Category: Inspiration
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Plastic Free July #2: On Photography
I’m a a bit of a purist when it comes to photography, preferring to get my compositions and settings as accurate as possible for the shoot, and keeping post editing to the most basic. “Fake photography” is as pervasive, and just as popular as fake news. Once apon a time a photo had some bonafide…
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Cupid awake and asleep
Reflections from a window provide a modern take on Morris Burke Parkinson’s late Victorian photogravures of four-year-old Josephine Anderson, copyrighted by the photographer in 1897. Parkinson’s work is highly stylized and dramatic with something of a staged effect, typical of Pictorialism, a style of photography made popular by Henry Peach Robinson in the 1860’s. The…
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Take time to notice: Native Iris
You need to have an eye for detail and look up close to appreciate the beauty of Australian flora such as this little jewell, a native iris called Patersonia sericea. Had I photographed the vista at Emu Mountain, the irises would have been lost, mere dots. Emu Mountian – a hill really – where whale researchers…
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Tale of a mermaid
The little girls who helped their father build her are young women now. Time has rusted away her marmaid tail but she still has pert Madonna breasts. She’s growing old gracefully, with a garland of yellow flowers blooming, crown-like around her head in the spring. Once apon a time she had the letterbox suspended above…