On Likes, Faves and Sharing

I’ve been thinking a little more about what Jack Baty wrote about the notion that likes on social networks should be private. Jack suggests that likes (and faves, and hearts, and…) should be visible only to the “Like-or and the Like-ee”. For the Like-or, Jack’s approach allows them

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Balancing Equipment Care with Getting the Shot

British landscape photographer and YouTuber Thomas Heaton recently produced an interesting video about looking after your camera gear. What is cool about the video is that while Thomas stresses excellent care procedures and suitable cleaning techniques (who can forget “always blow before you go”), he puts just as much emphasis

Singapore

The Flyer and the Flower

Made during our recent trip to Singapore, this image shows two of the iconic sights around the Downtown Core of this beautiful city. On the left is the Singapore Flyer, the second largest ferris wheel in the world. On the right is the fabulous ArtScience Museum, which was built to

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Tracks in the Wet

Australia’s Northern Territory has two distinct seasons – the Wet (Oct-Mar) and the Dry (Apr-Sep). The Dry Season features constantly blue skies, no clouds, and no rain. The Wet features some spectacular clouds, storms and lots of rain. The Wet Season is also a brilliant time to make photographs out

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Downtown Core by Night

Singapore’s Downtown Core is the CBD of the city, built around the visually spectacular Marine Bay. The Bay is a freshwater reservoir, ensuring generally smooth surfaces for reflections from the picturesque city at night. As usual, blue hour is very much my favourite time to shoot, and this image

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Triple Sands and Double Helix

Singapore is an incredibly photogenic city, with so many interesting sites to see and capture. One great area to spend time is around the Marina Bay area. The architecture here is spectacular, with some of the more interesting examples including the Marina Bay Sands complex (the three buildings ‘connected’ by

Timelapse

A Darwin Tide

With a full moon in early January, Darwin experienced some of the largest tidal exchanges of our time here – not as big as in early December, but up there. This provided an excellent opportunity to capture a time-lapse video. Friday 13 January was a great time to capture a time-lapse,

Cooking in Seminyak

Balinese Cooking Class at The Amala During our recent holiday in Bali, we took the Balinese Cooking Class at the Amala Seminyak resort, with head chef Wayan. We were picked up from our hotel spot on time, and then taken on the (optional) tour of the main fish market in

Istanbul Street Car

I had a wonderful opportunity to travel around the world last year, and one of the interesting cities we visited was Istanbul. Unfortunately Istanbul has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently – terrorism and attempted coups. There were many aspects of Istanbul I found to be spectacular,

Trey's Peak And Lightroom Mobile goes RAW

There have been a couple of pretty interesting photography related things happening in the last week. Trey’s Peak Earlier this week photographer Trey Ratcliff and photography accessory designer Peak Designs launched a kickstarter campaign for four new photography bag designs – two backpacks, a ‘tote’ bag and a sling bag.

Blue Jetty

With the sun set for the day, the crowds along Darwin’s shoreline had begun to go home, but some people stayed to enjoy the ‘blue hour’, a time when the sky provides some magical colour – if you keep an eye open for it. Or a lens…. This image is

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Red Jetty

Australia's northern-most capital city, Darwin, is known for its beautiful sunsets, with the sun setting over the Arafura Sea. Sunday nights often see crowds of people out enjoying the sunset at Darwin's Mindil Beach Sunset Markets and at vantage points like the Nightcliff Jetty. Looking for

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A Darwin Storm

A Darwin Storm So we’ve been living in Darwin for about six months now, and are coming to the end of our first wet season. It has, apparently, been one of the least wet wet seasons on record, but there have still been some pretty interesting storms come through.

Photography

A lesson re-learned

I sometimes wonder how often we have to re-learn a lesson we’ve previously learned. It can be an especially intriguing conundrum when we make a mistake that not only have we previously learned, but one for which measures have been put in place to minimise associated risks. Recently I

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Chapel by the Sea

The fishing village of Georgiopoulos in Crete was an interesting short photo adventure sortie from Souda Bay, one of our stops on Northern Trident 2015. About an hour by taxi from Souda Bay, we went to Geogiopoulos for a single reason – to get sunset and blue hour photos of this

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Phare du Petit Minou

One of the landmarks clearly seen on entering the magnificent port of Brest in France is the lighthouse known as the Phare du Petit Minou. For mariners of today and days past, lighthouses guide the way to safety around hidden dangers. A lighthouse seen from an appropriate distance can provide

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The Back Streets of Crete

TDuring our visit to Crete in Greece, I had the opportunity to spend some time walking around the old city of Chania – a city which has been a part of both Greece and the Ottoman Empire over the centuries, although in the modern era it is firmly Greek. I was

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Valletta by Night

Valletta in Malta has to be one of the most stunning cities I’ve ever had the luck to visit. Sailing into Valletta seemed a lot like arriving on a Game of Thrones set. It is a spectacular city in a beautiful nation, with a people that was very inviting.

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Trojan Odeum

This odium (a smaller version of an amphitheatre) is part of the ruins excavated at the ancient city of Troy (Troia or Troya), located near Canakkale in Turkey. Troy has multiple ‘layers’ of ancient cities, dating back to 3,000 BC, with this odium being in the relativelly recent ancient

The Jetty

A photo in Smithsonian Science Chuffed that one of my photos, Wrasse in the Blue, has been published in Smithsonian Science. All my images are published with a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license, and I love it that one of them has been chosen in such an incredible source of science

Central Station

Sydney’s Central Railway Station is the main hub for interstate and country trains. The grand old building is the hub of the station, and makes for some interesting street photography opportunities. I love the architecture here, and could spend hours exploring the station, the platforms and nearby pedestrian tunnels.

The Old Brewery

The Southern Highland’s town of Mittagong is the home of the Old Tooth’s Brewery, a location that is full of magical photo opportunities. Run down and sporting a lot of graffiti, the Old Brewery is a wonderful photographic subject, but should be entered with caution due to the

The Old Tunnel

RIP Lotte Hass As a diver and underwater photographer I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Lotte Hass. She was a pioneer of women in diving, and together with her late husband, Hannes, a pioneer of underwater photography and filmography. The Old Tunnel Helensburgh is a small

Photography

The Blast Furnace

The Ambivert’s Guide to Street Photography I recently read a fascinating ebook called The Ambivert’s Guide to Street Photography by Scott Wyden Kivowitz. I am quite keen on progressing my street photography skills, but I don’t always feel comfortable just taking a photo of someone, and I

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The Wreck at Homebush Bay

Photography Podcasts I love podcasts[1], which are a great way of getting quick info on a huge variety of topics whilst on the go – driving, commuting, running, walking, etc. I am really enjoying some great photo podcasts at the moment, and would suggest the following five to anyone interested