Sammy Boy

This is my friend Sam, Sam is one of my oldest and best friends. Me and Sam have played in bands together since like forever, Lived with each other and probably drunk about 600000000000000000000 cans of rum together. I asked Sam if I could shoot some photos of him and he said yes, obviously. Listen to sams band at www.myspace.com/thematadornoise

Drugs are bad mmmmmmmmmK

I have a phobia of standing on a used syringe, I never go bare foot and always seem to see some kind of intravenous drug paraphernalia where ever i go. I was lurkin around the lake near my house where there are some drainage tunnels. I was actually just looking for some shit graffiti, you know the graffiti you look at and laugh, something like a badly sprayed cock or some lame payout to some dude who will never read it. I spied a discarded needle laying on the ground and snapped a quick photo of it, what I didn't notice until i looked through my camera was a dude chillen in the tunnel who I think was huffing paint. Burleigh Drains must be the place to get wasted. YUUUK

Australian Better Photography Magazine "Photo of the year awards"

At the end of last year Australian Better Photography Magazine ran a competition for the 2009 photo of the year.There were 3 categories People Places and Creative. In total i submitted 9 images and recieved 9 awards. 7 bronze and 2 silver. here are a couple of them.

'ode to Hank III

Today i got tattooed by tattooist extraordinaire Matt Howse. I met Matt about 4 years ago when he did a guest spot at Borderline Tattoos. Matt works out of Spider Murphys tattoo in San Rafael in San Fransisco. Matt is a totally rad dude, awesome tattooist/artist and just a top bloke to have around. I urge any of you if you get the opportunity to get tattooed by Matt Howse, don't hesitate.
You can see his work at
www.reliabletattoos.com

Published

So awhile ago it came up that Tattoo, art and lifestyle magazine POST MODERN INK was looking for budding photographers to submit their work for possible publication. I eagerly submitted a few of my tattoo related images i have shot, and got a reply that one of my photos was to be published in the next issue. Not only was i stoked when i got my hands on a copy i almost fell over backwards in the newsagent. Go grab a copy!

Andy

So lately I have had a bit of an obsession with portraits. I hung out with my friend Andy yesterday and i got him to take his shirt off for me. Andy owns and runs a T Shirt Company called Evening Forever. Evening Forever supports local bands and artists and anything that dont fit into "normal society"...... whatever that may be these days? P.s ladies hes single.. eh eh Check out his site and buy some shit. http://www.eveningforever.com

Amanda

This is my girlfriend Amanda, as you can see, she is beautiful x x x

Tyrone

Tyrone came round the other day and we shot the shit for a bit and i shot some portraits of him. I got about 15 usable shots but these two are my fav.

Stigmata

Im not necessarily a religious person....I do however really enjoy religious imagery. Its pretty Brutal and quite depressing if you stop to look for more than 5 minutes.
I had a moment of clarity one night and an image similar to this popped into my head, the next day i set about re-creating what i envisioned.

I also entered this image into the Australian Better Photography Photo of the year awards and received a bronze award for it :-)

Love Story

They Say a Swan mates for life. I sat and watched these 2 black swans paddle around Benowa Gardens for about 2 hrs today, not only to try and get a good photo of them doing as lovers do, but cause they are rad birds to watch. They basically had the run of the pond and all other birds and creatures got out of their way as soon as they even looked in their direction. A Swans wing span can be up to 10ft and they say a good enough strike from a Swan could break a mans arm.

Molly.

Im not a cat person by any means, but molly is totally awesome, john and Anne came around and bought their cat molly for a visit. Molly wandered around our house like she owned it then settled herself down in the top of my cupboard.




Meow!

Day 365, 2009

I woke up really early today and decided to walk to the beach. i took some pics along the way. here's a look at my first waking hour of the last day of 2009.

I walked out of my front door and tripped over my sandy wet fishing shoes from zee previous nights fishing adventure. They smell like swamp mud, feet and fish. yummy.



I take a short cut through the dog park to get to the beach. The bins in this park have an overwhelming smell of dog shit.



The Sun showed its sorry ass briefly, then went back behind a cloud.



I don't know why took a photo of this, but i did. These Mirrors always have weird dents in them.



By the time i got to the beach it was sunny again and i was getting sun burnt quicker than you can say dick and balls, so i took a photo and bailed.
(yes i know i need a lens hood, but i dont have one for the lens i had)



See you next year.

Shitty weather

The Constant rain and wind over the xmas period kinda licks the bag, cant really do much except dick around at home and make a stupid blog to pass the time. Anyway i got up this morning and this leaf was stuck to the kitchen window. Im going for a walk.

Tis I, The fox

i like going to costume shops and looking at all the weird shit in them, i bought this mask and the rest is history.

The Spit

I got up at like fucking 4am one morning and drove 20 mins half asleep to the spit. It was raining while i was driving, however i thought i may aswel keep goin seen as i was awake anyway. i made it there about 20 mins before sunrise and fiddled around in minimal light, composed my scene and waited. The rain had stopped luckily and the heavy cloud cover started to part as the sun rose. Probably my favourite of my photos to date. Its a stitch together of 3 photos. Well worth the early morning.

Fiji Trip

Just recently Myself and Mandi went to Fiji. These are a few of my fav photos i took while over there. Bula Vanuka!

Diego

I took this photo a while ago while i was at work. i like it.

Boredumb

Xmas holidays usually lead to 3 things drinking to much booze, eating to much food and just general boredom. I took this During the latter of the 3