The Hobby Photographer

Terrigal Beach 201107 Setting the scene: Shot on 31 July, 2011 at around 1:30pm. It was a fantastic day weather-wise for the middle of winter. We took a phone call from some friends and decided to meet at Terrigal beach so that all of the kids could play in the sand. Being the middle of [...]

Rainbow Lorikeet Living in a home that backs directly on to the Australian bush has some wonderful advantages. We often have visits in our back yard from local wildlife such as bush turkeys, blue-tongue lizards and the occasional wallaby. On this day, I had put a small amount of sunflower seed out on my back deck [...]

Reflections Shot on 30 December, 2010 at Gosford marina on the NSW Central Coast. The sky was all but dark when I shot this sunset photo. An extended shutter speed allowed me to capture some of the remaining ambient colour bouncing around in the stratosphere as well as capture the reflections and shadows on the [...]

Firesky Another sunset photo. I shot this right from my driveway in January 2011. The scenario for the shot was somewhat similar to “Jetstream” in that the sun had already disappeared from view and was well below the visible horizon. The sunlight was filtered naturally through the atmosphere and bounced off the clouds to produce [...]

Jetstream Yanuca Island, Fiji. August 2008. This sunset photo is one of many that I shot whilst on Holiday in 2008. The sun had already sunk behind the horizon and had disappeared from view when this was shot. I looked up and noticed the cloud trail above me that was still in full view of [...]