I’m a photographer based in Geelong.
I’ve been doing this a while—twenty-five Flickr Explore features, a magazine cover, and a few photos that found their way to more people than I expected. One of them was a weary kitchen hand in a rainy alley, taken on a Leica, one shot, handheld. It still gets comments.
I work quietly. I don’t chase trends, game algorithms, or use AI editing. I try to get it right in the camera. Most of my portfolio is shot at 1/30th of a second or lower. Standing rock-still allows the world’s movement to show through—it keeps a tiny breath of life in the photo.
If something’s in the way, I move the frame. If I photograph someone, I ask first.
I shoot with a Leica most days, and a Nikon when I need a hammer. Both get the job done—because it’s always about getting the shot I want, not the brand on the casing.
Between my 1983 travel shots and returning to a dedicated photography practice in 2020, I spent my time working in IT and raising a family. Bringing that background into my work today means I am completely at home with fast, efficient digital delivery and seamless technical workflows.
I’ve handled time-critical assignments like the RSL Dawn Service and know how to work under pressure. I just refuse to rush the frame.
I’m available for local work around Geelong and the Surf Coast: small businesses, cultural events, environmental portraits, or just something you need photographed properly. No weddings or birthday parties, just honest storytelling.
We’ll talk first. Coffee if you’re local.
We all like a story.
When film was expensive and developing colour film even more expensive I decided to use Kodachrome 64 in my Pentax ME. This was stupidly expensive per shot. I took all the shots you were supposed to take with Kodachrome 64 . That big landscape that everyone wanted. This was the Grand Canyon in 1983. Looks the same now.
I also took photos that were considered a total waste of the Kodachrome. This was shot out the back of a Greyhound bus station in Arizona. Heading from New York to San Francisco. It looks pretty modern, now but that sort of shot was not how photography was done. I was 19, rules do not apply.
Shot at the San Francisco market. The man with the staff is the street sweeper. There were a lot of burnt out people in Filmore then. The man behind the sink at our flat. He would have flashbacks that would last all day. LSD. Hell of a drug.
We thought we had made it. There we were living in Filmore. Two rooms and shared bathroom with the Landlord. He wanted some labour to fix up the house which made it very cheap That’s me on the right. I had set the camera up on a box, set the self timer and posed as though i was not shooting this at 1/15th second.. Don’t move!
I know it looks like we are living in squalor but we had come from 1983 London. It was heaven on a stick.
This was one of the first shots that i took in digital and i wanted to keep. It got Explored on Flickr which is an algorithm that chooses the top 500 photos a day to post on the home page. Its supposed to be magic secret but really its ” Do people find this interesting”. I can think of no higher accolade than that.
All these years later. Another self portrait. This time, no self timer. Just a camera hanging around my neck and standing still to let that slow shutter speed and wide open aperture bleed the red onto the sensor.
I shoot with a stillness. If i look back to that shot of my friends in 1983. I was doing it then too.