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2013-14 Season Handbook

Profiles of the Official Knox LAC Photographers

One of the reasons for the large amount of hits on the Knox LAC Website is the popularity of the Knox LAC photo galleries.    Due to a band of energetic Knox LAC photographers, Knox LAC has an ever-increasing archive of photos for both T&F and Cross Country with updates on a regular basis. 

For many people Monday morning means hitting the Knox LAC Website for photos of the previous Saturday's competition or special events such as EMR, State, Open and Championship Days. 

Each week well over 1000 photos are taken of athletes and events with a cross section published on the Website and the remainder archived (for the 08/09 Cross Country and T&F seasons we have almost 25,000 photos archived already as at Jan 09).   The full set of these photos are available for sale on DVD around May each each season.

Knox LAC has 9 registered Knox Photographers and they can be identified at Knox Competitions by their orange fluoro Knox LAC photographer vests.  Each photography has undergone a Working With Children check and have active WWC cards.  They also work under the umbrella of the Knox LAC Photographic Policy which is available on the Knox LAC Website (viewed HERE!). 

Not all the Knox LAC photographers are on duty each week  - some are Chief Officials and club officials so are involved with running events and clubs but on average there are 2 or 3 out each week covering as many events and age groups as possible. 

If you would like a specific photo(s) taken please speak to one of the photographers who will gladly arrange a photo to be taken if it meets our policy guidelines.

For those who may not know our Knox LAC Photographers, here’s a profile of each of them:

Grant Bertram

A recent addition to the Knox LAC Photographic team, Grant became involved after his daughter Ashleigh started competing for the Knoxfield club in the Under 7’s in season 2007/08.

Grant is the Senior Product Manager for DeWalt and is a former little athlete himself who enjoys being able to give all athlete’s the opportunity of seeing themselves in action on the website, something he wasn’t able to do when he was a kid.

Grant combines his photographic talents with being a Long Jump Chief Official and was also an assistant relay coach during the 2008 Relay season. Grant has already produced a number of PhotoVideos for the Knoxfield  Club as well as the occasional Brad Nugent ( Knox Centre Vice President) one.

His weapon of choice on the photographic battlefield is a Canon 400D.

Nathan Dewar

Joining the Knox Photographic team in the past year, Nathan Dewar has risen to the challenge and continues to take sensational individual and group shots at Cross Country and T&F.  

Working as an Assistant Vineyard Mgr in the Yarra Valley, Nathan combines photography with social and competitive cycling on mountain and road bikes. 

Nathan started with SLR photography 10 yrs ago with a Canon 500N and has progressed through to his current digital SLR-of-choice, a Canon 20D using a variety of Sigma lenses.  

When asked why he was a Knox LAC photographer, Nathan commented “I was asked to take some shots during the cross country season and have just continued from there. I have 2 children who compete at Little Aths, with a third not too far away. It's a good way of being involved and hopefully bringing some joy to parents/friends when they see a good photo of their kids.

Mike Donato

Mike is one of the coaches at Knox (and the current Knox LAC Coaching Co-ordinator) but has been spotted from time to time taking a few photos that have been squeezed in around the edges of coaching. He started in Little Aths way back in the 60's at Kew and since then he has been bouncing around in a variety of sports culminating in coaching at Knox and trying to keep fit himself.

Mike has been a professional computer consultant and into digital photography, movie making and all things related to computers since the 70’s.   Mike's website has been up since 1995 and is one of the oldest commercial sites on the Internet and his company Horizen has been an ISP and domain host for almost 10 years.

Mike started digital photography with an Apple Quicktake digital camera (a long time ago) and subsequently a range of Kodak digital cameras. He has been known to be seen with a Sony Handycam taking the odd embarrassing movie of kids falling into the water jump during steeplechase!

Mike can be seen lurking behind a Kodak Z740 5MP with 10x Optical Zoom usually used with a Manfrotto monopod.

Andrea Dunn

The newest addition to the Knox LAC Photographic team brings a change to the previous all-male team.  Andrea and family have been involved with Knox LAC for just a season after being at Croydon LAC for 6 years.

An administration assistant with Health Skills in Ringwood, Andrea has just upgraded from a Panasonic DMC to a Sony DSLR-A350x (thanks to some suggestions to Santa from husband Chris). 

In her spare time Andrea can be found ferrying her 3 girls to various sports or following them around doing events. When asked about having photography as a hobby, Andrea said “I am not what you call an expert photographer as I am still learning the wide range of capabilities my camera can do.  I regard sports photography as one of my favourite hobbies/interests.  There is no better reward than to see a great sports action shot.  I also enjoy the fact that the kids (our own and all at Little Aths) get the enjoyment out of seeing photos of themselves.”

Stephen Egan

One of the original Knox LAC photographers, Stephen has been involved with the Knox Centre since season 2001/02 when his oldest daughter Clare started U7's. Today, just his younger daughter Annie is still competing.  He is the current Bayswater Bullets Club President as well as a Discus Chief Official and on the Knox Centre Executive Committee as the Knox LAC Website editor.  

Stephen is also a foundation Knox Centre athlete competing for the Fairpark club in seasons 1968/69 to 1970/71. (from U10 to U12's - the oldest age group at the time)

An Automotive CAD designer, Stephen started off taking just Bayswater Bullets athlete photos for the Bayswater Bullets Website (which he created in 2002 and still maintains) and was subsequently asked to take photos of other athletes as well for the Knox website during the 2004/05 season. He converted to digital photography in 2004 when he purchased his current camera (a Kodak DX6490).  He mainly concentrates on podium/presentation/group photos and has had a number of photos published in the VLAA “Little Athlete” magazine.

Outside of Little Aths he is a mad keen Collingwood supporter (but we still talk to him)

Darren Huxley

Bringing some outstanding professional expertise to the Knox LAC Photographic Team is another recent addition in Darren Huxley. Some of you would be aware of the excellent individual athlete shots taken by Darren over the recent Cross Country and T&F seasons.

Darren is the brother of Sue Foord, the Registrar from the Knox Centre Executive Committee who is also the Dorset Club Treasurer.

Darren has been a Police Officer since 1990 and currently working in the Melbourne CBD.  He is completing a 4 year part time course "Advanced Diploma of Photography" at the Photography Studies College in South Bank.

Darren's dream job is to be a full time Sports Photographer and he started off in taking photos of his nieces U/7 Emily and U/10 Rachel during the Cross Country season.

His reasons for taking photos at Knox LAC is to hone his skills and practice Sports Photography and to provide photos for our website. Darren can be spotted on the track behind a Canon 40D with a 70-200m telephoto lens.

Lorelle Stevenson

The newest member of the Photographic team, Lorelle joined Knox LAC for the 2008/09 T&F season when her son Matthew commenced in the U7’s with The Fields .  Having photography as a hobby, Lorelle has recently upgraded from a Fuji digital S6500 to a Canon EOS 450D with a 70-200m IS f2.8 L series lens and has just added the 2x canon extender for that extra reach. Lorelle said “ I have not had any professional photographic training but since starting with athletics I found myself taking lots of shots of my son and how much a great shot meant to me that I wanted to be able to share that with other families. I also found this a great way to become involved with the club.” 

Lorelle is the Graduate Nurse/Return To Practice Coordinator in the Education Department at Maroondah Hospital as well as being a Registered Nurse. She is also involved with the marketing of these programs for Eastern Health and has taken many photo's for Expo's & Road-shows for promotional and exhibition banners/posters etc.

When she’s not at the track or work she is an avid Bombers supporter and tries to attend as many of their matches as possible.

Andrew Watts

Andrew has been involved with Little Aths for 13 yrs and currently is the President of the Fairpark Flyers Club, a sprints and throws coach as well as a Jav/High Jump Chief Official. 

Andrew is an Office Client Mgr with QASCO Victoria who specialise in aerial photography, survey and mapping work and Andrew has utilised these skills as a photographer at Knox LAC.  Using a Canon EOS Mark 3 with 70-200mm zoom as his camera of choice, 

Andrew has been responsible for some special action shots including the aerial shots at the recent 40^th Anniversary Photographic Day. 

Outside of Little Aths Andrew competes in Open and Masters aths and Masters cricket as well as water sports and boating, bush walking etc. He’s a veteran of 25 yrs taking and managing aerial images professionally using various professional equipment - favourite subjects are natural and manmade landscapes in unusual locations plus spectacular sports and hobby/people shots.

Phil Matthews

Bringing up the rear and providing the requisite comedy relief for the team is Phil Matthews. Phil has been involved with Knox LAC since the late 1990's when his two boys first joined. With his daughter still competing, Phil is currently President of the Wantirna Club, a Chief Official and was recently the Secretary of the Knox LAC 40^th Anniversary Sub-Committee.

Since first playing with his grandfathers Kodak Folding Cartridge Premo and his fathers Instamatic 104 many years ago, Phil has dabbled in photography for many years and apart from aths has been involved in club photography at his children’s football, soccer and netball clubs as well as school sports. 

Phil has also produced the recent end-of-season Knox LAC Photo CD/DVDs as well as the various Centre promos and presentations and was involved in drafting the Centres Photographic Policy.

Phil is a Manager with Telstra and his reasons for coming to aths are to watch his daughter compete, help the Club and Centre, and to photograph athletes in action for coaching purposes and as a record for them and their families to keep.  As he said “kids and families love to see photos of them in action and its part of the Centres history to have a record of these moments”.

His current camera of choice on the sporting field is a Canon 350D.