Lately I’m feeling much more inclined to shoot in portrait, or vertical orientation using a tripod – thanks to this indispensable gadget: It remains a mystery how I survived without this L-Plate from Really Right Stuff (RRS) for so long! In fact, I’d go so far as saying that no sane tripod user should leave…
Rain, hail, gales, rainbows, waterfalls and even a waterspout made for a memorable return to the Great Ocean Road after an absence of five years. This time around it was a wintry four-day visit to the Port Campbell area with my brother Scott from Early Bird Photography. It’s a real roll of the dice weather-wise…
It gives me great pleasure to announce my upcoming exhibition in the 2018 Head On Photo Festival. As a landscape photographer, high megapixels, interchangeable lenses, filters, tripods, and heavy bags of equipment are my tools of trade. My lenses are normally trained on Sydney’s coastline, Australian landscapes and the great outdoors. So it might come…
Whether I’m in the city or back home in the bush, the first thing I do each morning is check out the sky. In fact, I could happily sit back and gaze skywards all day … as long as there are clouds, that is. Maybe it’s the country boy in me, but I do feel…
Taking in a superb Inverell sunset is one of the simple pleasures I enjoy most about my visits back home. There’s no better spot for this than the top end of Lake Inverell. Not only is it easily accessible, tranquil and often teeming with native birds, but also a sunset over water always has that…
Crawling my way out of Sydney in the interminably slow stream of northbound traffic, I knew it felt a lot like Easter. The reward for this curious ritual was to spend the long weekend with family in Inverell. It was shaping up to be my only autumn visit to the New England for this year,…
This Christmas, like many others before, we loaded up the car and made the long road trip from Sydney to spend time with family back home at Inverell in northern New South Wales. As usual I packed the camera bag. And as usual, I knew it would be difficult (and yes, a wee bit anti-social!)…
I thought it was time that I started a regular, newsletter style blog post to spread the word about what’s been happening at Girt By Sea Photography. After all, that’s the whole point of having a blog, isn’t it? I’ve been a little slack on this front, so I feel that I have some catching…
My latest short escape from the city was to the laid-back coastal town of South West Rocks on the New South Wales mid-north coast – about half way between Sydney and Brisbane. The highlight for me was time spent on the beaches of an early morning and late afternoon. Thick cloud clung lazily to the…
The Berner Oberland Bahn train leaves bang on time from Interlaken. This is Switzerland after all, where you can set your watch by the trains. Soon we climb gently alongside the fast running waters of the Weisse Lütschine river. The clanging of cowbells signals that we’re well and truly in the mountains; and keeping time…