I followed the umbrella movement in Hong Kong back in 2014 and also paid close attention to 2019’s freedom protests. These were first brought on by the extradition law Bejing wanted to impose on Hong Kong that would have subjected the people to the court system in China. As their court system system boasts a remarkable 99% […]
Our New year celebrations timed to the Gregorian calender I’ve always found pretty dull. Year in year out it is just a repetitious formula of a garishly excessive fireworks, with battalions of drunken youths roaming the city streets blowing mindless sounds on cheap plastic horns. I’m sure that one day the Harbour Bridge under the […]
The thoughts that underpin my picture taking may sometimes be over detailed here. I hope no-one’s patience is tried! 🙂 If I can make an assumption that you like my images, or some of them, or enough of them , then perhaps you might also be interested in how or why they are as they […]
I usually only go to the show if there is a photo idea I’ve had that might have good potential. The flying pig shot is an example of this. It might be my main aim but there is such a large concentration of people there, other good photo opportunities are likely to arise. Not very […]
Sydney with its resident Asian communities has the benefit of being able to enjoy more than one New Year celebration. It might be called Chinese New Year or Korean New Year, or Vietnamese New Year, according to who is doing the celebrating, or were you are while they are celebrating it. But the observances all […]
Anything to do with light I’m keen on. In fact that is the reason this site is called Light on Australia. Although to be totally realistic, light is more dependant on having something to interrupt its progress – because otherwise you can’t see it at all. Eg, in interstellar space great torrents of it might […]
Here is an article I wrote for various magazines about the morning glory clouds, and my experience photographing them. I’ve illustrated it with some of the supplementary photos I took while in the Gulf country waiting and hoping nature would co-operate with my ambition to capture them. When it comes to big waves, most […]
I have a great preference for cooler weather. Dealing with it is as easy as layering your clothing. Unlike in the heat of summer, which is almost impossible to escape. In my time however I have well and truly sweated – there is no other way of capturing desert images for example. So the Winter […]
Here are some photos from a story I worked on about the operations of the Queensland ambulance service in the Torres Strait. Stephen the ambulance officer giving the kids at Bamaga some surgical gloves to play with. Below: Some puppies interrupt a game of beach volleyball. Red-tailed Black cockatoos wing with long slow beats over […]
A small wooden ferry “The Sun” plies the Hawkesbury River in NSW servicing the river communities. It is approaching the wharf on Dangar Island where passengers wait to board. The Railway bridge over the Hawkesbury river draws geometric lines over the surrounding hills.