Tokyo Street

Posted on April 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

I have just arrived home from the best holiday in Japan. In short, it involved 12 days in Hakuba snowboarding, then 5 days in Tokyo, shopping, walking and of course taking a lot of photos. Here are a few.

Enforcing the no smoking rule?

From inside the busy train. Everyone is in a rush. All day, all long.

Again, the rush underground. Plus, face-mask-fashion.

Takeshita Street, Harajuku. Worth a visit just for the people.

View of the tower in back, lady on one of thousands of bikes in the city.

A bit of rain in the city.

A man sending a message in the middle of the ‘busiest intersection in the world’, Shinjuku.

Some ‘Yen Bones’ as a friend called it

Overall it was a great trip, and was so much fun. Tokyo is one of the best areas i’ve been to get some good street photos.

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Perth Street Photos

Posted on February 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

I recently went to Perth for a few days, armed with my camera, a 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens and a few days to spare in the city streets. I had other lenses with me but only used this 50mm fixed as it is new and i wanted to learn it well. I saw a lot of great old buildings in the city that i would have loved to photograph with a wide angle, but i’m kinda happy with sticking to one lens this time. It was nice knowing what the image would fit in before bringing the viewfinder to my eye. I got used to it. It’s my new  favorite lens. Following this are a few of the images i captured during my few days in Perth. I think some show the City’s not so much hidden but not so seen aspects, others show everyday life. Perth’s City alleyways connecting the streets together were my favorite to photograph.

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In and around Karratha.

Posted on January 22, 2012 | Leave a comment

It’s been 9 months since i’ve arrived in Karratha. One of the biggest mining towns in Western Australia. On a map, the Pilbara is just a dot in the north west, but it spans over a massive amount of land from oceans to outback, desert to mining towns. Karratha itself is small but the surrounding area is full of long straight highways, never ending, sun soaked, flat land. These photographs i have chosen are taken over this period when i have had time away from my long work hours. I’m here to earn the money, but in doing that, it’s hard to find the time for my camera. But i do, and these are the resulting images.

Above is taken onto of the hill behind Karratha township. In the frame is about half of the town.

The lightning comes in close to the town, usually stay behind the hills for a while and moves on down the coast. Great opportunities for photos on these stormy nights.

Rio Tinto. The mining giant. I work on one of their sites, for a contracting company. These trains are non-stop carting iron ore to the ships on the coast to send off to china.

Sunsets are magic in the Pilbara. Add the full moon, and here you go.

This was taken on my flight into town. The first image of mine taken in Karratha.

2011 FeNaClNG Festival
Fe[Iron]NaCl[Salt]NG[Natural Gas]

Taken last year at this festival.

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Homeless shopping carts

Posted on December 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

I’m on the hunt for content to photograph in this town. I’ve noticed a lot of disrespect for the shopping carts in and around the mall area, and within quite a large radius of that area also. It’s like people go out of there way to take these carts away from the mall area, just for fun, or lack of fun. They are left abandoned where they were last dropped. In carparks, on gardens, in driveways, down roads.

I guess it’s not a big deal. It gave me a subject to shoot for an hour or so. I’m sure it’s not the last set of carts i’ll photograph in this town, or others.

 

 

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Home studio shots

Posted on November 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

I wanted to put my thoughts of a home studio into action, so a couple of weeks ago i bought some materials to make it possible to setup a place for some simple portraits in our spare room. I have some flashes which i can fire off the camera and for these photos i used just one to keep it simple and easy. I placed it just off to the side behind some white cloth acting the same as an umbrella would and had some black cloth behind the subject to give the dark background i wanted. The resulting images worked well i think. I’ll have to get some more willing subjects, but i think im onto something, so far anyway.

Above is a friend, Jarod and our cat, Billy. Great pose, they are both made for the camera, as much as they both hate it.

Again, great pose. One to place onto photo ID maybe.

His eyes i kept in color to show the vividness they can have sometimes. (i still like the b&w though)

In the end he didn’t mind too much with the photos (and flashes) he mostly just wants to play. Considering all flashes were fired from the right side of the images, they show enough detail and light to get an acceptable photo.

More portraits to come in the future.

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Miaree pools bmx jump

Posted on November 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Last weekend a couple of friends built a dirt jump out at Miaree Pools, near Karratha, Western Australia. At the time it was too soft to jump so they went back this weekend to hit it up and i came along for some shots. Here are a few from the day, all up it was a great day of bikes, sun and some spills. With the temp up around 39 degrees it was well worth getting wet.

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New Blog

Posted on October 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

I’ve decided to start my own blog. I’m doing this so i have a web address that i can show people i know what i am up to, where i have been, and the type of things i have been photographing. Enjoy.

Image above is Billy Biter.

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