The alarm went off. Morning already? 4:30am. Time to grab some toast and coffee before packing the photo gear into the car. We were about to drive to Daintree and Cape Tribulation, about two and a half hours north of home. We hadn’t been there for over a year, and since we had a free [...]
Today, we visited the Barron River at Kamerunga, looking for a crocodile that had been reported in the area. Unfortunately, it was nowhere to be seen, but I did manage to shoot some Welcome Swallows that are nesting in the area. If you watch closely five seconds from the start, you will see a swallow [...]
Our first trip on Skyrail shooting aerial footage of the Barron Falls was successful, even though there was mist on the falls making some of the shots less than ideal. A week later, we had a beautiful, sunny day and Louise and Evan guided us on another trip in the open air gondola. I ended [...]
In order to obtain some aerial footage for the Barron River documentary I approched Skyrail for help. We will need to shoot on a few different occasions in order to show different states of the Barron Falls, the river and the rainforest. On Saturday we did the first shoot to capture wet season flooding. I can’t [...]
This series of articles attempts to explain some of the nuts and bolts of photography for people who want to get past the auto mode on their camera and gain more control over their photographs. I’ll be glossing over or sometimes completely ignoring some of the more advanced aspects in the interest of brevity. Photography [...]
On Sunday, Roz and I decided to get up early and see if we could get some video and photos of the Queen Mary 2 liner on its one-day visit to Cairns.
The Panasonic HDC-SD90 (and HDC-TM90) has several good features that interest me for shooting nature. It has a 26x zoom lens with minimal flaring and chromatic aberration. It has manual control, albeit with rather clumsy menu driven control, and it produces quite a good quality HD video picture for a consumer camcorder. But there were [...]
My wife Roz and I often go on weekend photo trips around the Cairns area together. We have pretty much the same camera set-up, except for a few accessories, which we share. Roz is a bit more daring than I am when it comes to finding shots, and I’ll often turn around to find her [...]
Update: Both Channel 7 and Channel 10 used my video in their evening news stories about the croc capture. See video at the bottom of the page. On one of our trips to find interesting things to film for the Barron River Documentary on Saturday morning we came across a crocodile trap that had been [...]
In 2010 I got together over the Internet with four other YouTube musicians to create a collaboration video. We decided to perform a cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb from the 1979 album The Wall. The plan was to put us all together on the same virtual stage, even though we were all in completely [...]