Saturday, November 21, 2009

Stop Press – New Toy!


While at a museum shop today in downtown Melbourne I happened upon the coolest little camera I’ve seen in quite some time. It’s the Lomography Fisheye 2. That’s right, it’s a fisheye lens, 35mm camera! You can expect to see some pretty interesting shots from it soon – watch this space!

http://microsites.lomography.com/fisheye/

Photo of the day – part II




Hit the town this afternoon and shot some more interesting things – just had to post them...

Country Victoria – a Photo Essay








Pure Creativity


I wanted to share this photo with you all for one simple reason – the pure creativity behind it. At first glance you might think, “What’s the big deal, it’s a semi-sharp photo of Scott with a red filter thrown on it in post production.” But that’s where you are wrong. This photo was taken by my 8 year old nephew Tom – when Tom shot the photo his finger was covering the flash – so the flash outputted red light (hold a flashlight against your finger to get the idea). Perfect creative unencumbered innocence. Too often we as photographers and artists get stuck into the notion of controlling all of the elements that go into our art. When we let the reins out a bit and let the unexpected roll in the results can often be surprising and inspiring. Cheers Tom, thanks for the inspiration!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

photo of the day




Tuesday, November 10, 2009

photo of the day



Melbourne

Monday, November 9, 2009

Photo of the day


Melbourne, Australia

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Photo of the day





Queenstown

Monday, November 2, 2009

Awesome Shane McConkey Tribute Film

Shane McConkey was one of my heroes – not just in skiing or in the mountains but in life. He had a zest, a spark, a fire that no one will ever be able to replicate or forget. This is an amazing tribute film made by the fine folks at Matchstick Productions.




As a side note this photo is of Shane’s memorial in the Temple at this year’s Burning Man.

Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences


Hot off the press and live at a bookshop near you – Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences. I was one of several authors to contribute to this fun little coffee table book. Packed with, well, a thousand cool things to do, it’s a fine blueprint for those in need of a couple of items to add to their ‘Bucket List’. For my part I wrote two lists – ‘Best Destinations You Can Still Travel on the Cheap’ & ‘Best Boys or Girls Own Adventures’. Each list has 10 must do destinations or activities. Everything from global vagabonding around Sudan, India and South America to activities like shark diving, walking Serengeti safaris and flying to space. It’s a good read and a great Christmas gift – wow that’s the most flagrant bit of self pro-mo in a while…

Check it out HERE on the Lonely Planet website where you can virtually flip through it and order a copy for yourself.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Photo of the day


Friday, October 30, 2009

Twitter

For those of you on Twitter, which I suspect is a number growing by the day; please feel free to follow me. Why should you follow me? Well, not only will you find out when this blog has been updated but I also do my best to pass on all sorts of cool stuff that I think you might enjoy. Videos, stories and other bits and pieces that you will enjoy and as a bonus kill your precious time by watching. Serious, hard core time wasting is only a click away…

You can follow me by hitting this link: http://twitter.com/Adventureskope

Photo of the day


what am I?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Photo of the day Part II


The Age of Consent Part II

Keeping with the same theme of kids and adventure – have a look at this preview for the film, “Edge of Never”



Trevor Peterson was one of my heroes, so to hear that they have made what looks to be a really interesting in introspective film about his life and legacy is really exciting. For more on the project click HERE.