Just in time for Australia Day this weekend, here's an essay of images of...Canada, last summer. New today on the Kage Collective site, it's the first essay for 2014, and it's one of mine! Stop on over and have a look...
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Great to see The Jezabels last night at FBi Social in King's Cross, doing a pre-Laneway warmup sideshow for a small crowd of fans...
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With the Grammys coming up, and New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde nominated and performing at the ceremony, it reminded me to take another look in my archive & find a few photos I took at her showcase gig in Sydney, back in May of this year - before anyone really knew just how big her fame would get!
Read MoreAnother 'catching up on photos I should have posted' post - here's one from late last year, when Kiwi singer / songwriters Don McGlashan (from The Mutton Birds, Blam Blam Blam, From Scratch and The Front Lawn) and Dave Dobbyn (Th'Dudes & DD Smash) joined forces for a tour to the UK via Dubai - and a couple of dates in Australia en route.
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While I'm catching up on photos I meant to post at the time, here's a quick one from Pond's gig at the Metro Theatre in December - I didn't take very many, as I was just there to enjoy the show, but when they were swarmed on stage by support act Doctopus for the final number I thought I'd best grab a few images before the moment slipped away...
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Just saw the list of nominations for this year's Sydney Theatre Awards, and nice to see Belvoir Theatre's Angels In America included for a number of them...
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Great to see the Sydney Youth Orchestras' season brochure for this coming year arrive this week; most of the images are from a shoot we did at the Concourse in Chatswood a couple of months ago, but a couple are also from their 40th Anniversary Concert that took place in November.
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If there's one piece of camera gear I spend the most time talking to people about, it would have to be this: my Jacobson Sound Blimp.
When I'm talking to clients about it, it's my 'silencer' - which lets me photograph in near silence during filming, concerts, operas, and theatre performances with an audience. When people do (occasionally) spot me during these kinds of shoots, mostly they imagine it's a giant old film camera, and wonder why I'm not into digital like all the kids are today!
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