'lifegames' Panoramas

Macro pictures of flowers can be more striking than the actual flower when viewed with the naked eye.

We saw a range of delightful garden ornaments on the tour around Fosters’ Open Garden day.

A group of musicians provide some background music for a theatre production, and this woman playing a flute caught my attention.

I’ve taken photos of many business throughout South Gippsland, but my favourite type of photography is product photo shoots. It gives me a chance to be even more creative.

By request, I’ve also started producing brochures and online catalogues. What fun! And the customer is delighted.

I’ve always enjoyed doing product photography, especially for websites, but recently I’ve also been asked to create fashion advertising material as well.

THis is just a small sample taken for a great homewares, clothing, gifts and wedding accessories shop called Kush Kush at Cape Woolamai.

I love taking night photography in Melbourne. One necessity is a tripod, but patience is also required to capture just the right light conditions to create a certain mood.

Another photograph taken from the hit musical “Into The Woods” of Cinderella, The Prince, The Wicked Step Mother and The Ugly Sisters.

If you haven’t yet seen FAMDA’s version of the hit musical “Into The Woods“, there is still time – it is on until Sunday October 11th 2009…we absolutely loved it!

This beautiful girl lying on a massage table looks thoroughly blissful. How nice to take relaxing pictures of beauty treatments.

The Working Horse And Tractor Rally at Korumburra is a great place to go to catch a glimpse of what farming was like in days gone by.

These majestic working horses where shaking the flies away from their eyes on a hot and dusty day.

During post processing of the photograph I used a treatment to make them appear as though they are wet from the rain…I like the effect…what do you think?

On our way home from Morwell National Park in Gippsland, we were stopped in our tracks by a tree that had fallen over the Grand Ridge Road. While navigating our way back and taking a different route, we stumbled across the delightful Morwell River…I hope to go back again very soon…it is really beautiful.

Flowers, babies and dogs tend to be the easiest conversation starters. As I was walking down a side street in Foster , these beautiful garden flowers caught my eye, and of course I stopped to chat to their proud owner.

You can see how dangerously close the fires burned to this house just outside Mirboo North in February 2009.

These home owners had prepared their property with fire fighting equipment and large cleared areas around their home.

It could be said I take my camera everywhere with me – even into the shower!

Well actually, I was getting some practise using fast shutter speeds and sync flash for this picture of water streaming from the shower head. Lucky we supply our own water and our rainfall is high in South Gippsland. In some parts of Australia, you just wouldn’t attempt a stunt like this, even for photographic pleasure.

After the bushfires at Wilsons Prom, these unusual native Australian grass trees sprouted with new green growth. They make a wonderful contrast to the blackened tree trunks in the background.

See more of the Australian Bush Art Prints here.

I could have a website dedicated to flower photographs…I just love them. Don’t the water droplets make it shine!

Something old … something new … something borrowed … something blue …

I can’t resist taking photos of flowers. My favourite things to photograph. Just started using a fabulous gitzo tripod to give the camera extra stability for taking macro shots. It sure makes them clearer.

This delightful little Australian bushland creek can be found in a quiet camping area called Turtons Creek in Victoria.

Made into a giant poster, this photograph can be cropped several different ways and can apparently be blown up to billboard size, though I haven’t actually tried it yet.

Beautiful Melbourne on the Yarra River at night.

One of the greatest advantages of using a Pro Digital Camera like the Canon 5D II means that I can easily take low level lighting photography without even using a tripod…when we were walking around Melbourne on this particular night, the sky was an amazing caramel colour which privided a rich backdrop to the purple and greens in the foreground.