscape photography gear.
Read MoreMy camera has been getting a lot of relaxation on the TV cabinet lately so I put it to work down in Springbrook National Park’s beautiful rainforest hike on the Warrie Circuit (14 odd kilometre loop).
Read MoreIn April 2020, I began to work on a painting of my long-exposure landscape photo of Horseshoe Falls in Tasmania. I put it down for almost a year before finally finishing the painting on September 3rd, 2021! In total, the painting took over 10 straight hours of work and 30,000 strokes in Procreate for iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil 2.
Read MoreI’ve been revisiting the videos I created for YouTube all those years ago in 2017, before leaving social media, before therapy, before changing my lifestyle choices, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I still agree with my original sentiments.
Read MoreI’ve been investigating the rise of the NFT and how artists can use it to sell their artworks digitally in a legitimate blockchain-backed manner. This is why I’ve created my first ever original digital painting offering.
This is an original copy only available to the purchaser of this NFT and has never been published on the internet.
Read MoreI’m a full-time software developer with graphics experience, so I finally began to look into how I might be able to recreate the entire Photoshop action, film grain simulation and all using Apple’s CoreImage framework and some custom GPU shaders.
If I was successful, I could work to turn the project into a standalone piece of software that ran much faster and required no additional software to use!
Read MoreI’ve been venturing into the rainforests and mountains and there’s a lot of green there. And a little astrophotography goes a long way. I’ve never been all that good, prepared or dedicated to it, but sometimes it’s nice to try.
Read MoreFor the first time since pre-COVID days, I crossed the New South Wales border, something I had expected to do earlier than now. A small number of my friends and I drove down to Lake Arragan and Red Cliff to camp at the top of the cliffs.
Read MoreIn the ever moving, ever churning lifestyle we place ourselves in, it’s so easy to forget what true presence even feels like. A rainforest is one of the ways I’ve been finding my way back to this quite visceral experience.
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