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It's been a busy weekend… 😅After a crazy busy few months, a mammoth year end, lots of Astro events, and a few episodes o...
02/08/2026

It's been a busy weekend… 😅

After a crazy busy few months, a mammoth year end, lots of Astro events, and a few episodes of illness and injury in between, I'm finally making some headway — clearing a huge backlog of editing and actually getting content out there again.

"Why, yes," I hear you say, "you haven't posted in a while. Are you sure you're still a photographer?" Yes. Yes. YES! I'm working on it, LOL.

So with a spare weekend up my sleeve, I made myself a promise: get out and shoot every day. Which, naturally, just added to the pile sitting in my Lightroom catalog. 🤦‍♂️

Swipe through for the weekend wrap-up →

📍 Full Moon over Centrepoint Tower, Sydney - tried hard to nail the alignment, could do better, but there are excuses 🙂
📍 Waning moon wrapped in cloud
📍 Govetts Leap sunrise, x2
📍 Orphan Rock & Scenic Skyway under a rainbow
📍 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
📍 Popes Glen, Blackheath — Wattle Week & winter flowers
📍 Lapstone Hill Tunnel

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Join Photography Adventure Guide Jay Evans for a guided photographic journey through the heart of the World Heritage-lis...
10/07/2026

Join Photography Adventure Guide Jay Evans for a guided photographic journey through the heart of the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains. Sat 25th & Sun 26th July. Book one day, or both. Looking forward to introducing you to wonderful Grand Clifftop walk.
https://scene.sonyanz.com/events?c=3699,1616

25/06/2026

Just got back from our annual Kando trip with Sony Alpha AU & NZ. Huge thanks to Sony Australia for continuing to bring us together in what has become more than a group of creatives, advocates and ambassadors going to a conference or a show. Its become like a huge family get together. Take a look at what we got up to.

🚨 Less than 2 weeks to go until 📷🔥 and now is your chance to grab a discount for the remaining places on my workshops.W...
18/05/2026

🚨 Less than 2 weeks to go until 📷🔥 and now is your chance to grab a discount for the remaining places on my workshops.

Working with Sony Australia, digiDirect and .co, we have some great sessions lined up for you. There will also be some special offers on Sony Cameras and Lenses from DigiDirect.

I’ll be running three very different workshops:
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🌌 Introduction to Astrophotography
If you’ve ever wanted to learn the ins and outs of Astrophotography—this is the session for you. Small intimate group ready for all your questions.
👉 https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/introduction-to-astrophotography-nightscaping-%E2%80%94-scene-house-sydney-(nsw)
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🌇 Camperdown Sunset Photowalk
A wander through one of my old haunts Camperdown—sunset, people, pets, scenes, light, composition, and a few hidden gems along the way.
👉 https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/camperdown-sunset-photowalk-scene-house-sydney-(nsw)
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🖥️ Mastering Adobe Lightroom and Mobile Workflows
Learn how to get the most out of your edits using Adobe plus tips on mobile workflows straight from your Sony Alpha setup, Imaging Edge and Creators App.
👉 https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/mastering-adobe-lightroom-scene-house-sydney-(nsw)
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Spots are limited so if you’ve been meaning to jump into a workshop, this is your sign. And you can get a discount 35% up to a maximum of $30 - using the code "letslearn" at checkout.

👉 Lock in your spot now before they’re gone.
Let’s learn, shoot, and create something epic. 💥
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What a night up at the lighthouse!!Full House for an Astromeet, and all well and truly up for the march up the headland,...
18/05/2026

What a night up at the lighthouse!!

Full House for an Astromeet, and all well and truly up for the march up the headland,.

Expecting to find it jam packed, but I’ve always been able to work with others up there. But strangely, for one of the clearest evenings yet this year, there were only 2 other photographers up there. One was in my group, who headed up early thinking we were meeting at the top.

So we ended up with the place pretty much to ourselves for the evening.

Spectacular conditions, amazing night skies from Sydney’s Urban Dark Sky Reserve.

With very high interest this year, and with every event published already booked out (with big waitng lists building!) I am putting on a few other Astromeets into the calendar for the year with another trip up to Barrenjoey Lighthouse and a few other special locations around Sydney.

Event run under EcoPass license with NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

– Queenstown Day 7 ☹️📷And just like that… the final day.A cruisy finish to an epic week - starting with a drive up to ...
07/05/2026

– Queenstown Day 7 ☹️📷
And just like that… the final day.
A cruisy finish to an epic week - starting with a drive up to Coronet Peak, lunch at Ayrburn Woolshed, and a wander through the early autumn colour around Arrowtown.
Then the perfect finale… crossing Lake Wakatipu aboard the historic TSS Earnslaw for dinner at Walter Peak High Country Farm.

A pretty spectacular way to wrap up the trip.
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What a week it’s been.

Not just Queenstown, but Wanaka, Glenorchy, Milford Sound, Arrowtown. Helicopters, mountains, astro, waterfalls, photowalks, sunsets… and an alarming amount of food 😂

Massive thanks to Sony for turning a cancelled Europe trip into an unforgettable adventure.

A couple of decades after picking up a camera again, trips like this still remind me why I love photography in the first place: the stories, the places, and the people along the way.

Now… where to next? ✈️
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– Queenstown Day 6 🚐🌧️📷Queenstown → Milford Sound → Queenstown… in one day.Not ideal. Absolutely worth it.Massive shou...
06/05/2026

– Queenstown Day 6 🚐🌧️📷

Queenstown → Milford Sound → Queenstown… in one day.

Not ideal. Absolutely worth it.

Massive shoutout to our driver Inger—I’ve done this drive before and it’s no joke. Tight timing, winding roads, and the occasional campervan doing its best to test everyone’s patience 😅

I’ll admit… I spent a fair chunk of the drive catching up on sleep (thanks to my brutal laryngitis), but every time I opened my eyes—boom—another ridiculous scene rolling past.

Quick stops along the way:
📍 Te Anau Downs
📍 Mirror Lakes
📍 Hollyford Valley

Lunch at Pio Pio Restaurant (with a surprise visit from a cheeky weka—the only one of the trip… and not a single kea in sight 😂).

Then into the main event… Classic Milford Sound conditions:
🌧️ Pouring rain
🌊 Waterfalls absolutely everywhere
📷 Constant battle to keep the lens dry

And yes… we got very close to Stirling Falls—close enough to question life choices—before cruising past the always impressive Lady Bowen Falls.
By the time we rolled back into Queenstown, it was dark, we were wrecked… and it somehow felt like it all happened in fast forward.

Big day. Long day.

Would do it again in a heartbeat.
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Autumn this year has been… let’s say challenging.Between road closures, weather, and timing, it’s felt like the colours ...
06/05/2026

Autumn this year has been… let’s say challenging.

Between road closures, weather, and timing, it’s felt like the colours have been one step ahead the whole time. So before I completely missed the show, I carved out a day to revisit a couple of my go-to accessible spots in the mountains.

Normally, Mount Wilson would be top of the list—but with access limited this season, it was time to adapt.

First stop: the Golden Poplars at Sunny Corner…

which, unfortunately, had other plans.

A solid hit of rain and wind the day before had already stripped them bare. Leaves everywhere—just not on the trees. A slightly poetic reflection of how this autumn has gone so far… great intentions, slightly undone by reality.

But all wasn’t lost.

On the way back through the mountains, pockets of colour started to reveal themselves—those quiet little moments where autumn still shows up, even if it’s not quite how (or where) you expected.

Sometimes you don’t get the grand display…

but you still come home with something worth capturing.

– Skyline Queenstown 🌄📷🚡Wrapped up Day 5 with a ride up Skyline Queenstown—Queenstown’s famous gondola—climbing high a...
28/04/2026

– Skyline Queenstown 🌄📷🚡

Wrapped up Day 5 with a ride up Skyline Queenstown—Queenstown’s famous gondola—climbing high above town to Bob's Peak for dinner with a view. Having driven cable cars at Scenic World for a long time, I can say it was pretty exciting for me to ride another famous Doplmeyer built ride, especially since its very recent refurbishment. 🙂

Construction of the new viewing platforms was still underway, but the new side of the deck really didn’t disappoint. What a view.

From the terrace overlooking Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu, it was clear early on this one had potential…

High cloud, soft light, and that feeling the sky was about to do something special.

Then it just… kept going. Colour building. Light shifting. Safe to say—we got the sunset. And a cracking buffet dinner to boot 🤣

Not a bad way to finish another epic day.
Sony Alpha AU & NZ 100% Pure New Zealand Skyline Queenstown

🚨 SYDNEY – This one’s for you… is coming 📷🔥I’m pumped to be teaming up with Sony Australia , digiDirect and .co for S...
28/04/2026

🚨 SYDNEY – This one’s for you… is coming 📷🔥

I’m pumped to be teaming up with Sony Australia , digiDirect and .co for Scene House Sydney—and there are some seriously good sessions lined up. There will also be some special offers on Sony Cameras and Lenses from DigiDirect.

I’ll be running three very different (and very fun) workshops:
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🌌 Introduction to Astrophotography (Intimate – only 5 spots)
If you’ve ever wanted to shoot the night sky properly—this is your chance. Small group, hands-on, no fluff.

👉 https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/introduction-to-astrophotography-nightscaping-%E2%80%94-scene-house-sydney-(nsw)

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🌇 Camperdown Sunset Photowalk
A wander through one of my old haunts—light, composition, and a few hidden gems along the way.

👉 https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/camperdown-sunset-photowalk-scene-house-sydney-(nsw)
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🖥️ Adobe Lightroom Workshop
Learn how to get the most out of your edits—plus tips on mobile workflows straight from your Sony Alpha setup.

👉 https://scene.sonyanz.com/events/mastering-adobe-lightroom-scene-house-sydney-(nsw)
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Spots are limited (especially Astro 👀)—so if you’ve been meaning to jump into a workshop, this is your sign.

👉 Lock in your spot now before they’re gone.

Let’s learn, shoot, and create something epic. 💥
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