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Notes and reflections from my photography and writing.

  • The Photograph I Chose Not to Take

    Journal Marie and I left the car and wandered over to the lookout. In the distance, three of the Glass House Mountains rose through a light haze, their familiar shapes standing quietly against the sky. The Glass House Mountains are ancient volcanic plugs, formed some 25 to 27 million years ago. Twelve of them are…

  • Why I’m Drawn to Quiet Landscapes

    For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to quiet landscapes. Only recently have I started to understand why. When I photograph these places, the experience feels less like “taking pictures” and more like settling into the moment. I stand still for a while. I look. I listen. Then, almost without thinking…

  • What I Look For Before I Take a Photograph

    I rarely arrive at a scene with a photograph already in mind. Most of the time, I sit for a while and simply look. My eyes move slowly across what is in front of me, not searching for anything specific, but noticing what begins to stand out. The way the light shifts across the surface…

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How to Experience the Photographs

Many of the photographs here were not made in dramatic moments. They arrived quietly — places where the light paused, reflections held still, or a scene slowly revealed something I hadn’t noticed at first.

The essays and stories on this site explore those moments. The galleries simply let them exist.

Take your time with the images. Some of them only reveal themselves slowly.

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Stories Behind The Images

Every photograph begins with a moment. These are the stories.

  • The Place We Weren’t Looking For

    Sometimes a photograph brings back more than a place. It brings back the way we felt while we were there. We had decided to explore Currumbin Rock Pools simply because we had never been there before. It was only a short drive from where we were staying, so we took our cameras with us, hoping…

  • What a Tree’s Shadow Taught Me About Seeing

    This photograph was made in February this year while Marie and I were in Caloundra celebrating our wedding anniversary. As we often do, we set off in the car with no particular destination, simply looking for interesting places to photograph. On this occasion, we continued further along Golden Beach than we had ever explored before,…

  • What the Morning Light Taught Me About Seeing

    Some photographs remind me that seeing begins long before I lift the camera. Marie and I were in Caloundra for our annual wedding anniversary holiday in February 2023. We always stay in the same unit overlooking the ocean. Between us and the beach is nothing more than a walking path, making it easy to watch…

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Essays & Reflections

  • One Day You Realise You’re Living in the Memories You’ll Miss

    The moments we remember most aren’t always the ones we knew were important at the time. It was just another day. We had taken our time getting to our usual coffee shop, and our favourite table was vacant, waiting for us. We sat by the window, drinking our coffee and watching the world pass by.…

  • The Older I Get, the More I Notice What Isn’t There

    Why do we sometimes become more interested in what a place no longer contains than in what is standing in front of us? I once photographed what was there. Increasingly, I find myself photographing what isn’t. Recently, we stopped at Surfers Paradise to take some photographs of the beach and the people enjoying themselves. As…

  • Beauty Gets Our Attention. Honesty Holds It.

    Why Ordinary Places Now Mean More to Me Than Spectacular Ones By the time we arrived at Byron Bay Lighthouse, the car park was almost full. The sky was a perfect blue. Visitors wandered between the lighthouse and the lookout, cameras and phones pointed towards the ocean. Dolphins surfaced below the cliffs. A fishing boat…

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Books & Projects

Aspects of the Human Condition” is the maturation of my earlier project, “Specimen Slides of the Human Condition.” I felt that the project was incomplete and needed more work. Over the last three years, it has grown into a book that covers thirty-four human conditions.

Projects is a collection of fine art photographic series created over more than a decade, bringing together images shaped by reflection, memory, music, and lived experience.

About the Artist

I’m an Australian photographer and writer drawn to the quiet intersections of place, memory, and everyday life. Through photography and essays, I explore how images and stories shape how we see the world.

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