Winter Is Coming...

Winter is still over 2 months away but I’m already excited.

I LOVE cold places. I often catch myself day dreaming of snow, mountains, lakes and frozen forests.

These are some of my favourite images from adventures to cold places.

Out the back of a small set of trees at the peak of Iwatake mountain is a bakery with a deck off the side of the ski resort. This is the view from that deck while I enjoyed my coffee and cinnamon scroll.

Zac and I hiking up Lotte Arai Hokkaido before one of the best runs of our life.

Outside a small burger joint in the Hakuba lives a converted old school bus where you can enjoy a beer and a burger after a day on the slopes. Pitvipers, beers, snowboarding 🏂

One of my favourite days boarding was actually on a day of average snow. We hit the park and I set up one of the jumps. Once the park rats worked out that that dude standing on the side of the jump was holding a camera… they began to send it. This guy was super cool.

The open plains in between the mountains of the Mt Cook, Aoraki area New Zealand. We wish we were going on that chopper.

White out in back country Hokkaido Japan.

You can find a vending machine on almost every street in Japan.

Horse riding in Glenorchy New Zealand is up there with one of my favourite experiences. Also Glenorchy is one of my favourite places to visit. It feels like your in last settlement on the edge of the world. It is absolutely gorgeous.

Hidden Trail Riding With Sam Fraser - MTB

At the crack of dawn professional mountain bike athlete Sam Fraser and I crept our way through the bush at Brisbanes Mt Coot-Tha to a hidden bike track he knew to rip some lines.

Sam is a sponsored DHARCO athlete and also has his own company assembling top of the line MtBike tyre assemblies Gibson Components.

In preparation for an up coming pitch Sam an I ran through some close up wides, telephoto key hole hole and lifestyle shots. Im super excited to the image library I’m assembling this weekend when we head to the famed Boomerang Park MTB.

Be sure to check out Sam’s Instagram reels to see him sending some wild back flips and monster whips!

Kelly Dixon & Graeme Connors

They may be a little more seasoned from the outback sun but these country music legends still have as much creativity in them as ever.

I have worked with GC on a few projects before so when he rung me with the opportunity for another I was already there.

For a new project he is working on he has brought in acclaimed song writer and poet Kelly Dixon, who has penned over 160 songs including 40 for Slim Dusty.

Kelly is 96 but as sharp as a tack, and listening to these two artists stories and watching them work was truly inspirational.

Selfie Mode

Sometimes when I capture an image, the thought enters my mind: ‘Will this be the last image I ever take?’ ‘Is this the last image my subject will ever have taken of them?’ This somber thought reminds me of our mortality and brings me into the present moment.

As a photographer, I have the privilege of meeting the most amazing, interesting and talented individuals. However, I never have any images of myself with these incredible humans capturing those cherished memorys.

Inspired by a photographer I draw great inspiration from Platon, I sought to remedy this…Welcome the selfie button. A device typically used by landscape photographers to remotely trigger their shutter when taking long exposures, this piece of equipment has become a staple on every shoot.

At the end of a portrait session I always ask my subject if they would allow me to take a selfie with them to commemorate the occasion, this is always immediately met with a ‘hells yeah’ and a smile as I set up the device for us both to stand in front of the camera.

Drawing inspiration from 1990’s/2000’s punk albums I use a wide angle lens and get us to come in really close to emphasis the wide angle effect. With the screen flipped we can both see the results and it is instantly met with laughter, smiles and high fives.

This has become one of my favorite parts of my portrait sessions and cant wait to see who I may get to share the lens for a moment with in the future.