Spotted this while on my trip to the USA…

Yeah, it's blurry but I like it. Sometimes things don't have to be perfect to be beautiful

It begins.  With a glass of egg nog. The commercially-available stuff is non-alcoholic.  A bit of rum and advokaat would seal the deal nicely, though. Following the European tradition for Christmas has a few differences.  We don't put the tree up on the 1st of December, for one, which means we put it up around now, right in the middle of the →

I've long since been an advocate of shooting in raw.  There are many benefits such as the ability to adjust exposure and perhaps the most important for me - white balance, before the shots hit the web or press. Unfortunately my tool of choice - Adobe Lightroom 2, has failed to impress me with its poor colour accuracy.  I do, however, →

So we've recently run the most successful Respawn LAN gaming event ever.  In fact, it's the most successful LAN event we've had in Melbourne since Shafted LAN's Big Day In around 2003 and the biggest that we've seen in our venue since 2002.  That's a long time for the community to pick back up again but to be honest, we're still →

Respawn LAN v10 has been announced. It'll be our third year running and will be nine years since the first LAN gaming event in that venue run under the banner of Shafted LAN, the team I was part of before I founded Respawn LAN. Shafted LAN was the premiere LAN in Melbourne for, well, any LAN gaming event.  We were involved →

On Thursday night, I decided I was going to shoot the swimming finals.  They wanted me to shoot the athletics and knowing the lighting I'd face at Olympic Park, I'd be expecting ISO 3200 and beyond if I was going to stop any action.... The original plan was to hang around at MSAC but a mad dash to the soccer →

Team Monash swimmer at MSACDay 2 was hectic.  Yes, this post is about day 3, the now, but yesterday was a nice introduction and steep learning curve to the world of sports photography.  Long story short, the 10 frames per second of the 1D Mark III is the key to obtaining many critical moments in gameplay for ball games, especially →

So, what happened to day one?  Who knows, but it's day two of the Australian University Games.. and it's the first day of shooting various events at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. The weather looks great, top of nineteen but a bit chilly at 6am in the morning.  I'm a morning person if I get enough sleep the night before, →