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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 22h

Cronulla. Sandunes. alexkess.com/portfolio/shire #alexkess #dronephotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 09/10/2026

Glow Worm Cave. alexkess.com/portfolio/ni... #nightscapes #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 08/10/2026

Cronulla CBD Aerial. alexkess.com/portfolio/shire #sydney #dronephotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 08/10/2026

Wanda Beach, Cronulla, from above. The new Kess Gallery is live: my prints now show where they were taken, and each one comes numbered and signed. kess.gallery #cronulla #aerialphotography #dronephotography #sydney

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 06/10/2026

Sometimes I Wanda. iPhone 3GS, 2010. alexkess.com/projects/iph... #iphoneography #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 06/10/2026

Sea Cliff Shooting Star. alexkess.com/portfolio/ni... #nightscapes #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 05/10/2026

Hills Shire. alexkess.com/projects/hil... DJI #dronephotography #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 04/10/2026

Film Beach Path Dunes. alexkess.com/portfolio/film #filmphotography #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 04/10/2026

Coogee Rock Shelf Waves Aerial. alexkess.com/portfolio/sy... Sydney Kess Gallery #sydney #aerialphotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 03/10/2026

Bare Island. Bullet. Short Film. Set Photography. Black & White Film. Nikon FM2. 2001. Director / DP @mattscope. alexkess.com/portfolio/film #filmphotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 02/10/2026

Elemental Symmetry Jetty Vanishing Point. alexkess.com/projects/sym... #alexkess #dronephotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 02/10/2026

Aerial Surfer Shadows. alexkess.com/portfolio/ae... #dronephotography #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 01/10/2026

Maroubra Beach. Surfers Sunset Rock Shelf. alexkess.com/portfolio/se... #sydney #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 29/09/2026

Cronulla Esplanade Turquoise Aerial. alexkess.com/portfolio/shire Sutherland Shire #cronulla #dronephotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 28/09/2026

Zoom Zoom. iPhoneography 365 Project - 32 of 366 iPhone 4S, 2012. #iphoneography #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 26/09/2026

North Cronulla. Aerial Beach Orange Sand. #dronephotography #alexkess

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 24/09/2026

Sydney. Sydney Harbour Bridge Monochrome. #alexkess #sydney

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 23/09/2026

Sydney Opera House at blue hour. The short window when the sky and the building agree on a colour. alexkess.com/projects/sydney #sydney

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 22/09/2026

Sunrise at Cronulla. Strangers hold the scale, small dark shapes against a lot of light. alexkess.com/projects/people #sunrise

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 21/09/2026

Abyss II, from the SymmTerra series. Aerial frames folded back on themselves until the coast stops being a place. Pattern first, geography second. alexkess.com/commissions/... #symmterra #aerialphotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 21/09/2026

Washaway Beach from above. Sandstone doing the work, water filling in the gaps, a pocket of coast that hides until you get high enough to see it. alexkess.com/projects/sydney #sydney #aerialphotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 20/09/2026

A native botanical brewery. Made for the Australia's Nation Brand image library, a permanent collection used by government and partner organisations. alexkess.com/commissions/... #nationbrand

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 19/09/2026

Blue hour on the sea cliff coast. The water goes soft before the sun turns up, and the rock stays hard about it. alexkess.com/projects/lan... #bluehour #longexposure

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 18/09/2026

A roundabout at night. From above it reads as a clean circle of light, headlights drawing their own long exposure through it. One of twelve frames for the Hills Shire Council calendar. alexkess.com/commissions/... #dronephotography

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 09/09/2026

Awesome News. The Aphantasia Network has republished my essay. It's about being a photographer with no mind's eye. I can't picture anything at all, and I only found out at 49. It explains why I am so obsessed with Photography. alexkess.substack.com/p/the-empty-... #photography #aphantasia

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 31/07/2026

I thought "the mind's eye" was a figure of speech. I was 49 when I found out it isn't. Most people see an actual picture when they imagine something. I never have. I wrote about what that explained. alexkess.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 08/07/2026

A personal one today. Close your eyes and picture a rose. You probably see one. I never have. I found out only recently that I have aphantasia: no mind's eye, no mental images at all. For a photographer that sounds like a problem. It turned out to explain almost 30 years behind the camera...

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 19/06/2026

Some good news worth sharing: Kess Media is now a NSW Government prequalified supplier for photography, video and production (buy.NSW Scheme SCM2701). For the agencies and organisations we work with, engaging us just got simpler — and it builds on work we've loved doing across NSW:

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 31/05/2026

Two men in a village outside Lviv are making photographic film by hand. From scratch. One strip at a time, under a red safelight, while a war happens around them. I ordered four rolls. Then I went looking for the rest of the Ukrainian photography world. It's bigger than you'd think.

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 21/05/2026

GoPro opened MISSION 1 pre-orders: 50MP, 8K, three NAB awards. Same fortnight, it hired bankers to weigh a sale. The pitch to buyers isn't the cameras, it's defense and unmanned imaging, from the company that built the Karma drone and killed it. Back, but for how long?

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 17/05/2026

Nikon's $550M loss is mostly a 3D printer write-down. Imaging is the only profitable division. The margin collapse from 18.6% to 5.8% in four years maps to the product cycle. Flagship years produce flagship margins. Entry-level years don't. alexkess.substack.com/

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 10/05/2026

I fly four DJI airframes for client work. Construction, infrastructure, government, events. Three independent audits found nothing wrong with DJI's security. The US banned them anyway. I wrote about why this should worry drone operators everywhere. alexkess.substack.com/p/three-audi...

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 28/04/2026

How the hell did no one on the Tokina judging panel pick up on this? Even the slightest doubt and you ask for the RAW. And if you have any doubt, There were 11 other images to choose from, is this actually a contest winner? It's a good photo. I'm not sure it's a great one.

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 22/04/2026

The thing that stays with me from this shoot is the faces. We spent two days at Humpty Doo Barramundi for Austrade, documenting Australia's largest saltwater barramundi farm for the Nation Brand library. Dan Richards, the CEO, whose family has been in the Territory for five generations, walked us a

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 20/04/2026

The drone lifted off at five am. Cloud still sitting low over the wetlands. The sun hadn't properly crested the horizon yet, but there was enough light to see the shape of the farm. Twenty kilometres of saltwater channels threading through 700 hectares of Adelaide River floodplain. The Mavic 4 Pro

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 14/04/2026

Cronulla from above. Turquoise meeting concrete meeting bushland — the Shire in one frame. Gunnamatta Bay full of boats, the National Park stretching endlessly behind it all. Shot on Mavic 4 Pro | May 2025 #cronulla #sutherlandshire #sydney #droneaustralia #dronephotography #aerialphotography #dj

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Pixelfetch @pixelfetch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Morning. Nikon engineers reveal how they cut 362g from the 70-200 f/2.8 S II leads today's 12-story roundup. pixelfetch.co/digest/2026-04-02

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Pixelfetch Daily Digest

Morning. Nikon engineers reveal how they cut 362g from the 70-200 f/2.8 S II leads today's 12-story roundup.

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 30/03/2026

Currently Building a cool little side-project for photographers that surfaces the latest in photography every day.

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Pixelfetch @pixelfetch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Camera Market Drought: What the Slow 2026 Means for You Only two cameras released in Q1 2026 — and neither is a major new model. The industry is quietly reshaping itself, and waiting for 'the nex… pixelfetch.co/item/the-camera-market-drought-what-the-slow-2026-means-for-you

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The Camera Market Drought: What the Slow 2026 Means for You

Only two cameras released in Q1 2026 — and neither is a major new model. The industry is quietly reshaping itself, and waiting for 'the next version' of your camera may be a losing strategy.

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 03/12/2025

Humpty Doo Barramundi Photography for Australia Nation Brand commissioned by Austrade. Humpty Doo Barramundi produces premium-quality saltwater barramundi at their farm located halfway between Darwin and Kakadu National Park. Humpty Doo Barramundi's commitment to responsible business extends beyond

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 16/10/2025

The holiday season is nearby and so are the memories worth keeping! Let our team capture every smile, and toast from your Christmas celebration. ✨ #KessMedia #ChristmasPartyPhotography #EventMagic #EventPhotographySydney #SutherlandShire #Christmas #Celebration

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 14/10/2025

Inspiration shared. Creativity sparked. Connections made 🤝 #KessMedia #TourismWA #EventPhotography #EventHighlights #Travel

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Alex Kess @alexkess.com · 07/10/2025

At Kess Media we love capturing the moments that bring teams and communities together! #kessMedia #eventphotography #capturingthemoments #events #sydney

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