Imagined Emotional Landscapes is on the wall in Kogarah
Imagined Emotional Landscapes is on the wall in Kogarah – The making of a Group Exhibition at St. George Leagues Club Photographic Society! This is the story about the making of pictures. As such the story is one of words. The heroes of the story are the pictures now on the walls of Kogarah Library […]
A Tiny Dot in the Indian Ocean: Mauritius – The Very Different Island
If you read the advertising publicity for the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius you’ll see the words ‘The Unspoilt Island’ more than once. It’s accompanied by pictures of limpid aqua waters lapping onto glistening beaches, with palms wafting in the gentle breezes of trading winds. And indeed, for many visitors Mauritius fulfils that promise, perfectly. (Hotel […]
St. George Leagues Club Photographic Society Head-On 2016 Exhibition: Imagined Emotional Landscapes
As part of the 2016 Head On Photo Festival, members of St. George Leagues Club Photographic Society have worked on individual projects within an overall umbrella title – Imagined Emotional Landscapes. This is a first for the Society and is an Associated Exhibition in the 2016 Head On Photo Festival. Head On is Australia’s leading […]
Celebrating the Centenary of Boeing Aircraft: My 50-year contribution
2016 is the Centenary Year for the Boeing Aircraft Company. It’s now headquartered in Chicago. But for decades it was a product of Seattle and for many Seattle is Boeing town, not just Microsoft. From their remarkable first pressurised Stratoliner 307 of the 1930’s to their creation of the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing, the company with […]
Summer in The City
Was it the rain last week? Perhaps those clouds that flitted past yesterday afternoon without the cleansing and refreshing benefit of a change to go with it? Or perhaps it’s those onshore winds that are driving the moisture off a swollen ocean into this city? No matter! Today Sydney is back to sultry, overcast and […]
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is – How an Australian Public Company failed this week
The collapse into Administration and Receivership of Dick Smith Holdings Limited, and several associated entities on Tuesday 5th January, is a repeat of a story of failed retailers in Consumer Electronics around the world. We have heard it many times before. But as is the case in many corporate failures, the warning signs were there […]
PARIS COP21: The start of a 150-year journey in Climate Change
(Click on image for Enlarged view) (People’s Climate March, Sydney – 45,000 people united, November 29th, 2015.) “A week is a long time in politics,” said former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, in 1964. The 24-hour news cycle, a half-century later makes that seem like something from the very distant past. Sometimes, through frequent […]
How we come to have music in our lives
Music. Ah, Music! Another wonderful art form and very different from the photography I write about in these columns from time to time. Or is it different? I was provoked to recall my own life journey in music by an article in yesterday’s The Australian newspaper, written by Matthew Westwood, entitled ‘Schooling that sings’. The article […]
Aylan Kurdi joins Kim Phuc in changing the world: Warning – Confronting Images.
In the last thirty-six hours, news services, blogs, social media and websites around the globe have posted an Associated Press picture of a little 3-year old Syrian child, later identified as Aylan Kurdi, washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach. It was an anonymous tribute in the Obituary pages of today’s The Sydney […]
Why is Political Leadership in Australia so absent on The Environment?
Wednesday September 1st, 2015 – Sydney Last night I attended the Sydney launch of an important new book by former Australian of The Year, Tim Flannery. The book is called Atmosphere of Hope. You can buy it online or in your local bookstore. As a photographer who always carries a camera, I recorded some moments […]