About

I picked up a Canon 350D in 2005. Since then I've cycled through a Nikon D90, D700, D750, D800, and the Z6 I shoot on now. No formal photography training. Just a camera, a passport, and 45 countries of figuring it out as I went.

Somewhere along the way an elephant photo I took on a beat-up Nikon D90 at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania ended up on the cover of National Geographic Traveller. They found me through a Google image search, which still makes me laugh. That shot came out of a 3.5-month overland trip through 12 African countries, from South Africa up through Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The trip finished at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, tracking mountain gorillas through the jungle.

I've shot across Japan, Iceland, Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, country Victoria, and a lot of places in between. Wildlife, street, travel, and editorial work - wherever the light's good and something's happening.

I don't do heavy editing and don't composite or manipulate. There's a line between photography and digital art and I stay on the photography side of it. I care more about the moment than the technical perfection.

All photography on this site is available for licensing and as prints.

Based in Melbourne, Australia. I also run DJB Photography School.