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Magical forests and mystical light... hmmm

One of the main reasons that I have started this blog is to push myself into doing more personal work. Over the last 10 years I've tried all sorts of things to this end, most of which are spectacularly unsucessful. Closed Session (and the later incandation global session) the few exceptions. But that's another story. 

The work here is the lastest in a stream of unfinished projects. My aim, to force myself to write a context statement and to get some feedback on the work and said context statement...help please, anyone!

Nocturnal
Tasmanias myrtle forest are in a world of their own, light catches on ferns and gnarling tree roots amid a derth of deep shadows.  They are a magical place, timeless, motionless and completely segregated from the outside world. Stepping inside imediatly transports you to a place where endless shades of green intemingle with deep browns and blazing sunlight. A carcofany of colour, as if mixed and sprayed across a landscape, then left for a millenia to grow, live, die and cycle endlessly.  Standing inside, the timlessness encapulates very sense, there is no floor, no ceiling, no start or end, there is the forest. The forest that lives, that keeps, sways and molds to every change, that slowely grows through storm and sun, that will die through and through and still live to see another day.

In the night, the light that generates this energy has left. I attempt to recreat the energy as I remember. To create the magic artifically that nature does so easily. It's a challenge and privallage to spent time in the forests and share in some of it's magic.

London Riots

Amazing images of destruction from the Londons riots..
@ The Age

800 ICT Professionals and the Govenor ...

What happens when you get 800 ICT professionals from all over Australia into one room? The talk, they talk a lot, mostly about stuff that you can't understand. Well they talk and then the drink and dance, at least I can understand that one! The Govenor of Victoria was there to help proceedings along, which is all good apart form the fact that every little move and request all had to go through his Aide first.
So in the end the stats stacked up like this...

16hrs of photography
1300 Images
20 Gb of data
Very sore feet!

The biggest barriers to moving forward in a digital environment "Confidence based on privacy, trust, security and education" AIIA Panel discussion on Australia 3.0.

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Pin Point Ponting meets Paine (sic), Welcome Hurricanes!

Tim Paine, Ricky Ponting and Xavier Doherty in Hobart last week to launch the Hobart Hurricanes T20 cricket team. This is a quick mock-up that I did for CT for a poster/promo image.  Photo...me!

Met these guys last week for the launch, was a great event and these guys were fantastic at giving the assembled media enough time to do there thing. (The purple sparkling and nibbles didn't hurt either!). Can't wait for a fantastic summer of cricket.

How you've changed, dirty dirty digital

I've just come across this article in DG International magazine, which I was interviewed for about 4 years ago. It shows how fast technology and the views around it are moving. Funny, insightful or just plain strange to look into the past??
Below is the start of the article and I've attached the rest if it interests you...(just click on the image)

Digital Joy

On the road to digital happiness

Eight years ago in a London studio. Richard Jupe,

lecturer at Photography Studies College (PSC)

in Melbourne first witnessed the magic of

digital imaging. Heralded as state-of-the -art

Jupe speaks of a camera that could merge

three filtered exposures captured on its black

and white sensor. Recently sought by the London

Museum. it smacked of pioneering technology

costing a mere £60,000- at the time.

Digital photography is s till oh-so-new.

Most photographers recall working

professionally in film. While cameras

have come a long way, industry still

grapples with establishing standards.

and commercial print and processing

machines is good -as they are- fail to

match the flexibility offered on a home

PC. We go on a quest to find digital joy (click on image above to read the rest)