These photos are of the  Enlighten projections which were past of the Canberra Festival this year. The projections were impressive, high powered with some animation.  and I shot a lot of video content on the night. These are stills from the XA10. Enlighten featured projections on the National Library of Australia, Old Parliament House, the National Gallery,  the National Portrait Gallery and Questacon. It was the Questacon building that had the most dynamic and animated projections.

I was all set to photograph the Lunar Eclipse on Saturday night, this shot was from 11.20pm as I was testing my set-up. Not long after the clouds rolled in obscured the view of the Eclipse. That is as close as I can get with my 300mm zoom on the SLR. I’ll have to wait another 4 years to try again.

This link will take you to a time-lapse video of CIT Momentum 2011 – The final exhibition of students of CIT’s Centre for Creative Industries.

CIT Momentum 2011 – Exhibition Night – Time-Lapse

This link will take you to a time-lapse video of my students setting up for CIT Momentum 2011 – Their final exhibition.

CIT Momentum 2011 – Design Bump In – Time-Lapse 

Another rainy spring day in Canberra, I took these experimental shots quite early in the morning as the water beading on the long grass (which always needs mowing) looked really interesting and was catching the first light of the day. I used a Canon G9 in macro mode mounted on a gorilla-pod with  2 second timer to avoid any shake. The shots are as close in the cameras lens would allow and I think a bit better than my SLR zoom macro could get. The images were tweaked in Adobe Lightroom and a colour filter added to alter the green values.

These images are close-ups of some Australian birds taken with a 20omm zoom macro. I love how this lens reveals the detailed feather patterns and interesting eyes on the animals.

These 2 images are from two of Hamilton Islands lookout points. They are interactive panoramic images with a 170 degree view of rotation. The first is from “One Tree Hill” and looks out over Whitsunday Island. The second is from The lookout over the Reef View Hotel looking out to Catseye bay – a little grey that day.

This image is a 360 degree interactive panorama – click and drag inside the image to view the scene





This image is 360 degree interactive panorama – click and drag inside the image to view the scene

On our way out to Reefworld on the Barrier Reef, about half an hour from the islands into the Coral Sea, I had just put on a zoom lens on my SLR when the Cat started slowing down and the captain announced there were whales ahead of us. It was a very clam day, the boat came to a stop and the whales came over to us. We were in a pretty good spot and the whales came about 5 meters away from us. It was really cool and an unexpected highlight. I took the photos with a 70-200 zoom.

These photos are from a day trip Suzie and I had on Wednesday to Hardy Reef on the Great Barrier Reef during a holiday to the amazing Whitsunday Islands. The Reef world pontoon is about 50 nautical miles from the last Whitsunday Island (hook) and took about two hours to get the on the Jet Cat. These photos are from the Canon G9 in a dedicated waterproof unit that worked really well, (thanks to my mate Bobby Neil for the loan). it took some getting used to and there is a lot to think about while snorkelling at the same time but it was a good test.

Semi-Permanent is a 2 day design conference featuring 12 speakers from a range of creative professions including artists, designers, animators, illustrators, typographers & photographers who each speak for an hour and display their work and experiences in the design industry. We take a large group of students every year to the event which is always pretty inspiring and motivating for the groups. This year featured presentations by Moffitt Moffitt, Kelly Thompson, Corey Arnold, Supervixen, Reg Mombassa, Webuyyourkids, Alt group, Kayt Jones, Gemma O’Brian, Michael Leon & Fuel VFX. This year was a really strong line-up and most presentations were really interesting.