Showing posts with label Sydney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydney. Show all posts

Leila Jeffries Budgerigars at Iain Dawson, Sydney

Leila, my dear friend who I have mentioned in the past, has a solo show scheduled !!
Opening 18th November 2010. Iain Dawson Gallery, Oxford St, Paddington.

Vimeo and Youtube Battle it out.

I've been playing around with shooting video for a while now, nothing too fancy, just short clips on the point and shoot and I guess I really jumped on it when I needed to update my still camera and went down the Canon 5d Mark II road.

I thought I should set up an Vimeo account for all the finished projects, especially if they are HD.
Account is here- Vimeo - Jason Hamilton

and I also re-signed for a Youtube account, actually I'd an account for years,since it started out,
but it was a random avatar name which had no relationship to my actual name - how would people find me??
So the new channel is where I'll mostly be posting random short clips and tests.
Youtube - JasonHamiltonVideos

I promise more video stuff soon...

Leila Jeffries Exhibits Budgerigars!!

Leila who I mentioned back in December '08, got in touch and told me she had exhibited a Budgie shot in a group show late last year through to January. 
I'm really happy for her to be exhibiting the shots she worked really hard to achieve. 
She has another showing coming up as part of the Head On photo festival at the Iain Dawson Gallery in Paddington, Sydney. 18-29 May 2010
Leila's Images can be found here and there
Oh, and look out for a solo show in December 2010. 
Congrats!!

Here's a photo of "Spencer"

Alissa Thomas - Stylist


Alissa Thomas a great stylist I worked with many times in Sydney for ACP magazines is now freelance and busy!  She found a great niche market working with kids.
Alissa's Blog link
Thanks for posting my still life shoots here and there

image info. Photograph Jason Hamilton

On my way to JFK

My Mum is coming to NY!! 
For someone who doesn't like flying at all, it's a huge feat. Almost directly on opposite side of the world, it's a long flight, just over a whole day worth of travel, around 20 hours or airtime- not including stop overs. I'm excited to show her the city I love living in. Then my Dad gets in roughly 3-4 weeks after. Will be great to have them both here. 

image info. Photograph Jason Hamilton
image info. Photograph Jason Hamilton

EXCITING NEWS !!

I can officially put it out on the world wide ....
I was signed to BRUMLCONLON ARTISTS AGENT a little while back and have been in the process of having everything ready for the launch of (as Jean and Kathy put it) my "mini campaign" 
Here's the first card off the rank.. 
image info. BRUMLCONLON Artists Agent Photograph Jason Hamilton

On the www... again

Up on the BRUMLCONLON website along with the other great artists they represent.
Here are a few screen grabs.


The Other Half in 3D

At a pivotal point in my high school years I was torn between an Art v a Wood Technology stream. I was always more passionate about art so went in that direction but always continued with wood working as a hobby.
Years later I met Sam Harris, who had just started his cabinet making business, Square Peg Woodworks,
at the time I was Photo assisting and work was a little slow so when Sam asked if I'd like to work with him I jumped at the chance.
At times it was hard work but we also had a lot of fun, I loved having the satisfaction of having objects come into being in my own hands and seeing the finished cabinets or whatever we were working on in situ when finished.

email sig...

New email signature... 
finally... after about 5 attempts 
 I worked out how to have hyperlinks in my signature that didn't come up as the standard blue, well at least until someone replies to it or forwards the email on.
Although, i have had to change the colour of the standard text so you can see it here...

Sydney - in 52 Suburbs

Started in August 2009 long after Alan Waddell was crusining the streets, Louise Hawson realised she hadn't even ventured in many of the suburbs in her own city. Louise decided to visit a new suburb each week documenting its beauty, culture and people.
 52 suburbs blog link

Its a great look at Sydney and often makes me nostalgic as I've actually been to many of the suburbs Louise has explored when I was working as a photojournalist for various newspapers across Sydney.

Walk Sydney Streets - Alan Waddell

Long before the 52 Suburbs blog started or even gained popularity a man was walking Sydney streets and documenting his adventure, starting in 2002 Alan Waddell would choose a suburb and Walk the streets for a few hours at a time.

Whenever I'm longing to see Sydney, not just the glamorous beautiful parts I go to the website 
http://www.walksydneystreets.net/index.htm 
which is now dedicated to Alan who past away in 2008.

Its a great reminder how the city is in reality, with its sprawling suburbs, tree lined streets and interesting finds just around the corner. I love the humour in some of the photos with Alan starring in most of them.

To see my girl and go for a drive

Dog, Panelvan and the coast-
Back in Sydney for a short visit, catching up with family, friends and a little work meant I got to reconnect with my dog and car... managing to do both at the same time. 
My dog loves riding in the front seat and and once she's there its pretty hard not to just let her be and go for a drive..
I love the headland at Clovelly (one of my favourite snorkeling spots)  I hadn't been there in  a while and even though it was a rainy November day I wanted a sea breeze and ocean horizon fix regardless of the weather....

image info. Photograph Jason Hamilton
image info. Holden Hg Panel Van Interior, Photograph Jason Hamilton
image info. Holden Hg Panel Van Interior, Photograph Jason Hamilton

Arrive in Sydney.


My Dad's in hospital, he had a detached retina occur just a day before i was flying out of New York, my parents decided not to tell me so I didn't worry the whole flight back home. The main purpose of me coming back to Sydney is to go to my younger brother Ben's wedding in Lennox Head (almost 800 kms away). With Dad possibly not able to make it as he can't drive or fly due to the fluid and air bubble that has been pumped into his eye my Mum works out that they can get a train.
We were all really happy that Dad could make it, while we were there he celebrated his birthday.

Happy Baby Book!

Another great ACP Book for Babies and Toddlers is out and has used some of my photographs from the Healthy Babies book.
Happy Baby: The Complete Recipe Collection For Babies And Toddlers
288 pages of great recipes for young kids. 
ISBN 10 : 1863969594
ISBN 13: 9781863969598
I couldn't find a purchase link back to ACP Books, but if you would like to purchase it, you should be able to here

flickR accounT

I have decided to keep posting images on my blog but instead of multiple images for each posting I decided I'll just post a couple and if there are any others of interest I'll start linking posts to related sets on my flickR account. Enjoy !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason-hamilton/

Converse John Richmond

I don't think I have that many sneakers, I guess that I do keep some on higher rotation than others though. 
I decided after one of my favourite pairs we totally chewed by the streets of New York that I'd start posting the before and afters. Unfortunately I have only the after shot of these ones. 
John Richmond all black Converse styled like the traditional Jack Purcell  in leather with a hint of red on the toe smile.
image info. John Richmond Converse, Photograph Jason-Hamilton.com

Healthy Babies Book

The ACP Book I worked on in March is finally out.
After doing multiple cover tries with models (babies and Mums) the ACP books team decided to go with a shot they already had in stock (unfortunately for me, its the only shot I didn't shoot in the whole book)
120 pages of great recipes for young kids.
ISBN 10 : 1863969020
ISBN 13: 9781863969024
I couldn't find a purchase link back to ACP Books,
If you would like to purchase it you should be able to here

Two girls I left behind in Sydney

My beloved dog and another love of my life, my 1971 Holden HG Panelvan, both in the wonderful care of my amazing parents.
Delphi the wonder dog, Photograph Jason Hamilton 1971 HG Holden Panelvan panel van, Photograph Jason Hamilton

FOOD Book !!

An almost month long job, working on a food book-
Australian Women's Weekly - Healthy Babies: Food for healthy Babies and Toddlers
ACP Books
With about 110 pages to fill I decided that we should set up and run two sets. The white set was only used for all the extra insert/ deep etch shots but made everything more efficient on the days we had to shoot options.
Beautifully styled/ propped by Justine Osborne and food prepped by a tireless Amal Webster, it was a great, fun and challenging job to be involved in.
With really strong direction from the Art Directors Hieu Nguyen and Hannah Blackmore, it was amazing to see it all coming together on the BIG grid layout on the wall.
A detail of the wall below.

Below is the double set we had running. It was the easiest way to get through the options that we had to shoot including some shots on white that were going to be deep etched.
Thanks all involved, I really do hope we can all work together again soon.