About the Bluedog pack: your photographers and tutors

The team at Bluedog supply work for national and international clients.
Every job undertaken is overseen to ensure quality and time frames
are always met and standards are kept well above average.

The Bluedog kennel is located at Tamborine Mountain in the hinterland of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Tamborine Mountain is a fifty minute drive from Brisbane or 35 minutes form the Gold Coast.

The Bluedog workshops, retreats and tours are run by professional working photographic tutors.
Passionate about photography, excited to take on new technology and dedicated to passing on their knowledge,
the team at Bluedog are wonderfully talented professionals from varied fields in photography.

All continue working as professional photographers.
Each has taught various aspects of photography throughout Australia - both face-to-face and on-line.
You may be a good photographer but that does not mean you can teach.

All of our tutors continue to be students themselves, striving to learn more about their field and better their own photography.

They are proud to have the knowledge, confidence and patience to take you on an exciting path with your work.

Their wealth of knowledge and the philosophy of keeping the Bluedog photography courses and workshops numbers small ensure
participants receive individual attention to gain the maximum benefit and all their questions are answered.

Join us and under the guidance of professional photographers explore the world of photography,
learn hands on and meet new friends.

Meet the Bluedog Team:

Danielle Lancaster

Dedicated to the promotion of photography and passionate about passing on her skills so everyone can enjoy their photography, Danielle Lancaster is one of the most devoted people in this arena you are likely to come across. Her enthusiasm is infectious, her 'photo talk' plain and simple and her fervour unrelentless.

Danielle studied at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane. She has had an exciting and varied career as a professional photographer for more than 25 years earning her bread and butter by the click of a shutter.

From sports (the first official female photographer at a Bathurst Hardie 1000) to newspapers and chasing the stories of murder, corruption and theft to portraiture, fashion and weddings and writing and teaching modules for TAFE New South Wales, Australia, she now specialises in two areas: social documentation and tourism photo journalism and running the Bluedog Photography workshops, retreats and tours.

Danielle supplies copy and images to numerous corporate, government and private sectors both nationally and internationally. She has also been part of solo and group exhibitions.
Some of her current clients include: Tourism Queensland, 4x4 Australia, ACP, Sunday Mail, TravPix, RACQ Road Ahead.

Danielle holds a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, has lectured in photography (digital and film), art history, design and written photography modules for NSW TAFE. Danielle has delivered workshops and spoken at conferences for the Queensland Government, Queensland RADF, Shire Councils and other authorities in Australia and New Zealand.

In 2004 "Out around the Bulloo" a pictorial essay of the remote Bulloo Shire in western Queensland was published which received rave reviews in Australia and overseas as "capturing the pure essence of the area."

Danielle 'at work' in the
Simpson Desert with
Jimmy Crombie and Don Rawlands

Click here
to read Danielle's short
and out-dated bio
(we are trying to hold her
down to update this!)

Paul Ewart

Paul Ewart, Director/Photographer, Peter Lik Publishing  (SEQ).
Peter Lik Publishing is a 14-year-old company that is well-known and well regarded for its production of premium publications showcasing  destinations through the use of high-quality, high-resolution photographic imagery.

Paul previously worked for 14 years at Tourism Queensland as Director - Creative Marketing Services, assuming responsibility for the quality and direction of the vast majority of imaging content produced and used to position Queensland as Australia's most recognised tourism brand.

During that time he discovered and mentored Peter Lik who is recognized  as one of the worlds most successful landscape photographers and has photographic  galleries across the USA as well as Australia. In the last four years since leaving Tourism Queensland Paul has concentrated on the being behind the camera with the updateing of images for the Peter Lik product, as Peter is now living in the USA and concentrating on his galleries.

Paul is shooting both digital SLR (Nikon D2x) and Hasselblad Xpan formats and has been working with a digital workflow for over six years. Paul's most recent photographic assignments have included commercial shoots for clients such as Dreamworld, Outrigger Hotels and Resorts, Story Bridge Adventure  Climb, Noosa North Shore Resort, Mirvac , Tourism Queensland and Townsville Enterprise.

Anita Bromley

Having an interest in photography at a young age saw Anita borrowing her father’s SLR to snap away on B&W film only to have to wait over a week and hand out a substantial amount of money just to see if the images turned out. It’s no surprise once the digital revolution began and DSLR’s became affordable she picked up the camera again. Loving the freedom to play with the camera with immediate results she is continually striving for that ‘perfect’ shot.

Attending her first Photography Workshop with Bluedog as a student back in 2008 changed the way Anita viewed her own photography and with the workshops continually motivating her she quickly became a self confessed ‘Bluedog Workshop addict”! In late 2009 Anita was invited to join the Bluedog team as a Tutor and hasn’t looked back. “I love seeing those light bulb moments when what we are teaching ‘clicks’. It’s extremely rewarding."

Anita believes all photos should convey an emotion to others even if they are not related to the subject in the photo. Her main passion is low light/night photography, however she is happy simply to have the camera in her hands and the opportunity to click away.

Cathy Finch

Cathy works as a freelance photographer and travel journalist, submitting regularly to many leading newspaper, magazine and guide book titles.  Having previously worked as a newspaper photographer shooting news, sport, entertainment and features, it could be said that Cathy thrives on documentary photography and deadlines.  But she is at her happiest however, in the midst of travel and adventure - climbing mountains, jumping off them, rafting rapids, surfing jungles and off-road four-wheel-driving through choking bulldust and giant sand drifts, with a camera roped firmly to her body.

Cathy’s images are represented by the world’s leading travel image gallery, Lonely Planet Images, and she currently continues to shoot news jobs for the Courier Mail in the Toowoomba and Darling Downs region.  Cathy was the 2009 ASTW Excellence in Journalism Award Winner for “Best Image Taken in Australia".

Mel Noonan

A photography perfectionist, Mel has been an artist from a young age, constantly caressing a camera for as long as she can remember. Currently studying a Bachelor of Photography at Griffith University - Queensland College of Art as well as running her own successful portraiture business, Mel is continually striving for new heights with her image making.

Mel first started at Bluedog as a student herself, proving the only limitations in life are those you place on yourself!
A mother of three beautiful children. Mel’s high motivation, ability to problem solve, passion for art and photography, coupled with her ability to quickly learn new and complex technologies and applications and then implement them make her a valuable member of the Bluedog Team. Mel also holds a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.

www.memoriesbymel.com.au