Nick Rains

I have been a full time professional photographer since 1985 when I left the United Kingdom in search of adventure and ended up in Australia shooting the Americas Cup yachting extravaganza in 1986/7.

Returning to the UK I mostly shot sport and travel around Europe before returning to Australia for good in 1990 where, being based in Sydney, I became more involved with both landscape photography and commercial photography.

During my eight years in Sydney I worked for a variety of publishers including Reader’s Digest Books, Random House, New Holland, Penguin and Viking. I also did commercial work for the likes of Shell, Australian Tourism Commission and NSW Tourism but it was my landscape and travel images that gave me the most satisfaction. Over the years I have clocked up over half a million kms around Australia, looking for new places to photograph or even going back to the same places to get better images.

I moved to Queensland in 1998, and opened a gallery in Brisbane in 2001 and I have written and photographed six books, of which the currently in print title, Australia - A Photographer’s Eye - is now in a second edition.

Since 2006 I have been shooting more travel work outside Australia, and doing a lot more writing about all things photographic - hence my series of modest eBooks. This lead to me becoming Principal Instructor for Leica Akademie Australia as well as leading tours overseas for keen photographers.