From the Archive: Don's Editorial, Photo Review Issue 8 Dec/Jan 2003
Change rarely arrives with a bang. Instead it sidles quietly up to you and whispers softly in your ear until eventually you realise it's there. ... [more]From the Archive: Don's Editorial Photo Review Issue 6: One of the questions I get asked most frequently is ‘should I buy a digital camera now, or wait until the prices drop some more?'. There is no short or easy answer to such a question. Instead, one has first to find out in some detail what sort of photography the potential digital camera buyer thinks they want to do. Then you need to know the state of their computer hardware and finally, what sort of budget they have to work with. At every stage you have to be asking yourself if analogue photography could deliver a better cost benefit ratio. Taking someone through this process gives one a real appreciation for the challenges facing the sales staff in Australia's camera stores. ... [more]Unlike its hard edged, high contrast counterpart in Australia, the Golden State's sunshine often has a kind of warm, enveloping quality that seems ever so subtly to open up the shadows and soften the highlights. Perhaps it's something to do with the cold Pacific Ocean which every summer creates dense fogs along the coast for weeks at a time. Or maybe it's the ever present photochemical haze created by car exhaust and, in some cases, the vegetation on California's chapparal clad hills. Whatever the particulars of its origins, it is an ideal light for landscape photography.
... [more]Photography news highlights from 2008. ... [more]Writing to the Australian photographic historian and writer Jack Cato in 1952, just a year before he died, Harold Cazneaux, recalled how the 1898 international exhibition of pictorialist photography forever changed him. 'I stood spellbound and inspired,' he told Cato, 'here was a new beauty beyond anything I had dreamed of in terms of the camera.'
... [more]Contact, Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection is a powerful collection of some 200 images drawn from The Australian War Memorial's collection of 900,000 photographs of Australians at war. Written and assembled by the AWM's Curator of Photographs, Dr Shaune Lakin, Contact is not just another collection of stodgy official war photographs. Instead it sets out to illustrate how photography was used both to record and portray Australians at war. ... [more]To complete our trip we had to return to Adelaide in the OKA, which had driven in from Birdsville at around 8 pm on the previous evening. As we had a considerable distance to cover, Brendan wanted an early start so we were up at first light to pack our trekking swags and leave them at the campsite for the next group of trekkers, who would arrive later in the day.
... [more]Day ten began cool and windy and the sky was cloudless at dawn. For the first time on our trek, we would head south today. Leaving the campsite at around 9.30, we retraced our path back to Eyre Creek and, after crossing the creek bed, walked for about 20 minutes along a narrow vehicular track between coolabah trees. Before long, the northern end of a red sand dune appeared east of the road so we left the road to follow the dune.
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