Yearly Archives: 2015

Official Red Bull Photographer – Paper Wings

Now I have to be the first to admit that I new zip about the underworld of paper planes only a month of so ago…..

Well that was until a friend of mine was telling me about this guy she knows suffered from Cancer and how he changed his life through the flying of paper planes..

His story was run on ABC’s Australian Story and I must say very inspirational.  Now the cool thing about this story is that it was made into a movie….

I would urge you to go along to get both links below is it really is an amazing story.

Movie link – httpbe ://www.paperplanesmovie.com.au/

ABC Australian story link  http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/flywithme/default.htm

A couple of the things I learned from this was that you just really need to let go and be happy and the other thing was……..  this business of flying paper planes is serious, real serious.

This competition is all around the world with the finalists flying to Austria to compete in the world Championships and its big business. The major sponsor is Red Bull and Qantas as the local major sponsor.

These guys compete for the longest distance, the longest airtime and aerobatics, which is also very amazing.

The camp competition is on today at the Australian Defence Force Academy here in Canberra, to which I have signed onto Red Bull to be there official Canberra Photographer but this even but other Red Bull events…..  😉

So if you are going to it make sure you say hello as the images will be distributed world wide, with the chances of them appearing in and on posters around the world and even in computer games….  YAY for your face being in computer games….

 The details of the event can be found here:

http://www.redbullpaperwings.com/Countries/Australia/Events/Red_Bull_Paper_Wings_Qualiflying_UNSW%2C_CANBERRA_%28ADFA%29.html

or here for more general information

http://www.redbullpaperwings.com/Countries/Australia/Register.html

Emergency Morning!

What a great morning it was at the new fire station here in Layon Canberra.

It was a really big turn out with hundreds of people flocking through the doors and what a great little station it is..  Well thought out and one the community clearly wants to be a part of.

It is manned 24 hours a day and has all the tech stuff that you would expect from our emergency services these days. The trucks have GPS tracking allows for the command centre to determine which vehicle should be sent where.

How not sure if it was just me, but I think there was a large female contingency….. mmmm maybe it had something to do with fireman? ha ha ha ha

If you want to check out the photos they can be found by clicking on the event menu on the left-hand side. I know I took a couple of family shots, and if you’re one of those please feel free to download and keep a copy of the images for yourself. 🙂

One of the great things about being an event photographer is that I get to go to lots of cool events and with community events high on my list of favourites, it was a pleasure to be able to attend this one.

If you have an event coming up and need a photographer please get in touch.

Tuggeranong Fire Station opened day
Tuggeranong Fire Station opened day

Photos By the Lake – Beginners Photographic Workshop

Thank you guys for attending my workshop yesterday.  🙂

If you want to see the group picture or want more information about my others workshops get on to my contact page and send me a message as I am sure that I have a workshop that will work for you. 🙂

photographic workshop,
A photo I snapped of a murder mystery party after my Photos By The Lake – Beginners workshop to photography.

Emergency Emergency!!!!!!

Canberra is opening up a new fire station in Tuggernong today, which happens to be located just down the road for me….  Which means that it’s time to put on my photo journalistic hat, and go capture the events of the opening.

They will have face painting and a sausage sizzle, so it should be a great family event……..

Who can’t go past a sausage sizzle on a Saturday!!!!!!!!

If you’re interested want pop along here are the details

If you to pop along feel free to tap on my shoulder and say hello, as it is always nice to see a smiling face from the virtual world. 🙂

Read all about it….

Well, I must say what an interesting day, today has turned out to be..  Not one I would have thought would be happening…  but it might actually be a reality…  🙂

I would love to tell more but the contracts have to go through the lawyers in Austria first… bwhahahaha  Yep Austria…  bwhahahaha  Who would of thunk….

Either way, it is very cool if it comes off…  Stay tuned…

Read All About It
Read All About It