Dale Travers Photography Blog

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past month. We were really busy before Christmas and then i went on my first paid holiday over Christmas in 8 years! Yep 8 years. So we are back now for another of photography and learning. Sorry i don’t post as many updates as i used to but i will try my best to keep the updates coming. To make this post worth while, here’s a bunch of photographs from our holiday. I usually keep my personal life away from my professional life but in this instance, we crossed over.

We spent our holiday on the Gold Coast. Great place, lots to photograph if your willing to get up early and travel. I wanted to shoot these photos in a more lifestyle way than i normally do. Late last year we had to shoot a few lifestyle campaigns and i wanted to shoot this the same. Very “off the cuff” style, a few out of focus, tilt shift work, fun happy colourful images. I also got out of bed early and shot some landscapes but with no filter kit, it was hard. Here are some that i liked. Hope you enjoy the images and lets look forward for another year..

Byron Bay

Early morning Surf

Awesome roads

Natural Bridge

Early morning surf

Byron bay

Sunrise at Elephant rock

Done surfing

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Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today i thought i’d take you very far from Australia to Glasgow, UK. We traveled there to cover a skate competition for a weekend while living in London. Really nice place but hard to understand the accent. Chaz Sands hosted this competition at his local skatepark and invited everyone from around to world to come. Now i don’t like covering competitions. It’s really hard to get the right angles you want, setting up flashes can be a nightmare and capturing that one awesome trick almost never happens unless you set it up like this one. Being Chaz’s local park, he ruled this place with tricks no one else could get the speed for including this huge wall ride out of the bowl.

While everyone else was watching and shooting from where they where standing, i organised with Chaz to hit this trick. I set-up and moved into position that would make this look amazing, right up next to him. I shot this with my trust 15mm fisheye to capture all the on lookers and the tell the story of where he came from to get up this high on the wall. I was really limited for flash placement having 2 flashes to right of frame,(where everyone else was standing). Gave the thumbs up to Chaz and then boom, here’s the finished shot.

One thing i have learned over the years, if you want the shot that no one else has, take control of the situation, control the light and walk away with that unique shot and that’s what sets you out from the pack. I was also lucky enough to have Krisztina with me on this adventure to snap a BTS shot of me out the on ledge creating this shot..

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Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today we are visiting the Sunshine Coast. We are not really travelling that far, It’s only about an hr and half from Brisbane where we live but it’s my mates Brendan Bloomfield’s birthday and he probably hasn’t seen this picture. We shot this years ago on my film camera around 2004. A 50D i think. This spot is amazing but it’s pretty secure and we had limited time. Brendan does not stuff around when we used to shoot. He walked up, turned around and royalled the ledge from half way. We did one more shot but then we got booted so he didn’t get a chance to hit it from the top but we walked away with awesome frame. Happy B/day Brendan, I miss shooting with you dude…