Photography I Created
So it sounds like MONA is celebrating being open again, this is the view from Dodges Ferry.
Nothing to see here, just an Independence Day-alien-ship-style laser beam going into Hobart …
Dodges Ferry.
With a fake sunset.
This is the first photo I’ve ever published with a synthetic element like a sky. But I’ve been colour-grading and removing things in the edit for years, and somehow this feels worse.
Who knows?
Spending Christmas in the Switzerland of Australia’s south
Shop inside a regional Tasmanian town’s local shopping centre. The professional life coach on staff on Christmas Eve is wearing knock-off AirPods.
Our li’l traveller
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Santa forgot a DHL sleigh at BNE
A Christmas wish list from, and to, the wedding industry. Give the gift of algorithmic love this Christmas, to your favourite wedding vendors.
Ballin’
Me at age 2: has never heard of sushi. 1993: first sushi train comes to Queensland Luna at age 2:
A South Australian Christmas
How the people of Kuitpo, outside of Adelaide, celebrate Christmas.
Photographed December 21, 2020.
Even at the age of six I was a media tart, I just whanted you to know about me.
South Australia is literally issuing tickets for admission to the state. (Not a joke, you get a ticket for answering the border questions correctly)
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cactus Country // The closest I got to a desert this year, regional Victoria’s Cactus Country. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
A storm is brewin’
Berrrd
If you’re flying into Gold Coast from today expect to stand in the sun for a while as they screen everyone entering.
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I never knew I wanted a Trump Presedntial Christmas Address deep fake for Christmas but here we are.
On Thursday’s we fly in the rain
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Blue Mountains // I’m going here today, one of my favourite places in Australia. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
I don’t know what crime Remember The Milk committed to be left off this App Store list, but it must’ve been bad
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Birds on a wire // I think this is how the internet worked before computers. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Olive // Olive this photo of an olive tree. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Search on the web is a broken system
Search is broken.
When a local doctors surgery needs to run ads on its home page so Google is incentivised to rank that page higher - because Google makes money from displaying ads - then the whole thing is broken.
I understand the how and why of how and why were here. And the rankings on Google’s homepage are precious and meaningful to so many businesses, including mine, but what is the fix? It’s not like the Yellowpages were any better, if anything, the somewhat democratic algorithmic management of search rankings is better for the world.
But this is broken.
The only fix is possibly just walking down the street and asking for a appointment at reception.
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cows // This photo is one of Luna’s favourites, because she loved seeing cows so close. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Surfing // My classic favourite photo is a top down of a surfer. This one’s at Palm Beach. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Valley // Particles that have travelled at the speed of light for 8 minutes and 20 seconds, just to fall here. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Lorikeet 🌈🦜 // Hungry li’l Rainbow Lorikeets. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Dunedin // The only international travel I made this year was to New Zealand. On a day off in between elopements Harley and I went to Dunedin and found this gem. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Currumbin Foam
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Burnt // Literally hours before rushing back to Queensland before the border closed, I made this photo from one of the regions affected by bushfires at the start of the year. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 All of Brighton // Well before @karenfrombrighton3186 did all of Brighton, back on the 5th day of March this year, I was in Melbourne making a photograph of all of Brighton Beach. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
I’d like to say that I’m doing this due to popular demand, but the truth is, only 3 people asked. So based on that small cohort I’ve assumed that everyone would like to purchase on of my favourite photos I made from 2020
Next month I’m talking at the Wedding Business CEO Summit. But because I can’t be there in person, I recorded it today. Start saving your pennies though, I’ll post about it when there’s tickets available to attend online.
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Just Britt and Luna two years ago breastfeeding mid-walk on the Venice Pier as Britt mothers our two month old daughter in Los Angeles as if it’s her twentieth child. You’re a wizard, Britt, I’m so proud of you.
the difference between a wedding and an elopement and why that’s important
Call me biased, but I’m really proud of what Britt has created in The Elopement Collective. Not just because she’s my wife or because I’m her celebrant for her elopements.
I’m proud of what she creates because it has heart, soul, and purpose. Tune in below for a hot take on elopements.
2020’s really been the year for eloping, and I’ve watched on as everyone in the wedding industry has a go. It’s been interesting seeing what people have made, and how couples have gotten married.
Here is the thing. An elopement is purely and only about two people getting married. It’s not a small wedding, it’s not a micro wedding, it’s not a pop up wedding. Elopements aren’t a photo shoot with a ceremony at the start, they aren’t a styled shoot with some vows, they aren’t about catering, styling, furniture, photos, film, florals, dresses, or venues. An elopement can have witnesses, but it’s not about them, it’s not about entertaining them, feeding them, occupying them, or hosting them.
An elopement is 100% and only about two people transitioning into marriage. If someone sees it, that’s cream. If it happens somewhere lovey, that looks pretty, what a bonus. If we get a photo or two, and a film, we’re in luck.
A wedding is about your guests, family and friends. An elopement is about the two of you.
I’ll selfishly and proudly say that because The Elopement Collective was born out of a strong belief in the power of marriage and ceremony, we make the best elopements.
I’m proud of you Britt, you’re my rockstar.
Palmy Army
Nashua
and roundabouts
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I’m starting to focus on self portraits
Looks like a glasshouse …
Sunset from Mooloolaba to the Glasshouse Mountains
The first rule of drone club is don’t take your drone swimming.
Takeaway
Who’s house? Run’s house!
Parking lot
Heard it on the wire
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Fire on the water, a smoke in the sky
Someone asked me recently what my personal brand strategy was.
I just see go to places, see cool things, make photos of them, and post the photos online where they get 2-3 likes.
I’m not very good at being strategically cool.
I think the book is about marijuana
Houseporn
Woman, circa 2020
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Poncho time
Self-portrait
This little photo I made two years ago in Burleigh has gone gangbusters on Unsplash! Over 10,000 downlaods, and over 1 million views!
Created with a DJI Mavic Pro (the OG)
Which country do you think this photo was made in?
Golden shower
🌈 Rainbow, where the bow is actually full of rain.
One of these is an iPhone 12 Pro shot, ones a Canon 5D shot.
This is a Warning. Mount Warning.
A power full picture
It’s Luna’s third mango season, or as she calls it, Mangomas.
Unknown bride looking person
When you lose the wings you gave yourself
9 hours in Tokyo, November 2019
One year ago today, Harley and I spent nine hours in Tokyo. Shortest Contiki tour ever. Favourite photos are the bloke squatting and the other bloke selling electronics.
Loch Ness Duck
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6am hustle
25 week mama
Maggie
🌙 More attitude than a professional wrestler
Photo of the current president of the USA on stage.
It’s a galah taking flight.
Just to be sure we all got the joke.
Mountains aren’t just funny, they are hill areas
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Beach daze
recalcitrant berd
It’s the most, magical time, of the yearrr
Look at the flowers, look how they shine for you, and everything you do. They were all yellow.
The sun’s version of making a grand exit
There’s probably a horror movie at the end of this road
So energetic
Highway robbery
Flag berds
Tree
The most friction in my life this year is my longing desire to see the sun finally set on 2020, whilst also acknowledging my deep desire to be present today, to be aware of what I am learning as running a wedding business becomes ever harder, how I am developing as I attend court mediations on the phone or have hard conversations with people, what weaknesses are being exposed when it all becomes too much, and which relationships really matter when you decide who to call or text about what’s going on, through this pandemic.
Not that the actual illness has affected me, I’m healthy apart from bloody hay fever, but in protecting ourselves and our community from the virus, we’ve lost so much else.
It’s a weird situation. Every day I see people commenting about Covid policies, and I can’t help but feel that if we stopped and took a deep breath that we might draw closer together as a community through this instead of forming deeper divisions between us depending on which politician you think is better.
The abandoned Laguna Quays Resort
Laguna Quays and the Turtle Point Golf Course is classical 1990s Queensland foreign investment gone bad. My favourite is the international airport which got as far as a runway missing bitumen. It went into receivership and it hasn’t changed much since I first saw it abandoned in January 2012. Photos shot today, August 11, 2019.
