sonny photos

Totally un related to anything going on

But am just loving this photo, found it on a music blog that posts hour long mixes, and am just drawn to this photo, love it, so just sharing

Check in at Hotel in Paris

After a day in Belgium, drove to Paris for shoot tomorrow just checked in hotel for the night and snap a few shots out of the window

I'm on the corner of the building , so I got some great vistas

but strange to have this view of cemetery







Montparnasse zoomed in Sacre Couer

London > Brussels

Still playing with the Nikon 135mm on the Canon body at London airport, waiting for my Brussels connection




on the plane now, looking out
run dmc " walk this way .. " :-)










such big planes Heathrow on take off

back up in the clouds





Lydd on Sea and Dungeness
even though England is still beneath, I can already see the French/Belgium coastline something tells me I should here on a sunny day one time wintery looking Belgium good thing I brought a jacket on the plane with me De Leuvense Vaart Yeah Jacqui, Avalon is looking pretty good right about now :-)

After Fiji off to Paris

loading up

I'm sitting in the lounge, snapping away a few shots with my old Nikon Fe series lens ( think 80's ) which I have mounted on my Canon using an adapter. So I'm playing around and liking to shoot a bit tighter, focus is still not perfect, but fun for now shot of the skycam, taking off, Botany Bay underneath us, cloudy grey day King George Bridge, Sylvania rain drops on that skycam
clouds over the mountains Sandstone characteristics of the blue mountains poking through the clouds so here is the reason why I put the old Nikon lens on the Canon camera, it's a 135mm, but a lot smaller than a Canon 135mm ( but as you can see in the next lot of photos not as sharp ) and I wanted to try and get some more composed shots of the landscape as opposed to the wider shots I have been taking in the past, I was looking for details, shapes, patterns ( would love to do a dayflight over the deserts and kimberley region, plus some of north west coastlines )

having issues also with the moisture in the atmosphere, so the colours are a little of and the contrast is not right either but at least those trees I planted for Jacqui out past Bathurst have finally grown into the heart shaped that I had planned :-)






I'm no Yann Arthus-Bertrand, but if I had his equipment and access to the specially outfitted planes ( think special glass windows ) you would be see-ing a lot better quality :-)

looks like maxi securiy prison country town
Dubbo, NSW
farm land outer new south wales

my guess, part of the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserves I'll go as far as to say that this is somewhere of the Warren-Carinda road ( it's a long road :-) woauw

getting the urge to do another outback road trip :-) amazing




too dark to shoot the land now getting too dark to shoot anything now, so this is where I have my little gripe about Alan Joyce now. You see, this un Australian chap is in charge at Qantas, and he scrapped a few flights of the schedule, including my favourite QF32, which arrived in Sydney in the evening, which meant you left Singapore in the morning and flew in daylight all over Australia ( and Bali ) so you would get the most amazing views of Australia and even some volcanoes in Indonesia. Now they are all nightflights, arrving at 6am, so not only do you miss out on enjoying these magical vistas of this unique landscape, but you are arrive at 6 in the morning, absolutely knacked and if you are a tourist you can't even check in your hotel yet till 1 or 2 pm. So it's all very un-australina and I say bring back QF32
right, time for a rest now :-)

Le Chant Des Partisans

know this song well, as I got played on a regular place at my grandmothers, but I never had a copy or knew this existed on youtube ( silly me, what isn't these days on youtube ) So yesterday my uncle had it out on his Ipad and it found me to share with you guys now. This is a very emotional song for me, powerfull, as it means a lot to my grandmother, and everytime she hears it I can see the tears welling up in her eyes. so when I hear it i can almost feel her emotions. But one can never imagine. What an incredibly difficult period to have to have lived through. 

After surfing Cloudbreak a swim with the Dolphins, Amazing !!

So we just surfed Cloudbreak, had a snorkel at Namotu, and then just as we starting heading back to the mainland we spot a pod of Dolphins. At first I jump in the water to try and get some footage swimming with them, but they scattered away, although you can see one dive deep as I jump in. But the most amazing part of that was hearing the Dolphins when I played the video, as I did not hear them while I was under water, but the video did ! Amazing

Status Jewellery shoot, finished product

here are some of the shots from the shoot we did for Status



thanks Team
now get out there and buy the product ( that way I can shoot another one of these in a few months time :-)

Behind the scenes of Status jewellery shoot

Shooting locally ( which I love ) and using our place as the base. So here, on the verandah, Bex has hung up some of the outfits for the shoot. Friend from way back in the days of Frontier Aviators, Jeff Burnes, has started a new accessories company, Status, and he asked me to help him out with producing some images to market his new venture, naturally said yes.Bonnie does hair and make up on our model du jour, Phoebe Bex making good use of the kids ping pong table getting ready to head to location Bonnie does final touch up on location before I start shooting and we're off got to love that late afternoon light love this shot Jacqui snapped of Phoebe being photographed by me, thanks by the way Jacqui for all these photos change location

going through the shots ( and winning :-) awesome light The ever so talented Dan Young Whitford as my assistant, just going over the shots, to check up on my lighting ( he's a lighting guru !! ) While the model cahnges outfits Dan & I ham it up for Jacqui's camera beside the fun shot, how awesome is that light sunset as we wrap it up for the day. here's a shot from Jeff's instragam site.
Thanks to Jacqui for all the amazing behind the scenes photos, more on her blog.

love !!

 

Flight back to Sydney from Nadi, Fiji

about to say bye to the lush greenery take off Nadi river Jetty were we meet Ian from Fiji surf to go to Tavarua and Namotu for our surftrips the open water that would be in front of us as we head to said surf spots
and there they are Tavarua and Namotu, not in frame yet is cloudbreak, which is just to the left of the picture and there she is, cloudbreak. I had the good fortune of surfing it yesterday, no photos to show of it unfortunately, as I did not take water camera with me, and Jacqui's neck was too sore from all the hard work the day before, so bumpy boat ride might was not a good idea.  I had got some great 3-5 foot waves out there, perfect introduction, not small, not too big, and not too windy just like this, a perfect left breaking of the reef I'll be back for sure love me that colour sun's rays beaming through the clouds above ( plane still climbing )

just clouds now as we head to Oz





frost on the window first glimpse of Sydney zoom in, Bonid Beach in the middle and you can see opera house as well :-)

container boat leaving Botany

coming in to land now with a final fly over Kurnell, not best photo because of reflection of inside cabin