I ride with Pipe almost every day so it’s really good to see him getting sponsered. Stolen Bikes recently hooked him up on their team and he is currently in Las Vegas helping out at Interbike! I shot these two photos at the local trails. They form the opening 2 pages of the 2009 catalog, stoked!

Stolen bikes website

Website designed for singer and songwriter Anthony Whitehead from Brighton. Based on a ‘note book’ theme, to look like the pages of his note books in which he writes songs. Anthony is able to upload and change the content through Wordpress CMS (Content Management System).

The photographs were also taken by me and styled to look like Polaroid photographs in his notebook.

Click to view website online

Sam Parham is a professional free runner and has appreared in several high profile campaigns for Vodafone, Samsung and Nationwide.

I hope to do some more photos with Sam soon!

Mark Mulville is an amazing rider who was over in the UK on the Deluxe BMX  trails road trip. He came to the woods for a day and ripped it up!

I spent about an hour wading around with a tripod in knee deep water to get the shot. Quite a few people were watching me from the beach but I didn’t think much of it until I got out of the water. Someone then pointed out the sign warning of crocodiles living in the water. Luckily nothing took a fancy to my legs but it gave me quite a stir!

The following day we went on a crocodile spotting tour and came across this lovely fellow. He was about 6 foot in length, but pretty passive at this time of year as the water is cold for them. I learned quite a few interesting facts about Crocodile that day, here are some of them:

• Male crocodiles never stop growing! They can live to over 100 years old…
• During the mating season male crocodiles vibrate their backs so fast that it boils the water above them
• Males have also been known to eat females instead of mating with them
• Females keep their eggs warm by building a nest which rots and produces heat. This has to be controlled within a few degrees or the eggs will die
• They can slow their heart rate down to a few beats per minute, cutting off blood to everywhere but their brain and sensory functions

It was a good tour and amazing to see them in their natural enviorment. They have remained essentially un-changed since the dinosaurs walked the earth!

On the last day of our stay in Melbourne I finally got out to take some pictures on the beach at sunrise. The wind was blowing a chilly breeze in from the sea, but it was well worth facing the cold! Taken on a tripod with a graduated filter and a neutral density filter to get the smoothed out ocean.

The rocks seemed to be covered in what to me looked like oil. Maybe moss though? I almost had a close encounter with some of the wild animals in Australia yesterday… More about that soon!

It’s suprisingly difficult to find a hotel in Australia with an internet connection! I am sat in a video rental store/internet cafe instead. I spent the first week of my trip in Melbourne, and the I flew north to Carines. I am currently in a small town called Port Douglas. The picture above is the Melbourne skyline at night. The weather is a nice 27 degrees here though it was much colder down in Melbourne… There are some beautiful beaches in Melbourne even with the wind whipping at your heels, stunning at sun rise. I will put a couple of those pictures up in the next few days.