Photography

A little earlier today I briefly wrote about the little road trip that I went on this weekend just been, well I’ve managed to download and edit a few of the photos so I figured it was worth putting together a quick post with the photos.

There’s nothing too special here photo wise, mostly we didn’t have the time to stop to put the time into a great landscape shoot and we were also traveling through the middle of the day and with the sun so high overhead it’s a bit more difficult to really do the landscape justice.

So here you go, some photos from outback New South Wales.

The first photo is the main reason I went to Bourke, Splashe Cola! This stuff is seriously so addictive that it should be illegal, or at least prescribed. Fortunately for me, and my dentist, we only bought two bottles of the stuff but neither of them made it back to Newcastle.

This was what most of the scenery looked like once we got west of the Great Dividing Range, there were few areas that were different from this.. Man is that sun harsh!

140km fish eye!

Random dirt road somewhere outside of Bourke. I remember it being a little more red than this however with the sun so high and harsh it’s a bit more difficult to capture.

On the way back we came via Tamworth and the Oxley Highway. We were doing about 120km / hr when I saw the turn off to Aspley Falls, some how I managed to stop the car in time to make the turn into the parking area. After a bit of a hike down some stairs that hung out over the cliff face I managed to setup my camera over the side of the viewing platform to shoot this. It’s a long drop!

When I was a little kid I used to go fishing with my grandfather here, Queens Lake near Laurieton, NSW. The lake is exactly how I remembered it, though there is a little more bird poop on the end of the jetty than there was back then.

Anyway, that’s it for the road trip photos. We, Cath and I, shot a load more but mostly there too similar to this so I wont bother further boring you.

Catch you round, Matt

I went and covered the Parkway Drive gig at Newcastle Panther’s on Thursday night for I’m With The Band.

For those of out there who aren’t into hardcore and / or dont know who Parkway Drive are,

I photographed the Amathyst, Skura gig at The Cambirdge Hotel the other night for I’m With The Band. I’ve been good friends with the girls for a year or two now and have photographed plenty of their shows so it was a pretty easy gig to shoot from that point of view as you don’t have a band getting a little nervous, or annoyed, when someone is sticking a camera right up in their face.

Every now and then I like to get a little DIY, a little ‘blokey’, a little ‘handy matt’, and today is one of those days.

We have this space in between two of our bedrooms and outside of a bathroom which is too small to do anything with but leaving it bare kind of looks bad, as well as needing some furnishing to hide the bad choice of the previous owners decision to locate the phone line. Anyway I’ve been looking around for a hall table or something similar to put in this spot but cant find anything that suits or is reasonably priced, so today I’m going to build something for it.

I’ll be documenting the building process and writing a bit of a ‘how to’ guide so that anyone who’s interested can build their own, or atleast be inspired to try something similar. For now I’ll leave you with the ‘before’ photo which shows you the blank space I have to work with.

Well it’s that time of year when everything is very, very festive, there’s houses lit up everywhere with Christmas lights and if you followed the tutorial over at Strobist you should have some fantastic Christmas light photos now.

In a couple of days Christmas will be over and New Years will be rapidly approaching, and you know what that means BIG BIG Fireworks!!My good mate Tim Christie has worked in the pyrotechnic industry for a while and being a great photographer he’s naturally photographed a bunch of the displays he’s worked on. Tim and I have had a few conversations in the past about the best ways to photograph fireworks and being the great guy he is he’s gone and written a tutorial on how to photograph fireworks! Talk about good timing!

Anyway, head on over to Tim’s website and have a good read of his tutorial on How To Photograph Fireworks!