For the last three or four years, I’ve regularly travelled to Groote Eylandt in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. The Eylandt is Australia’s 4th or 5th largest, and is Aboriginal land, managed on behalf of the traditional owners by the Anindilyakwa Land Council. Most of my time on Eylandt has been spent visiting the GEMCO Manganese Mine, […]
May Desktop Wallpaper
Click on the preview image below to download a hi-res version of this month’s desktop image. This month’s desktop photo was taken with my new Fuji X-T1, which I’ve been really enjoying using these last few weeks. I promise not to become one of those fanboys who go on an on about their switch to […]
The Fisherman
View fullsize Fisherman at dawn at Cotton Tree on the Sunshine Coast
Tokyo Facades
One of the things that I love about Tokyo, is that you can stray only a block or two from some of the busiest streets and shopping precincts in the world, and find yourself lost in narrow, quiet, residential streets with barely another soul in site. Each time I’ve visited, I’ve made sure I make […]
Hokkaido Day 11 and 12
The tour of Hokkaido has come to an end, and I’m now back in Tokyo. Battling the Yamanote line during Friday night peak hour with luggage. And doing laundry. I’m a one man party machine. We drove around on Thursday looking for somewhere to shoot, and as we came over a hill and saw this […]
Hokkaido Day 8
Today we photographed boats. Here are some boats. View fullsize And here’s a Northern Pintail. View fullsize
Hokkaido Day 7
More exploring along the coast south of Wakkanai today. View fullsize The coastal roads here remind me of any other, except where they would usually be surrounded by yellow sand, the dunes here are a crisp white, with at times deceptively deep snow. The following photograph was taken on a beach, which was accessed by crossing […]
Hokkaido Day 6
We’re now in Japan’s most northern city of Wakkanai, where we will spend the next couple of days exploring the coast before making our way across the north of the island and down the east coast. View fullsize View fullsize On the drive today, we stopped suddenly on the highway when someone noticed a fox […]
Hokkaido Day 4 and 5
We’ve made it to the coast, where we will spend much of the rest of the trip. Man, I love the coast. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize