Night Surf is a series of long exposure, panorama images I made at Merewether Ocean Baths in Newcastle, Australia. It was a winter night when high surf surged over the rock shelf and across the pool. The artificial glow of poolside lighting blended with the natural world in an iridescent dance of exploding waves.

I like to capture many moments in a single frame, to hold the fragments of what I see and experience for longer. The result is a picture that compresses my observations in a mix of motion and emotion. And, in this series, light and dark. With the pretensions of a timelord, I witness familiar places differently whenever I open the lens.

Comfort stifles creativity. The comfort of ‘pretty’ pictures makes me uncomfortable. Amazing sunrises, postcard landscapes, software exaggerated light and texture – the sameness of photography on Instagram. I imagine pictures that challenge my creative comfort thresholds.