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Every year the Department of Education & Early Childhood Development promote Education week & who can say that's not worthy of some promo? I spent a day at various multi lingual schools around Melbourne photographing kids that put an end to the idea that Australians only speak english. As someone that's been plodding along with the Spanish language for years now, it made me wish I had have started at it a lot younger! Here's the promo wrap that ended up going out on the cover of the Leader around Melbourne. Did you see it?!


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Today saw the finalists announced for the 2012 CGU Commerce Ballarat Business Awards. As a very new resident to Ballarat, I was really excited to be booked to shoot this event & start to get to know what's happening in business in the area & also get to see who is leading the field. Congrats to everyone who took the time to enter & put themselves out there - as MC Bruce Roberts said, it's not about winning, but about wanting to win.   This morning's event was held at the Mining Exchange, which is an awesome building in Ballarat & made for a fantastic backdrop.                              


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  I've recently been doing LOADS of stuff for the Department of Education in Victoria. From Events announcing funding, to school openings to full day shoots for newspaper spreads. It's a great chance to check out new schools and every time I go somewhere I think I wanna live there and send my imaginary kids there. Albert Park College is set to be a corker of a high school and I had loads of fun photographing everything from the incredible light filled library, to Andrew Gaze in the basketball stadium and the Principal on the roof looking across the Melbourne city skyline. Here's...


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With floods waters finding their way through properties and over roads, and rivers breaking their banks across Victoria, it's hard to believe we've been having such a water shortage for so long. The skies finally gave us what we've all been asking for. We just forgot to ask for it to not to come all at once. A small town called Buxton in Victoria copped it's fair share this weekend. The Silverstream B&B found it's grounds underwater and we found ourselves holed up in a little cabin, listening to the rain. As the rain kept coming, water creeping up, step by step, we realised there was no going...


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I just got back from a shoot in Kinglake, where it was so cold after 20mins of shooting I could no longer feel my fingers. A stark contrast to feel so cold when surrounded by trees still blackened by the fire that ripped through over 18 months ago. At one point I huddled around a small heater that was set up on the construction site I was on and warmed my fingers with one of the tradies. They just hurt. On the drive back to Melbourne I stopped to take a few shots of what I was seeing. Trying to make sense of how it might feel to be rebuilding here. Some houses look as old as the hills and I wonder...


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The last month or two I've been out photographing a number of Australian authors for the Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge which has kids all over the state in a frenzy of reading and wanting to be an author when they grow up. Yesterday I was at Heathmont East Primary School where Author Andy Griffiths took on something of a rock star status as kids swarmed him for his autograph, a handshake or just the chance to be close to him after his 20 minute talk. Justin Bieber eat your heart out. I was actually waiting for someone to pass out. Thus was the vibe. Who can resist a good bum/fart/snot...


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