My photography journey began with a toy camera, photographing the world around me as a teenager living in a small country town.
It opened up the view of nature around me, teaching me that there are different ways of seeing the same thing. Something ordinary could suddenly become interesting simply by looking at it through a camera.
That basic curiosity has stayed with me ever since.
In 1992, I upgraded to a film camera and photography became something more serious. I started capturing everyday moments, along with events and experiences that caught my attention. One of those was the Adelaide Clipsal 500, where I discovered the challenge of photographing fast-moving action and trying to capture the moment rather than simply record what was happening.
In 2002, I began sharing my photography on Flickr.
Over the following years, I uploaded around 20,000 photographs. Flickr became a big part of my photographic journey, giving me somewhere to share my work, experiment with different styles and connect with other photographers.
Eventually, the cost of maintaining the account kept increasing. Many of the photographs also belonged to an earlier chapter of my life, so I decided to remove them all. They're now permanently deleted.
In 2007, I bought my first dSLR, opening up an entirely new world of photography.
Since then, my collection of cameras, lenses and accessories has grown considerably. My photography improved, as did my video production, as I became more comfortable with composition, lighting, perspective and the technical side of creating images.
My photography has taken me across Australia, New Zealand and Kangaroo Island. Landscapes, seascapes, abstracts, textures, macro photography, still life - I capture it all. If something catches my eye, there's a fair chance I'll photograph it.
As my photography developed, I also began photographing events for other people.
Between 2007 and 2011, I photographed events for theDeadReds Wine Group, as well as New Year's Eve celebrations at the Highway Inn in Adelaide in 2010 and 2011.
Event photography taught me to anticipate a moment rather than wait for one. Unlike a landscape, people don't generally hang around in exactly the right position while you fiddle with your settings.
My photographs have appeared in exhibitions and galleries across Adelaide and Kangaroo Island.
In 2007, two of my photographs were included in the Refuge exhibition at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Thebarton, alongside a group of Flickr friends.
I exhibited seven framed photographs at the Marina Pier Art Show as part of SALA 2007.
In 2010, I exhibited twenty framed photographs at Regency Arcade in Adelaide CBD in an exhibition titledLines on the Horizon.
For SALA 2016, I exhibited ten framed photographs at the Catalyst Foundation in Adelaide under the title From Another Perspective - SALA 2016.
Closer to home, my photography has been displayed at the Kangaroo Island Gallery in Kingscote, where I've exhibited cards, coreflute pieces and small framed photographs between 2018 and 2024.
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Since 2007 I have been sharing my selected high-resolution photography on Redbubble in the hope of someone buying them. I still continue to upload my work there, using there free services as a gallery of my photographic journey.
My photography has also taken me into the local community.
In 2017, for a brief time I photographed football and netball for The Islander newspaper, as well as the opening night of an exhibition at the Art Gallery on Kangaroo Island.
In 2018, I photographed an outdoor cinema night at the Art Museum on Kangaroo Island.
These were very different from the landscapes and still-life work I usually enjoy, but they gave me another opportunity to capture people, places and moments as they happened.
Then, in 2025, my life changed dramatically. Somewhere amongst the upheaval, my photographic mojo died breifly, yet was reborn. After years of photography sharing space with video production and everything else going on in my life, I found myself wanting to spend more time behind the camera simply taking photographs. These days, I'm spending more time taking photos and less time on videography. And it feels good to be doing it again.
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In 2025, I also started using Pixieset to showcase a curated selection of my best photographs. This time, I'm not trying to put everything online. I've already done that once with Flickr. Instead, I'm choosing photographs that I genuinely like and that represent where my photography is now.
More than thirty years after picking up that first camera, the technology has changed enormously. I've gone from film to digital, from waiting for photographs to be developed to carrying thousands of images in my pocket.
But the reason I take photographs hasn't really changed. I still see something that catches my eye. I still wonder what it might look like from a different perspective. And I still reach for the camera.
