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Just Yosemite- Picture Blog
October 09, 2020 - Almost a year ago, I embarked on a trip to the USA, and it seems like such an age ago now.
The impact of events in the...
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Plucked! A Lychee Picking Photostory!
February 21, 2018 - All images shot on the Nikon D850
Vairous lenses;
Tamron 90mm 2.8
Nikon 20mm 1.8
With thanks to the Shea family for...
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Bariloche: A day of contrasts
December 23, 2017 - The one thing I love and both hate about photographs is their power to deceive the viewer about what they’re actually lo...
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Standard Traveller : El Chalten
December 21, 2017 - ^ FitzRoy mountains. So beautiful at sunset.
This is the kind of town where you can feel the lust for the mountains, th...
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EL CALAFATE to EL CHALTEN
December 16, 2017 - When you land at El Calafate airport, you see, well, practically; nothing, except shrubs. All hail the mighty shrubs! A...
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Platypus Playing
July 06, 2017 - What seems like weeks ago, was actually months ago now, I was in Tasmania, more specifically, Cradle Mountain. There, on...
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Five Days around Tassie
May 03, 2017 - Two blogs!
I'm ashamed, I've only posted two blogs the entire time I've been in Tasmania.
But, I've been busy, I've go...
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Focus on the Fagus 2017
April 29, 2017 - Fagus leaves: Minimalistic: Double Exposure taken on the D750
Focus on the Fagus was back on again this year, and after...
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AIPP APPA 2016 aka "Mel's Gamble"
September 03, 2016 - For someone who writes so often, I'm having trouble adequately expressing how amazed, honoured and surprised I am, to ha...
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Interim
August 30, 2016 - This blog, on the outset is going to be vague and quick. Tiredness is something I’m not entirely mastering at the moment...
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Running Ragged
August 08, 2016 - Rickshaw Run – The fifth day.
Leaving Bhaglapur was one of the best things that we did today. Oh and shooting sunrise o...
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Rickshaw Running 2016: Archery
July 30, 2016 - If someone had said to me a year ago that Archery is a sport – nay – a way of income for the Assamese people, I’d have n...
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Long Exposures with NiSi Filters (Part 1)
March 15, 2016 - It’s hard to look through an online gallery of images without finding one or two that describe the capture technique was...
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Same Mel, Different Focus
February 04, 2016 - It's 2016, when did that happen?!
So sorry that it’s taken me so long to get a blog up this year, it’s not as easy to c...
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New Toys!
December 14, 2015 - I don't have Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS)....
I have what I would like to call Gear Professionalism Syndrome (GPS)....
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Japan Day 11-16:Tokyo!
November 30, 2015 - Admittedly, thee last few days I've been lax with posting updates, as not much serious photography has happened, due to...
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Japan Day 5: Arashiyama
November 19, 2015 - Today was the day I had long anticipated; my visit once again to Arashiyama.
Unfortunately for us, the weather is still...
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Are You Ricky Shaw About This?!
October 27, 2015 - So I’ve signed up for something that is easily the most insane thing that I have ever EVER done...
no, really....
I ha...
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Cover Story: Rogue Lawyer
October 23, 2015 - People remember images.
Images tie peoples' memories to things, places and events.
Whether it's the logo on the milk c...
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(WR)APPA Up - Pt1: Friday
October 16, 2015 - Today was the first day of APPA for 2015, and as the first time I've been able to see the live judging process, I must d...
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Riverfire and Image Catch Up!
September 27, 2015 - Breaking the awkward-silence on the blog tonight to share some images and a little of the stories behind them from recen...
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Chapter 7: El Chalten to De Agostini
June 15, 2015 - After seeing what seemed like endless paddocks of powdery, ashen-dirt stained fields, crossing the border to Argentina w...
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Chapter 4: Refugio El Chileno
April 30, 2015 - ^ The Bar was at this luscious place, also the start of the hike up! Source: Las Torres Hotel
By this point in time of...
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Chapter 3: Paine Grande
April 20, 2015 - As hard as it was to say goodbye to Lago Pehoe, it was time to move on to see another angle of Torres Del Paine. The mou...
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Chapter 2: Lago Pehoe and Beyond
April 16, 2015 - Lago Pehoe and Beyond
Our first two days of the adventure have been spent in the most picturesque camping ground. I d...
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Patagonia: Chapter 1: Lago Pehoe
April 12, 2015 - “I haven’t been everywhere, but, it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag
"Castle In The Air" Lago Pehoe, Chilean Patagonia...
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Patagonian Wrap Up
April 06, 2015 - It's hard to say that its come to the end of the trip and this is the first time that I've put up a blog. I'm so terribl...
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Style
March 22, 2015 - I can hardly believe that I now have a tantalizing-two days until I depart for Patagonia with One of A Kind and some oth...
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TEN DAYS!
March 14, 2015 - The countdown is on.
I have only ten days, until I am landing in Patagonia. I can’t begin to describe to you how excite...
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Retrospective 2014
December 18, 2014 - Two thousand and Fourteen has been a big year for me, and despite the ups and downs (which, sad to say, is like the best...
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A Question Of Quality
December 04, 2014 - Ponder this, for the briefest minute. Consider where you are in your photography journey and reflect.
" You are only as...
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Projects: Getting Lost in them
November 23, 2014 - ^Hraunfossar, Iceland 2014
Once again, as it often does, too much time has gone between my last post and now. I can ass...
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Moody Iceland (pictures)
October 08, 2014 - Okay so as it turns out, I can't resist a blog. But instead of painting the scene with words, let's look over some of my...
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A Sprinkle Of Magic
October 04, 2014 - ^ Snow dusted mountains around Borgaines
*** A NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGES ***
As always, these are not the final edits, I w...
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Geo Thermal Goodness
September 27, 2014 - It's been a quieter-paced last few days around here. Since my last post about the Eruption that we witnessed by plane ov...
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Eruption!
September 23, 2014 - Today has been one of those crazy days.
I slept on a mountain, ate a Reindeer burger, flew over an eruption and saw the...
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Snappy 11-15 August
August 11, 2014 - Make It Snappy!
11-15 August 2014
Monday 11 August
This is mostly applicable to non-photographers, but therein li...
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Snappy July 28- Aug 3
July 27, 2014 - Make It Snappy!
July 28 - August 3
Welcome to another week of Snappy!
Please, by all means, comment below in respon...
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Catching Up
June 12, 2014 - I know…
I know it’s been a while since my last blog and I’m sorry about that.
So much has happened, but so little as w...
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Day 7: Not So Invincible
April 25, 2014 - ^ A single image from a timelapse I'm working on, as part of a larger Tasmania video. Not bad for an impromptu location!...
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Day 4: Dancing In The Ballroom
April 22, 2014 - For once, today started laid back and casual. Our avid adventurers, Rob and Mark, had just arrived after spending a few...
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Day 3: A Whole Lot Of Walking!
April 20, 2014 - I have come to the conclusion that all photographers who are serious about their craft like pain and do crazy things....
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Adventure Mode!
April 16, 2014 - How time flies.
It was just the beginning of the year when I was lamenting how long I had to go until I left for Tasman...
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Junk Mail
March 06, 2014 - Before I get into the body of today's post, I wanted to give a bit of a kick-back to my previous post " Between Takes "...
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Sunflower Seeking
February 17, 2014 - How excited I was to do this shoot.
It was the culmination of months of planning, study and research of the best fields...
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What I Love About Photography
February 03, 2014 - Let’s not lie, there’s something magical about photography.
The act of taking an image, a snapshot of time. The intimat...
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January
January 21, 2014 - January has flown, it has absolutely disappeared before my eyes. Here we are, already one week until the end.
I must th...
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Mojo Motivating Ideas!
November 28, 2013 - I asked my Facebook Photography community what they wanted to see me blog about tonight, and the idea of Photographic Aw...
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Helping Hands
September 07, 2013 - Just last week, I was in Melbourne on a short sojourn away from the thrills and spills of my Mon-Fri occupation.
It was...
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The Other Genre
August 22, 2013 - It’s often hard to come up with new ideas for a blog post that is always about Landscape photography. I love the genre a...
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Why Does That Photo Cost So Much?
July 31, 2013 - I’ve had this question floating around in my mind for a while now. I know it’s in the minds of many of my clients, colle...
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A Dash Of Insanity
June 06, 2013 - I shot a Sunrise two weeks ago. The picture above is the result of that shoot. But that’s not the point. Read on, and ho...
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The Silencer
March 24, 2013 - If I were to describe my day with a single word, it would most definitely be: Overwhelmed
I have been overwhelmed by th...
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2012 Retrospective
December 30, 2012 - It’s scary and strange how quickly a year flies by.
One moment you’re in January with 300+ days ahead of you, and the n...
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Exploring
September 23, 2012 - **Pictures are not final edits.. there’s still work to be done… but a story without pictures is well… less interesting?*...
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Going For Green
September 22, 2012 - ***I preface this post by saying all pictures contained within are a work in progress. They are not the final work***...
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Gone Shopping!
September 20, 2012 - Today turned out to be one of those nothingness type days where nothing of any notable significance occurs, and time jus...
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Good 'Ol Geysir
September 18, 2012 - As we’ve nearly reached the end of the trip venturing out in the regions, the past few days have seen us do the touristy...
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Off The Beaten Track
September 17, 2012 - Today has been a little different from other days. It’s been more of a tourist day, rather than a photography day. I did...
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Speechless
September 14, 2012 - I don’t know the meaning of the word “Jokusarlon” in Icelandic, but I think as a rough guesstimate, it would mean “Holy...
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