It is easy to create beautiful imagery when the location, subjects, timing and attitude all work together. So often, the circumstances aren’t ideal and the job of a pro photographer is to produce a result no matter what the circumstances are. Many students visit the studio, show their folio and then tell me with each [...]
Another favourite client of mine is Melbourne University. I work closely with the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences illustrating all their different domains and have the pleasure of taking photos of some of the finest minds in the country.
The iPhone is a great device that is offers excellent support for the working pro.
Amongst the 150,000+ apllications that are available through iTunes, I thought I would write a little about 3 applications that are proving very useful and 1 that possibly will make one of our more tedious tasks incredible simple.
I work closely with all my clients and when I travel I often let my clients know where I will be just in case they have any requirements where I am heading. With my latest trip to Perth with Nikon, I organized with Mercedes Trucks to shoot one of there customers for their 2010 calendar. [...]
Dear friends of ours have a beautiful girl who has Cerebral Palsy and she has benefitted from the ground breaking work of the Cerebral Palsy Education Centre (CPEC). The services they provide are world best standard which unfortunately leads to long waiting lists for families to get there children in to the centre, sometimes missing [...]
Today I gave a speech sharing about a parent’s experience of stillbirth for a book launch at the National Library in Canberra of The Bonnie Babes Foundation’s publication “Small Miracles, coping with infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth”. My wife and I were interviewed about our experience of the stillbirth of our little girl Alexandra and [...]
The final talk in the series was held at Phoenix Studios and over 110 photographers came to enjoy the discussion and hospitality. To feed and water the masses we needed 6 cartons of beer, 3 cases of wine tables of nibblies and 35 Pizzas. Again vibrant discussion and a sense generosity of community were features [...]
I have been searching on and off for the perfect camera bag for years and as my equipment changes so do my bag requirements. The latest need has been the desire to look after my back that has been feeling every bit of the last 20 years of lugging equipment around on location over the [...]
Feeling like an in demand rock star, tonight I presented the Value Yourself / Shooting with Speedlights talk in Sydney in one of the best venues yet at the Australian Centre for Photography. Limited to 50 places, tickets this event sold out in just a few hours. Photographers old and new listened and discussed different aspects [...]
Dr Bill Griggs is as passionate about teaching the unique skills of his craft as he is about using them. Bill is a world- renowned authority on trauma medicine and aeromedical retrieval and is one of Australia’s leading intensive care anaesthetics, and medical retrieval specialists. Bill has been deployed on numerous occasions as both a [...]