While I deliberately avoid confining myself to any one genre I tend to concentrate on landscapes because Sugarloaf Rock doesn't care if its bum looks big or whether its hair is fetching in profile - it just is.
Based in Western Australia's South-West region, I'm most at home in the remote Australian outback, the desert in particular.
The difference between looking at a landscape and truly seeing it is time; time taken to read the many moods as shifting subtleties of light and shadow sculpt depth, texture, form; time to absorb the energy, the colours, the scents, to feel the air on your skin; time to sit quietly and listen as the landscape speaks for itself. The most evocative landscape photography conveys a sense of time beyond the frame, transforms scene into story, and inspires an emotional response in the viewer.
Awards & Exhibitions:
2025:
* Natural Landscape Photography Awards -Top 60, Abstract Landscape for BetaLiminal (M3PNBGD0651)
* Australian Photographic Prize - Top 30 & Silver with Distinction, Aerial for BetaLiminal (M3PNBGD0651)
* Australian Photographic Prize - Highly Commended, Aerial for Inflow Alpha (M3PPAD0649)
* Australian Photographic Prize - Highly Commended, Aerial for Inflow Beta (MSPJUB0588)
* Australian Photographic Prize - Highly Commended, Aerial for ToxEcology (MPPAD0633)
* Australian Photographic Prize - Highly Commended, Aerial for Algal Allsort (M3PHLG0669)
* Inflow Alpha (M3PPAD0469) published in The International Aerial Photographer of the Year 2025 (p63)
* NZIPP Asia-Pacific Photography Awards - Silver, 14th place, Landscape for DeltaLiminal (M3PNBGD0654)
* NZIPP Asia-Pacific Photography Awards - Silver, Landscape for Inflow Alpha (M3PPAD0649)
* NZIPP Asia-Pacific Photography Awards - Highly Commended, Landscape for Inflow Beta (M3PJUB0588)
* NZIPP Asia-Pacific Photography Awards - Highly Commended, Landscape for ToxEcology (MPPAD0663)
* Better Photography Photographer of the Year - Silver for Against the Tide (M3PJP0188)
* Better Photography Photographer of the Year - Silver for Omicron (M3PNBGD0649)
* Better Photography Photographer of the Year - Silver for ToxEcology (MPPAD0633)
2023:
* Epson Pano Awards - Bronze, Top 50 Built Environment for Inner Here
* Epson PanoAwards - Bronze for Viscera
* Epson Pano Awards - Bronze for ToxEcology
* Top 100, Landscape - for Howl, Australian Photography Landscape Awards, Australasia
* Highly Commended, Urban - for Inner Here, Australian Photography Landscape Awards, Australasia
* Commended, Urban - for A Nod to Smart, Australian Photography Landscape Awards, Australasia
* Commended, Landscape - for Asbestoscape, Wittenoom WA, Australian Photography Landscape Awards, Australasia
2022:
* Silver Award, Aerial in Ignacio Palacios’s 360 Photo Awards for River and Sea
* Silver Award, Aerial in Ignacio Palacios’s 360 Photo Awards for Surge
* Silver Award, Aerial in Ignacio Palacios’s 360 Photo Awards for Viscera
* Silver Award, Landscape in Ignacio Palacios’s 360 Photo Awards for Uluru
* Bronze Award, Aerial in Ignacio Palacios’s 360 Photo Awards for Asbestoscape
* Bronze Award, Landscape in Ignacio Palacios’s 360 Photo Awards for Howl
* Article On Bunuba Country published in FIAP News (Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) - Paris, France.
* APS Silver Medal for Viscera, 3rd Edwardstown National Exhibition, Australia (APS2022/18)
* EPC Merit for Howl (DSLD010b), 3rd Edwardstown National Exhibition, Australia (APS2022/18)
* Member of the Winning Australian Photographic Society (APS) Team, Four Nations Competition (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa) with Jubilee (MPJC001)
2021:
* Silver Award, Aerial in Ignacio Palacios’s inaugural 360 Photo Awards for Jubilee (MPJC001)
* APS Merit for Dragon Skin (TTJD001), Australian Photographic Society National Exhibition, Australia (APS2021/19)
* Member of the Winning Australian Photographic Society (APS) Team, Four Nations Competition (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa) with River and Sea (MPYP012)
* 23rd July- 5th August: collaborative exhibition with artist Simon Hemsley at Artopia Gallery, Kununurra, East Kimberley, Western Australia
* AAPS - awarded Associateship of the Australian Photographic Society
* Highly Commended, Open Folio Parched –Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australasia
* Salon Certificate of Merit - Parched (COPA001), Western Cape International Photographic Forum, South Africa (FIAP 2021/027)
* Salon Certificate of Merit - River and Sea (MPYP012), Western Cape International Photographic Forum, South Africa (FIAP 2021/027)
* Finalist in Australian Photography Magazine's Photographer of the Year 2020, Landscape, for an environmentally themed folio entitled TerraCells
* Top 30 in Australian Photography Magazine's Photographer of the Year 2020, Landscape, for an environmentally themed folio entitled Tox-Ecology
* Highly Commended in Australian Photography Magazine's Photographer of theYear 2020, Creative, for Parched 1
* Commended in Australian Photography Magazine's Photographer of the Year 2020, Creative, for Parched 2
2020:
* December 5-20th: Exhibition - From a Distance, in collaboration with artist Simon Hemsley at The Studio Gallery,Yallingup, Western Australia
* APS Gold Medal, for Parched (COPA001), Australian Photographic Society National Exhibition, Australia (APS2020/18)
* Highly Commended (x2), Australian Photography Mono Awards, Australian Photography Magazine, Australasia
* Member of the Winning Australian Photographic Society (APS) Team, Four Nations Competition (Australia, NewZealand, Canada, South Africa) with Lake Hinds (MPAA010)
* Highly Commended, Landscape Folio Western Australia’s Salt Lakes –Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australasia
* Highly Commended, Landscape Folio Tailings – Australasia’sTop Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australasia
* Highly Commended, Landscape Folio Tox-Ecology – Australasia’sTop Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australasia
* Highly Commended, Landscape Folio A Losing Battle– Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australasia
* Commended, Portrait Folio Who is Simon? – Australasia’sTop Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australasia
* Bronze Medal - Photography, South West Virtual Arts Spectacular, Bunbury, Western Australia
* Finalist, Landscape -Mandurah Landscape and Portrait Prize, Western Australia
* APS Silver Medal, Landscape/Seascape, Edwardstown 1st National Exhibition, South Australia (APS2020/04)
* APS Bronze Medal, Nature, Edwardstown 1st National Exhibition, South Australia (APS2020/04)
* EPC Merit, Open Colour, Edwardstown 1st National Exhibition, South Australia (APS2020/04)
* EPC Merit, Landscape/Seascape, Edwardstown 1st National Exhibition, South Australia (APS2020/04)
* Top 10 - 8th place in Australian Photography Magazine's Photographer of theYear 2019, Portraits and People, for a series of experimental monochrome portraits on the theme of Identity entitled "Who is Simon?"
* Highly Commended - Australian Photography Magazine's Photographer of the Year 2019, Landscape, for an environmental series entitled "Salination: A Scourge"
2019:
* APS Merit - Our Country, Australian Photographic Society National Digital Exhibition, Australia (APS2019/26)
* APS Merit - Nature, Australian Photographic Society National Digital Exhibition, Australia (APS2019/26)
* APS Merit - Open Colour, Australian Photographic Society National Digital Exhibition, Australia (APS2019/26)
* Highly Commended, Landscape Portfolio - Australasia'sTop Emerging Photographers, Capture Magazine, Australia
* Finalist, Landscape – West Australian Photographic Federation (WAPF) ClickWest, Perth, Western Australia
* Finalist, Landscape (2 images) – Mandurah Landscape & Portrait Prize, Western Australia
* FIAP Blue Ribbon - Scapes, Cape Town International Digital Photography Salon, South Africa (FIAP 2019/04, PSSA #A2019/08)
* Salon Silver Medal – Nature (Projected), Maitland International Salon of Photography, Australia (FIAP 2019/19, APS 2019/01)
2017
* 3 images longlisted – Fremantle International Portrait Prize, Perth, Western Australia
* June-August: Exhibitor by invitation –“Journeys” exhibition, WA Photographic Federation, Fremantle Maritime Museum, Perth, Western Australia
2016:
* Finalist - Best New Portfolio, WAPF ClickWest, WA Photographic Federation, Perth, Western Australia
* Winner – Perfect 10 Summer Down Under Photo Challenge; Pentax Australia
2015:
* Finalist – Open Colour, 9th International Salon Daguerre, Paris (FIAP2015/257)
* Finalist – Travel, 3rd Negeri Sembilan International Salon of Photography, Kuala Lumpur (FIAP2015/364)
* Finalist – Open Colour, 3rd Negeri Sembilan International Salon of Photography, Kuala Lumpur (FIAP 2015/364)
* Finalist – Landscape; 1st Semberija 2015, Bosnia & Herzegovina International Salon of Photography, Sarajevo (FIAP 2015/369)
* National Star Contributor – Photography, ABC Open, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australia
* Exhibitor by Invitation - ABC Open Photo+Story Exhibition, Environmental Portraits; Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Bunbury, Western Australia
2014:
* Finalist & highest scoring acceptance –Open Colour, Western Australian Photographic Federation(WAPF) Interclub Competition; Perth, Western Australia
