My first flag!!

The photos most resorts tend to use for their advertising is always questionable at the best of times. Over the past couple of years I have been fortunate enough to shoot some imagery for Perisher. While some of my shots have popped up in their brouchures before I have never had a shot used on a banner or a flag.

The image used is of young 17 yo ripper Sam Murphy shot in late July last year. Sam pictured below on the right was also pretty stoked on his first flag too. Hi five Sam!!

The original pic below of Sam

Murwillambah Flood May 2009

Recently while working up in Burleigh, QLD on the latest run of Snowboarder mags I was staying with a friend in a little town on the Tweed River called Murwillambah. Now when it rains in Murwillambah it pours and over the space of three days the town recorded a third of its yearly rainfall and the water level rose quite steadily.
Needless to say I had a few interesting drives to and from work. It was interesting to watch the park across the road fill up into a lake. I shot these images on my little Nikon Coolpix compact camera.

Tsujiki Fish Markets - Tokyo, Japan

Japan Part 2.

Finally got around to editing through some more shots from Japan.

I swear I could shoot these monkeys all day, they are just so damn entertaining



I think I shall name this pic "Reign In Blood". I can hear SLAYER just looking at it.

Copped a lot of bad weather in the Nagano region so had a lot of down time waitiing for the rain to stop. Mitch Allan killing time..

I put my time to good use and whipped these up.

Japan Part 1.

Recently I was fortunate enough to be able to spend a month shooting in my favourite country Japan. Having been going there for over 10 years I decided I was well overdue on some tourist destinations rather than spending my time purely based in the snow. I'll post some more pics as I trawl through my shots.

This is Golden Pavillion or Kinkajuku Temple located in Kyoto. As the name suggests its made of gold and is even more impressive in real life.




Also thought I'd try and shoot a bit of a time lapse look at how quickly the weather can change in a day while up at a resort called Shigakogen in the Nagano region.

Jindabyne in Summer

Over the Xmas / NYE period I headed down to Jindabyne to get away from the big smoke. I figured it would be fun to visit the mountains I only ever seem to frequent in winter. Was pretty cool to look at features and runs you only ever really see covered in snow. I took a few snaps and managed to survive being attacked by swarms of march flies as big as your thumb, I shit you not.

Some of the pics I posted on the Snowboarder site which you can check out here

I aim to frame a few shots up the same way this coming winter so as to give people a look at the differences between the seasons

Heres a couple of pics anyway..

Gorilla Biscuits Australian Tour

Isn't it funny how you seem to find out about a band all too late. I first heard Gorilla Biscuits around 1992 on a Birdhouse skate video called "Ravers', maybe a year or so after they had already broken up. They had recorded one of the most amazing hardcore albums in that of 'Start Today' which had such a massive impact on my life around the defining years of turning 18. But alas they had already broken up.

Well fast forward to modern days and Gorilla Biscuits had decided to reform and I can still remember the day Graham from Resist asked me how I thought a GB's Australian tour would go? I nearly shit my pants!

I know its very cliched of a person to say a band changed their life but fuck it GBs were THAT band for me. Their song "Cats & Dogs" is one of the major motivations behind choosing the vegetarian lifestyle I have pursued for over 13 years now, and this album really taught me self respect and I cleaned up my life solely because of the profound influence it had on me.

Anyways I managed to catch two of their Sydney shows on their Dec 2008 tour which were absolutely brilliant.I had a Nikon D90 on loan that week so I thought I'd test out it's video capabilities. While the picture quality is rad the sound sucks big time but you can check out some of the footage here

I did manage to shoot a few pics as well. Ahhh the memories..