Painting with Light
I have always had an appreciation of beautiful architecture and good design. Whilst landscapes are manifestations of design by nature, beautiful buildings are examples of grand design by man.
Apartment block in Prahan Melbourne Victoria designed by architect Robert McBride and his wife interior designer Debbie Ryan leading lights in the modern architectural movement.
101 Collins Street is a 260-metre (853 ft) skyscraper located in Melbourne, Australia. The 57-storey building was completed in March 1991 under the design by Denton Corker Marshall Pty Ltd. Towards the end of project, with a change of developer, the foyer space was designed by Johnson Burgee.[1]
The tower is currently the 4th tallest building in Australia when measured up to the tallest architectural point which is the 60-metre-tall spire.
101 Collins Street is a 260-metre (853 ft) skyscraper located in Melbourne, Australia. The foyer was designed by the noted American postmodern architect, John Burgee from New York and features the tranquillity of water, incorporated in four distinct pools. 23 carat gold leaf highlights the surrounds of the two rough water pools. Travertine columns and art works bring a distinct focal point to the two still poolsThe 57-storey building was completed in March 1991 under the design by Denton Corker Marshall Pty Ltd. Towards the end of project, with a change of developer, the foyer space was designed by Johnson Burgee.[1]
The tower is currently the 4th tallest building in Australia when measured up to the tallest architectural point which is the 60-metre-tall spire.
New Mazda Pakenham showrooms designed by Ardent Architects
Collins Place is a shopping and office complex in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Built in 1981, it comprises two office buildings (35 and 55 Collins Street) and a shopping mall in between. Also located at 35 Collins Street is Sofitel Melbourne on Collins.It was initially constructed with the assistance of American Vincent Ponte, the AMP Society and ANZ Bank, the New York firm of Architects, I. M. Pei and Partners and the Melbourne firm of Bates, Smart and McCutcheon as associate architects
Ardent Architects designed this extension to combine modern day living with the aesthetics of the existing 1920's Californian Bungalow style house
The Hampton style interior successfully combines the old look of the 1920's with today's fashions and technological comforts
Ardent's Interior designers took special care
Small Art Deco Town House Kitchen renovation taking an old 1960's kitchen to a modern interpretation harmonious with its 1920's origin.
APA Head Office Southbank - designed by Ardent Architects
Beautiful new fitout by Ardent Architects of the APA Head Office in the IBM Tower at Southbank
Beautiful new fitout by Ardent Architects of the APA Head Office in the IBM Tower at Southbank
Food photography combines my interest in cooking, with styling still-life photography and studio lighting techniques. My internship at Fairfax - The Weekly Review and The Age consisted largely of shooting new Restaurants in Melbourne and their fabulous food. Great way to spend your time!
Shot for The Age - Epicure - Good Food - Not only was it delicious but it was gluten and dairy free. Best breakfast ever!
Shot for The Age - Epicure - Good Food - 481 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, Nick and Naidos Markou have opened a cafe in a quiet stretch of Kooyong - their staff are warm and friendly and their food is fantastic.
Shot for The Age - Epicure - Good Food - Brothers Keeper Cafe Kooyong - coffee or Chai with House made greek biscuits
Shot for The Age - Spectrum - "Lunch with - What a Gig ! When Picture Editor of the Age - Leigh Henningham asked me if I would like to shoot an Interview with Jimmy Barnes at Pelligrinis, I was out the door before the conversation was over. The Age Journalist Martin Boulton interviewed Jimmy Barnes at Pelligini's restaurant Burke Street Melbourne April 7th 2017
Shot for The Age - Spectrum - "Lunch with - March 31 2017 - I photographed the Lunch with Ruby Wax Interview by Age journalist Kylie Northover - Bistrot d'Orsay - Ruby was a delightfully, intelligent, witty and insightful lady. A real pleasure to meet. Ruby chose the Bistrot d'Orsay Lamb.
Shot for The Age - Sport Section - "Four Quarters" - Sam Mitchells Pizza - tomato paste, basil, ham, chilli , capsicum, boccocini cheese and oregano. Sam Mitchell West Coast Eagles footballer formally of Hawthorn. Sam Mitchell interviewed by Tim Boyle - Fratellino Pizzaeria April 7th 2017
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "The Serve" - Oriental Tea - House - Chapel Street South Yarra - provides a wonderful fusion of east meets west April 5th 2017
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "The Serve" - Oriental Tea - House - Chapel Street South Yarra - provides a wonderful fusion of east meets west April 5th 2017
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "The Serve" - Oriental Tea - House - Chapel Street South Yarra - provides a wonderful fusion of east meets west April 5th 2017
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "The Serve" - Pigro’s contemporary menu fuses a blend of modern Australian and International cuisine - 239 Lower Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe, combines elegant dining with a casual family friendly atmosphere
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "The Serve" - Pigro’s contemporary menu fuses a blend of modern Australian and International cuisine - 239 Lower Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe, combines elegant dining with a casual family friendly atmosphere
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "The Serve" - Former Vue de Monde sommelier Rocco Esposito and his wife Lisa Pidutti have opened a restaurant (along with a huge deli/cafe/bar/events space) in a back street of Collingwood -
107 Cambridge Street - April 20th 2017
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "Epicure" - Former Vue de Monde sommelier Rocco Esposito and his wife Lisa Pidutti have opened a restaurant (along with a huge deli/cafe/bar/events space) in a back street of Collingwood -
107 Cambridge Street - April 20th 2017
Shot for The Age - Good Food - "Epicure" - moist and tender Beef.
Shot for The Age - Good Food / Hot Seats - 235 High St, Northcote VIC 3070 - April 21st 2017 - Smashed Peas with beetroot borani labne, feta, black quinoa, haloumi, poached egg on sour dough (VG, GFO) - this little cafe in Northcote just buzzes, with queues out the door!
Shot for The Age - Good Food / Hot Seats - 235 High St, Northcote VIC 3070 - April 21st 2017 - Eggs Benedict with jalapeno and sweet potato rosti, kalser bacon , avocado, two poached eggs, hollandaise (GF) optionall add mushrooms.
Shot for The Age - Good Food / Hot Seats - 235 High St, Northcote VIC 3070 - April 21st 2017 - Mango and Saffron Panna Cotta with vanilla, almond and cranberry granola plus strawberries, passionfruit, raspberry and coconut. Garnished with edible flowers.
Shot for The Age - Spectrum - "Lunch with - March 31 2017 - Lunch with Ruby Wax Interview by Age journalist Kylie Northover - Ruby Wax was delightful, witty, intelligent, socially concerned and insightful.
I have always loved the exquisite natural beauty of nature, and started my professional career as a biology teacher. My photography has helped me capture the awe I aspired to insipire in my students.
Everywhere you look on Norfolk Island you see the evidence of these beautiful spiders. Their parachute shaped silken webs cover the low lying bushes and host colonies of the spiders. The females ''eat" their male suitors who are about 1/10 their size during or immediately after mating.
A chick in my Camelia bush waiting for its mother to return with the worms.
This is a collection of images utilizing my own photographic images combined with a range of Adobe Photoshop Filters and editing techniques. They illustrate the power of Photoshop to turn photography into art.
Photoshop desaturation combined with high pass filters overlayed with an alternative background of glass spheres painted with light.
This image explores Photoshop compositing techniques and advanced studio lighting. Looks like a lot of fun but in reality was a nightmare to temper the chocolate to achieve the glossy melting texture . At the completion of the shoot I had melted chocolate from one end of the studio to the other as the chocolate coated bottle had fallen from its perch several times and needed 'catching' to avoid disaster!
Passing this bar in an Adelaide laneway it struck me that the scene looked like something from another time. Using texture and layered techniques I rendered it into something from the past
This was an exercise to mimic the style used by Vargas in his 1940's pinup style posters.
Photoshop smart filters of Half Tone and Film grain combine to give a comic book effect
This was an exercise to combine 3 images creatively using masking techniques. I thought I had recreated the scene at Anzac Cover fairly realistically until I visited Gallipoli in Turkey earlier this year and found that the beach and cove has no sand at all and the terrain is made up entirely of large smooth coloured pebbles.!
This exercise was to combine several different images each of which had been shot under different lighting situations but shoot it in such a way that the individual images could be combined seamlessly later in Photoshop. The stairs were shot at night in Woolworths car park under halogen and fluorescent lights. The shoe and the woman were shot separately in the day time in a studio using studio flash. All three images were then balanced for colour and combined in Photoshop.
Landscape photography is one of my great loves, particularly the way colours and textures change with the light both over a day and over a year. These images are from some of my favourite places.
Southbank washed in the beautiful Melbourne late afternoon autumn sunlight
Shoot Commisioned by Royal Auto Magazine - Lake Elizabeth is a newborn body of water, birthed by one unseasonably wet year. It rained relentlessly in 1952 in The Otways. But in June the East Barwon River suddenly stopped flowing. A search party was sent upriver to find out what had become of the water. It was discovered a landslide had come down off the valley wall, creating a dam. By August the river had filled the new lake, created a slipway, and was running again. A year later, after more heavy rain, the top twenty-six metres of the landslide dam wall washed away leaving a lake only one fifth as big as its first incarnation. This perched lake is so young its whole lifespan is known.
Venice is a picture postcard at every turn - captured this shot when I looked at the scene next to us whilst we lunched with friends at an outdoors cafe.
The late autumn sunset gave a beautiful golden glow to thes origami style glass boats. These permanent structures in the river depict the letters written back to their homeland by the early South Australian immigrants.
The Arboretum (botanical garden featuring trees) is located on the site of the former Clover Dam construction village. The temporary village was built by the Electricity commission in the 1930s and housed the workers on the Kiewa Valley hydro electricity scheme. The terraced gardens of the original residents remained after the houses were removed at the completion of the project. This tree is located on the site of my family's garden.
Sunrise on the beach - it cannot get any better. The peachy golden glow washed over the glistening sands and reflected an image of a face in the clouds.
Taken during the Formula 1 Grand Prix 2013 from a friends apartment looking down on the track which circumnavigates Albert Park Lake. We could not see much of the race but the sound of the cars was deafening. Just as we stepped out onto the balcony the sun split through the clouds bathing the city of Melbourne in ethereal light.
The late afternoon light highlighed the crazed texture of the dried out river bank making it look like crumpled parchment.
Just about to rain - mirrored trees trapped in the glacial lake mid summer.
The sunrise on this coral island located in the Great Barrier Reef was amazingly beautiful. We were lucky enough to be the only two guests on the private island. It is very isolated and is pristine and ecologically self sustaining. Waking early for a photo shoot was not a problem as you are woken at dawn by the raucous sound of the local bird life as they head out to sea for the days fishing.
The crystal clear air at 1000ft gives a 3D quality to the landscape.
The blue glacial Lake Wakatipu on a early summer evening captures the purity of the mountain atmosphere.
Just before the rain, Wakatipu lake is a mysterious aquamarine constrasting against the purple sky.
I was raised near Falls Creek and loved the splendor of the eucalypt forest. I really saddened me to see the devastation wrought by the bush fires where the heat had been so intense that it actually killed the gum trees so they could not 'regenerate' as they had done in the past. It was ironic that this cruelty of nature had resulted in the most beautiful forrest of silver ghost trees contrasted against the vivid autumn vegetation.
The pale aqua lake mirrors the purple sky of the impending storm; snow capped mountains peek out from the low lying clouds.
Serenity of dawn light with misty fog rising from the valley enveloping the cows massing ready for milking.
Located on the northern end of Lake Wakatipu this operating sheep farm is situated in what only could be described as paradise - it is surrounded by snow capped mountains and a foreshore of the azure blue lake Wakatipu. The colours of everything just 'pop'.
Eirie light in the local cemetary where the graves were mostly of children of Cornish tin and copper miners lured to South Australia with promises of a better life but arrived to find a hot waterless arid landscape and where their families died in droves from typhoid fever.
Looking down from the mountain lookout on the road to Wanaka - you can see for miles due to the clarity of the atmosphere. This day was so windy that using a tripod was out of the question as were were in fear of being blown off the mountain whilst shooting.
I love to travel and experience new cultures but my special love of travel is to explore the light and colours of other countries via my photography.
View from window in aya sofya mosque.
Wedding Photography is both challenging and rewarding. You only get one 'shot' at capturing the joyful couples special day in the way that they anticipate. This is an example of the type wedding photography that I do. It was the wedding of Ellie Clarke and Jeremy Bethell’- March 5th 2016
Ellie and Jeremy met through friends whilst still at school but their friendship did not go any further until Ellie returned from London in 2014, and they met again and the spark of an enduring relationship began. Jeremy proposed early 2015 over a romantic dinner that he had cooked for Ellie and the wedding was planned for early 2016.
Both the Bride and Groom love the rustic ambience of vineyards and they chose to be married at the Brown Brothers Lindenwarra vineyards in Millawa Victoria. The ceremony took place at 5:30pm under the shade of several huge overhanging oak trees, which provided some welcome relief from the blazing 41° C dry north east Victorian heat. Ninety friends and family gathered in the shade to watch the formal ceremony as the local celebrant led the Bride and Groom through their vows. Ellie’s best friends; Tess, Tara and Renee made up the Bridal attendants. Whilst Jeremy’s brother was his best man and his friends Alex and Ross the groomsmen. The ceremony was kept from becoming too serious as the celebrant kept calling Jeremy “jeremany” much to everyone’s amusement. This sense of fun was heightened when Jeremy bungled his vows and everyone laughed including Ellie.
Tess also provided some light relief from formality by adapting a child’s dinosaur story to feature amusing anecdotes about Ellie and Jeremy. She was supported by Ellie’s brother, Will, who read excerpts from Bob Marely’s romantic lyrics.
Fortunately, the heat abated slightly by the end of the ceremony when guests mingled in the Brown Brothers Gardens to enjoy pre-dinner drinks and canapes. After which they were seated in the rustic old barn to witness Ellie and Jeremy perform their first dance as man and wife. Dinner, drinks and speeches followed until Ellie and Jeremy departed to stay at the nearby Lindenwarra resort. They honeymooned the following week in Japan.
Photographing people is a much more interactive two-way experience than photographing nature or still life, both of which are much more introspective and driven by personal taste. Portraiture requires that you not only satisfy your own needs for a good image but your subject's need to be portrayed as they would like to be seen. This requires your absolute commitment and their trust. It is truly an honor to be given that trust.
This image was my favourite from my portfolio series called 'beauty with age'. Dawn in her earlier years was a well known Australian televison and movie actress whose photograph in her youth adorned the national gallery. Her beauty is still very much in evidence. I think it is a great pity that the features that emerge as we age (wrinkles, grey hair, etc) are seen as being something we should cover up and be ashamed of, rather than rejoice in. People’s faces are the canvas portraying the life they have lived, reflections of their joys and sorrows, the wisdom gained and the fears they have faced. Older faces are so much more uniquely beautiful, interesting and intriguing, they communicate so much more than the monotonous smooth botoxed complexions of youth.
Jimmy Barnes - lunch with interview '' with Martin Boulton at Pelligini's Expresson Cafe Burke Street Melbourne - April 7th 2017
Melbourne Comedy Festival - Ruby Wax brings her new one-woman show to the stage. Based on her number-one best seller ‘A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled’, Ruby has been honoured with the title of poster girl for mental illness. Once crazy, now less so, she gives a tour of the mind – how to use it, not lose it. Ruby graduated from Oxford three years ago. Being interviewed at Bistrot d'Orsay by Age Journalist Kylie Northover for Spectrum.
Tim Boyle demonstrates the art of pizza making to Sam Mitchell West Coast Eagles footballer formally of Hawthorn and interviews him for The Age
Corporate photography is the best of both worlds in being able to combine architectural, photojournalism and environmental portrait photography. I particularly enjoy meeting the people that have created the businesses I shoot and my opportunity to assist them in creating images that show their business in the best light.
Experient are a business transformation business that assist organisations in identifying the most effective process and technology solutions to enable them to realise their strategic opportunities. We were engaged to record their work at Snapes 3rd Party Logistics, which is a major Victorian road freight transport, storage and logistics business based in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
Whilst I usually prefer a more considered and planned approach to my photography rather than shooting spontaneously as a reaction to my immediate surrounds, however sometimes those images snapped on impulse in response to my eyes see something amazing are amongst my favourites.
I spotted this maintenance worker on an early morning cleanup of the autumn leaves at the Malthouse Theatre. I had to wait patiently for over 30 minutes until he swept the pile of leaves at the intersection lines of the steps. Reminds me of a Denis Hopper tableau.
This image was shot in the street outside the Istanbul Grand Bazaar in Turkey. Only a small percentage of women in Istanbul dress traditionally and this woman was dressed in such a way that her identity was almost completely concealed . Just as I noticed her, she lifted here selfie stick to capture a shot of herself.
This tiny turkish woman takes a rest from the hot afternoon sun at a market stall in South East Turkey
We stopped for a coffee at a small cafe outside Cappadocia and I looked up to see this old woman sitting in an Alcove overseeing operations.
