Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Feb 8, 2012, 6:27 am
The Queen Mary 2 cruise ship stopped in the Port of Fremantle today on the coast of Perth, Western Australia. I had some meetings down that way so I took my camera with me, hoping to get some decent photos. I didn’t realise how popular the ship is, I got a good vantage point relatively early and w...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Feb 2, 2012, 7:58 pm
Tonight I headed out with Mark Stothard and Flemming Bo Jensen to photograph a truck that belonged to Glenn, a friend of Mark’s. There is quite an interesting story behind the truck too. This is from Mark’s blog (http://www.truenorthmark.com/blog/2012/02/02/a-step-back-in-time): “Glenn origin...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 30, 2012, 10:01 am
taken from a very long way away.. it came out pretty sharp :) http://paulpichugin.com #blog Google+: Reshared 3 times Google+: View post on Google+
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 30, 2012, 9:11 am
I did an epic road trip with Leigh Diprose down to Albany and back in a day.. 10 hours driving in all! I got some pretty decent images considering it was such a quick trip. This was taken at Nanarup, Western Australia, it was my first time there and there were less than ideal conditions.. but I’...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 28, 2012, 12:11 pm
I'm just testing posting from my phone to google+ I'm also testing if the plugin I installed on my #blog is working, if so this post should show up both on my blog as well as on Google+ Regards Paul Pichugin http://paulpichugin.com Google+: View post on Google+
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 24, 2012, 1:09 am
Hey All, Rob Heyman is coming across to Perth to give a portrait workshop in York! Rob Heyman is a triple master photographer with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, awarded nationally and internationally for his unique and original portraiture and wedding photography. He has be...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 21, 2012, 4:34 am
Yesterday I headed out with fellow photographer and mate Adrian Wayte to chase the rest of the storm, he was ticked off because I’d tried to get him to come out with me to photograph the lightning but didn’t make it. We decided to head north east and try to get in front of the storm as the most ...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 20, 2012, 3:40 am
Hi All, Here is the video from the lightning storm.. I’ve not included any sound with it as the wind destroyed any sound I recorded! Regards Paul Pichugin
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 19, 2012, 4:58 pm
Last night we had one of the most active lightning storms I’ve ever seen in my life. Lightning was going off every half second at the most. I followed the storm from south of Perth out to the ocean and got some of the best photos I’ve ever taken of lightning. I also remembered to do some video.....
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 19, 2012, 10:07 am
I wasn’t going to head out this afternoon… but when Adrian Wayte sent me a message saying he was heading out to get some photos, I just had to join him.. we travelled *all* over the country side, doing some location scouting for future trips, as well as getting some pretty decent photos. I’m v...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jan 7, 2012, 3:25 am
There is something very raw, rugged and untamed about the southern coastline, especially around Albany. 9 image stitch, Canon 5DmkII, Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 All comments appreciated Regards Paul Pichugin
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Dec 27, 2011, 8:08 am
Hey All, We headed down to Mullalyup, Western Australia to Bec’s Grandpa’s place (http://willowsrest.com), it’s a lovely place set on 16 Acres of beautiful land. Mullalyup and the whole region is known for having very little light pollution at night, which makes it perfect for star gazing and...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Dec 24, 2011, 7:09 pm
Hey All, Just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays / Festive Season / whateverispoliticallycorrectthesedays, hope you spend it with friends & family and have a great time! Be safe, especially out on the roads! Looking forward to an awesome 2012! Love from Paul & Bec!
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Dec 22, 2011, 9:00 am
On Saturday I headed out with my good mate Brock to do some exploring and take some photos.. we headed out through York and setup in someone’s paddock for sunset. We did some shooting there and I managed to capture this 9 image panoramic: After the sunset we headed up towards Toodyay through Nort...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Dec 21, 2011, 4:20 am
Headed out yesterday afternoon with fellow landscape photographer Adrian Wayte, we went and checked out North Cottesloe first, but we didn’t really see anything that really connected. So we took a drive north along the coast and eventually ended up at Burns Beach.. I’d photographed portrait sess...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Dec 18, 2011, 10:12 am
This afternoon I was thinking of heading out for some quality photography time, spotted an invite from Jamie Paterson on Facebook for anyone who wanted to meet up.. Having stalked Jamie’s work and even been to one of his exhibitions, but not actually met him, I thought why not? Met up at his favor...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Oct 9, 2011, 5:50 pm
Hey All, I thought I’d add some of the people images I created while in Cambodia! These 3 young boys were out in remote Cambodia, looking after some cattle. I photographed them on our return trip from a village where the medical team I was travelling with saw 187 patients in 3 hours! As part ...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Oct 4, 2011, 12:08 am
Hey All, I know I’ve been a bit quiet over the last 2 weeks.. it’s been incredibly busy. Cambodia is an amazing country and I’ve already started planning my next 2 trips back there! I’ll have some more photos and videos from the trip on my blog shortly, I’ll also be posting up some though...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 18, 2011, 2:07 am
Hey All, On Friday I made the epic journey through Singapore and across to Phnom Penh. As we were approaching Phnom Penh the clouds cleared a little and we were able to see an overview of the area. Most of the low lying areas outside the main city are currently experiencing flooding as we’ve come...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 11, 2011, 4:45 am
We picked up our new toy on Friday, a Nissan Navara ST-R, it was replacing our Subaru Forester. We immediately traveled in it to Geraldton to visit the family and check out the wildflowers. The trip was fairly uneventful other than having an owl fly into the windscreen and break my mobile aerial, it...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 8, 2011, 11:05 pm
Anyone who knows me knows that I love to visit Busselton and the South West corner of Western Australia.. and that I love jetties.. well Busselton has a 2km long jetty! What isn’t to love?! It’s a great place to visit and well worth the walk out to the end of the jetty. For the adventurous it’...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 8, 2011, 10:49 pm
A few weeks ago I did a quick road trip down to the Stirling Ranges to see if I could get photos of the snow that was supposed to fall.. after getting hailed and sleeted on up at Bluff Knoll I beat a fairly hasty retreat.. I did see snow, but it melted as soon as it hit the ground. The trip wasn’t...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 7, 2011, 1:56 am
A few weeks ago I went on a quick trip out to the Chittering Valley with my good mate Brock to see if we could get any decent photos. We experimented with some long shutter speed images and flowing water up and down the creeks that are currently flowing though the valley. I wasn’t overly excited a...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 6, 2011, 10:19 am
Christian Fletcher has been talking about this new wave of photography that he calls Altered Landscapes.. very simply put it’s a landscape in an urban or man made setting. I haven’t really been able to see what all the fuss is about to be completely honest, but I’ve been giving it a shot.. act...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 6, 2011, 5:54 am
Hey All, I was discussing Canola field photos with fellow landscape photographer (and source of inspiration) Adrian Wayte, when I realised that I hadn’t actually blogged my all time favourite image from last year! So here it is! This was taken with my old Canon 5DmkII and a 24-70mm f2.8L lens,...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Sep 6, 2011, 2:05 am
Hey All, Just a quick post with my Canola fields shot from our quick trip up to New Norcia last week, we were very lucky to get a brief break in the rain just at sunset and this was the shot I got. It’s the first panoramic I’ve put together with my new camera gear after having it all stolen whe...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Aug 17, 2011, 1:36 am
Image courtesy of Flemming Bo Jensen   Hey All, As most of you would know, I have been planning a trip to Cambodia in September. I’m going to be working for 2 weeks in an orphanage that is run by Awareness Cambodia, as well as  a clinic / hospital. I’m really looking forward to the trip. I�...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Aug 17, 2011, 1:11 am
Hey All, I’ll be posting up a few blog posts over the next couple of days, mostly from my trip down to the Stirling Ranges and then the subsequent trip home via Pingrup, Lake Grace, Kulin and York. Then I’ll have a few images from my recent weekend in Busselton :-) I’m going to be trying to p...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Aug 16, 2011, 3:11 pm
Hey All, I know it’s been a while since my last blog post, I’ve been so busy that I’ve neglected my blog! The week before last I made a quick trip down to the Stirling Ranges to see if I could get some photos of the snow.. well after climbing Bluff Knoll, I got hailed on and sleeted on, I sa...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 12, 2011, 5:00 am
I have been given the opportunity to travel to Cambodia and visit several orphanages and a clinic. While there I will be producing a documentary of what the orphans are facing and conditions in Cambodia. I have never been to Cambodia before, but I did travel through Papua New Guinea in 2008 and prod...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jun 24, 2011, 7:00 am
Hey Al, Not long ago I took part in one of the Creative Live courses, this one was by an artist who’s work I’ve admired for quite awhile now, Doug Landreth. He combines elements of photography with texturing and compositing in post-processing to come up with a true art piece. The course took yo...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jun 15, 2011, 7:40 pm
{EAV_BLOG_VER:74c96f979ff1e194} Hey All, We were very lucky to be able to witness a full lunar eclipse in the early hours of the morning today.. or we would have been, had there not been a huge amount of cloud and rain in the way! I had a look at the weather radar and it looked like I might get a ...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jun 15, 2011, 1:08 pm
Hey All, Last week Bec and I were travelling from Balingup to Busselton and I just had to pull over to get a photo of the sky, it was an amazingly clear night and the moon had already set. Other than being completely frozen, it was an amazing experience!   Regards Paul Pichugin
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jun 9, 2011, 9:27 am
Hey All, On Sunday Andrew Semark and I were in Busselton photographing a wedding, we ended up doing some photos at Wyadup.. in between photos with the lovely and very happy couple, I fired off this panorama as there was some amazing light that I just couldn’t miss :) After Busselton we headed...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - May 16, 2011, 11:00 am
Hey All, Bec and I really needed a break away for a couple of days as we’ve been non-stop since the start of the year, some cheap flights came up so we headed on over to Melbourne. I really wanted to re-photograph a few areas of the Otways so we ended up staying in Apollo Bay for a few days befor...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Apr 25, 2011, 4:57 am
Hey All, A few of us made our way into Kings Park, here in Perth,  in the early hours of the morning today. We joined over 40,000 other people to pay our respects to those who have sacrificed everything for our freedom and way of life. It is a bit of a surreal feeling to be amongst a crowd of so m...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Apr 16, 2011, 1:41 pm
Hey All, This afternoon we had a “moving away” BBQ for one of my best mates and fellow photographer Andrew Semark, down at Trigg Beach, him and his family will be moving down south to Busselton.. I can see many trips down there to keep in touch.. and get the odd photo or 20 ;-) I couldn’t re...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Apr 11, 2011, 12:54 am
Hey All, I know it’s been quite awhile since my last post, I’ve been so flat out busy with Blaque Studios that I’ve not had time to head out and take any landscape photos! Yesterday afternoon we had a storm come through that was largely uneventful, but I headed down to Trigg Beach anyway, to ...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Feb 7, 2011, 6:04 am
Hi All, Just a short post here, with some photos, I’ll have a full blog post a bit later tonight with some of what I experienced today! Regards Paul Pichugin
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Aug 17, 2010, 5:02 pm
Just letting you all know that the Landscape 500 photography competition being run by Christian Fletcher is now open for entries.. be sure to get your entries in! Enter here: http://www.landscape500.com Regards Paul Pichugin http://paulpichugin.com
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 28, 2010, 1:42 am
Hey There, Just thought I’d let you guys know that Christian Fletcher is holding a landscape photography competition! This competition will reward the best in enthusiast photography in Australia. Yes thats right, it is only open to non professional photographers and the images to be entered ...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 19, 2010, 4:50 pm
Hey There, Bec and I are in the process of planning a 2-3 week get away, we’re hiring a camper trailer (any recommendations on companies please?), packing up the Subaru and heading north! The planning process includes finding the best deal we can for a fully kitted out off road camper trailer,...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 19, 2010, 3:29 pm
Hey There, I’ll be announcing the workshops and you will be able to sign up for them and pay the deposit shortly! I’m just in the process of trying to secure a venue to hold the theory component, I’m looking for a small venue somewhere near North Beach, that way we’re nice an...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 15, 2010, 3:19 pm
Hey There, Well Blaque Studios is starting to build it’s own momentum, it’s great to see a steady flow of enquiries and I’ve got a lot of the summer season already booked out! The exciting news: I’m going to be running a few different photography workshops, the first ones will be here in P...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 11, 2010, 2:06 pm
Hey There, I headed out to North Beach again and got the following shot, I absolutely love the light in it! Click on the image to see a larger size. Prints can be purchased here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/paulmp/art/5523980-1-windswept Alternatively you can contact me to purchase prints up t...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jul 9, 2010, 6:47 am
Hey There, we were expecting some more wild weather last night and today, so I grabbed the camera and headed out in the hopes of capturing some great shots of it. Bec & I headed straight to the coast as there had been reports of some waterspouts in the ocean, which would be really cool to capture. U...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jun 26, 2010, 7:31 am
Hey There, for those of us who were watching the skies on this very chilly night (6 degrees) we were lucky enough to get to watch a lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun’s light from hitting the moon, basically leaving a hu...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Jun 7, 2010, 4:38 pm
Hey There, It’s been a pretty busy week, I’ve been working through the website, working on getting the shopping cart and online ordering ready for a live run, so that  custom print orders, as well as my limited edition prints can be purchased online. In the mean time though, please keep...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - May 31, 2010, 4:53 pm
Hey All, I spent a few hours exploring the lovely Swan River here in Perth last night, I got some great shots of the Perth City from South Perth. I’ve never seen the Swan River so still and with such a perfect reflection! I’ve posted up a couple of shots for you to have a look at, as al...
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Paul P. posted an article on Paul Pichugin Photography & Design - Blog - Dec 2, 2009, 5:49 pm
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