As many of you will know, I’ve been off on holiday visiting friends in Australia (including some I’d not seen for nearly 17 years!)

Anyway a lot of you have asked to see some of the photographs, so here’s a brief preview there will be more in the gallery shortly!

Our trip included eight flights, about 2000 miles, four ferry rides and a high speed catamaran ride. We managed to cram in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Ayers Rock, Cairns,Green Island, Brisbane and back to Sydney.

A few from Sydney,

When we arrived at Mermbula we were still a bit jet lagged, so was we were up early and were lucky to spot some whales.

(Read on …)

Exciting news!
Mark has been awarded the prestigious ‘Events Photographer of the Year 2007′ by the Master Photography Association.
The shot that won Mark this ‘Gong’ was a stunning moving motorbike image of Valentino Rossi taken at Donnington Park this year.
Due to Mark being away on vacation, his assistant Pam had the pleasure of travelling to Newcastle to the black tie awards event staged at the Hilton Hotel, to collect the award from Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet Fame.