Photography has been my life.
Now art has become my life.

MY BACKGROUND

I was born in Melbourne, Australia. My photography began when my Dad (a commercial artist) gave me a box camera when I was 15. My professional career began in photographic sales, ultimately working as sales manager for the importers of Canon cameras.

I decided to pursue advertising photography as a full-time profession and completed a Diploma in Advertising through RMIT University, then made the big leap into my own photography studio in Melbourne which led to some wonderful photographic opportunities.

When digital photography arrived I set up Australia’s first digital image library, Australian Scenics, which proved to be incredibly successful. This led to local and international travel assignments, shooting tourist destinations and landscape photography.

I had always admired my father’s drawings and remember as a child often being in trouble at school for drawing during classes. I loved art and geometry, as it was all about shapes and angles. Over the years, clients would often say ‘your photographs look more like paintings,’ so I decided to use my technical and creative skills to produce stylised versions of my favourite images. And have now created my own brand of stylised art which I have called my ‘Signature Selection’.

I am strongly influenced by the work of Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer. The Fibonacci principles also play a big part in the way I structure my images. I strive for simplicity, creating images that evoke a sense of intrigue.

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Australia’s Most Scenic Drives for Reader’s Digest, a motoring guide book. Over 140,000 copies were sold. https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/9856817

• They also produced six state editions focused on New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania were produced

• Peter Walton’s Landscape Australia, published by Portside Editions

• Tasmania & Red Centre, coffee table books published by Curry O’Neill Ross

• Australien & Australie, joint book projects with the National Geographic photographer Matthias Breiter for Mondo Verlag Switzerland

SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Created Australia’s first digital image library, Australian Scenics, which later merged into Getty Images

• Photographing and teaching for World Expeditions on photo-tours in Nepal, Namibia, Botswana, China, Laos, Cambodia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Kakadu and Tasmania’s Tarkine Wilderness

• Images for Australia Post international stamps

DESTINATION PHOTOGRAPHY & TRAVEL BROCHURES

• The Australian Tourist Commission and the state tourist commissions of Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania

• Australian Pacific Tours (APT) Travel – travel brochure assignments to Cape York, The Kimberley Region and shipboard cruises to the Baltic Sea ports and the coastlines of France, Portugal and Spain

• Destination photography assignments for Oceania Cruises, Peregrine Tours, Jetset Tours, Scenic Tours, Skylink Australia and InStyle Adventures

CALENDARS

• Australia Post – Retail Calendar

• Australian Geographic – Corporate Calendar

• Kodak – Corporate Calendar

• Malaysia Airlines – Corporate Calendar

SPEAKING AND TEACHING

• Teaching photography on World Expeditions photo-tours in China, Nepal, Namibia, Botswana, Laos, Cambodia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Tasmania’s Tarkine Wilderness and Kakadu

• Keynote Speaker at New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography

• Keynote Speaker at Australian Institute of Professional Photography

• Guest presenter at photographic societies around Melbourne and regional Victoria speaking on photographic technique and composition

• Teaching photography at Diamond Valley Learning Center

MEMBERSHIPS

• Australian Institute of Professional Photographers

• Melbourne Camera Club (Past President)