About
I am one of those people that has to be outside a lot of the time. Nature is important to me on a day to day level and it is what helps me feel content. Photography is my passion, so combining the two makes sense to me.
As a student photography, and the adventures it introduced to my life, were all-consuming. Likewise, in the early days of my career, photography gave me a constant means to express myself creatively which intimately effected the world as I knew it; it began to look newer and infinitely more interesting. I feel fortunate that this freshness of perspective has remained with me over time.
My early inspiration set the scene for what became an exciting decade of professional journeying with the camera as my guide. I set off to travel the world and was fortunate to land some pretty fantastic jobs. Aid and Development Agencies, Stock Libraries and Publishers all played a part. One of the highlights was winning the photographic rights to the Commonwealth Games Baton relay. I travelled for 12 months documenting this monumental event as it made its way through all 71 nations of the Commonwealth, including Antarctica.
Life took a change of pace and direction after that trip because I became a father for the first time. Now I have two beautiful children. My family is everything to me and the life of a travel photographer is not my kind of family-friendly life. Consequently, like many photographers, life-circumstance steered me towards working in commercial photography to make a living. I wasn’t ever especially comfortable doing this kind of work. I seemed to lose my focus and my passion, which has always been for landscapes and travel.
Recently my family and I moved to Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Here I’ve found a new meaning in photographing the natural environment thanks to our new home. Sourcing photos in and amongst nature becomes like a hunt for me. When nature is at it’s wildest, or I am wet up to my armpits with the wind howling through me, or the sun is on the horizon, I feel alive. Nature reflects in me my emotions and it’s power, I am in awe of it. The feelings I find from these moments with the natural world are central to what I aim to evoke for my audience. I want my images to connect people to how I feel when I am amongst the elements and, perhaps, in viewing my photographs nature may seem somehow touchable.