Clear sight

When David Boon was young there’d always been a camera around the house. ‘My dad had been into capturing landscape pictures with an old Hasselblad 500C on trips to the Flinders Ranges,’ he said. But for David who’d been more interested in playing music and songwriting as a youngster, it would take the prospect of love to discover his own hitherto latent picture-taking talent. [Courtesy of Olympus]

Shoot memorable street photos

Present-day street photographers can learn a lot from the great photographers of the past. Although our equipment is different and we face challenges that were unheard of in the past, the approaches, styles and aesthetics of early photographers can give us ideas and inspiration that can be applied to our own situations.