Photografica Blog
my dream photography kit 2013
I originally posted this on my other site, iteachphotographers.com but thought a good old cross post wouldn't hurt at all 🙂 Imagination is key for creatives, and I like to think I have my share. So I thought I would shed some of it working up my dream photography kit. In [...]
High Speed Flash
I started to look into the various possibilities of high speed flash, and what I thought was a relatively simple area of photography quickly expanded and my investigations seemed to find no end. So I thought I should blog my findings here, as I was a bit frustrated about the [...]
Scout Photo shoot
As a Sunshine Coast photographer, I love doing portraits, and even more so when It's one of my kids. Here are a bunch of images I took of my beautiful daughter Scout last year in natural light on our balcony. I've just been going through my back catalogue and thought [...]
The Politics of Public Photography
It's a weird world. It really is. The politics of public photography moves with the times of course, but right now it's in a radical right wing phase. Over the course of the 30 years I've been putting a camera to my eye, the way people generally have responded to [...]
From the trenches
From my perspective as a photography teacher, I see how aspirational professionals view photography, and I'm a part of how it's taught. It's a massively changing industry at the moment which makes it a moving target as far as teaching is concerned, but it keeps us on our toes. At [...]
The Wind and the Sun
I came across this little story watching one of the best episodes of Mad Men I’ve ever seen (Series 4, Episode 8). It impressed me so much I’ve transcribed it, and printed it out and stuck it to my fridge. Now a blog could be seen in some ways as [...]
Zack Arias @ Creative Live
What are YOU doing this weekend? If you like getting up at 3am, this is what I'd recommend....
The acceleration of almost everything
I remember a book of the same name. I never read it, as I was too busy... (boom boom) But I'm feeling the sentiment of late. There never seems to be enough time. Everything has to be done in a hurry. Or in my case, there is not enough time [...]
Influence
Here is a recent shot I took for a theatre company for an upcoming play by David Williamson, called Influence. It was a pretty decent play.