The Top End
NIMA, NIMA, NIMA…
The National Indigenous Music Awards were held in Darwin over the weekend and as per usual it was the Gurrumul Yunipingu show, with the man from Elcho Island taking out 4 gongs… with the Warumpi Band the highlight for me, they were fully sick. I was shooting officially but had a small studio set up... »
Oh Humpty Doo!
You know you live in Humpty Doo when, you park your car in August and have trouble finding it in November…. »
A journey to “THE” Island Home
I have just completed an assignment for the SMH with reporter Bruce Elder on Elcho Island where to quote my mate Bob Gosford ” That mob on Elcho are a good mob no different from the rest of Arnhem land, just a little bit more relaxed about things”. The one thing that stands out on... »
Pigs will fly no more!
I can remember my first ever model airplane because it was the General Dynamics F-111 in USAF livery and around the time the RAAF was buying a fleet of them and soon changed it’s USAF name from the F 111 Aardvark to rename them affectionately as ” The Pig”. My model turned out to be... »
A Darwin Media Confrence
The cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove has been operating for a while now and when ever some celebrity type visits town it usually means a photo op at the cage of death, so far I have resisted making any pictures here just for the fact that it is probably only good for one... »
Featured on ABC TV
I just had a spot on the new ABC arts show, “Arts Nation”, see it here , 2 days of filming with me gamboling around the bush shooting my project 42/45, usually the only time I make it onto the box is in the background on a news job, very weird to have that... »
Mutika # 9
The day that I took this particular picture was not only marked by the fact that the town of Katherine had been inundated for the second time in a decade but it was also the day that country music legend Gene Pitney died as I was wading chest deep through the waters that covered... »
Mutika # 8
I got myself a flat tyre on the road out of Wadeye when the light started to get low more and more mutikas trying to get off the dirt to the bitumen before the sun sets because you really don’t want to be on that road at night , I took this picture and... »
Best Dressed at the Adelaide River Races redux.
Revisiting the Adelaide River Races the ladies winner of the fashions on the field was looking for a look that was to the right of Carmen Miranda and to the left of Dame Edna. »
Mutika # 7
Just goes to show that in the Top End it takes a long time for the country to dry out as we found out on the Tompkinson River flood plain near Maningrida as the Djelk Rangers and I were scouring the flood plain for a few buffalo to shoot a full 5 months... »