Saturday, June 26, 2010

One of the rewarding things about putting up photos onto a site like flickr is that sometimes someone will ask to reproduce one in an article or if I'm really fortunate a printed publication. As long as I'm asked, and it's not for a blatantly commercial reason (like the guy who wanted a photo of mine to help promote his tour guide business but didn't want to give me anything in return) I'm usually happy to oblige.

This morning I awoke to a message from Marija at womenstennisblog letting me know that a photo I took of Serena Williams at the 2006 Australian Open has been included in an article on her site. We have this nice little agreement...Marija has ongoing permission to use my tennis images and she just lets me know when she does :-)

Taken with my old Olympus C770 10x compact four years ago here it is today at:

www.womenstennisblog.com/2010/06/26/serena-williams-maria-sharapova-to-meet-in-wimbledon-round-four/

Serena Williams

Taking photos at sporting events is a great photographic challenge and if you can nail some decent shots and put them out onto the 'big net world' the rewards can be fun.

As always Marija pleased you could use the shot :-)

Friday, June 25, 2010

Newborn and Silhouettes

A photo from Ron Mueck's recent exhibition at the NGV here in Melbourne. Photo 27 March 2010.



Below is the original image I worked from...a last minute shot of Ron Mueck's 'A Girl' as I was about to leave the exhibition that day. Quite a bit of work tweaking the image was done through Photoshop CS (the old version I have) and IPhoto. Must say the two programs don't always cooperate with each other...

Firstly A Bit of Personal Record Keeping

These are links to photos of mine that have been reproduced in publications, articles on the internet and in one instance in a CD. As a amateur photographer it's always a buzz and an honour to be asked :-)

June 2010 - Got a photo of mine included in the cd booklet for the release by the Lone Star Western Swing Band titled 'Goodbye Liza Jane Hello Western Swing!' released by Gandy Dancer Records I am buzzin' Thanks so much Peter for asking to use it :-) Check out the photo used: www.flickr.com/photos/tidalpix/4437925474/

March 2010 - Marija from the excellent womenstennisblog.com has used a couple of photos of mine on her site recently. Check them out at: www.womenstennisblog.com/2010/03/17/top-10-players-succes... for an image of mine of Caroline Wozniacki and www.womenstennisblog.com/2010/03/14/kuznetsova-upset-ivan... for a photo of Ana Ivanovic.

January 2010 - A photo I took of Ana Ivanovic at the 2010 Australian Open has been included in the Day 4 wrap on India's Sports Campus website. www.thesportscampus.com/201001213586/grand-slams/australi... Another of Samantha Stosur has been included in their Day 6 wrap. www.thesportscampus.com/201001233620/grand-slams/australi... Pleased you could use them Arjun :-)

June 2009 - Some photos I took of bluegrass legend Peter Rowan at the 2009 Port Fairy Folk Festival can be found on his myspace site at: viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAl... I'm very pleased to have them included there :-)

February 2009 - A gallery of my Australian Open photos can be found on India's premier sports website The Sports Campus. Thanks again Arjun my friend! www.thesportscampus.com/index.php?option=com_expose&I...

January 2009 - The excellent Indian sports website The Sports Campus has used a few tennis photos of mine in their coverage of the 2009 Australian Open. Firstly there were two photos of Rafael Nadal. See the articles at: www.thesportscampus.com/20090201343/grand-slams/2009-aust... www.thesportscampus.com/20090130337/grand-slams/2009-aust... Then there's a photo of Dinara Safina www.thesportscampus.com/20090129333/grand-slams/2009-aust... Another is a photo of Elena Dementieva. www.thesportscampus.com/20090128329/grand-slams/2009-aust... And an image of Novak Djokovic www.thesportscampus.com/20090127327/grand-slams/2009-aust... Thanks Arjun for asking for them :-) I'm very pleased you liked them!

November 2008 - Lucky enough to have this photo of a Powerful Owl www.flickr.com/photos/tidalpix/2910894245/in/set-72157600... included in the Summer 2008 edition of the Australian Museum's Explore magazine. Thanks guys! It's a honour :-)

April-May 2008 - Just got word a photo of mine has been included in a book titled 'The British Television Location Guide' by Steve Clark & Shoba Vazirani and published by Splendid Books in the UK. I'm now officially a published photographer! :-) 

March 2007 - Some photos I took of brilliant Irish singer Eleanor McEvoy at the 2007 Port Fairy Folk Festival have been included on her MySpace site. Thank you very much for asking for them. Eleanor played some excellent concerts on that weekend. See the link: www.myspace.com/emcevoymusic March 2010 update - Some of my photos from Eleanor's appearance at the 2010 Port Fairy Folk Festival are now included here too :-)

September 2006 - Some of my photos of The Wailin' Jennys from the 2006 Mordialloc By The Bay Festival featured in an interview with them in the ezine Puremusic. Thanks guys for including them. I'm pretty chuffed. See the link: www.puremusic.com/69jennys6.html There's also been some images that the sites NowPublic and Schmap have asked for. It's all good fun!
This is a new blog to display some of my photographic work, display links to where my photographs have been used elsewhere in publication or on the web and generally share some photographic highlights that come along every now and then.

I have displayed my images on flickr since late 2005 but I want to use this blog to share some of my absolute favourites.

Cheers Mark at Tidalpix Photography :-)