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13 Dec Posted by sengmah in Event, Projects, Publications, Venture Blog | 1 comment

Boaties, Books and Beer at the “Gun’s Up!” Book Launch

You couldn’t ask for a better afternoon to launch a book about surf-rowing. The sun was out, a refreshing sea breeze blew from the Indian Ocean into the Scarboro Surf Club Function Room, the bar was open and the beer was cold. Gun’s Up! is a book which I am very proud to have produced....

02 Dec Posted by sengmah in Events, Exhibitions, Models, Photo Shoots, Projects, Venture Blog | 1 comment

60 Kisses – 60 Minutes

Kissing. Pashing. Snogging. Whether a chaste peck on the cheek or a full-on exercise in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the kiss is synonymous with romance. With intimacy. With love. “You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss,” crooned Louis Armstrong. While musing on what I could possibly shoot as my theme for the 60 Minute...

12 Sep Posted by sengmah in Books, Projects, Venture Blog | Comments

Flags up! Gun’s up! In!

I’ve just finished putting the first cut of the Gun’s Up! book together. There is still much to be done: the photographs need to be proofed before the first proof of the book is even published (by eCPrint in Rockingham), but this is a major milestone and comes with a mixture of relief, elation and...

10 May Posted by sengmah in Books, Projects | Comments

Gun's Up! front + back cover concepts

So I started playing around with design and concepts for the front and back cover of “Gun’s Up!”. Would appreciate your thoughts and feedback on the layout. I wanted to the cover to show both the people (hence portrait) and the sport (hence action shot), and thought that given the rough and tumble of surf-rowing,...

09 May Posted by sengmah in Photo Shoots, Projects, Venture Blog | Comments

Gun’s Up! Portrait Series: The Bowler Boys – Steve, Shane, Todd and Troy

For some families, rowing is in the blood. The Bowlers is one such clan, an intrinsic part of the WA surf-rowing scene since almost forever. Steve Bowler sweeps for the Open Men’s crew at City Beach; his eldest son, Shane, takes fourth seat in the crew. Shane’s younger brothers, Todd and Troy, have all crewed...

09 May Posted by sengmah in Photo Shoots, Projects, Venture Blog | Comments

Gun’s Up! Portrait Series: The Cott V Boys – Alex Davies, Jay Parkin, Paul Bossong, Jarrad Dorey and Jeff Burling

I shot the second series of portraits for the Gun’s Up! book on Saturday. The focus, this time, was on the Cott V, a crew who have rowed together for five years straight for Cottesloe SLSC.

18 Apr Posted by sengmah in Projects, Venture Blog | Comments

Gun’s Up! Portrait Series: Colin Burling, Jeff Burling and the Burling boys

Gun’s Up! is a book project dedicated to the sport of surf rowing. For the unitiated, surf rowing is a surf life saving sport that pits a crew of boaties (rowers and a sweep) against the wild and roaring ocean with nothing more than a heavy wooden boat between them and the elements. It’s a...