Richard Lyons Photography

05/08/2026

The dramatic sunrise effect this morning over Adelaide.

28/07/2026

Visited my camera repairer Charles today.

06/07/2026

01/06/2026

Creating croissants with the secret ingredient… Lauke flour.

13/05/2026

 I did the portrait for this cover of the new book “GULP “written by the beautiful Yvonne McLaren. I received my copy in the mail today. The book is about Yvonne‘s journey with head and neck cancer. From diagnosis to her recovery and eventually “Taking a seat back at the table”.  Available for purchase diectly here https://yvonnemcclaren.com/b/SWhn5 or through Amazon here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHT6L2YJ

06/05/2026

Largest print I’ve ever done. 2.4 metres. Rundle st during the Fringe.  Thanks to Chris and Kate at pro lab imaging.

13/04/2026

Driving to Strathalbyn this morning to catch up for a meeting regarding some photography with a well-known  legend of the industry, I was about 1 km from Strathalbyn and this prominant billboard appeared.  It was about a year ago now that I shot this image for SAPOL. ( Assisted by my loyal colleagues’s @ Ryan Carter Mike Annese ). We selected a generic looking car to bring into the studio, then proceeded to  execute the lighting to make it look like it was out on the street at night. To portray that the car had been pulled over to the side of the road and the individual inside the car driving was in the process of engaging in an lick test and subsequently being detected for co***ne use. It is amazing how far SAPOL have come with drug and alcohol detection technology.  I’ve been doing these outdoor advertising campaigns for SAPOL (formerly known as motor accident commission)  for over 20 years now.  Dozens of campaigns over the years and reportedly countless lives saved due to the message getting through. Well done to SAUCE agency for this concept and clever copy line.

09/04/2026

The Northern Sound System (NSS) is a youth-focused facility dedicated to the Music and Creative Industries located in Elizabeth. On this particular day I photographed these amazing young people sharing their passion for their craft.

02/04/2026

I photographed this campaign for Internode  the title was “are you being taken for a ride?” It was intended to highlight Internode's reputation for award-winning customer service and good value and high performance broadband to thousands of dissatisfied BigPond customers, who were at the time, leaving the telco's broadband service each week in droves.  The logistics of getting  it all done in one shot was not possible so I jumped in the car and drove up to roxby downs  in the middle of summer looking to capture an appropriate  red sand, empty vast void, that matched the brief that I had been given.  I photographed about a dozen different backgrounds and it was decided on this one to be used for the hero shot. I then separately photographed the stunning Kombi van back in Adelaide a week later at West Beach near the boat ramp. There was a patch of Sandy dirt that looked similar in colour to the Roxby Downs image. I chose  this location by the sea so that there was nothing behind me to reflect in the hubcaps of the car  except the ground and the blue sky behind me.  It matched the Roxby image empty landscape  and therefore made the montage of the two images together more successful  and realistic.. We had great fun  with all the people piling inside the van that day . I was directing/communicating to them to make it look like they were desperate to get out  The different variations that we came up with were hilarious We even shut all the doors and windows to let it get really hot in there for them so that they could portray the desperation to get out of the van in a realistic manner. It was a hot day!The image was used on huge billboards all around Adelaide at the time and on the back of buses. 

24/03/2026

It takes its breath from southern sea,
And cuts a line through red-dirt mystery.
A ribbon of golden steel, a rolling home,
Where the sunburnt plains and mountains roam.
No camel’s back, but iron spine,
It follows the path of the old, slow line.
Through desert silence, ochre haze,
A quiet hum of ancient days.
From Adelaide’s plains to the Top End's sun,
Two thousand miles, the journey run.
It shakes off the dust in the heart of the land,
A traveller’s tale on the shifting sand.
Through flooding rains and the heat-haze glare,
Ghan still journeys, passing there.