My photography journey
Because I was born in the early 1970’s my first camera was a Hanimex 110 film camera. I thought it was the best thing in the world. It had a built-in flash!
I remember shooting anything and everything.
I waited each week to receive the prints back from the K Mart photo lab in the outer Melbourne suburbs.
My first award
I didn’t really know what I was doing with photography in 2015. I was experimenting with different styles trying to find my own.
I was heavily into HDR at this time. I remember sitting in the Air Asia gate lounge in KL waiting to come home to Australia when I found the Air Asia in-flight magazine. They were calling for entries into their photo competition. I sent off an image I’d taken in Hanoi that week. It wasn’t a great photo but what do you know? I won 2nd place !
Since then I have entered many competitions and won other awards.
All awards
- 2015 – Air Asia 3Sixty in-flight magazine, Photography competition runner up – Photograph – “Hanoi rail bridge in HDR”.
- WPE awards 2021 first half – Silver Award – Category – Landscape, Flowers, Buildings – Photograph – “Mauve“.
- 2021 Fine art Photography Awards – Nominee – Photograph – “Purple Rain“.
- WPE awards 2021 first half – Bronze Award – Category – Landscape, Flowers, Buildings – Photograph – “Golden Dawn“.
- 2021 International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention – Categorie – Nature, Landscape – Photograph – “Purple Rain“.
- 2021 Mono Awards – Commended – Category – Animals – Photograph “2”.
- 14th International Color Awards – Categorie – Nature – Photograph – “Purple Rain“
Some bullet points about me...
- I left home at 14 years old.
- My wife is from Cambodia and is half my age.
- I have a baby boy named Tyler.
- I have broken 33 bones in my body.
- I developed cataracts in both eyes by the time I was 45.
- I had insomnia for years.
- I start my day at 3 am.
