Land of Aus Pt. 1

Land of Aus Pt. 1

Over my 3 week holiday in Australia I've taken a thousand or so shots,

so as you can imagine, there is a 100-1 shit to successful ratio.

The easiest way to tell you how I've found it is to say it's a safe America 

where the people are happy and you can find your next best friend

 filling up his car at the pump next to you. (For those of you that 

haven't travelled to America or Australia, you probably should 

get your arse into gear and do it.)

We arrived into Sydney Airport around 9pm Thursday 20th and the view was 

like no other,just as the Sun had set we broke through the 

clouds to reveal the glowing houses and busy roads,

 amazed by the size of the city and the obvious special ingredient

 of Sun and heat that enables the people and businesses to flourish

 we embarked on the final drive of our Journey to the house that 

would become our home for the next few weeks.

The town of Thornton, population just under 8,000 is a grain of sand in 

the vast Suburban life of the main Cities. It has a local Shopping centre,

School and Skatepark. But for anything else there's the closest City...

Newcastle (yes like America, Australia has a lot of town and city 

names from Britain, weird I know) is a nice little place an hour or 

so up from Sydney, it has three Beaches and a shit load of bay view 

apartments, and I mean a shit load. There's all your average 

sea food restaurants and back street Drug dealers but apart from

 that the one thing that I seriously enjoy is the life that it holds,

 there's such decency the people that live in it, and in fact, 

everywhere I've travelled to whilst being here are just amazing,

 yeah you get the occasional tramp and fight between two hot shots 

but so be every City you ever travel to. 

Canon 5D mark ii 

28-80mm Kit

50mm 1:4 

suburban trolley

hiding from heat

Best Pay

The guys at Best Pay hired me to take some Photos to promote what you can do on the Isle of Man, including things like indoor Rock Climbing, Green-Laning and shopping in places like Peter Luis... Naturally I lived in their shoes for a week and was lucky enough to take a taste of their lives of well earned Luxury.

Canon 50D 

50mm 1.4 

1/250

Peter & Lucy

Over the week we also went to London to meet a partner Company in Canary Wharf, the view of London was one I had never experience before and unfortunately I was in an Office and couldn't plan out a nice shot,  but here's a snap. 

 

Being sponsors of Millwall FC, we got complimentary tickets to see the Lions face Cardiff, to our shame Millwall were defeated but had played a good game from our perspective. We also enjoyed the company of Ray James, the teams Commercial Director, a top man with such inspiring enthusiasm towards the sport. 

Canon 50D 

Sigma Super Wide Angle 16-20mm 

1/125

Millwall Stadium

Anyway, all the images and more are featured in Gallery Magazine, October 'Homme' Issue. (I'm sure there are plenty still lingering around a Cafe here and there) 

Sophia

I think having the courage to approach somebody you don't know and ask them to model for you is a great advantage when you're sat on a bus and you see somebody you know would look great on camera, unfortunately for me, I am nowhere near as courageous as that; but Facebook has it's positives. Sophia and I met in Laxey on a rainy Saturday morning for a few shots.. It was my first sort of organised Portrait shoot but I hope to have many more coming up very soon.

Canon 5D Mark ii 

50mm f1.4

1/1,250