we recognise that for people considering investing in any art-form it is important not only that the owner gains enjoyment from the artwork, but also that a significant return is available over time. as a result, we only offer one copy of each exhibition print for sale - just the same as with any other work of fine art. so once you own one of these special images, you will be the only person who owns one - we guarantee it!
our list of exhibitions - and the prints available from them - will grow over the coming years. we are also in the process of creating our own gallery space in melbourne, victoria - so that you can come and see what the impact of these artworks is, when viewed at full size.
please don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested in owning one of our prints - or coming to see them.
our first exhibition for 2015 will be held at the Henley Club in March 2015. opening night will be Friday 6th March and for at least four weeks after that we can arrange access for you to view the collection if you are interested.
the Henley Club is a private social club based in melbourne, australia. its members come from diverse backgrounds and are selected as representative of future australian leadership. members are connected to a host of major clubs, groups and associations around the world. for emerging leaders, membership is designed to deliver rapid growth of professional networks.
the club facilitates a range of events for members throughout the year and has very generously offered to host our first exhibition "ponds & pebbles". if you're interested in finding out more about the club, visit henleyclub.com.au.
the theme of this first exhibition is rocks and water - a look at some examples of stunning beauty and serenity that nature provides wherever you go.
we will be showing a rotating selection of the prints displayed below for 3 months. no more than five hand-numbered and signed versions of each of the prints exhibited will be made available for sale.
we really hope you can come along and enjoy both the images and the hospitality of the Henley Club.
i stumbled across this pond whilst walking around in the forest on flinders island. the amazing red colour of the water is due to the tannins leaching from the significant amount of fallen eucalyptus foliage. what never ceases to amaze me is how nature can assemble a perfect collage of colour and texture - seemingly without effort. having taken this shot, i turned around to get back out of the river bed and (not unusually for me) fell over, landing with my brand new camera and lens between me and the rocks.. fortunately i managed to hold them up, so it was only the bottom of my bullet-proof D3X that touched.. phew!
this wonderful sanctuary is to the right of the base of a small waterfall in the grampians. after a steep walk up from where I had parked, i saw a small pool that disappeared into a small ridge and almost walked past it. curious to know how much water was moving through it, i then continued around and climbed down into the undergrowth, only to be confronted with this beautiful sight - water running back down the river to the right. it just always pays to go exploring!
sometimes when i'm out taking photographs, i capture a series of shots hoping that i've captured the essence of the place - only to get home and be disappointed. at first, i thought this entire series of pictures was unusable - and then i decided to see what they looked like in black and white. and voila! once the colour had been removed, the amazing texture of the aged rocks and really exposed surfaces revealed what i'd been trying to capture. nice!
this is just one of those shots that you get given when nature decides to unleash.. i had just landed in Queenstown NZ for a week snow-boarding and the snow started cascading out of the sky. i grabbed a camera and started walking out around the bay and took this picture while there snow was still falling fast and heavy enough to be caught in the picture.. about 30cm of snow fell in an hour and by the next morning the airport was closed - and stayed that way for a week!
there is a clarity and blue hue in the morning air in new zealand that I've rarely seen anywhere else. this picture was taken about 6am the morning after a storm. the temperature was about 2 degrees C and the rocks under-foot were cracking as i walked over them. the weed, stones and old rail line were almost more spectacular than the distant mountains, such is the level of texture and detail.
the amazing colours in this shot are a very good example of the amazing range of red and ochre in the ancient grampian rock formations. by contrast the greens and greys of the lichen that cover them where the water isn't running are almost lack-lustre - except for the almost palpable roughness they give the surface. this single stream of water lights up rocks that, when dry, appear to have almost no colour at all.
the grampians, in north-west victoria, have seen devastating bushfires twice in the last decade. the destruction of much of the undergrowth and many ancient plants was only just repairing when the second lot of fires came through. walking up towards a small rocky range I saw this branch just lying across the ground - small shoots of green contrasting with the amazing shiny black of burned wood. another natural mosaic delivered by natural elements, both simple and captivating.
i was down in tasmania, spending some time tracking down waterfalls - mainly in the north and east. as i got near to freycinet i decided to make the trek up over the ridge to coles bay, as i'd always heard it was beautiful. after making the '90 minute' walk in about 20, i was confronted by almost nothing that took my interest - although clearly it is a beautiful spot.. so i went for a walk down one side of the bay and came across this piece of drfitwood - one shot from coles bay - and well worth the treck!
we'd driven from vancouver up to lake louise in canada's amazing rocky mountains. it was about 9pm by the time we got out for a walk, and as we walked beside the lake towards the glacier, i saw this fallen pine tree. apart from the amazing colour of the lake and the red bark starting to strip away, it looked as though it reached all the way to the other side - in reality some 2km away.. guess that's why they say what they do about one man's trash, being another's treasure..
just after dawn on another chilly queenstown morning, the sun was creeping slowly above the horizon and casting long shadows under this long-abandoned jetty. it's rickety legs and twisted span framed the township in a way that accentuated its beauty. the extreme differences between light and shadow made it difficult to get definition everywhere i wanted it, but in the end i think it captured the moment just perfectly.
i'd based myself in the grampians for 4 days to get out and walk around as many potentially interesting sites as i could. i saw a sign to this set of falls and walked a couple of kilometres through a heavily eroded river bed until it came into view. my first impression was that i'd wasted my time, because from a distance it was simply not all that interesting. however, once i climbed the hill beside it and got a glimpse of the colours in the rock bordering this very narrow and step water course, i revised my opinion - and got my shot!
it's about a 3km very steep up-hill walk from lake louise to get to this, very aptly named, emerald lake. it nestles, crater-like, about half way between lake louise and the next lake at the top of the mountain about the same distance up again. it is hard to believe this crystal clear colour and it's like no other lake i saw while i was there. getting back down to the bottom again was fun - i decided to run (with 30kg of cameras on my back) to save my knees - and ended up scaring more than a few tourists on the way up!
i was in bandol - in the south-west of france - a little village where the locals holiday in summer. as i was recuperating from a bout of pneumonia that had nearly killed me, i couldn't walk too far with any weight on my back. one afternoon as i ventured around the coastline towards cassis i found this section of rocky beach - with an ancient building sitting right on the water's edge. i lay down to look closely at the multicoloured rocks and kinda liked what i saw!
one of the things that most amazed me on flinders island was the astonishing colour of the lichen. on this fairly wind-swept part of the coast, these massive granite boulders were lying around in clumps - possibly moved there by some long-gone glacial ice movement. even the beauty of the grasses and the blue island in the background are just no match for the amazingly saturated colours of the lichen clinging to these sun-bleached rocks.
this amazingly coloured water is the result of runoff from a glacier in the rocky mountains. normally this colour would indicate muddy, murky water - but here the water is sparkling and shiny - but white! like many of the other colours i experienced whilst in the rockys it was almost surreal - and the contrast between this shiny white and the equally shiny green reeds and plants was just too good to miss. the trees sitting in it like abandoned swizzle-sticks made the perfect cocktail..