Welcome to This Blog

I know its mostly photo's .... so if your not into that stuff then this prob isnt the place for you.

I travel a relative amount in WA chasing waves to surf, so now being armed with a camera i can document the places and waves that i get to see. I also carry my rig around with me prop about 80% of the time to shoot just random things that interest me, hence there will be a mixture of waves/surf and complete random randomness.

I have just completed a degree in a Bachelor of Surf Science & Technology (YES a degree that involves the surfing environment and industry plus other environmental and technological sciences) and also a supporting major in business studies. Kinda looking for a job, kinda not.

Please dont be shy. You can also check out full albums at my Flickr site just by clicking HERE

Saturday, February 28, 2009

The other day at work





At work the other day and had my camera by my side all day pretty much. Went to go home and got stuck in traffic for like 45min (Check Bullseye phot, and it usually takes 20min max to get home). Bitterly pist off at the traffic that day.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Headlight



Drivin to work super early mornin, left camera on dash with shutter open for ages. These were the results.

Perth Observatory



Went to the Perth Observatory last night. Got to see some real cool (but tiny) stuff. Saw Saturn with its rings and a comet thats cruisin past Earth. On the drive out there i snapped these two shots off.

The Astronomers also had these super cool green laser pointers that they'd point into the stars two show ppl what we were all looking at. Then a chopper came past so they had to stop.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Car For Sale - Ford XR8 Ute 2007






A mate is selling his Ford XR8 ute, i think its a 2007 model and i think he's asking about $29,500 for it (Dont quote me though, not 100% sure). Here's some snaps of it. If interested leave details.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

HARDY HARDY!!! Pipe comp 2009 winner

Just been watchin the pipe comp all morning on the world wide web. Got to see from the quarters through to the final!

I have never really watched any online streams of comps before, tell you what though i am now addicted! I was on the edge of my seat, yelling, biting my headphone cable in nervousness. I highly recommend watching the next comp, i def will be.

And then to top it off my bodyboarding idol, Mr Ryan Hardy, won the final! And only by a meagr 0.6 of a point.

YEeewww

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Leederville Footbridge








I was taking photos from the Leedy footbridge of the city. I went two nights in a row coz i wasnt satisfied with the first outcome. (Then i wasnt satisfied with the second and now desire a finished shot of the two combined!) Anyway... on the 2nd night a Mayalasian middle aged man was also shooting, we got talking and he ended up givin me his business card and told me that if i want to come to Mayalasia i can stay with him and he'll take me to a rainforest to take snaps of the rainforest. I leave, i check his business card and he's head honcho of Gynocoligy in all of Mayalasia.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Real early morning work.



At work before the sun had even broke the horizon! I had my setup with me so i tried to snap a few off whilst driving. Dont try that at home kids.

I am actually a closet standup surfer....pffff








Me and a mate were havin a standup bash down at Floreat groyne the other week, both suck at standup and both like taking photo's. So...we decided to combine and shoot each other being ultra bad standup surfers.

Copyright

Im goin to start adding a Copyright symbol to any pics that i put up here. When i see other ppls photos with a "C" symbol layered on top i think its a bit poncy to be honest, but then on the other hand if someone else tried to claim a photo thats not their's and the rightful owner of that photo had no way of stopping them, that would suck.

I guess i am adding it so that if by the slimest of slim chances i got into that situation i can say 'hey thats actually mine bucko'. And also with the internet, information (eg pics, word docs etc) can be whizzed around the world in a matter of seconds, and a lot of the time that i see an epic shot i have no idea who took it due to the fact its been ripped from somewhere.

So i guess its a claim to identity and a kind of claim of protection.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Once again...in the city.




In the bottom photo, can anyone see a face? I can.

I dont really like the city that much. When i am there i find it really interesting, just watching all these people who have nothing in common except they work in the same vicinity goin about their daily lives.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Sunset + Tree + Moon = 3 pictures



I was chillin in my room the other day when i looked outside and low n behold - there was a rad sunset goin down. So i grabbed my rig and took photos of it, then my attention turned to our tree in the front yard and then later on on to the moon.

With the shot of the tree i was taking exposure readings for the sunset then using flash to bring out the tree with the sunset in the background. Im still learning about flash photography (By learning i mean experimenting because i dont have any formal training goin on), and that was the end result.

Click

People, click on the images that you see/like. They should come up in a new window bigger, but not to big. Just the right size to fill your screen in a new window. Plus you could be surprised in what you see in some of the pics eg. in the pic of the chick on the stairs with the bike infront, her hand and wrist is complete blur due to her taking a ciggy away from her mouth.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Pics from watermans snorkel yesterday.






Shots were taken from the carpark. Sorr i dont have any underwater shots, water housings for camera cost roughly $2500! My friend has a canon point n shoot digi with a housing that produces pretty good underwater shots, however he has the underwater shots from isolators and he had to work yesterday, so no water pics from watermans.

If you had to work on Mon & Tue....sucked in! Check out what you missed muhhahahahaha












Mon & Tue in Perth....had some of the best looking beach and ocean conditions. It was honestly perfect....except that it was literally flat as an ironing board (=No waves). However, the ocean also provides other means of fun. Snorkeling!. Snorkeled down at Isolators on Mon and up at Watermans yesterday, saw some amazing things. Huge schools of fish, stingrays, hyper purple starfish, abalone and a few caves to swim through.

The pics are from City Beach on Mon (Post snorkel), i'll upload yesterdays picks later today.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Workin in the city...for about 45min





Was in the city for work the other day, snuck my camera along for the trip. The girl having a smoke gave me the worst evils as i lined the shot up so i pretended i was photoing the bike.....

The real trippy pic of the bus stop is of a reflection of an office window, so its a cross over of the people at the bus stop and people sitting behind a desk in an office. Only one exposure though, not two photo's layed over each other.