manly family...

I've been spending a bunch more time in Manly in the past six months... My niece moved there last year, I often meet a friend and colleague there for work and I play for a northern beaches football team... It can be a frustrating place to get to and from, but, if you can make it work for you, it seems like a pretty idyllic lifestyle!

 Silky smooth...

 Summer sun slouchin...

 Silly...

 Dana dog!

Col living the dream...

stralya day...

What could be more Australian than spending an afternoon amongst the masses at Bondi Beach?!

A few friends, a couple o brews and splashing about it the Pacific as the sun goes down... This was how we spent our 'Stralya Day on the 26th of January earlier this year... 

 Beach babes and sandy sleepers...

 Small shacks...

 Hola guapa!

 Luce!

 Em!

 Chrissy B!

 Breeza!

 Matty D!

 Handsome!

 Naw!

 Kat!

 TEAM!

The old man and the sea... ; )

on the horizon...

So after many attempts at repair, I finally had to accept, earlier this year, that my beloved Hasselblad Xpan is dead... Final autopsy revealed irreparable water damage... Sad times...

Rather than shell out for a new body, i decided to try a cheaper, Russian alternative (what seems to be becoming a more and more common solution for me) Presenting the Horizon 202!

He's a strange and wily beast, but takes some pretty rad panoramic images, given the right conditions!

 Park cricket birthday vibes...

 New pad for the evil twin...

 Redfern parklife...

Packed Parsley from below... 

 And above...

 Alexandria Hotel... RIP

 Sky highs...

 Kilcare...

Balcony bookworm...

alfs boat shed explorations...

Photographic reconnaissance missions scouting new locations are almost always awesome.

New scenery, new shapes and, in this case, fun filled tinny trips from Alf Stewart's Boatshed in Summer Bay... Ever exploring!

 Early morning opera...

 Foglife!

 The old man and the sea... ; )

Shootin' sheds...

one night in paddo...

Summer evenings, Shady Pines and the Darlo Laundromat... Simple pleasures with the fam...

 Breeza!

 Elvis!

 No entry...

Seriously, NO ENTRY! : )

take a load off...

When waiting for your bags just becomes too much...

barossa...

I was lucky enough to visit the beautiful Barossa Valley last year as part of a job for Lilydale Farms, assisting ledge Sydney photographer Paul Blackmore. Though we were working just outside of Adelaide, a cricket match in the city meant all the hotels were over booked and over priced, leaving us with (sigh) no option but to crash at the Barossa Novotel... When life gives you grapes... ; )

Shot on my favourite film, Ilford 3200 with the "loveliest shutter sound around" Olympus OM1...

a colombian birthday down under...

My good friend Juan celebrated his birthday a little while back now on a scorching day at Shelly Beach. Vibes were high with smokey BBQ styles, good tunes and a great crew... I took the trusty Kiev 60 with me and cross processed a roll of Provia 100, just to mix things up for a change...

I remember feeling very sentimental about being Australian this day for some reason...

Sea, salt, sunshine and a smokey BBQ will do that I guess!

 No shrimp here... : )

 Birthday boy...

 Cooked...

 Stralya...

 Triathlon sun scars... 

Aussie babe...

a quick trip to copenhagen...

With a few days in between my return from Austria and my departure for Copenhagen, I decided to maximise every minute by catching up with as many friendly London faces as I possibly could! It was a whirlwind couple of days, but getting some one on one time with family and friends was amazing, and left me feeling fulfilled and full of good vibes...

As if things couldn't get any better, we were soon touching down in CPH, a place I've had a city crush on since a spontaneous visit in 2012... We stayed with friends Scott and Sophia (two of the hardest working food and wine frothers known to man!) in their apartment in Norrebro, and were treated to a tour of some of the city's nicest nooks for eating and drinking... The vibe in CPH is certainly infectious and it seems to have all the right things going for it... But at the end of the day it's the people who make a place... Huge thanks to Scott, Sophia, Adam, Rikke and the friends we made along the way for making the holiday part of our holiday so awesome... Big love xxoo

 Ready for takeoff, touchdown and taxi...

 #cloudporn

 Bike line fever in the HCA cemetery...

Puddle jumpers...

 Ticking tourist boxes... 

 Botanical beauty...

 With bounce!

 Cliche Nyhavn harbour...

So colourful!  

 Probably the most cycle friendly city on the planet...

 Wet line fever near Christiania...

 Football fever... 

 Chef Chancellor @AMASS

 Gardener Chancellor in the AMASS gardens...

 More fever of the white line kind...

 Cute Danish, i mean Cornish, women everywhere!

Ballin!