The Australand Coogee Jetty to Jetty Swim is back for 2010 - on Sunday 7th March - and I'll be there to cover it for organisers Cockburn Masters Swimming Club. This ocean swim, held on the 1st Sunday in March following the Labour Day long weekend,...
As an alternative to workshops, I started offering individual photography tuition in late 2009 -- more so for people who wanted to purchase a one-on-one workshop as a gift for a family member, partner or friend. While, cost-wise, the one-on-one photo tutorials are more expensive...
Punters with an interest in Adobe Lightroom and workflow streamlining should consider the upcoming 2-day intensive workshop by Jerry Courvoisier at Team Digital (21 Feb - 22 Feb). Billed as "a smooth application experience with emphasis on learning to download, organize, manage, develop, and present digital...
Happy New Year! The 1st of January is traditionally a day of recovery -- from the celebratory excesses of the night before. It is also a day for new resolutions, and the resolve to keep them in the year ahead. If you're a bit strapped for resolutions,...
To all friends, associates and customers - have a very happy Christmas and a fantastic start to 2010!...
My first love in photography has always been reportage and documentary. Having the opportunity to shoot for the Australian Surf Rowers League (ASRL) as the official photographer of their Western Australian events, takes me back to the purity of the medium and its ability to tell...
As a photographer, one sometimes gets caught up in the need to earn some dollars, gain some exposure and exhibit one's art; so much so that it's often easy to forget that, sometimes, shooting for others can be a whole lot more rewarding than shooting...
The renewal of art spaces in Northbridge continues with this recent entry into the Perth exhibition and performance scene: Sound Kitchen, at 57 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge. Sound Kitchen is a cafe/restaurant with its heart in the right place: the provision of good food and a space...
Portrait photography can be a challenge. It's not just about pointing the camera at your subjects, asking them to smile and firing the shutter. The best portraits are about the subjects: allowing the people being photographed to look their best and their most natural, without the...
Chris Jordan's body of work concerns our mass consumerist culture and its distressing and tragic fallout. It's difficult to look at Jordan's works and not be affected by the themes that they present. His photographs are a sad indictment of consumerism and its impact on...