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November 1, 2011

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We threw a pretty big office party for our first Melbourne Cup together this year. As luck would have it I managed to win the sweep!    CONTACT ME – VIEW MY WEBSITE – GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FACEBOOK

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October 18, 2011

Does anyone on the internet know the protocol between photographing something and subsequently blogging it? Anyone? No? Good. In that case I’m going to resume my series of Africa blogs which are rapidly becoming a distant memory. When you think of African wildlife you think of lions, elephants, leopards, hippos, giraffes, rhinos and a bunch […]

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October 13, 2011

The Lane wedding

Just a quick sneak peek of a recent wedding I shot at the stunning Lane Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills. The weather had been horrendous all week and the relentless rain caused a last minute change of location for the ceremony, I was fearful that an area I’d scouted for photos 2 weeks earlier would […]

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October 4, 2011

adelaide bride, adelaide bridesmaids

What better way to celebrate the first day of daylight savings than a stunning outdoor wedding late in the afternoon taking full advantage of the extra hour of light? Ali and Andrew chose to have their ceremony and reception at the gorgeous Howard Vineyard in the Adelaide Hills and after a week of heavy rain […]

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September 28, 2011

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I thought I’d try something a bit different with the blog this time round and focus on one specific photo, in particular how I shot and processed it.  There are still plenty of Africa blogs to come (I haven’t even touched 2 weeks of amazing safaris) but there’s still the daunting task of facing thousands […]

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September 23, 2011

Just imagine it’s a cold winter’s night and you decide to head down to AAMI stadium to watch Port Power take on another lowly side (presumably because you got free tickets). As the match kicks off there’s a lot of empty seats in the ground, in fact you’ve never seen so few people at an […]

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September 16, 2011

As we boarded the ferry from Zanzibar to Dar Es Salaam we made a point of sitting outside to enable an easy escape should the worst occur. Just 7 days later the worst did occur on a ferry leaving Zanzibar and 200 lives were lost. Tragedies like this are a good reminder of our own […]

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September 13, 2011

Here’s the thing. When you see friends’ travel photos, or pictures in tourism brochures, or documentaries on TV about remote tribes living off the land in third world countries it’s hard to believe that they actually exist. I mean, in 2011 are there actually more than a handful of people who live in mud huts? […]

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August 31, 2011

A few weeks ago I blogged about falling into an unexpected teaching position at a Ugandan primary school. I finished that email with a promise that my next blog would be about a project we undertook that the kids absolutely loved and would remember for the rest of their lives. I then proceeded to write […]

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August 13, 2011

After a false start in the classroom teaching year 5s how to draw draw an equilateral triangle with only a compass and a ruler we had a chat with the volunteer coordinator about doing something that even vaguely matched the description we’d been given before the placement began. The area is renown for it’s primates, […]

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