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AN ADELAIDE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

June 28, 2017

I stirred at around 8:30 this morning and my mind was hazy. I glanced over at my phone and it had blown up. Turns out it was just some messages about a dinner on Sunday and nothing to do with photography, but still, pretty exciting. Five hours earlier I was shovelling a yiros into my […]

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August 30, 2016

UPDATE – Below is the post I wrote several month ago about the SA Professional Photography Awards (SAPPAs). Just yesterday the National Awards (APPAs) were judged, I entered the same photos and managed to jag 3 silver awards – a better result than at the State Awards!! *** Last weekend the cream of the SA photography […]

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July 29, 2015

It can be a pretty lonely gig as a wedding photographer. Sure, the weddings themselves are ridiculously social and fun, but that’s only 30 or 40 days of the year. The rest of the time is spent behind a keyboard editing photos, designing albums, doing admin and resisting the urge to locate and watch all the cat […]

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September 17, 2013

Each year around the country there are literally hundreds of photo competitions, from your local camera club to your school fete right up to big companies running a photo related promotion like this one from Peter Alexander (by the way, don’t even bother entering this, our 19 year old cat Isabelle already has her paws […]

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June 6, 2012

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The voting is now on for Adelaide’s best wedding photograph! Atkins Technicolour is running their annual competition so why not head on over and take a look at the best Adelaide has to offer, you can also cast a vote for your favourite image and be in the running to win a $250 voucher.

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August 2, 2010

Four important rules for landscape photography: 1 . Shoot at sunrise or sunset, not during the middle of the day 2 . Use a tripod 3 . Use a wide angle lens to capture the whole scene 4 . Be patient and wait for great light

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July 12, 2010

Yes, you read that right, this week’s blog is all about how I made $20,000 in just 24 hours!! Two words people – Photo Competitions.

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May 18, 2008

If you’re a regular follower of my blog you may have read this post a few months back. Rather than give you the background to the Shoot London events again I’ll suggest you take a squiz at the other entry and then return to this one. So this time round the event was held at […]

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April 5, 2008

What’s this, a Blog update on a Saturday? Yeah, that’s right, just another example of my unconventional approach to photography and my total disregard for society’s conventions. I write this 7 days after another fantastic photographic treasure hunt, this time round it was Shoot Portobello. This is the third such event that my cohorts and […]

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