Just made the Top 10!
Capture Magazine run their peer voted “Australias Top Photographers” competition every year, a while back I came 10th in the photojournalism category , I don’t know if that’s too much to crow about but this year I got the nod in the Landscape category along with my newest favorite photographer Murray Fredericks who was doing the hard yards on the bed of Lake Eyre while I was circling around shooting said lake in a light plane.
We were based out of William Creek and going up every day flying around in a cessna 172 and I can let you know how bloody wrong it feels to push open a jump door at 4000 feet….really, really sphincter tighteningly wrong! We were doing so many hours that our pilot had to bring along an apprentice, as his weekly allowable flight hours were used up about halfway through the second day, So we are on auto pilot just cruising along snapping out the window occasionally to get to the lakes feeder channels and turn around to the light behind us for the homeward journey and the real shooting, when I asked our pilot to bank to the right a bit for a shot and get no answer….The guys asleep!
I’m amused , not too concerned so I turn around to the spare pilot ” hey take a look at this”…he’s asleep as well!
So here we are 1 photographer , 1 plane and 2 sleeping pilots!
Need less to say I woke him gently!
Heres some of the pics from my landscape portfolio and more here if your interested!
