I had the privilege of meeting one of my God’s of the photography world today: David Darcy. David turned his eye to painting after a career in photography; turned the extraordinary to a level few could grapple with in the process and earned himself the 2019 People’s Choice Award in the coveted Archibald Prize (just 2.5 years after he picked up a paint brush) with his depiction of Indigenous elder Daisy Tjuparntarri Ward. David was also a finalist in the 2018 Archibald.
I started work on a Bid Video for international artist Janno McLaughlin; this one to potentially build - then float - one of her installations - Corona Girl - down the Yarra River as part of the Melbourne 2021 Festival. Photography, interactive online magazine, embedded video, graphic design and content creation were all at play to achieve what was required. It pushes the creative and technical boundaries and I love this stuff.
Headed out at Middlebrook Valley Lodge to shoot yearlings for the Inglis Digital Catalogue from 2pm and at 4 I switched hats to real estate and photographed lush paddocks of winter rye grass and weanlings and panoramas to supplement a real estate portfolio being managed by MacCallum Inglis.
Captured the moon 24 hrs off being full out on Gundy Road. Just because I felt like it. The detail from a mid range lens blew my mind. Who needs a 600mm when the air is so crystalline you could reach out and etch those lunar hills and craters with your fingertips?
A full moon one week. A fogbow just 8 days prior. I'm certainly one that never takes the natural world for granted.