Tag: Photography
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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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Suspended sphere
Sadly I don’t know the name of the artist who created this beautiful sphere suspended outside the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.
ART by Jude Tulloch 