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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...

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...

15 Feb Posted by sengmah in reportage, Venture Blog | Comments

Old guns at “Guns up”!

It was a perfect morning by all accounts — blue skies with wisps of clouds, hardly a breeze and the Indian ocean as flat and calm as a Buddhist monk’s thoughts; but this was no serene start to the day for the band of boaties gathered at City Beach on Valentine’s Day Sunday. The old...