Capertee is a small township located approximately 190 km north-west of Sydney.

In 1851 a 48 kg gold nugget was discovered close to Capertee and following that gold was also found in several of the nearby creeks and rivers. In 1882 the north-western railway line was extended to Capertee and this meant that the area’s other extensive mineral resources - coal, limestone and oil shale - could be exploited. By 1898 about 200 men were working at one of the larger shale oil projects. However, the need for shale oil declined rapidly after 1903 because the richest deposits had been extracted and it became unprofitable to mine.

Capertee is a very small place: there’s a tiny school, a police station (one policeman has responsibility for an area of roughly 5,000 square km), a courthouse, a memorial hall, the volunteer bushfire brigade building, a post office, a pub and the railway station.

The film was captured in standard definition 16:9 aspect ratio PAL using a Sony DVD201E camera. Post processing was performed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3. The music is an except from a composition by Philip Glass.

This film reveals the spectacularly rugged scenery of the Jamison Valley which sits below the western escarpment of the Blue Mountains.

Blue Mountains National Park is World Heritage listed and the film was made near Katoomba, a township located approximately 110 km west of Sydney. The Blue Mountains are famed for their sheer sandstone walls and for the almost impenetrable terrain and extremely dense rain forests and eucalypt forests that fill the valleys below the escarpment.

The film was captured in standard definition 16:9 aspect ratio PAL using a Sony DVD201E camera. It was post processed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3. The soundtrack is an excerpt from Steven Soderbergh’s version of the film “Solaris” - it was composed by Cliff Martinez.

This film contrasts the old and the new in the city of Sydney.

The film was made in an area of Sydney - close to the harbor - known as The Rocks. You can catch glimpses of the Opera House and the Harbor Bridge in the distance. This locality is where the First Fleet established itself when it arrived in Australia from Britain with the first shipment of convicts in January 1788.

The film was captured using a Sony DVD201E in 16:9 aspect ratio standard definition PAL. Post processing was performed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3. The soundtrack is Alone in Kyoto by AIR.

This is a 5x5 film: that is, 5 subjects each for 5 seconds. It uses an assortment of shots that I took in the central west of New South Wales while working on several other film projects. It attempts to portray - with a montage lasting just a few seconds - the vastness of rural Australia.

It was recorded in 16:9 aspect ratio Standard Definition PAL using a Sony DVD201E camera. Post production was done using Adobe Premiere Elements 3. The music is an excerpt from the soundtrack for Godfrey Reggio's film Powaqqatsi and it was composed by Philip Glass.

Mount Wilson is a small hamlet that lies within the world heritage listed Blue Mountains National Park. The village is roughly 130 km west of Sydney and it is 1040 meters above sea level. It has a permanent population of about 200 people.

Mount Wilson and a number of nearby mountains were originally formed by extensive volcanic activity and this is why the region has an abundance of rich basalt soils. The soil is the reason why significant temperate rain forests and many varieties of ferns have flourished. The forests provide a habitat for a wide variety of native wildlife.

European settlers originally had great difficulty reaching the vicinity of Mount Wilson because of the rugged terrain and the thick forest - however Aboriginal people lived there for many centuries and there are numerous rock carvings and paintings, implement-sharpening grooves and stone axe-heads in the surrounding forests and in the nearby caves.

William Govett was the first European that has been confirmed as having reached Mount Wilson - he journeyed there in 1833. By 1880 a number of elaborate English-style houses had been built by wealthy families as retreats from the summer heat and considerable humidity of coastal Sydney. These early residents created extensive gardens which thrived in the volcanic soil. The gardens fostered plants from Europe and Asia as well as native Australian species. These days, the large number of mature deciduous European trees provide a spectacular contrast to the evergreen native Eucalypts and tree ferns.

The film was captured using a Sony DVD201E camera in 16:9 aspect ratio Standard Definition PAL and was post-processed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3.

The soundtrack is a composition by Philip Glass.

The Coastal Track was filmed at Noosa National Park on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

Noosa is a small town about 90 minutes drive north of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland. The film follows the walking track through the national park along the coastline and across the jutting headlands between Alexandria Bay and Laguna Bay. It concludes with images of Noosa’s main beach.

Noosa National Park includes an extensive terrestrial section as well as a marine component. It is a popular tourist destination because of its spectacular scenery as well as its marvelous forest and the abundant wildlife - you will see all three in the film. As far as wildlife goes, look for the bearded dragon, the scrub turkey, the tree python and the koala. Koalas are reclusive and are rarely seen in the wild, but Noosa National Park is one place where you can see them on a regular basis, and you can often see them wide awake and active.

This section of coastline is very popular with surfers - it offers numerous points where reliable surf is nearly always found. As you wander along the meandering coastal track you often encounter surfers - a board under their arm - hurrying to get to their preferred location to catch the waves.

The coastal track that winds through Noosa National Park often skirts the beaches; when it rises, it clings to spectacular cliff-tops, all the while offering magnificent views. As it makes its way, it passes through scrubby dry sclerophyll forest as well as lush and very dense rain forest.

The film was captured using a Sony DVD201E camera in 16:9 aspect ratio Standard Definition PAL and was post-processed using Adobe Premiere Elements 3.

The soundtrack is comprised of two compositions by Philip Glass. The didgeridoo is played by Mark Atkins and the pipa is played by Wu Man. A didgeridoo is a traditional Australian Aboriginal wind instrument made from a branch from a eucalyptus tree which has been hollowed out either by termites or using fire. A pipa is an ancient Chinese stringed instrument - much like a guitar- which is played by plucking. I suggest you turn the volume up!

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