March 3, 2006: At the end of a trip like this you inevitably ask yourself: would I do the same things again or are there some things I would change? This is particularly important when you’ve spent a substantial amount of time and money and visited environments as challenging as Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Peninsula. In fact, I can confidently say that the majority of our choices were good ones – and, where things were less than totally satisfactory, the fault lay more with the fact that better alternatives were simply not available.
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Margaret’s Antarctica Post 1: The Preparation
February 2, 2006: Making two major overseas trips within six months is exciting – and very unusual for me. But when the chance to travel to Antarctica arose, it’s impossible to turn down such a great picture-taking opportunity.
Daylesford Revisited
The volunteer organisers of the massive Daylesford Foto Biennale this year bettered the impressive inaugural festival in both scope and size.
California Light
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.
A Snatched Victory
The against-the-odds success of the inaugural Daylesford Foto Biennale is the latest in a string of initiatives by respected commercial photographer, AIPP life member, and recently installed local ratepayer, Jeff Moorfoot.
Book Review: Contact
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.
An Interview with Masaya Maeda, Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Image Communication Products Operation at Canon Inc.
Photo Review was privileged to be able to interview Mr Masaya Maeda during our visit to Canon’s headquarters in the Shimomaruko area of Tokyo on 8 February. At the time of the interview, Canon had just announced total consolidated net sales for 2010 reached almost 3707 billion Yen and represented growth of 15.5% over the previous year.
A Matter of Timing
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is ø¢â‚¬Ëœshould 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.
Work Hard, Get Lucky
Jack Atley loves sport. Photography is a job. He only took it up, he quips, because he wasn’t good enough to win Wimbledon.
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2008: The Year in Review
Photography news highlights from 2008.
