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Melbourne’s BMX roving performer. Perfect for Sport Events, and Meet & Greet, Street Parades, Festivals, and Roving.

Perfect for Sport Events, and Meet & Greet, Street Parades, Festivals, and Roving.

Sporty Skull twists, spins, rolls and generally rides a bike in every way imaginable (as well as seemingly impossible!) creating mayhem amongst the crowd because, man, he is just so clever.

Melbourne Contact Juggler. Perfect for Roving, Festivals, and the Stage.

Skull. Aussie tough guy. Ballet master. Contact Juggler extraordinare.

Ballet Skull leaves every audience wanting more.

A fine stage act where Skull takes ballet to the next level. With leopard-like agility and Swan-like elegance, Skull leaps across the stage whilst rolling magical crystal balls around his body. Bordering on ridiculous. This act is most certainly a HUGE crowd pleaser.

With those big hairy legs, it’s no wonder the ladies can’t keep their eyes off him.

Perfect for: Roving, Stage Act, Sporting events, and Street Parades.

Skull. Aussie Larrikin. BMX trickster.

A fair-dinkum typical real Aussie bloke.

A crowd favourite, Skull talks the universal language of funny.

The kids love his BMX stunts. The Mums love his muscly hairy legs. That Dads love talking to a real bloke about power tools and the footy.

Skull is an extremely watch-able and like-able Aussie Larrikin who is phenominally good at riding a bicycle. Just ask Jessica (8), Thomas (6), Daniel (13), and Sharon (34).

Who’d have thought a mullet would be so popular?

Circus Oz and Michael’s partnered to announce the Circus Oz Snapshot Competition. Entries were posted to Flickr and there were hundreds and hundreds of them. All photos of the Circus Oz tent.

Big Top Snapshot! Details

I wanted to do something a little different. It was not until the last day— I actually thought that I had missed the deadline—that I had an epiphany. My idea was to have a picture of a performer sitting on the toilet with different pictures of the tent on the walls. Because I have a fair share of Circus Oz photos, I had no shortage of images to choose from. Click to see bigger image.

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This is the first photo where the final image was exactly what I had planned. Every details is there on purpose. Right down to the glasses.

I didn’t win.

One of the NICA circus students asked me if I could do a portrait shoot for him. No worries.

After thinking about this a bit, I thought that I would just keep it simple and quick—my time is rather scarce right now. So I found a wall in the shade, put the shutter onto max sync. Or 1/200 actually, because my 50D has more reliability with this than 1/250th. Dialled the aperture to 7.1 for a nice crisp image. Started the ISO at 400, and wound it down to 200 to be a couple of stops (I can’t remember if it was 1 or 2) below ambient.

Set the bare 430EX II to 1/16 power and up against the wall to camera right, just out of shot. And put the other 430EX II on e-TTL firing into a shoot-through umbrella to camera left on the first image, and right for the second.

I was going for a simple relatively safe set up, low post production shot. These are my picks from the 15 minute shoot. Actually, the longest part of this shoot was running into the building to find a sand bag so that the umbrella light stand would stop falling over in the breeze.

Post production was quite straight forward too.