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...
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.
Matt Goyder is an imposing fella, a giant of a man with equally imposing tattoos on both his arms. Goyder, as he prefers to be called, collects weapons: sais, swords, katanas, butterfly knives – you name it. When a bloke like this asks you to do a weapons-based shoot in the studio, you don’t say...
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...
The workshops and courses that show you how to use your DSLR effectively are proving to be very popular! Last week, Greg Perry and I conducted the first “Maximising your DSLR” photography workshop for Perth photographers this year. It didn’t take long for this course to fill after we announced it; so much so that...