off to Western Australia

I am off to Perth this weekend to help judge the West Australian Australian Institute of Professional Photography annual awards. I am very excited to have been invited but also very nervous as I will be speaking at their seminar, too! It'll be a great privilege and I am sure a very inspiring week! I'm really looking forward to it...Hopefully get time to post something whilst I am there. I won't be home until next weekend.

Dana's new blog

Just thought I would share with you that Dana, who creates the most gorgeous christening gowns has a newly designed blog to show of her wonderful creations. You can have a look at the work she does through the link here on her name or in my list of links at the side...Great work Dana!! The thing I love about Dana's site is the amazing amount of information she has about christenings......she should write a book!

http://uniquechristeninggowns.blogspot.com/

Saturday Arvo series

Over the least few months I have been adding to a new project slowly about Saturday Arvo's...Today it was time on my sister and brother-in-law's farm after finishing work. It was also an excuse to capture some shots for my upcoming "Fathers and Sons" work to be exhibited at M16 Artspace from the 4th September this year during VIVID.

The Saturday Arvo theme came about from spending many a weekend working with portraits and weddings and thinking whilst I obviously should produce lovely images for my clients I always shoot some for me too...in between jobs and always making time to stop the car and capture something that inspires, no matter how banal. I guess I aim to be able to shoot this sort of work when I can as its an amazing world out there, even though it passes us by without so much of a blink!

Here's a couple of saturday arvo on the farm....

Clea and Leo's Apple farm

Clea and lo's Apple farm

Two weeks catch up!!

WOWee have i been busy!! Have desparately being playing catch up after being off work for 2 weeks recovering from my appendix op!...Just thought I would post a few photos from some recent poppet portraits!

Looking forward to catching up with Lee Grant tomorrow for lunch...It will be great to meet a most fantastic photographer who lives locally!

AIPP Australian Photographic Print Awards 2008

Well, APPA is done for another year and this year was one of my least successful having only two silver with distinction awards....Don't get me wrong I am VERY happy with the scores I received. I cannot complain after all the stuff that has happened in my life this year, culminating in my having my appendix out last week. I am really over the moon for my dear friend Mercury from Melbourne success who enbded up taking out Australian Portrait Photographer of the Year as well as the big prize of Australian Professional Photographer of the Year. He deserves it and the images he entered are amazing!!! Hopefully, next year it'll be me...The image here is one of the shots I entered which had much great debate. Thanks to David Oliver who loved the shot and managed to convince the other judges of its merit!

Still recovering today and hopefully back at work next week....see you all then!