It is very nice when your work is noticed. There is an article about me in the March 2011 edition of America’s Professional Photography Magazine. The article features a personal project of mine that celebrates people who offer their time and skills to make a difference. The project is called gratis.
Last night I photographed an function at Victoria’s Government House where Professor Graeme Clark was awarded the prestigious Lister Medal, the most distinguished award in surgery, for his pioneering work with the cochlear implants.
I grew up in Canberra, and the school Narrabudah College, where I went to for years 11 & 12 was pivotal in me choosing my career as a photographer. This was mainly due to the inspiring photography teacher I had, Les Kovacs.
My parents and sister live there and I wanted to visit home, so I recently organized talks in Canberra for the ACMP at the Canberra Institute of Technology. I presented a talk on Photography Pricing as well as my Speedlight Talk & Demonstration.
Photographers love industry events that are social, inspiring and affordable. Whenever I travel somewhere I look at the possibility of creating an event with either myself or somebody I “volunteer” to be the speaker.
This particular job I was working on had a very pressing deadline with local and interstate shoots needed to be done within 5 days while working around already booked jobs. I ended up shooting one of the trucks from Midnight to 5am 2 hours drive out of Brisbane, and having the owner of a major trucking company meet me at 5am to drive the truck along the local freeway.
I photographed another inspiring subject for my Gratis project today.
Dr Lachlan Fraser is a resident of Marysville and survived the devastating bushfires of February 2009. He was instrumental in re-establishing medical services for the community and a tireless creater of projects that brought the community together.
Tourism Australia is running a competition inviting all Australians to participate in their next tourism campaign, but it is a big problem.
The Australian Commercial and Media Photographers (ACMP) has launched its new wesbsite.
I am fortunate to work with the organization the Australian Community of Child Photographers (The ACOCP). I have been featured in a magazine article about our work. I invite you to read the article, click here;
As mentioned previously, the Australian Commercial and Media Photographers (ACMP) home to the country’s best professional photographers, has a project with the support of PICA to produce mini documentaries featuring some of the country’s leading photographers. The project is called the ACMP Photographer Diaries. We already have a channel on YouTube, we have just set up [...]