North Stradbroke Island
I’ve just spent the week on North Stradbroke Island with my friend Alex Kennison. This was my first time to Straddie and I was very impressed. Lots of good landscapes to shoot up the top end with North and South Gorge being favourites. Heaps of marine life too including turtles, whales, dolphins, etc. This shot [...]

Landscape 500 Awards
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Don’t know why I said that, however I do know that there’s a fantastic photographic competition just announced by my good friend Christian Fletcher – Landscape 500. Limited to only 500 entries, these awards have some cracking prizes on offer – A [...]

Arts Freedom Australia Rally Sydney, Sunday 29th August
Those who consider themselves landscape photographers need to get along to this rally in Sydney on Sunday 29th August. Organised by Ken Duncan heading up Arts Freedom Australia, the blog states Arts Freedom Australia (AFA) will hold a rally near Campbells Cove on Sydney Harbour on Sunday, August 29th between 10am and 12 noon to [...]

APPA 2010 Print 2
This image was taken in the same building as the last, and in fact was the very last image I took. By this stage, the fog had really closed in, the light was extremely low and it was almost dark. I loved the elemtns in this image that seemingly all came together – the staircase [...]

2010 AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards results
APPA 2010 Once again the  AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards for 2010 have been run and won. Congratulations to Peter Coulson who won overall Professional Photographer of the Year. I don’t mind being beaten for Illustrative Photographer of the Year (Vic) by the overall photographer of the year!!! I’ll post my winning images from both [...]

Freycinet 2010
I’ve been putting the final touches to my workshops website – www.tomputtphotographicworkshops.com – which will be up very soon. And in that there’s two workshops at Freycinet National Park in November 2010 and May 2011. After the last Cradle workshop, Ian Wallace and I took a road trip across to the east coast for a [...]

Canon AIPP Professional Photographer of the Year Awards THIS WEEKEND
Hey guys for those wanting to see some of the best that Australian photography has to offer, THIS WEEKEND Melbourne hosts the Canon AIPP Professional Photographer of the Year Awards. It’s on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and a judging schedule can be found here. Weddings, portraits, landscapes, science & nature, sport, family, fine art, illustrative, [...]

Tide line
There’s a beach about 15mins walk around Dove Lake that is a perfect spot to view Cradle Mountain. Stopping here for some time, I noticed the variety of flora on the tidal line, especially the intense colours. I wish I could tell you what they are, but my knowledge of flora is not as good [...]

John White
Here’s a shot of one of the participants on the workshop, John White. John was a winner of last year’s Jetstar competition with a fabulous shot of his kids and friends drawing the word AUSTRALIA with fire sticks from their camp fire (see below). His a passionate and wildly enthusiatic photographer, captured here with the [...]

Ice patterns
On a frosty morning, we spotted these ice patterns on a shallow frozen lake next to Dove Lake. Finding the right angle was tricky to get the light bounces off the ice to show off its form.