For anybody who doesn’t already know Port Douglas Photography is no longer located in Macrossan st and as of mid January will be based out of Cairns. Lots of little reasons for this however none of them anything to do with how much we love Port Douglas. Living here for the past 9 years has been amazing. We started our Family and our business here so it will always be a very special place to us. I’ll still be shooting a lot of weddings and portraits up here so if you’re looking you’ll see me at Jai’s or Whileaway most Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings throughout the season and often with the kids once they build the bloody lagoon.
Here’s a recent pic from my temporary office at the Marina , Just because

Yesterday I spent an hour with Laverne & John while they celebrated their ten year anniversary by renewing their wedding vows at the Blue Horizon Chapel in the grounds of the Cairns Hilton.
The ceremony was just the two of them holding hands and speaking to each other in Cantonese. I took photographs and Gina from South Pacific Bridal looked on. It went for about five minutes and even though I had no idea what they were saying you could feel the love. Laverne told me that it was a nice contrast to their actual wedding which was larger and quite traditional.
After the ceremony we stepped outside for half an hours worth of photo’s. It was midday in Cairns, blue sky hot with the sun directly overhead. Photographically speaking it was a challenge, the light couldn’t be harsher and at a worse angle. Off we went for a walk to find some nice spots close by. John was a trooper in his dark suit, did I mention the heat?
So anyway we took a whole bunch of nice shots over the course of the hour and plan to get a bunch more on Sunday afternoon when we trash Laverns dress.
Meanwhile, here’s some from yesterday. enjoy

AHEM!! – The second last ones gone green?? Click on it and then click on it again for a larger true color version.

My darkroom ventilation was a crack of an opening in the window which wasn’t good, it stank and I use to fall asleep in there. Developing films in a tank on the laundry floor, one cat and dog, steaming the bathroom to settle the dust so I could dry film then having to clean it anyway, scratching the film, spotting the film, finally printing a masterpiece and then forgetting how I got there, toning, flattening and mounting. The process was a science but not a very exact one. Everything worthwhile ended up as a print and anything good ended up as folio, for a while. I did this for about ten years, it was more than a hobby, I loved it. I spent everything and never made a cent. If you look at the fine art section of my site, most of that is folio from the later of these years.

I found these old portraits last night. They are scans of matted fibre based prints complete with dust spots.