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I’m a cinematographer & colorist located in Sydney, Australia. My first foray into production was watching my Dad in the late 80’s. He traveled the world on documentaries, built studios, edit suites, OB vans, and seemingly had a lot a fun doing it. To be honest at the time I thought it was all pretty boring.

Occasionally I was used in videos which was more fun then sitting around watching. Around this time I started dabbling with some editing using his VHS dubbing room ( I wasn’t allowed to touch the edit suites!). I would take my favorite extreme snow skiing films and cut them up to my own music manually using two VHS players. I grew up on Director Greg Stump and his music based ski films. Bad boys like Glen Plake and Scott Schmidt with classic pop from Roxy Music and Franky Goes to Hollywood: Edgier then Warren Miller, al be it probably not as commercially successful. Music was becoming my passion around this time and I would spend hours locked in my room listening to the radio. I started playing guitar after seeing Michael J Fox rip it up on that red Gibson in Back to The Future. I made a carboard cut out of it! A few guitar lessons ensured and I dabbled until high school where 90’s grunge like Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers rock/funk blasted a hole in my radio pop centered mind. Music took over and I was in bands from high school right though to the present day.

Fast forward to the mid 2010s and I was getting tired of my 18 year IT career. The DSLR revolution was just kicking off the Canon 5D was turning heads. When my daughter was born I did the typical “New Dad” thing and bought a new camera to capture everything!. A mate I played music with and shot and edited for a living said “..you know that’s got a 1080p video option. You should flick it over to video and give it a go”. Not really knowing anything other then that I flicked over the switch…

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