Dan Busta

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had the incredible opportunity to be a part of Phoot Camp 2010 this year. Phoot Camp, hosted by one of my favourite websites Pictory, and sponsored by Virb, was an elaborate and crazy weekend of fun, based out of a mansion in Agoura Hills in LA.   As a newcomer to the camp, held previously in the wilderness of Northern California, I spent a lot of time getting to know the amazing, creative minds that made up the camp and shooting portraits. I came back from the camp nothing short of inspired by the great people and their work.

The official Phoot Camp site has just launched and will be showcasing the work of fellow Phoot Campers over the next few weeks. I had the honour of being the first to be featured. Be sure to bookmark the site which is going to be getting some great daily updates from all the photographers, so check it out!

www.phootcamp.com/marklobo

Simon Biswas

Lauren Randolph

Mark Trammell

Paul Octavious

Jen Giese

Matt Corbitt

And finally, here are a few videos that fellow Phoot Campers Simon Biswas and Paul Octavious put together, the first being the Phoot Camp trailer and the second, a series of video portraits followed by a few time lapse videos:

Well, I’m off to go camping in another country with a bunch of strangers from the internet!  Ok, it’s not really as creepy as it sounds. It all started with a self portrait application, submitted to Pictory, to be a part of the second year of Phoot Camp.  It was an amazing opportunity to hang out, collaborate and meet with inspiring creatives and photographers.  So I’m in Los Angeles right now, in a few hours I’ll head out to stay at a mansion with 27 photographers for a weekend of fun.  That’s pretty much all I really know for now, I’ll update in a few days!

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of doing an exhilarating and colourful editorial shoot for Tiger Airways, which had me following biker Mac Swift around the Tweed Valley in Northern New South Wales. I was asked to capture the journey along some of the Valley’s beautiful rain-forests and beaches, which eventually led me to dangerously balancing on the back of a moving Harley, trying to get the cover shot! I’ve included some of the shots below:

Escaping the Australian summer, I was back in Tokyo at the end of 2009. I spent my days shooting, eating, wandering and embracing the Japanese winter weather.  Thought I’d share a few shots and videos from the trip.

I recently did a photo shoot for Cook’s House, luxury country resort, in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland’s beautiful Maleny. Located in one of my favourite countryside spots in Queensland, the rolling hills have always made for some great backdrops for portraits. During the shoot, I also had the chance to shoot a few landscapes and farm life in the area including this curious creature:

I’ve also made this image available as a free download in the following desktop sizes:
720×480 – 1024×683 – 1280×853 – 1440×960 – 1920×1280

Cook’s House Cow by Mark Lobo Photography is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
Based on a work at www.marklobo.com.au.

I love visiting Japan and I specifically love the city of Tokyo, where I spent a lot of my childhood.  Although I’ll often spend a lot of time catching up with family, and this time, actually spent a lot of it catching up on work, I made some time to take some photos around town.  I’m fascinated with documenting the lifestyle, and history of the country, all within such a rapidly evolving culture.  I’ve chosen a few images to share, from ‘Old Japan’ to the faces of Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s famous shopping and entertainment districts.

Earlier in the year I won 2 awards at Shooting Raw 2008.  Part of the prize was 3 days, 4 nights in the Whitsunday Islands. It took me a while, but I finally found some time to head out and re-discover the islands which I had visited on a road trip in my student days.  This time, armed with digital camera, I shot a range of panoramic images of the beautiful beaches and lookouts on a number of the islands.  This is one of my favourite views from the trip.

Hill Inlet Lookout