Let us know your best or worst story about you and your significant other’s attempts (good or bad) at home renovation, handyman work or gardening.

We will upload all the stories into a facebook gallery where you will be able to share your story with friends and family. The winner will be the story that gets the most likes.

This year our prize is a dinner for 2 at The Black Cow Bistro and a $1000 towards a luxury portrait session and artworks from Photobat.

You can use your $1000 towards a couple shoot, a family shoot, a natural light studio session or even some shots just for yourself. You will then be able to create some amazing artwork for your home.

How to enter:

Head over to: http://photobat.wufoo.com/forms/enter-photobats-2012-valentines-day-competition/

Enter your details and story in the form and you will be in the running. Voting will start Wednesday 8/2/2012 at 10am and finish at 7pm on Monday the 13th of February.

Some conditions: only likes on the images in the Photobat gallery will be counted, the image with the most likes at 7pm on the 13th of February 2012 will be the winner, winning couple must agree to have their photos be used on the blog/website.

This Valentines Day… what would you like?

A peck on the cheek?

A kiss and a cuddle?

Or having people around you telling you to GET A ROOM!

We have three HOT SPECIALS from Photobat for you to give to your loved one this Valentine’s Day.
Each voucher comes with a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates and a card for you to write your special message.

You can use this towards couple shoot, a family shoot, a natural light studio session or even some shots of your other half.

Get in touch now by calling 6334 8789, emailing photobat@photobat.net or just head over to www.photobatshop.net and order online by heading to the product page.

The Peck on the Cheek.
Includes a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates and a card for you to write your special message.  Only $75 (valued at $175)

The Kiss and A Cuddle.
Includes a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates and a card for you to write your special message and $350 towards your artworks.  Only $150 (valued at $525)

 The Get A Room!
Includes a portrait design session, your luxury portrait experience, your purchasing session and is all wrapped up in a gift box filled with chocolates, a card for you to write your special message, $500 towards your artworks and a bottle of Josef Chromy wines. Only $195 (valued at $675)

Get in touch now by calling 6334 8789, emailing photobat@photobat.net or just head over to www.photobatshop.net and order online by heading to the product page.

Over the years I’ve filled up many hard drives of images taken for no reason than for my own self interest. Some make it onto the blog, some get entered into the awards and some just sit about and gather virtual dust.

Well, I’ve just completed some dusting and uncovered a heap of images that I’m proud of and though that I should open them up to everyone who would like one. The Photobat Print Shop is now open offering affordable photographic prints that are ideal to put on that blank spot on the wall, place on the bookshelf or even to give to someone as a present so they can enjoy it.

Some of my favourite images are included, and it is the first time I’ve offered prints of “The Caravan” (8 inch version pictured above on my mantle at home) one of my most popular images.

All prints come unframed and will be delivered within 10 days of ordering. For Launceston buyers I will throw in a special discount card so you can get your print framed.

To celebrate the launch of the Photobat Print Shop, we are offering free shipping on all orders made until the 25^th of November.  Plus if you order 3 you will get 20% off.

Please head over to the Print Shop and have a browse. I plan on adding images to the collection over time as I take new ones. Also, if there is an image of mine that you love that you would like to see in the shop please leave a comment and I’ll see if I can dig it up for you.

Click here to visit the Photobat Print Shop

Remember, Free shipping until this Friday and Christmas is just around the corner…

We still have a few free spaces available in our diary for portrait sessions with a guarantee of pre Christmas delivery. Alan is currently on fire and shooting some of the best portraits of his life.

We have a special offer for sessions booked pre Christmas, if you purchase a customised wall art piece  you will receive a complimentary gift size copy of your print. Now you can have a unique and special gift to give that even the person who has everything will locce. That’s a bonus of a $175 print for each artwork ordered.

Time is ticking and we only have a limited amount of times available so please click here or give us a call on 6334 8789

We have been getting some really sleek, beautiful and even sexy images from our natural light studio, but sadly it’s time for it to be put to bed for 2011.

We have 4 sessions left for the 2011, all on Sunday the 20^th of November. Each session includes professional hair and makeup (which everyone is raving about), a great natural light studio session and also your cinematic purchasing session. All this for only $220!

We have a tremendous offer to wrap up the session with anyone who purchases an Image Folio Box of their session will receive any custom wall art at 30% off, a saving of up to $1350.

So, if you want some pampering, some great images of you, or even you and your special someone remember to get in touch now by call is us on 0407 848 734 or by clicking here.

Summer is nearly here and this year we are going to the beach to capture the magical charm of informal lifestyle sessions of your family while all relaxed on your breakaway.

Our east coast portrait sessions are going to be extended 2 hour sessions, meaning we can design the session around your favourite beach, the shack or a mix of a couple of spots.
Imagine the great shots we will get of you all building sandcastles, splashing in the waves, running with the dog or doing anything you love to do while on holiday.

We also guarantee we will come to you for a next day viewing of your images so you can select what artworks, albums and other products you would love to have to remember your holiday.

Normally our extended, quick turnaround sessions are $395, but for our east coast sessions we are offering these sessions for $220 with an added bonus of special holiday album/wall art rates.

Book now  as there are only a limited number of sessions available, click here to get in touch or give us a call on 0407 848 734.

Remember, extended sessions, quick turn around and awesome holiday special rates and limited sessions!

I’m have a a heap of fun putting our new Natural Light Studio through its paces, every session is giving some fantastic results.

We have only 5 Natual Light Studio spaces left for the rest of the year.

The avaliable dates/times are

Saturday, November 11th @ 4pm
and
Sunday, November 20th – 5 sessions available from 9am till 3.30pm

Get in touch asap to secure your session, we  have some special offers for all the natural light sessions booked in for November that will save you well over $100.

Remember, partners are welcome to come jump in some shots too.

So email us, or call us on 6334 8789 and we can get your session booked and let you know everything about how to prepare and get the most out of your session.

There are some sessions after work on week nights, if you are interested please let us know and we can see what we can do.

Make a Booking

Christmas is coming up soon, seriously it’s only like 13 weeks away. We always get slammed in November / December with portrait sessions and sometimes we have to disappoint people because we don’t have enough time to fit them in.

So this in mind, if you would love to get some family portraits done and have them ready for Christmas presents (or just to have some new artworks on your wall to make other visiting family members jealous about how good you look) we have an early bird special for you.

The special includes:

Your Planning Session

A Personalised Family Portrait Session

Your Purchasing Session

20 Custom Christmas Cards

and $250 Credit Towards Your Artworks

Valued at $530

Early bird special only $75.

We only have 7 sessions left at the early bird rate so please get in touch and we can fill you in on all the details. So give us a call now on 6334 8789 or click here to make an enquiry.

Note, only avaliable for familoy portraits and to be shot by mid November 2011.

It seems to be baby season at the moment, I’m seeing so many bumps getting around town and it’s hard to believe we were in the same boat 12 months ago. Another session type we are shooting in the Natural Light Studio is pregnancy/couple shoots.

It’s a great opportunity to have a great time, get some pampering and get some fantastic images of this really special time. If you wanted to bring along the man in your life it can also be a great experience for him too. This is a great way for him to show his excitement and love (rather than just putting together all the flat pack baby furniture… I’m not that great at doing that).

There are a few different styles we can do in these sessions, unlike the perception out there; it’s not all about getting your gear off. You can if you want to but the majority of sessions we do with expectant mums are fully clothed.

We still are offering the outdoor run around and play sessions for pregnancy, the studio is just a new style. We can even do both on the same day if you like. There will be more from Scott and Daisy soon with the second part of this shoot being shot out in the city.

Thanks to Scott and Daisy for helping us test out the studio and good luck on your soon to arrive bundle of cuteness. And to Designer Bride for the great job on hair and make up.

Remember out $110 special for the Natural Light Studio? Well it’s still on for sessions until the end of October. Email me now and we can fill you in on all the details.

It’s this Friday and Saturday and it’s going to be great. It’s happening down at the Seaport.

We are going to be there, and as a special for all the blog lurkers out there…. yes i know you are out there we will have  a very special offer for you. To find out what it is, come by and mention you are a blog lurker!

While you are there, why not enter out competition and go into the draw to win a $1000 portrait voucher?

Check out who else is going to be there by visiting the Apron Design Market site.

And remember, come and introduce yourself for a very special offer.

It’s on again, head over to the Photobat Facebook page and have a read of 7 great travel stories. You will read about broken down cars, killer pigs and even Germans in Budgie Smugglers. Click like on the one you like the most and you will help that couple on their way to winning a $1000 photobat voucher and $100 for dinner at Stillwater.

Josef Chromy Vineyard – Special Guest Jonathan Wherrett.
Note, Vee and I had the cake…. Jonathan didn’t, even if it looks like he did!

I love our new Designer albums. Available in a 7×10 inch and a 10×14 inch size for both weddings and portraits. Edge to edge printing on all sides and a heap of new cover colours and materials including a really great assortment of designer woods. This offers a more contemporary feal to our albums, we still have the older matted albums which are also pretty ace, these ones are new and exciting. There are so many more possibilities with these ones and i’m really having a great time designing them. I’ll be showing all our wedding clients these albums when they are finalising the plans for their weddings and you can easily switch over your album style if you like. Portrait clients, these are the ultimate and we have already sold a few from resent sessions and I can’t wait to design some more.

These guys got the most votes and won our Valentines Day Competition.

We will have some more shots up in a couple of weeks… some really cool ones too

We love shooting couples in love. We also like eating food at nice places. And drinking wine, we like that too.
So we are mixing it all together in a Valentines Day Competition.

The Prize

A Photobat Couples Portrait Experience and Prints for a couple to the value of $800
Dinner for 2 at Cafe Rossilli in Launceston
A bottle of 2009 Brook Eden Waters Edge Pinot

Cafe Rossilli the café has been around for a while and we think is very good (especially the coffee). Now they are open in the evenings for dinner. It’s being operated by Damon (formally of Luck’s) so if you enjoyed eating at Lucks, you can be pretty sure you are going to like eating at Cafe Rossilli.

How to Win.
Tell us the best thing your partner has ever cooked for you and why. Was it a special occasion or just a surprise?
Email it through to photobat@photobat.net by 4pm on the 29^th of January. We will create an image for all the stories entered and put them up into a special photo gallery on the Photobat Facebook Page on the 1^st of February.

Get your friends and family to vote for your story by sharing / posting your entry onto your Facebook page. They can vote by clicking the “like” button under the image.

The wining story will be the story that has the most likes on their image by the 4pm on the 10^th of February 2010.
Some Conditions
Open to all couples, married or unmarried
Session must take place in Tasmania by the end of February 2010
Both partners have to agree to be entered into the competition

So get entering, and please let anyone you know who likes food and photos to enter too

ADDITIONAL PRIZE: Just Retweet or Share this blog post on your Twitter or Facebook and go into the draw to win 10 Rossilli Coffees. Click the buttons on the top of this post to get into the draw. Drawn 4pm 29th January 2010.

I mentioned in the newsletter that we have a special on our limited edition fine art prints. A great present for someone who loves art and good photography.

We currently have 5 different prints avaliable in 2 different sizes. The 15% Discount is in place until 10th of December, which is THIS THURSDAY! We will also guarentee delivery pre Christmas ifyou place an order this week.

Click here to head over to the Photobat shop

Those other dates that are good to know

December 10th – end of 15% discount on Photobat Limited Edition Fine Art Prints

December 15th – Last date of orders of wedding and portrait prints for guaranteed delivery pre Christmas.

December 23rd – End of discount on the new Portrait Albums

December 23rd – Start of Photobat Summer Hibernation (apart from the weddings!)

January 15th 2010 – Photobat back up and running for 2010

We did this head shot of Jeremy a couple of weeks ago, and now it has been published in ‘Inside Harcourts’, the magazine for Harcourts International.

Click if you want to have a read!

While on the way home from Sydney, I did the usual flick through some magazine in the newsagent. Unfortunantly i was between Vanity Fairs (as in i had the latest one already). So in a mission to find somthing desent to read (I bought Men’s Style on the way up, first time ever, had a story about a guy getting mauled by chimanzes…. weird, but kinda the reason I bought the magazine).

Anyway, Esquire. I pick it up, flip through it and then the sudden regognition of one of my images of UK comedian Chris Addison. This was shot a few of years ago in Edinburgh, Chris is a lovely lovely guy (yes, double lovely) and i’m glad to see the shot still getting some use for his markating.

Read the whole article here

From the Launceston Times this week.

Dan and Elise just ordered a couply more photos from their wedding and recieved the 10% discount which is still on offer until Friday. Email your order, or your intrest to order,  for 10% off all previous wedding and portrait images.

Another year and the Epson Tasmanian Professional Photography Awards have been run and won.

This year I managed to pick up 8 Silver awards over 4 categories.

In addition to this I also picked up

2009 AIPP Tasmanian Wedding Photographer of the Year (sponsored by Bride Tasmania)

2009 AIPP Tasmanian Portrait Photographer of the Year (joint) (sponsored by Fuji/Photoforce)

2009 AIPP Tasmanian General Photographer of the Year (sponsored by The Edge)

2009 AIPP Tasmanian Wedding Album of the Year (sponsored by Seldex)

And was named the 2009 Epson AIPP Tasmanian Professional Photographer of the Year.

Basically I’ve gone from no trophies to 5 in a day! Was kinda embarrassing going up to receive all the awards!

Big thanks to the AIPP for running the event, the judges, Zakk and Matt, Rocco, Phil K, and of course to my beautiful wife Vikashni. Plus thanks to all my fantastic clients, I am really lucky to have so many fantastic people to photography and share happy times in their lives. I love my job love sharing it with you all.

And well done to Zakk to for getting his first silver award! Click here to see it

The below images are the silver award images.

You may also hear me if you listen to ABC Southern Tas tomorrow morning and also HO FM tomorrow morning.

And my other entries that played a part in winning all the catergories are below

The last shot is of Tara Badcock’s clothing titled Theda Bara’s Cocktail Party, pink silk camisole top.

 I might blog some of the stories behind these images in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

Another Greece Shot. Promise that there will be no John Travolta at the slideshow this Sunday.

Part of my Best of 2008, 2pm or 3.30pm at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery, This Sunday, 22nd March, RSVP to production@photobat.net

 From a shoot just before Christmas.

Many more photos from my portrait shoots will be on the screen on Sunday.Come along, bring friends, I guarentee no monster children will devower your car!

Part of my Best of 2008, 2pm or 3.30pm at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery, This Sunday, 22nd March, RSVP to production@photobat.net

These colums are foreign cement. These particular ones are located in Athens. Many more photos from Greece will be on the screen on Sunday.

Come along, bring friends, the wine arrived today!

Part of my Best of 2008, 2pm or 3.30pm at the Queen Victoria Art Gallery, This Sunday, 22nd March, RSVP to production@photobat.net

Thanks again to the 80 people who showed up for the presentation, especially the 70 or so who got there in time for the presentation! It was really fantastic to put the show together and review everything i had shot in 2007, and i’m alredy planning the best of 2008 presentation! (By that I mean i’m going to put aside my favourite photos each month to save me many nights of searching every photo I took in a year.)

Special thanks again to Zakk for doing his best with the wine pouring and stuff, Rob for taking some photos of the thing, to Vikashni and Chung Mai for helping with the platters, and to Vikashni again for putting up with me in general (not a small task).

So i guess it’s onto the wedding planning now… just over 3 months to go…

I took a few photos in 2007, in fact, I took a few thousand.I always have loved showing off my work and am very proud of the way my images have developed in the last 12 months. So it’s time to show you all my favourite shots in an audio visual presentation. This is only on for one afternoon only, and not an exhibition that is hanging on the walls, so this is your only chance to see it.

Some of the highlights will include documentary work on the East Coast bushfires and backstage at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, Holga images, urban and natural landscapes plus heaps of kids,families, pregnant bellies, animals and shoes.

In addition there will be a presentation of some of my favourite portraits of the week taken over the last 5 years. The POW started as a way of practicing and pushing myself by taking a different portrait each week. Some of these portraits are commissioned; others are self commissioned and feature comedians, musicians, brides, animals, fictional characters, photographers and everyday people I have bumped into.

The presentations will take about 30 minutes.

2pm February 10th 2007
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Inveresk, Launceston

Entry is Free and there will be prizes!

Please RSVP here as we have limited seating available andmay have to reschedule more viewings.

PLUS FESTIVALE IS ON, SO YOU HOBART PEOPLE SHOULD COME UP FOR A DRIVE!!!

There are heaps of great last minute Christmas presents, but unfortunately great portrait photography isn’t one of them! If you are thinking about giving a Photobat portrait or wedding reprint as a present this Christmas please take note of the dates below. These are in place so you can be guaranteed to get your photos to give on Christmas day!

I’ll still be shooting after this time but will not be able to guarantee that you will have delivery for the big day, but I will try my hardest to get it to you.

High school comming to a close and the leavers dinners are the next big thing. Girls in dresses, guys in suits and all that fun stuff!

Everyone goes to so much effort, and it seems a waste that you get lined up like cattle for a quick photo in front of a boring background for a photo that shows little personality.

So I’m on the look out for school leavers and their families who actually want natural, relaxed and fun shots of their leaver all dressed up. The shots will be taken on the night of the ball at a location that has some meaning, adding another level to the photo. (Think outside the square, Parks, Inveresk, The Gorge, there are so many places!)

In addition to the leavers dinner shoot, I’m also throwing in a family portrait session. This session will happen on another day* and will be very causal and natural.

Normally 2 sessions including pre consultation, information pack on how to get the most out of your session, the shoot itself and a viewing session are $195 each, but with this offer you get both for $66.

I’m also putting together a package to go along with the leavers dinner part which will offer terrific value for money and also provide some great Christmas presents.

Be quick, there are only limited times available. Fill in the Enquiry form and I’ll get in touch with you really soon!

Please get in touch with me and let me know if you are interested, or pass it onto someone who may be. Only available in the Launceston Area (sorry)

*If the photos are taken on the same day it will look a bit odd with only one person dressed up and everyone else in regular clothing.

I took these shots of Girl Friday last year for the promotion of the show. No idea who Girl Friday is? Go over to www.girlfriday.tv to check out what it’s all about.

It’s a great concept and is getting some great support with Bigpond jumping on as a supporter. This shoot came about because one of the creators, Kyle Robertson happened to do the same degree as me and was bought in to do a presentation. After the presentation we met up again in Hobart where we were both presenting at a conference where I managed to convince her to be my portrait of the week. So a couple of years later I recieved an email from Kylie again filling me in on what’s happening with her and she got me over to do some promo shots for Girl Friday. Check out here to see an spot with Kylie and co creator Kala on A Current Affair