CAPTAIN MOONLITE RIDES AGAIN In 2020 during the Covid pandemic, I was approached by Cafs (Child and Family Services) Ballarat to take the creative lead on a project that was set to be a first for Ballarat in many ways. A public show of support for Ballarat’s LGBTIQ community, shining a spotlight on arguably Ballarat’s…
Commissioned by: City of Ballarat Inspired by: The voices of the Ballarat community during the Covid 19 Pandemic Performed and Choreographed by: Alison Shirley Music by: Rae Howell with support from Brannoc Whetter. Filmed and Edited by: Michelle Dunn Assistant: Yael Zalchendler City of Ballarat’s “Be Kind Be Creative” was deployed in the first lockdown…
Wow, 2018 kicked off with some incredible news as our film “A Victorian Silhouette” created for Sovereign Hill and the Gold Museum was named winner of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF 2018). Working closely with the talented Erin Santamaria, head of the costume department at Sovereign Hill, we helped turn her vision into…
I remember so clearly the first time I had a photo published. I was walking down the street in the wee hours of a Scottish morning in Edinburgh, perhaps somewhat intoxicated, with some of the cast of a play I had photographed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival a few months earlier while I was still…
We’ve just completed another DSLR photography short course here in Ballarat with a bunch of enthusiastic photography lovers from across the Western Region! I love this point, because I’ve been able to watch everyone go from shooting on auto mode, to producing photos like the ones below, all shot on full manual mode. It’s reminds…
Yet again my students have done me proud. I’ve been teaching this short course since I moved to Ballarat a few years ago & it’s always so exciting to watch people progress throughout the course. People start at all levels of experience, but mostly, noone really understands technical settings or has used manual mode before.…
I met Melbourne singer & performer Michelle Berner at a shoot for 65 Main in Daylesford, where she was performing with Champagne Serenade. She was keen to get some new headshots taken to promote her act The Michelle Berner Band (click the link to hear her amazing voice) & her brief to me was…