Yesterday I went out chasing storm that was about to hit Canberra, these are time lapsed videos of the storm developing from Higgins and then the back of Dunlop. It got very, very, nasty after this and I packed up quickly and got out of there.

This footage was shot as HD 1080p video on a Pentax k5 with a 10-20mm lens. The wide angle lens while revealing a lot of the sky, it has the effect of making the action seem quite far away. The resulting footage was then sped up in Final cut to achieve the time lapse effect.

These macro photos are of the Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly or Large Citrus Butterfly taken in my backyard inCanberra Australia with a Pentax k-5 and Sigma 70-300mm zoom macro. We get a lot of these flying around in summer but these ones where hanging around our lemon trees.

This is my second videoclip  for my tranquilistics song “Ruled by Venus”, again completed some time ago the version posted on this was a Flash based file and I’m trying to make this site accessible to all devices. This is the Youtube hosted version that should be playable on iOS devices.

Previous Flash version with my notes

This is my first video for my tranquilistics song “Grand Illusions”, while this was completed some time ago the version posted on this was a Flash based file and I’m trying to make this site accessible to all devices. This is the Youtube hosted version that should be playable on iOS devices.

Previous Flash version with my notes

This time-lapse video is of a graffiti mural for out end of year exhibition Momentum 2012. The artists are Nick and Byrd and the time-lapse created over 4 hours with two GoPro’s and 2 video cameras. The hardest thing about this sequence was juggling the batteries of the cameras over the long time-fame. The final wall was set behind the bar at the exhibition opening on Wednesday night. The two artists worked really hard on this piece and Nick trashed his back in the making of the Mural. Audio is a remix of Skrillex’s track lick it. Source media for this time-lapse before treatment was over 100gig of footage and photos.

I found this massive mantis outside the house and took these photos against the painted wall. I was really surprised how interesting the colour appears with the influence of the painted wall in the background. This was shot with my Pentax K5 and zoom macro. The photo where the Mantis looks like he’s holding flowers always makes me smile.

After a trip to the local Dinosaur Museum I shot some cool pictures of the statues that surround the building with a wide angle lens. Bongodinosaurus, created for Lee Kai’s fist birthday was assembled from one of these shots. Something about this images makes me laugh. There was some debate in the house to whether the image is too scary for a first birthday but it got through

These images are of a Tawny Frogmouth that I saw on my walk with Lee Kai around Mt Rodgers yesterday. The bird was right next to the path but was amazingly camouflaged against the bark of the tree he was sitting on. I happened to have my zoom macro lens on me and got these close-up pix with out disturbing him too much. Camera was a Pentax K-5.

These photos are from the Doomsday Festival 2012 – Canberra ANU BAR featuring Atomic Bitchwax (USA), Mother Mars, Fattura Della Morte, Law of the Tongue & Marcus Depasquale. For a festival this was a pretty quiet night but all the bands were really good good.  Taken with a Pentax K5 under difficult conditions. Not much lighting action on the night.

These photos are from an Olympus TG-1, which is a waterproof point and shoot Suzie bought that has a great Super Macro function which allows you to get quite close. Keen to get this camera underwater and try out the marco settings. These are just trying out these close up features on plants around our house.