s e r e n d i g i t y - portfolio

Lake Baroon Catchment Care Group Website
I recently volunteered to set up a new website for this important local environmental organisation.

Woodford 2007-08 Folk Festival and 2008 Fire Event DVD
I was appointed an official photographer for Woodford again this year and have documented the Fire Event production and ceremony. A DVD with over 1 hour of audio-visual montages for viewing on TV and over 1,000 photos for viewing in your PC has been produced.

Obi Obi Parklands Website
I volunteered to set up and maintain a website promoting an environmental parkland on a large area of land purchased by the local Council near the Maleny township. My support has been ongoing from 2007 until the present time.

National Interfaith Festival - Maleny 2007 - Volunteer Photography
I was one of the volunteer photographers at the recent event in Maleny and took over 800 photos during the two days of the festival. Many interesting people portraits in religious and traditional national dress.

Woodford 2006-07 Folk Festival and 2007 Fire Event DVD and PhotoCD
I have produced a DVD featuring this Woodford Folk Festival and fire event. The DVD contains several short films, photo slide shows, and a data section with photographs and sound files. A photoCD of over 500 hi-res photographs has also being produced.

Splash! Festival 2006 DVD
The Splash! Festival was held on Chambers Island, Maroochydore on Saturday 21 October, 2006. The performances raised awareness of the importance of caring for our environment and protecting our waterways. I took photographs and video throughout the festival and of the main performance in the evening. A DVD is available of the event. A PhotoCD can be created upon request.

Woodford 2005-06 Folk Festival and 2006 Fire Event DVD and PhotoCD
I have produced a DVD featuring this Woodford Folk Festival and fire event. The DVD contains several short films, photo slide shows, and a data section with photographs and sound files. A photoCD of over 1,200 photographs has also being produced.

Noel Gardner Website
I have set up a website for award-winning and talented singer/songwriter Noel Gardner to showcase his music CDs.

Community Development Conference 2005
I was involved in the creation of a mutil-media DVD of the proceedings of a conference in Maleny Queensland. This year's theme was Flirting with Spirituality - Re-enchanting Community.

Queensland Multicultural Festival 2005 DVD
This festival of music and cultural diversity was held in the Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane Australia. I have compiled a photomontage DVD.

Peculiar Hand Website
Design of a website for Paul Lawler and Richanda Bridge, who have run the Woodford Folk Festival Fire Event ceremony for the past four years.

Angela Fox Website
I am helping talented singer/songwriter and artist Angela Fox to promote her artworks and CDs on her website. Design and updates by Serendigity. Angela is currently studying in New Zealand.

Woodford Fire Event 2004-05 DVD and PhotoCD
The Woodford Folk Festival is held near Brisbane in Queensland each year. The closing night ceremony involves a spectacular theatrical production with many hundreds of participants and stage crew. The feature of the performances is the use of fire. I was accredited as the official photographer at the 2005 event with the intention of producing a short film of the fire event and the creative preparations. I have produced a PhotoCD with over 650 hi res photos, this is for sale. I have produced three short films of the fire event preparations and the event itself which were made into a DVD for the fire event team.

Tulca mor Promotional DVD
In late 2004 I filmed a performance by Brisbane-based celtic band Tulca mor at the Upfront Club in Maleny. The resultant DVD contains over 40 minutes of video of the performance, band contact and biographical details, and details of their albums. All presented in an integrated DVD menu system. This is a promotional DVD and is thus not available for sale.

Crystal Waters Permaculture Village 2004 DVD
Over the past three years, 2001 to 2004, I have been working on an educational DVD on Crystal Waters Permaculture Village in SE Queensland. The DVD contains several short films covering various aspects of the village, including the wood fired oven bakery, village design, permaculture, and the wonderful wildlife. The DVD is aimed at schools and TAFE colleges, other educational institutions, libraries, and the interested public. A PhotoCD can be created upon request. Conversion into computer playable XviD AVI is also available on request.

Maleny Voice Website
I volunteered to help maintain an important local opinion website covering issues such as the controversial Maleny Woolworth supermarket development righ on the bank of Obi Obi Creek, and the equally controversial Maleny Community Precinct development planning. My support has been ongoing from 2003 until the present time.

Splash! Celebration 2004 DVD
The Splash! Celebration was held on Chambers Island, Maroochydore on Saturday 16 October, 2004. The performances raised awareness of the importance of caring for our environment and protecting our waterways. I took photographs of the event and video of the main performance in the evening. A DVD is available of the event. A PhotoCD can be created upon request.

Queensland Multicultural Festival 2004 DVD
The inaugural Queensland Multicultural Festival was held in the Roma Street Parklands in Brisbane on Sunday 10 October, 2004. The festival and performances raised awareness of the importance of and richness of our diverse multicultural society. In the evening a special Travelling Light ceremony was held on the lake with performers from many cultural traditions taking part. Involving the use of fire torches and lanterns, the ceremony was filmed and highlights are available on a DVD, which also includes photographs of the festival, and music from the ceremony. A PhotoCD can be created upon request.

Woodford Fire Event 2003-04 DVD and PhotoCD
The Woodford Folk Festival is held near Brisbane in Queensland each year. The closing night ceremony involves a spectacular theatrical production with many hundreds of participants and stage crew. The feature of the performances is the use of fire. I was the official photographer at the most recent event and I documented the entire creative process of preparing for the event through to the performance itself. I have produced a PhotoCD of the event with over 1,000 photographs. I have produced two short films of the fire event preparations and the event itself which were made into a DVD for the fire event team.

Musee d'Orsay Impressionist Paintings PhotoCD 2002
I took highly detailed close up photographs of many of the wonderful paintings in the Musee d'Orsay collection in Paris during my visit there in 2002. I have produced a PhotoCD with 86 photographs of the paintings, and 42 additional photographs of the museum building, sculptures and other art treasures. Artists include: Van Gough, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gaugin... Art students and painters have commented that the details of texture and brush strokes which can be seen in these photographs surpass all but the finest art books.

Western Europe PhotoCD 2002
In 2002 I undertook a three month field trip to Western Europe to photograph scenery, cities and towns, and cultural and religious treasures. The result of this trip is a CD-ROM with over 2,000 photographs all provided in full screen high resolution format. I have sold this CD to art lovers from around the world. Many of these images will be showcased on Flickr.com in the near future.