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Oz Comic Con | Melbourne | 2017

Been down in Melbourne a fair bit lately with the day job so took the opportunity to delay my return flight and enjoy Oz Comic Con down south for a change (though, still quite likely go to Sydney come September too!).

Lot of fun, people just as friendly and some truly awesome cosplay on display as always. Having done a few of these things though I’m starting to form the opinion that shooting cons should be classed as an endurance sport! I do long distance running, 100+ km’s cycles and triathlon’s and generally feel pretty fine afterwards, my wristwatch clocked about 6km walking on Sunday and I was a physical wreck, glad for the cradle of the seat on the flight back (and the extra leg room afford by the exit row).

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Supanova | Sydney | 2017

First chance to get to Supanova after having no knowledge of it until after the fact my first year here, out of state with work (and country) on the second and third years it’s now fourth year lucky.

And boy it wasn’t a let down, what a lot of fun, though, I have come to realise something over the weekend. I do endurance sport events, long bike rides (like 160km+ rides), long distance running and olympic distance triathlons and none of them have left me as worn out as a couple of days pounding the convention floor!

Very surreal moment of having an odd urge to look up and see the organiser ‘Quinny’ waving down at me from one of the management pens windows a floor above us (I’ve chatted to Quinny a few times as he introduces “In The House” for Event’s cinemas, part of which involves greeting viewers as they arrive and I’m regularly outside waiting for meetup people myself).

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Oz Comic Con | Sydney | 2016

I realised what I love about convention photography this weekend, it’s the five second portraits. As that’s the time you have after asking someone if they don’t mind a picture to thanking them and letting them go, five seconds, tops. The flow of people, the rest of the day they have and the fact you’re probably the hundred and nth person to have asked for a picture that day means you can’t really take much of their time (well, to me), so all these shots are done in very little time, camera settings are set for the day at the start and hope they work best for the various lighting challenges that come up in the day.

Cosplay was as fun as ever, some great efforts made by many, including the 3D printed Batman armour that took 6 months, or the guy who spent four hours painting himself to look like Darth Maul, my highlight though was the portrait shot of a Harley Quinn, the eyes are so emotive, I feel it’s the best photo I’ve ever taken

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EB Games Expo | Sydney | 2014

Not as much fun as last year, think we’ve been spoiled by the Oz Comic-Con – though it could be just the odd half day split aswell, last year was a whole day format and having two half days seemed a little odd – definitely affected the atmosphere which just didn’t have the same fun vibe as the year before!
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Oz Comic Con | Sydney | 2014

What fun we’ve had, the amount of people who turned up in cosplay was as astonishing as much as the quality of a lot of the outfits, there weren’t many who didn’t look like they’d made some serious effort.
Met some really nice, kind people over the weekend too; so many who were more than happy enough to acquiesce to what must’ve been number five hundred of “can I take your photograph pwease”..

And I got to be about ten feet away from William Shatner as he told tails of his life and tried to impart the wisdom he’s accumulated over the years. “You’re all going to die; soon”….

Day two saw a great panel with two stars from Stargate SG-1 hilariously invaded by Slenderman who chased Christopher Judge around the auditorium! Corin Nemec played it cool though and tried to bring things back together.

Mark Sheppard’s panel was brilliant too, guy’s hilariously quick witted and had great fun berating the crowd in a very convivial way.

All in a top weekend, can’t wait for the next (hopefully with more than a weeks forewarning so we can get in on the dressing up!).

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EB Games Expo | Sydney | 2013

EB Expo with Greg & LOTS of cosplayers…I think I might have actually played a game too! Had lots of fun at this, my first real convention (the Eurogamer one I went to back in Leeds doesn’t count, as it was nothing like this, no where near as much fun)!
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