Monthly Archives: October 2012

I’m in Fiji now on my way back to Brisbane after spending a little over a week in The Kingdom of Tonga – three days in Vavau, two in Hapai and the same in Nukulofa. The assignment – which was principally for the SPTO’s regional photo library project – turned out to be a precursor...

Mounu Island, about half an hour from the main harbour in Vavau, is about as good as it gets as an island paradise. Four private, Tongan style bungalows on a pristine island it takes about an hour to amble around. Fine white sand sprinkled with palm trees, surrounded by clear, emerald blue water and virtually...

  So, here’s a question for any photographers who are reading this. If you went swimming with whales and lost a AUD$10,000 camera and lens because your underwater housing filled with water as soon as you went under, would you risk another AUD$10,000 worth of gear in the same housing to try and get the...

I’m heading for Saudi Arabia again to be a guest speaker at the Tourism Commission’s four day “Colors of Saudi” tourism forum in November. Its part of a two week assignment which will involve me staging workshops for the country’s emerging photographers over four days before setting off to photograph some of the country’s tourism highlights. And I’m excited – if for no other reason than the fact I’ll be returning to Madain Saleh to capture that “hero shot” that eluded me last time when the car blew up (Refer July Blog entry).

The last time I did this, I followed an albino hammerhead shark into the depths off Tufi in Papua New Guinea with my camera and lost the lot. In my enthusiasm, I went three times deeper than I was supposed to go with a soft housing and watched – not so remarkably you might suggest...