In 2011 I have worked on series for American TV, German TV, UK TV, Irish TV, Chinese TV and of course Australian TV. I have battled the jungles of reality shows and sat quietly for days at a time capturing the sound for heart wrenching documentaries. Traveled the length of this country from dairy farms in the Southern Highlands to the Great Barrier Reef. I have explored every level of the Sydney Opera House from below sea level to the highest most door in the top sail.

I have met and worked with some amazing and talented people, spent a vast chunk of the year along-side the brilliant shooter Jay Hanrahan, had my chin stroked by 80's heart-throb Stefanie Powers whilst telling me I was cute, heard amazing survival stories from shark attack survivors to war-torn refugees. It has also been a year of upgrading technology; I am now the proud owner of an amazing collection of digital radio gear from Zaxcom, a new mixer from Sound Devices, more microphones from Sennehiser, Rode and some lovely vintage ribbon mics. I have set my sights next year on acquiring Zaxcom's latest marvel: the Nomad which will allow me to record 8 isolated tracks of audio in the field in addition to to the isolated recorders already on my radio mics and the stereo mix that is recorded with my radio camera links.

To round out the remainder of this year I have some secret celebrity business to shoot, a Tropfest entry with one of my favourite people Marie Patane and the final Qantas Inflight Entertainment programmes for the year. Hopefully some time off with the family to enjoy my beautiful home of Currumbin and then kickstarting 2012 with Summafieldayze on the Gold Coast for MTV and 3 weeks in the studio recording translations in 9 languages!

I would like to give a huge shout out to Sam at RMK Crew for a fantastic year, Leisl at Crewtube for allowing to stay home and work occasionally and the wonderful fraternity of Australian production for keeping it real and making it fun.

Next year is my 30th year in the industry, it never ceases to amaze me that even after that long every adventure is something new and certainly something that I can learn from - so here's to an equally amazing 2012 and lets hope the Myans are wrong