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Let's see if this link works, this is the short one minute Video Canon has put out on the Canon light awards live grand final, starts to give you a bit of an idea of what it was like, There is suppose to be a longer video coming out …

Thanks Chris. All the flower shots were in daylight but underexposed and light with a headlamp that you’d use for cycling or hiking. They have made a video not out yet that I’ve seen, they have a one minute wrap up one so far but should have a 6 …

I was happy I had done my best for the 24 hours and managed to have my images printed with about 40 minutes to spare so really used all the avaiable time I had. We left the room and waited for teh judges to judge the winnng set of images. After …

One more image to get, Walking through the gardens I found these aqua petals on the ground, Looked above and saw only green leaves so thoguth I had missed the flowers by a day or so, then spotted these still in flower with some bonus colour in the …

Two down two to go. A different colour and the headlamp used agian. Light and shodow to give a feeling of depth to the image.

So walking throught the Botanic Gardens, I managed to find a whole series of flowers differnet colours to play with. In this case the lighting was natural with the sun hitting the leaf. So now I had two images I was happy with. Both colour and …

Found my self at the Cairns, botanical gardens, Bingo, colour decent light, a flower with water droplets, all I needed was my speedlites and I could make something with this. Only problem no speedlites provided in the kit. How ever I did have a …

The same location a decent splash of colour nicely framing the plam tree. another possibility. At last a couple of shots that may be of use. Suns well up now and soon I'll loose any decent early morning light so back to the car and off to see what …

So by now the pressure was building to have four shots and really needed to be heading back by ten in order to print and mount by mid day. So walking around the water front I found a palm and managed this one. Hmmm now we're getting something …

As Sunrise wasn't far off so walked along the water front till I found a posible position for the sunrise. Little less cloud this time compaed to last night so a possibility of some colour, so set up and wait. Better than the night before but again …

Another attempt down by the water were some sculptures that I had a go at light painting, agian, nothing really excting, but now starting to get into an idea, times running out and still not really any images I was really happy with.

Saturday night I got back to the room about ten and down loaded the imaged from the day to see if there was anything there that I could use as part of my four images and build on that. Unfortunately there was nothing there that grabed me as …

Still on the same beach still looking for something of interest that had colour.

I headed out to the coast to try adn find a location for sunset, looking for some options. As I got to the coast the clouds gathered, unfortuantely not the light and fluffy ones I prefered for sunset. As I was pushed for time rather than wast it I …

Another spot I stopped off at was a series of cascades as the weather was somewhat warm 41 Deg C and 71% humidity, Not the most pleasant of temperatures to work in, the Cascades were full off people swimming, in this case I was looking for  grey …

Trying to get four unique images each with a different colour, the idea was to have four images there were unique but would stand together as an overall theme which was the main brief while capturing the colours of Australia, So any colour that …

From there I set off to try and capture a series of images with different colours in each with a dominate colour, to match the brief, With only 24 hours I was trying to work on the maps to see where a good sunset location would be as well as sun …

Back from the Canon Light Awards grand final now. Wow what a weekend, started off at 3:30am in the morning Saturday morning getting up at home to head out to the airport, to fly some where I had no idea where. Ended up getting home Sunday night …

Another Mushroom from my shooting in the Australian Botanic Gardens Mount Annan, Two off camera lights used for this set up.

I heard the pod cast the other day when you covered these super saturated filters. May have to give that a go on my Fungi shots one day. Your getting the cool weather early and the heat was here the other day well above what it should be 40s are …

Almost looks like a sci-fi image of a plant accreting or the distraction of one. Always fun playing with lighting and the effects you can get, even adding gels the white balancing to change the rest of the image can add great effects. Great work as …

Sorry to say there are a few Political parties in Australia that still don't belive in Climate change and belive that its better to have new coal mines and coal fired powerstations than renewable energy. This includes our current government.

This weeks shot was another one from last week, if you noticed the behind the scenes shot last week there were several mushrooms on the small branch so this is the next one along. Today I was running my last Bird photography workshop for the year …

Thanks Pathfinder, certainly going to be a pretty intense weekendthere I’ll get home around 10:30 Sunday night ready to get up at 5:00 Monday morning to go back to work. So a non-stop weekend there. Probably high on adrenaline all weekend.

Thanks Francis, much appreciated.