In the area around Creswick in central Victoria there are the often large remains of tailings from the gold mines that dotted the area in the 19th Century. These are called Mullock Heaps and mainly consist of overlying rock and quartz. While to some these are a blot on the rural landscape, to a photographer [...]
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A Good Way to Add to Your Business
UK photographer and graphic designer David Springford now has three websites to his business, one on his graphic design, one for his photography and a new one for a line of tee-shirts with his designs printed on them, many of which have a photographic theme. The tee-shirt site, called eyetees, has a great design and [...]
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Photography Exhibitions Review, Part 3
In this article I offer my review of some of the exhibitions. As all such reviews are, these are my personal response to the exhibitions I saw. I did not set out to see all the exhibitions. Along the way I stumbled across some other exhibitions that either were not in the program or that [...]
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Photography Exhibitions Review, Part 2
In this article series I offer my review of some of the exhibitions. As all such reviews are, these are my personal response to the exhibitions I saw. I did not set out to see all the exhibitions. Rather I went through the exhibition program and chose ones in Ballarat and Creswick that appealed to [...]
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Photography Exhibitions Review, Part 1
The Ballarat Foto Biennale is a month long festival of photography that is run every second year. Last time it was the Daylesford Foto Biennale (DFB) but the City of Ballarat came on board for this one and, hopefully, into the future. The BFB consists of an extensive number of exhibitions, comprising a core and [...]
Country Infrared Panoramas With the Gigapan Epic
Over the last couple of weeks I got out a few times to do some panorama photography with the Gigapan Epic and my converted for infrared photography Canon 350D.
Infrared Panorama Photography From the Fitzroy Gardens
As the weather and my schedule have permitted, I have been out doing panorama photography with my IR converted Canon 350D and a slightly modified Gigapan Epic motorized panorama platform. A fairly calm and sunny day allowed me some time in the Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne.
Infrared Panoramas From Near the You Yangs using a GigaPan Epic
Finally the combination of teaching commitments and bad weather gave me a break and let me get out with my modified GigaPan Epic motorized panorama platform and my converted for infrared photography Canon 350D.
After the Fires in Color, Part 1
Following comments about our After the Fires in Infrared Photography first article (the second will go up shortly), I am also putting up a series on the fire locations that I am shooting in color.
False Color Infrared Images with the XDP Filter
MaxMax.com, the people who converted my 350D and will do my next camera, also sell filters. I’ve been testing a number of their infrared filters of late and the first one I will talk about is their unusual XDP filter.
Infrared on the Land, IR Photography of the Rural Landscape
Over the last month I’ve been doing a lot of photography out in the country. Some of this has been of wild areas but much of it has been the rural farm country. I shot with my converted for infrared Canon 350D digital camera, mostly with either my Canon 100-400mm L series lens or with [...]
Photographing Kangaroos in Infrared
Yesterday I needed to get out for some emotional recovery time doing photography. So I spent the day till the weather closed in too much driving through the country around Gisborne and Romsey in Central Victoria.
Infrared shot of Melbourne from the You Yangs
Late March, as part of my healing through photography process, I was up the You Yangs, a granite outcropping outside of Melbourne. From there I took this shot of Melbourne with my IR converted 350D and my 100-400 lens. [geo_mashup_map]
After the Fires, an Infrared Photography Series Dedicated to Resilience and Recovery, Part 1
The Black Saturday bushfires in central Victoria occurred on the 7th of February, 2009. The day had temperatures that peaked at 46.4 degrees Celsius (115.5 Fahrenheit) and very high winds.
A Photo Escape
Mid February I managed to escape for a day from the hassles I was having with websites (DIMi had been hacked somehow and I was putting it all back together). So I went up country into central Victoria (Australia) for a day of shooting with various cameras.
A Photographer’s Website – Foto Baja Mex
To show you just what can be done cheaply and easily I wanted to show you the latest site we have developed for a client that is just going through its last tweaking stage: Foto-Baja_Mex.com. Owned by Byrle Moore, the site is used to sell his photography of off-road racing that takes place in Baja, [...]
January Infrared Photography of the Australian Landscape
While in Central Victoria I shot some more infrared landscape images. A day spent in Central Victoria with a number of cameras gave me a chance to shoot with my infrared converted Canon 350D. It was great relaxation after testing some other cameras. You can see some of the bushfire affected IR images I shot [...]
Winter in Infrared, part 2
I’ve been shooting a lot of infrared photography recently with my converted Canon 350D. Here are some of the latest images. Here is the second part of this article of photographs taken with my converted for infrared 350D (by MaxMax.com). A lensbaby image (as are the next two). Always look up, you never know what [...]
Winter in Infrared, part 1
I’ve been shooting a lot of infrared photography recently with my converted Canon 350D. Here are some of the latest images. Winter in Australia, as specifically near Melbourne, can bring great cloudscapes and days that are still nicely sunny. So I’ve been shooting infrared with my Canon 350D converted digital camera. Some of the results [...]
Most Recent Infrared Photography
I do love infrared photography. So when testing other cameras I still had my IR camera handy. Last weekend I was out in the country. I had a number of cameras in for testing, specifically the Olympus E-510, Nikon D300 and Sony a350, and so decided to head off to my favorite bit of the [...]
Autumn (Downunder) in Infrared
It is autumn in Australia and I was curious to see how the landscape would render in infrared. It is autumn in Australia and I decided to head off on Saturday out of Melbourne to Mount Macedon, a cooler area that also has a lot of European trees. I was very curious to see how [...]
World Heritage Virtual Tour Adds 80 New Sites With the Help of REALVIZ® Stitcher® Unlimited
WHTour.org is a stunning 360-degree virtual tour of World Heritage sites from across the globe. Press Release REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, is delighted to lend their support for the re-launch of WHTour.org, a stunning 360-degree virtual tour of World Heritage sites from across the globe. WHTour.org is an independent non-profit organization [...]
May 2007 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – Eirik Holmoyvik Photography
Eirik lives in Bergen, Norway and takes a wide range of photographs, from landscapes to street scenes, all of which is striking. Eirik Holmoyvik is a photographer based in Norway who covers a wide range of subjects. He seems to always be experimenting and pushing his own boundaries. His web site shows work shot conventionally, [...]
May 2007 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – David Burdeny
David Burdeny is an architect who seems to be making a big name for himself as a fine art photographer. A Landscape photographer, David’s images have an amazing calmness about them. David Burdeny is a Canadian photographer of the landscape. Whilst he shoots BW film, he exhibits and sells C-type color prints of these because [...]
May 2007 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – Barbara Leven Photography
Barbara Leven’s photography of the urban and natural landscape through tight, detail shots is striking. Barbara is a New York photographer who seems to like to isolate a detail from a larger scene. A fine art photographer, she has a long exhibition history of both analog and digital photography. Her web site shows photography in [...]
Jan 2007 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – Mehmet Özgür
Mehmet Özgür has simply stunning landscape photography and the most amazing studies of smoke. This is an unusual award in this series, because it is really just about the work, rather than the website you can view it on. An engineer by education and profession, Mehmet is also an avid photographer. His work spans a [...]
Some More Infrared Photography
In this article I present some new infrared images, mostly taken with an infrared converted Canon 350D. For these shots I used a lens that others have warned not to use for infrared photography. This is the one shot here not taken with my converted 350D. It was shot with a Canon 400D, the supposedly [...]
A Day of Shooting With My Infrared Converted Canon 350D
Sunday I was out shooting with my newly converted for IR 350D camera A few hours shooting with converted 350D on Sunday (plus a bot of shooting on the previous few days) resulted in my gaining more familiarity with how the camera responds since the conversion. The results are below: 1/250 sec f8 100ISO, 20mm [...]
Nov 2006 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – Nadia Salameh Wedding and Portrait Photography
This site shows the great wedding and portrait photography, as well as other work, of the American photographer Nadia Salameh. Nadia is an American photographer from Southern California who is presently on an extended residence in Barcelona, Spain. She is a specialist wedding/portrait photographer but also actively works on personal projects involving people and nature. [...]
Oct 2006 Outstanding Art/Photo Site Award – Jane Davenport insect and flower photography, and more
This site shows the great nature photography of Jane Davenport Jane is an Australian photographer who specializes in nature photography from a creative perspective. Cutting her teeth in fashion photography, Jane is a whiz at both photography and at the marketing of her work. I first came across Jane when I received a press release [...]
