The Photo Journey

Well its been a little quite here on the blog the last few weeks as we are on holidays in the UK and Europe. We are 2 weeks into the trip and so far have been to the UK and Turkey for ANZAC Day at Gallipoli.

The Icelandic Volcano did its best to upset our trip but with some last minute changes we still managed to make it to Istanbul all be it 2 days late. We just had to tag onto our tour and miss seeing some great parts of Istanbul.

It was decided we needed a shot of our tour group and well since I have decided to drag my tripod around for the 6 weeks of travel it looked like a fine time to put it to good use.

So to all the guys we traveled with here it is. I’ll upload more of my Anzac tour photos once I get home and process them. It was a very moving experience to do the dawn service in Gallipoli.

Well this is just a quick post to keep you updated and there will be plenty more to come as we head off to Greece, Italia, France and then back to the UK in the next month.

I have spent this weekend shooting the Queensland Open & Under 18 Track & Field State Championships held at the QSAC.

I was lucky enough to be granted photographic accreditation for the event, and the whole weekend was a huge learning curve. I have taken around 1000 images for the 2 days of competition and will start the task of processing them tomorrow once I get my laptop working again. Its decided to have a few power issues this weekend.

Any athletes wishing to get digital copies of the images please contact me via the contacts page and supply me with their race number. I will upload a bunch of images on my flickr account and display more images here soon. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t have a massive kit but it is growing every year. Before I got this gear I shot with a  very reliable and powerful 6 Megapixel, 10x optical , 1 inch screen point and shoot by FujiFilm. The S5000 and this thing still gets rave review. It took allot of growing to grow out of. I still use to document setup shots and head to parties that I dare not take the 40D.

Canon 40D

This is my current and first DSLR camera. It has a very simply yet powerful navigation panel, 5.5 fps with up to 75 images captured in a sequential order, a massive 3 inches of screen and so much more. It was one of the first SLR camera’s to incorporate its LCD for composing an image like most point and shoot camera’s do. This function is called Liveview and yeah its has its uses.

Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS

Ah yes my most favorite lens in my arsenal. I refer to it as “The Canon” as this baby gives me plenty of reach and response when its action I’m after. I actually bought this before I bought my camera body. This one lens was the swinging factor of whether to go Canon or Nikon. If your after some fast glass well this is the one to start with. Perfect for sports, nature, portraits and low light photography. Read the rest of this entry »