Dirty Old Town

I took a trip up to Southport the other day for no real reason except to just walk around with my camera. Southport is a scum filled derelict dwelling.







the end.

The Matador Guitar sessions

The other night I went along to watch my good ol buddies from zee matador track some guitars. I caught about half Hour of Scott laying down some clean tracks with the odd whale on his delay pedal. The tracks are already sounding huge and the finished product will be of maximum awesomeness.

The Matador

To cut a long story short,about 5 years ago...maybe 4, I don't know, me and my buddy Sam started a band called The Matador. At first we didn't know what the fuck we were doing, The band had mixed Musical Direction and endured about 75 line up changes.Two years ago when Dan, Johnny and Mr Hobbins came on board, shit started to get real. After 5 years, about a thousand shows and 4 billion jams i decided to jump ship, not because of any musical difference or personality clash, but just because it was time for me to leave. Scott Reid (ASD) took my spot in a jiffy and began twangin and doomin with The Matador. Anywho, the fuckers got me outta bed at 4:30am and dragged me to the beach to shoot a photo or two. Even though I'm no longer in the band, when I look at these photos it reminds me of certain parts and riffs in certain songs which i got to play over the years....which is cool i guess.

Jessica

Everyone meet Jessica, Jessica meet everyone. I met Jessica for the first time yesterday, It probably seems weird, bordering on creepy, that some random dude would ask a random girl to shoot some photos of her in his random house, but like a good dudette, Jess happily obliged and I fumbled around with my camera for half an hour and got a few good shots. Thanks again to Jessica for helpin me out.

Published

The Dudes at Post Modern Ink asked me to submit some shots I did of my mate Andy for publication. Here they are i guess.....Cheers to Chad and the guys and gals at PMI go buy it or perish.

Birth of the day

I woke up at about 5:20am this morning and decided to walk to the beach to watch the sunrise. There wasnt much light but it made for a better photo anyway. It such a weird time of day that early, its still dark and the foot paths are over run by people who appear to be no younger than 70. Miami rocks 6:17am & 6:30am

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.