Wow – I’m so slack at updating this thing. Since my last post I’ve been pretty busy and shot Spearhead (Great Gig!), The Dresden Dolls at the Victoria Room for JTV, Joan as Police Woman, Placebo and the Howling Bells so if you’re interested in checking out shots from those concerts check out my Flickr page and/or the triple j galleries. Gigs I’m shooting in the next week include the Drones, Parklife and the Foo Fighters so I should have some new photos on these pages soon.

There’s also a few magazines out now with my pics in it including:

Paperplane
This is a travel magazine made by the guys responsible for the always excellent Monster Children. I haven’t actually tracked a copy down yet – but it has a few of my shots from New York. It makes a nice change seeing stuff other than my Rock and Roll stuff being published.

J Mag
Nothing really exciting in the latest issue – a double spread of Missy Higgins playing at the Unearthed launch is my main contribution. It isn’t my favourite pic from the night but I can understand why they used it as it has the Unearthed banner behind her. I actually gave that pic to triple j marketing for that reason so it’s shown up heaps of places. Of course when the Daily Telegraph used it they cut the banner out – so you can’t win!

RollingStone Australia
This month’s RollingStone has a story on N’Fa and includes a photo of him playing at Splendour. I was the only photographer at his set (unless someone did a sneaky and took some shots later) as everyone was waiting for The Vines to make their “surprise” return on the other stage. Not my best work (as I only stayed for about one song then rushed to the main stage in time for The Vines) but I guess it shows that you never know what pics are going to be needed…

Big Life Out
This is an independent publication out of Adelaide. They used one of my Hot Lies photos from this year’s Come Together as the main pic on their front cover. Looks good!

Ok enough with the self promotion…

I haven’t shot anything for weeks and of course the two bands I’ve been looking forward to see had to be on the same night. Luckily both bands didn’t enforce the “3 songs” rule so I was able to shoot about half of each set. Plenty of make-up and botantical stage props at both gigs!

I really enjoyed the Sleepy Jackson – they can be a bit hit or miss but the current line-up have really gelled. There were some great extended jams and I could definitely hear a Syd Barrett influence which gets the thumbs up from me.

There’s a few more photos over at flickr and I’ll have the triple j galleries up sometime Monday.

So I’ve finally joined the web 2.0 revolution and got myself a flickr account.

After spending a few days checking out the features I’m pretty impressed. The use of tagging to build communities is realised brilliantly – it’s not only a great way to find specific images but it also allows you to explore unexpected paths. The new geo-tagging mode is also quite fun. Unfortunately street maps for Australia haven’t yet been introduced however the satellite view does go to street level which allows some degree of accuracy when tagging images.

I still don’t really know how I’ll use my flickr account – I’ll start by putting up a bit of the non-rock photography rotting on my hard-drive (so yes look forward to heaps of sunset, cat and flower shots). Anyway add me to your contact list – I’m a bit lonely at the moment!

Look forward to my next thrilling blog post – Matt gets a myspace account (shudder).

Here’s a pic of Kate on a train taken on Saturday. (Settings for all you camera nerds: focal length 20mm, ISO 400, manual exposure, 1/30 sec, f3.2)

Earlier that day, Kate gave me an accidental poke in the eye which led me to get a corneal ulcer (well I was silly enough to put in a contact lens after it happened which probably exacerbated the problem). It was a painful injury – I couldn’t sleep at all that night as it felt like I had razor blades under my eyelid. As my condition hadn’t improved by Sunday, a trip to the doctor was in order. He quickly diagnosed the problem with a fluorescein drop.

After a course of antiobiotic drops and plenty of shut-eye (pun intended) – my vision is almost back to normal. It wasn’t the nicest experience but it has definitely made me appreciate my sight!