For Lease series

The CBD of Geelong has been in decline for a while, since Westfield [link] completed it's expansion a few years back. Why spend time walking outside to various shops when you can do everything you need to under one roof? The logic is sound and people have voted with their feet. So it's not really surprising the effect it's had on shop fronts, with the CBD looking much like a ghost town. Such is life. 

Note: Yes, I realise I could have gotten rid of the reflections, had I used a polarising filter, but alas I didn't use one. Also should have used a grey card due to the variable light sources with different colour temperatures. Also I didn't bother with HDR or exposure blending my lecturers will no doubt be rolling over in their graves one day, well maybe not on the HDR front. I could put it down to my artist vision coming out just the way I wanted it too but frankly I was just too lazy to go the extra mile, that a commercial photographer would have gone to.        

Welcome to Manhattan series

It's rarely that I spend a long time working on a single series (the only exception for me has been the billboards series [link] ), I guess because I'm just reacting to the environment around me at any given time which is more self contained. There is just something about doing something over a short period of time that allows me to move onto the next thing and not get bogged down in getting things just perfect. The Welcome to Manhattan series was put together in the time it took to go from a bridge onto Manhatten to the bus terminal at The Port Authority Bus. Less than one hour. I like how been on a bus allows people to be themselves without the transformation that occurs when a camera is shoved in ones face and the higher viewpoint gives a different perspective than you typically see in street photography.