In Shot Productions

Here are a couple of snaps of a corporate shoot that we recently did for Allied Heat Transfer. It is of an industrial heat exchange unit and they wanted some product photos and video of it before it was due to be shipped up north.

Here is just a few shots we snapped of one of the recent Perth lightning storms that have come through lately.

The photos were captured at shoalwater and Point Peron Perth Western Australia.

The night before the opening of the new Perth to Bunbury highway, known as the Forrest Highway, Craig had the brilliant idea of going there and taking photos of ourselves. It was very eerie being on a closed freeway, but it was fun! Here are some silly pics

This last one is me pretending to warn Craig that a car was coming. I like how Craig’s body looks weird as he is on the edge of frame on a wide angle lens.

For a small city it seems that Rockingham has had its fair share of natural threats lately. There was the tornado 8 months ago and more recently on Easter Sunday you may have heard the news of the fires. Fortunately no one was hurt in the deliberately started fires and peoples homes were saved.

Here is the view from our roof top.

Here is a photo of the aftermath of the tornado last year.

In Shot Productions were recently asked to shoot a film to promote the significance of the biodiversity in the Fitzgerald River National park and the threat from Phytophthora dieback destroying it.

The Fitzgerald River National Park is located about half way between Albany and Esperance. As proud west Aussies we jumped at the opportunity to visit and creatively capture some of Western Australia’s backyard. Also to promote the protection of the area which we are now aware is one Australia’s and the worlds natural treasures.

So what is Phytophthora dieback? Phytophthora dieback (pronounced Fy-toff-thora – meaning plant destroyer in Greek) is caused by a micro-organism called Phytophthora cinnamomi, which was introduced into Australia more than 100 years ago. Dieback affects 40% of south western Australia’s native flora species, especially the banksias, heaths, peas, and myrtles. Many of our plants across the south west which exist nowhere else in the world are seriously threatened and face extinction from this disease, and there is currently no known cure!

After almost 3000km of travel to and around the park we were able to visit and shoot some amazing areas that we never even knew were in W.A.

Stirling Ranges

Our camera rig to capture an example of the spread of dieback infected mud with vehicle movement in bushland.

This is one of many plants that aren’t found anywhere else on the planet. This unusual plant is the Royal Hakea.

Well this is news that has managed to evade our blog up until now as we were waiting to see how it panned out exactly. Craig was excited to recently have been short listed as a potential host of the motoring TV program “Top Gear Australia”
The SBS incarnation of the popular BBC motoring program ran an open casting call in a search to un-earth new talent to fill the Australian Equivalent roles of Clarkson, Hammond and May (hosts of the popular UK Top Gear) The nation wide call out resulted in over 4000 video applications Australia wide.

Everything worked out for best in the end as shortly after Craig’s interview we were delighted to find out that I was pregnant with a baby girl. The shows producers said if successful it would have required a lot of time away from home and a possibly a move to Sydney which would have have been very difficult with a baby on the way.

For those unfamiliar with our original top gear video and London trip I have posted the video below.
The previous competition called for viewers to discuss their own car in a “top gear” style manner so I filmed Craig taking a “tongue and cheek” look at our 1975 Chrysler Galant. This video won via a public vote! This laid the early foundation for what later became his audition video.

Our business class tickets to London last year represented a fantastic opportunity to see some of Europe so we ended up taking a few weeks off and with my sister and brother in law, we visited the UK (London, Greenwich and Bath) France (Paris), Italy (Rome, The Vatican City) and Greece (Athens, Larissa, Nei Pori and Platamonis) where we caught up with relations.
We had the time of our lives.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD is a rare and fatal degenerative brain disease of the central nervous system in humans.

It is one of a group of diseases that affects humans and animals, known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases. In animals, the best known TSE is BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) sometimes referred to in the news as mad-cow disease. CJD is not transmitted through social contact.

There is currently no cure or treatment for CJD but research continues on many drugs. CJD is still only confirmed by autopsy although a test performed on cerebrospinal fluid to detect a protein marker can help diagnose CJD in people who already show clinical symptoms of the disease.