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  1. Media & Environment

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    Whale

    What’s it look like when environment and media cross over? Check out Andrew Peacock’s shot for the June 2013 issue of Outside Magazine. That’s a 20 foot minke whale under his kayak in Antartica’s Neko Harbor.

     
     
  2. A second ‘tear sheet’ this month from a US magazine - “Popular Photography”. Looking for images to accompany a feature on a road trip across Australia the photo editor came across my work using www.photoserve.com, PDN’s website, by searching for photographers located in Australia. The image chosen features on my website and was taken on a climbing road trip a few years ago to the fantastic cliffs of ‘Moonarie’ in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

    A second ‘tear sheet’ this month from a US magazine - “Popular Photography”. Looking for images to accompany a feature on a road trip across Australia the photo editor came across my work using www.photoserve.com, PDN’s website, by searching for photographers located in Australia. The image chosen features on my website and was taken on a climbing road trip a few years ago to the fantastic cliffs of ‘Moonarie’ in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.

     
     
  3. Sunset rainclouds Byron Bay hinterland.

    Sunset rainclouds Byron Bay hinterland.

     
     
  4. Thanks Outside Magazine for the ‘Exposure’. Great to have a photo from my recent medical gig aboard the M/Y SuRi in Antarctica published in the US.

    Thanks Outside Magazine for the ‘Exposure’. Great to have a photo from my recent medical gig aboard the M/Y SuRi in Antarctica published in the US.

     
     

  5. You just never know…

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    This image doesn’t really stand out in my photo archive. It’s pretty unremarkable really isn’t it? I haven’t reviewed it since it was uploaded to the Lonely Planet Images (LPI) stock site with many other photos as part of a submission 2 years ago. It was taken on a brief stop at the Norman Wells airport in the Northwest Territories of Canada. On a long series of flights over 36 hours I was returning home after photographing a journey through the Northwest Passage aboard the super-yacht ‘Octopus’.

    LPI has been sold to Getty Images since then and my image collection was transferred along with the sale. I now receive (usually) small monthly royalty payments from Getty for sales it makes on my behalf. Imagine my surprise then to find out that a commercial firm has just paid Getty $7300 for the print publication use of this photo for one year. I receive 40% of this.

    I don’t recall what specifically prompted me to take this photo. I remember being pleased to have free reign to wander around the Boeing 737 with access to the tarmac during a brief stopover while some passengers disembarked. I do know I took note of the gorgeous fall colors in the trees alongside the runway nearby. I’m very glad now that I took the time to get out of my seat and stretch my legs with my camera in tow, then compose this frame and click the shutter on my Canon 5D. Despite the apparent insignificance of the image it shows that sometimes making the effort to prepare the digital file, add relevant metadata and submit to a stock agency can have its rewards. You just never know what the result might be!

     
     
  6. As a cool southerly wind change approached Adelaide after a heatwave last night a narrow gap in the clouds on the horizon promised the possibility of a spectacular sunset so I headed down to Brighton Beach to have a look and the evening didn’t disappoint. With no tripod on hand however my challenge was to find a suitable foreground to contrast with the intense sunset colours and a level spot on which I could compose with a 50mm lens and hold my camera steady…and level…for a 4 second exposure. Luckily I found such a spot on large rocks by the sand, however there was still an element missing. This was solved by asking my wife Sabina to kindly spent some moments leaning over the railing on the jetty.

    As a cool southerly wind change approached Adelaide after a heatwave last night a narrow gap in the clouds on the horizon promised the possibility of a spectacular sunset so I headed down to Brighton Beach to have a look and the evening didn’t disappoint.

    With no tripod on hand however my challenge was to find a suitable foreground to contrast with the intense sunset colours and a level spot on which I could compose with a 50mm lens and hold my camera steady…and level…for a 4 second exposure. Luckily I found such a spot on large rocks by the sand, however there was still an element missing. This was solved by asking my wife Sabina to kindly spent some moments leaning over the railing on the jetty.

     
     
  7. Hobart, Tasmania is a fantastic place for adventure activities - both for the weekend warrior and the hardcore athlete. This image was shot on the brilliant North-South mountain bike track on the slopes of Mount Wellington. My friend and local outdoor junky Gill was just itching to get me onto this trail, being 20 weeks pregnant is no reason for her to slow down! I packed my Canon 5D Mark3 and 17-35mm f2.8 lens in a chest harness and at a few places along the track I went ahead to scout a location looking for somewhere I could juxtapose the color and structure of the forest with the dynamism of a mountain biker. I had in mind a panned shot to emphasize Gill’s speed as she flew past. At this spot just a few metres off a curved point in the trail the panning at 1/40sec served also to create a nice abstract pattern with the narrow tree trunks, green foliage and leaf littered forest floor.

    Hobart, Tasmania is a fantastic place for adventure activities - both for the weekend warrior and the hardcore athlete. This image was shot on the brilliant North-South mountain bike track on the slopes of Mount Wellington. My friend and local outdoor junky Gill was just itching to get me onto this trail, being 20 weeks pregnant is no reason for her to slow down!

    I packed my Canon 5D Mark3 and 17-35mm f2.8 lens in a chest harness and at a few places along the track I went ahead to scout a location looking for somewhere I could juxtapose the color and structure of the forest with the dynamism of a mountain biker. I had in mind a panned shot to emphasize Gill’s speed as she flew past. At this spot just a few metres off a curved point in the trail the panning at 1/40sec served also to create a nice abstract pattern with the narrow tree trunks, green foliage and leaf littered forest floor.

     
     

  8. Footloosefotography website

    Updated and revised with new images now online.

     
     
  9. Next move, street chess, Kathmandu, Nepal.

    Next move, street chess, Kathmandu, Nepal.

     
     
  10. Red Rock is a favorite climbing spot in Nevada, USA. This is the first page of an article I wrote that was published recently in Australian Geographic Outdoor magazine.

    Red Rock is a favorite climbing spot in Nevada, USA. This is the first page of an article I wrote that was published recently in Australian Geographic Outdoor magazine.

     
     

  11. Published in 'The Weekend Australian' magazine

    Nice to be published in the regular ‘Heart of a Nation’ column recently in ‘The Weekend Australian’ magazine. As a bonus it was a photo featuring my wife Sabina, and it was accompanied by an excellent and insightful short interview with her by the sub-editor.

     
     

  12. Here is some spectacular footage shot with a remote controlled drone helicopter from our recent Mammut expedition to Trango Tower in Pakistan.

    (Source: vimeo.com)

     
     
  13. Editing and processing RAW files from our trek in the Ladakh region of India and am pretty psyched to be finding light like this!

    Editing and processing RAW files from our trek in the Ladakh region of India and am pretty psyched to be finding light like this!

     
     
  14. ‘Self Portrait’ Viewing platform Burj Khalifa, 124 floors above Dubai.

    ‘Self Portrait’

    Viewing platform Burj Khalifa, 124 floors above Dubai.

     
     
  15. A striking building.

    A striking building.