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.

This  is one of the photographs I have taken as part of series for a client who has designed and built their own house. I am doing a study of both the exterior and interior of the house, and will also be focusing on the details of the house which make it unique. This shot was taken at dusk-time, taken on a tripod with a long exposure. It was a bitterly cold night when I was taking these photos, so cold that the water features your can just about see had completely frozen which made for some interesting shots. I will be putting up more from this project as I shoot it.

I have re-vamped the website for the new year, much cleaner and less distracting from the photographs on the site. It also means I can put up larger photographs.I will be updating the portfolio section shortly too.

Feel free to leave comments on the new design in the comments section below.

After finishing a job last week I noticed how big and bright the moon was, so got out the 70-200mm and put a 1.4x tele-extender on it and this was the result. I had never really looked at the moon in much detail before that, but it is pretty fascinating.

For anyone who is interested in how the shot was taken, this was shot hand held at ISO 100, F/11 and 1/100 of a second exposure at 280mm on a Canon 40D. If you put the camera on burst mode and have a steady hand it is pretty easy to get a blur free exposure. Always interesting to shoot something a little different!