I’ve been revisiting the videos I created for YouTube all those years ago in 2017, before leaving social media, before therapy, before changing my lifestyle choices, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I still agree with my original sentiments.
Read MoreI’ve been investigating the rise of the NFT and how artists can use it to sell their artworks digitally in a legitimate blockchain-backed manner. This is why I’ve created my first ever original digital painting offering.
This is an original copy only available to the purchaser of this NFT and has never been published on the internet.
Read MoreI’m a full-time software developer with graphics experience, so I finally began to look into how I might be able to recreate the entire Photoshop action, film grain simulation and all using Apple’s CoreImage framework and some custom GPU shaders.
If I was successful, I could work to turn the project into a standalone piece of software that ran much faster and required no additional software to use!
Read MoreI’ve been venturing into the rainforests and mountains and there’s a lot of green there. And a little astrophotography goes a long way. I’ve never been all that good, prepared or dedicated to it, but sometimes it’s nice to try.
Read MoreFor the first time since pre-COVID days, I crossed the New South Wales border, something I had expected to do earlier than now. A small number of my friends and I drove down to Lake Arragan and Red Cliff to camp at the top of the cliffs.
Read MoreIn the ever moving, ever churning lifestyle we place ourselves in, it’s so easy to forget what true presence even feels like. A rainforest is one of the ways I’ve been finding my way back to this quite visceral experience.
Read MoreThe theme of twenty-twenty-one seems to have taken a turn towards backpacking (or back country hiking, or tramping, depending where you’re from). From the forest on the slopes of Mount Maroon to remote bush camping in Girraween National Park where the granite boulders lie.
Read MorePhotography is an amazing storytelling artform, and relationships, whether between two people or between a tree and a mountain, are at the heart of what intrigues us as human beings.
Search for interesting elements to layer then ask… why am I putting these together?
Read MoreNature time has been the theme of the last six months since upgrading to a Rav4 and making sure to get out.
Read MoreHere’s some pictures from what seems like a lifetime ago.
Read MoreI’ve been shooting most of my photographs on my iPhone XR using Lightroom raw and VSCO for their Kodak Ektachrome E100G film simulation.
Read MoreTruth be told, things are a little different these days after my journey through therapy and making other changes. Vibrant West End is now my home, rock climbing has become a big passion of mine, and through these two changes a new era in living has emerged.
Read MoreThe 35mm focal length has been a staple of my photography for some years now. I consider it the perfect focal length for general purpose photography, so when Voigtländer announced the new compact 35mm F2 Ultron lens, I was intrigued.
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