About Me
I am a stunningly good landscape photographer who is able to turn the most inconsequential blade of grass into an image of incomparable beauty sand sophistication.
LOL! Nearly had you there didn’t I. Its partly true though. I am a landscape photographer. But the rest… well you be the judge.
I live in a small country town about an hour out of Melbourne, Australia. I travel throughout our great southern land as often as I can making images of an ancient continent ravaged by time and the elements.
I work in both colour and B&W as the mood and the land inspire me.
Over the years I have used a variety of cameras, from 35mm film to medium format Hasselblad’s and a large format 4×5 wooden field camera. The Hasselblad V-system is my favourite. It offers a good image size (I happen to really like the 6×6 square format), nice bright viewfinder, great lens choices, and modular accessories.
On the digital front, some of my images have been shot with a little Canon Powershot 2MP, others with a Sony a200 10MP. A Sony a7r is coming along real soon now. The beauty of that camera is that I can use any lens I want (with the appropriate adaptor), including my stable of Hasselblad prime lenses.
My film images are scanned on an Imacon, where the medium format images end up at between 40 and 60 megapixels, and the 4×5 scans being over 80 megapixels.
I do a reasonable amount of work on images in both Lightroom and Photoshop – colour correction, contrast and tone, sharpening, etc. An image is rarely perfect straight out of the camera. What you capture in camera is often just the starting point.
I used to have a darkroom, which I got a great deal of enjoyment from, but once I started printing digitally (Epson 2000 followed by Epson 3800 and 7800) I found I could achieve a much higher degree of accuracy, control and repeatability.
