This website is to showcase my photographic works as a retired pensioner, passionate about photography living in the quaint township, Chiltern, part of the beautiful NE region of Victoria, Australia

I was born in Camberwell, a leafy suburb of Melbourne some seventy years ago, when times were quieter and less hectic. Growing up in Caulfield North, another leafy suburb of Melbourne, attended school achieving the leaving Certificate at year 11. I have always had an affinity with the rural landscape, spending most school holidays during the teenage years on a family friend’s farm in central Victoria.

Photography as a serious hobby took on in later life after a honeymoon in 2010 spent in North America, starting in Vancouver with a trip on the Rocky Mountaineer to Banff, then on a road trip through Arizona and California, ending up in San Diego, then home. Photography offered in these beautiful North American landscapes were captured on a point and shoot as travel, memory images. However, I was inspired by the beauty of the landscape photograph and decided to get serious in 2011, purchasing my first “good camera” based purely on my own research, knowing nothing, and deciding on the Sony A mount range, where I continued to upgrade to the A99II full frame in 2018 and kept the A77 as a back up, now used mostly for nature and the occasional wide angle landscape with a 10-20 lens. My lens kit for the full frame is only 4 lenses, 17-70, 70-200, 200-500, and a 105 prime. These suit style and genre. Some basic filters are used as required.

I am inspired by other people’s works, particularly an affinity with Camera Club members around Victoria, As I now judge for the Camera Club fraternity.  as an accredited member of the Australian Photographic Judges Association, APJA.

I enjoy honing many skills in the photographic process, learning from several overseas and Australian landscape photographers who present their works and tutorials on the YouTube platform.

Styles of photography enjoyed include the many varieties of landscape and seascape, abstract and natural form in abstract, architecture, cityscapes and street photography is fast becoming a favourite.

As a past member of two Melbourne based camera clubs and currently Wodonga-Albury, the opportunity arises to take part in monthly competitions. This brings on the challenge of new themes and topics to photograph not normally in my repertoire. It is all part of the photographic experience keeping the creative juices flowing as well as appreciating what goes on in the camera club world from a judging perspective.