The Photo Journey

Yesterday was the sites 1st Birthday. Its been a great year and I wanted to share with you a few stat from the year.

1. Most popular post is my tutorial on Smoke Photography, with 1126 unique visitors.
2. We have had visitors from every continent except Antarctica. America being the largest visitor.
3. Over 100 Unique Visitors a week so far.
4. 50% of you guys use Mozilla Firefox. (Mozilla Rulz)
5. We’ve had 1 visitor from Kenya. Must have been my Qld Athletics post.

The next year will be massive with a  trip to Europe and the 365 Photo Journey. The above image was Day 34’s efforts and below is a quick setup shot to explain how it was taken.

Thanks for all the support over the year and I would love to hear any ideas you have for the site and its content.

Yes I was going to post weekly my results of my 365 photo journey, but I have been so busy (and slack) in updating the blog. So this post is in review of month 1. I will try and keep a weekly or at least fortnightly review post.

This shot is one of my person favourites of the month. Its actually my first photo of the year to make Flickr Explore (#71).

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Well we are 1 week into my 365 Photo Journey Project. Here is my first of 52 blog posts on the progress on the project.

Click on any of the images for more information on the shots. I hope you enjoy them.

Whilst camping at the Gibraltar Range National Park in NSW, we manager to grab this shot 30 minutes into the new year with some glow sticks. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s that time of the year again to revise my 2009 goals and come up with some for 2010.

In 2009 I completed 4.5 of my 7 goals. This year I have 8 goals to complete.

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I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas and that they have been enjoying some time off with their families.

Well the year is nearly over and its time to announce that in 2010 I will be doing a 365 day photo project. Whats a 365 project I hear you say. Well basically the idea is to take at least 1 photo every day of 2010. Some people limit themselves to Self Portraits, black and whites or strobist style shots. I won’t be limiting myself like this however. I want to in the next year take more landscapes, portraits and strobist shots.

I will uploaded the photos as close as possible to daily to my flickr stream and once a week blog about my weeks photos here. There are are numerous groups on flickr that are dedicated to these projects.

• Project 365
• 365: The 2010 edition

The success rates with these projects isn’t particularly high. Hopefully this blog can keep me honest and motivated.

All the best to everyone for the year ahead.

After a massive weekend of photographing babies one day and a formal themed Christmas party the next, I finally had time late on Sunday afternoon to do a few test shots of Hats. A Queensland clothing company has approached me to shoot their hats and shirts for advertising and online sales. I needed to present them an idea of what we can do for them.

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15 years ago I was spellbind by the cover of my year 7 science book.  I didn’t care too much for the words inside, but the cover was amazing. It was a star trail above an observatory dome. It was the first star trail photo I had ever seen and I remember asking the teacher how it was taken. Ever since that day I have dreamt of taking such a shot.

Well I have been doing some research into this style of photography for the last year or so and I finally got myself organised to give it a go here in Brisbane before I head back to the Mid North Coast of NSW next weekend where there will be a nice black night thanks to the new moon. The perfect conditions for star trails.

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Well its that time of the year again. Canon’s Photo 5 competition. So this years competition is a little different. Not only have we got new items but we also have briefs. The first item I decided to attack was the Bokeh star hoods they supplied.

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Last week I shot, processed and delivered my first ever maternity shoot. It was partly due to a friend recommending me and the other part a kick in the bum from Zack Arias and his recent post – Call to Action. Zack has been inspiring us photographers that have been sitting on the dock to make the jump and push ourselves photographically.

Our friends Jayne and Simon are expecting the birth of their first child this Friday, September 11th 2009.  And before its a little too late we headed out for a maternity shoot.  Not only was it my first maternity shoot but it was also my first non family shoot and well my first ever outdoor strobist attempt.

Zack Arias has challenged us to Serve someone with our cameras, in such a way that we as photographers will break free from our self criticism of “ I’m not good enough yet.” Read the rest of this entry »

I’m a big fan of Chase Jarvis and he is a massive advocate of photographers doing their own self funded projects.  Projects like these are great for learning new techniques and pushing our boundaries. They also will look great in a portfolio. Who knows these projects may get you a gig some day. I for one won’t be saying no to Football Australia if they asked me to do a similar shoot for the A-League or W-League.

I’m also a massive fan of Zack Arias. Zack is very much all about pushing yourself and making sure you enjoy doing what we do. What better may to make homage to his ideals then to make the photo project a white background shoot. Zack has some amazing seamless white shots on his site and has even got a tutorial on how to setup yourself with one. Something I will do one day.

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