My first real foray into the world of pho­tog­ra­phy came when I hap­pened to spot a beau­ti­ful plane con­trail against the set­ting sun. I raced out to find the best spot using the fam­ily “happy snap­per”, and as luck would have it, ended up with a great shot. The photo made it onto the evening news and into the weather calendar.

Since that time, I’ve spent a bit of money and a lot of time work­ing on my tech­niques, try­ing out dif­fer­ent things and get­ting a bet­ter feel for how every­thing works and how to make the scene in my head match the one that comes out.

Recently I took up scuba div­ing — this opened up a whole new world of pos­si­bil­i­ties for pho­tos. The first time I saw a jetty pylon cov­ered in colour­ful sponges, I knew that it was a sight that I wanted to share with oth­ers. It didn’t take long for me to drop some more money on a ded­i­cated under­wa­ter kit, and I haven’t looked back since. The pho­to­graphic oppor­tu­ni­ties around South Aus­tralia have so far proved end­less, from tiny flu­o­res­cent sea slugs to mas­sive sunken wrecks.

My cur­rent cam­era kit has suited me well, and has slowly grown over the last few years. I started out with a Minolta Dynax SLR, but the delay between tak­ing a photo and get­ting the film processed made it dif­fi­cult for me to track how I was pro­gress­ing. Once I moved to the Canon 350D, I knew I was set.

I hope you find some­thing of inter­est here, and feel free to leave a com­ment or send an email if you care to.

Ben