Image Review

By Chad Clark.
This is my niece Tessa at her sister’s mermaid themed birthday party. She was very happy to put on the costume but didn’t want to put down the corn. As we were not at the beach the beach was setup up as a backdrop for a few photos but I thought the fence made a nice frame for the photo. Despite the corn, sunglasses and gum boots shattering the mermaid illusion, this is what I like about the photo.

By Howard Ferrier.
Having lived for many years in Caloundra (Qld), the wreck of the SS Dickey is naturally a popular photographic location. The wreck is often photographed fronting a brilliant sunrise but on this occasion I thought I would try and capture it in one of its more sombre surroundings. This image was already almost completely monochromatic so it was no stretch to effect the B&W conversion. The image was also declarified to soften the sea and sky. Sadly this local icon is due for removal in the near future.

By John Porter.
I hopped on this model train carriage behind my two grandkids hoping I might get a shot in. When I saw the cutting coming up and a bend in the line, I took a few images to try to capture their excitement on their first model train ride and, of course, the movement of the train through the cutting.

By Anders Wotzke. O’Sullivan Beach, South Australia.
Living in Adelaide, one of the few things we have over the east coasters are the beautiful beach sunsets! For this photo, taken on a particularly brisk July evening, I found my subject in a solitary fisherman casting off from the rocky breakwater at O’Sullivan Beach, hoping to snag one final catch in the dying light and encroaching surf. After taking almost a hundred exposures, I felt this particular shot – oversaturated and silhouetted in post – captured this small showdown between man and nature at its most dramatic.

By Dianne English.
[Second winner Image Review 5.]
Photographed at North Curl Curl Ocean baths NSW. High seas didn’t deter the locals who swim every morning.

By Peter Hadjimichael. This is one of a series of often humourous, anthropomorphic images that reveal themselves to me occasionally.

By David Jacobs. Taken from a taxi as it drove past the two people.

By David Trembath. Taken at the new Reichstag building in Berlin, which takes its name from the number of perspectives of walking legs. It is not monochrome but a fairly subtle colour and I particularly like the very small note of red in the jacket on the bottom tier.

By Jane Flood. New grandson and my son and his wife’s hands.

Follow me home, by Blane Coulcher.
My family and I were returning home on the Manly ferry from Vivid, and these seagulls followed us all the way back. We stared at them, amazed at their stamina and elegance. Usually they are a fairly boring bird to photograph, but there was sufficient moonlight and ambient light to make an interesting sequence of photos. This is one of my favourites. Their speed was the same as the ferry’s making it easier to track them.