a millennium in a moment

December 11, 2020

^{[I originally posted this collage as early access for my Patreon patrons on 4 December 2020].}

untitled #66 [mersea island, essex, england, 2019]

black river

December 8, 2020

One of my photographs taken on Mersea Island last year (cropped to square)
is in issue 1 of black river journal.

The first issue garnered submissions from over 200 photographers and is well worth a browse.

untitled #231 [long jetty, port welshpool, south gippsland, victoria, 2019]

port welshpool long jetty

October 31, 2020

^{[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 23 October 2020].}

I took this on the second day of our road trip from Melbourne to Brisbane before we went on an unscheduled detour along disused logging tracks in the Tarra Valley.

Unfortunately, being on crutches meant I couldn't go for a wander along the jetty, which is the third-longest wooden jetty still standing in Australia.

The clouds were pretty impressive, though!

scenic lookout

October 23, 2020

^{[I originally posted this collage as early access for my Patreon patrons on 16 October 2020].}

duck reach

October 18, 2020

^{[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 11 October 2020].}

A little shy of a year since Simon and I flew to Australia for a month, I've finally imported all our photos from my iPhone and camera.

To celebrate, I thought I'd edit some of my best photos from the third day of our holiday and share them.

untitled #27 [duck reach, trevallyn, tasmania, australia, 2019]

These were taken at our third stop for the day, Duck Reach in Trevallyn, Tasmania, the location of a hydro-electric power station which was in use from 1895 to 1955.

untitled #18 [duck reach, trevallyn, tasmania, australia, 2019]

The day after we visited Duck Reach, we had a car accident which left me with a fractured ankle and on crutches for the remainder of the trip.

untitled #11 [duck reach, trevallyn, tasmania, australia, 2019]

As a consequence, I took far fewer photos than I would usually. The photos Simon and I took with my Nikon D700 combined almost filled one 4GB memory card. I'd usually use at least that on my own in a month of travelling!

The bulk of my photos were taken with my iPhone 11 Pro Max, as that was substantially easier to manage while balancing on one leg and navigating my way around on crutches. All my iPhone photos worthy of posting have been edited and shared on my Instagram account previously.

untitled #12 [duck reach, trevallyn, tasmania, australia, 2019]

So there isn't an overwhelming number remaining to edit from the trip.

I'll be sharing the best of them on my Patreon over the coming weeks, a week before I share them here and on my social media profiles.

If you want to check them out first, you can become a patron for as little as £1 a month.

gorgeous view

October 1, 2020

^{[I originally posted this collage as early access for my Patreon patrons on 24 September 2020].}

untitled #2

September 26, 2020

^{[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 19 September 2020].}

Though I haven't posted many of the photos I took during my time in New Zealand and Australia in February/March 2018, I've managed to edit the majority of them.

However, there are quite a few from the Tasmanian leg of my trip still to work through. This was one I recently edited for submission to Issue #149 of Shots Magazine.

Taken on Cradle Mountain Road, en route to Dove Lake and Cradle Mountain with my parents, my uncle and his partner, we experienced lovely, but cold, weather. Arriving at the information centre to take the shuttle bus to Dove Lake, it became much more foggy and overcast.

While Dad and I took the shuttle bus to Dove Lake and back, Mum waited impatiently with my uncle and his partner in the information centre. She became increasingly impatient and irritable when Uncle John and I went on the rainforest walk. Mum's impatience and irritability is an unfortunate byproduct of dementia.

John and I were able to see native birds, wildlife and plants on the walk and I took quite a lot of photos.

Despite Mum's mood that day, the weather and circumstances were better than when Simon and I attempted to visit Cradle Mountain with my parents almost a year and a half later. This time around it was even colder, blowing a gale and raining, and I was on crutches.

As a consequence, we used the facilities and moved on to the next stop of the tour. The only positive of our attempted visit was the sighting of wombats and wallabies by the roadside as we navigated our way back.

Almost a year on, I still haven't had the chance to import and review photos from our trip taken with my D700. I'm finally close to being caught up on other things so I can do so though.

And I'm looking forward to sharing the best of mine here when I do.