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My photography started back in 1975 when I first started shooting surfing with a a Penatx Spotmatic F that I was given by my mother for my 21st birthday. On and off over the years, in between my real job, I shot surf images around my home break, Cronulla.
In the late nineties a change of career enabled me to move to a more professional approach to my surf photography. It was during this period that I realised that I also had a strong collection of beach and ocean related images and so the Oceanrt Gallery was born. With the help of Soula, images were collated and offered for sale as prints for framing etc.
Oceanart was launched back in 1997 by my wife Soula and I. We opened the Oceanart Gallery in 2003 which we ran until an opportunity presented itself to move to Adelaide in 2013 where we lived for four years.
In 1998 I won the Canon Asia Pacific Professional Photographer Award with a photo inside a barrel at Shark Island, Cronulla shot with SLR camera and Fisheye lens inside a waterhousing and mounted to the front of the surfers board. The camera was triggered by a radio remote. A similar image from the same wave also appeared on the front cover of Tracks magazine (see image right). This was well before the GoPro.
There was a strong demand for my images and I started to focus more on images suitable for the Gallery and less on the surf action I had been shooting up until then. This encouraged me to invest in medium format camera gear including a Fuji 617 panoramic camera. Of course these cameras were all film. Digital was still a few years away. When digital did arrive it wasn't long before it completly changed photography and this enabled everyone to more easily become photographers. A great thing for photography but not so good for the Oceanart Gallery.
Soula and I are re-launching the Oceanart Gallery online. Images are already on the site and we hope to have the e-commerce facilty up and running shortly. In the mean time we can be contacted by EMAIL
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