Bayside Photography is run by myself, Ian Main and my lovely wife Linda.
I've been a photographer for 28 years learning on a completely manual film camera. At the age of 16 I used to cycle for miles looking for interesting things to photograph and then would spend many hours after school in the darkroom developing black and white prints.
For many years, photography has brought me much enjoyment. It is just great to be able to capture images of people having some of the most memorable moments of their lives. There's something about a great photograph that video just doesn't capture. Could it be the fact that the image isn't moving gives the viewer time to study the scene and to recall all the emotions that went hand in hand with that particular moment in time?
I am very proud to be a Member of the ACOCP (www.acocp.org.au).
The Australian Community Of Child Photographers is a volunteer organisation of professional photographers from all over Australia who have come together to form an organisation dedicated to giving the (free) gift of photographic memories to families that have experienced stillbirths, premature and ill infants and children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of their local hospitals, as well as children with serious and terminal illnesses.
In March 2008 I was very excited to be selected by Salmat Ltd (ASX listed company) to travel to Nepal to photograph the Fred Hollows Foundation> eye hospital / lens factory in Kathmandu.
These photographs have been on exhibition in Melbourne and are now on exhibition in Sydney.
My contact details are here.
V019 (4th January 2009)
