It seems like this whole summer has been about weather anomalies in Australia. Flooding in Queensland, New South Wales and in Victoria, cyclone Yasi, drought and fires in Western Australia and finally Melbourne got its share of natural disasters. Last Friday, a tropical storm took us all by surprise. Almost everyone had a story to […]
We have a particular interest in the lives of indigenous peoples. We have been to various countries where indigenous groups interact at different levels with mainstream society. Some live on the fringes, fighting for survival and struggling to preserve their culture, others integrated well but lost their identity on the way, some, like in Ecuador, […]
Australia, with Melbourne leading the trend, apparently has the world’s highest levels of pet ownership. Over 60% of Australian households own a pet, most of which are, of course, dogs! Our contribution to the pet ownership statistic is Zoe, a black Labrador with an unmatched love of life. These three images, taken at different times […]
We were recently asked to take the cover photograph for the Lort Smith annual report. Thanks to this assignment we had the chance to meet Doreen and her life long companion, Michael the cockatoo. Michael was given to Doreen by her late husband when they were both in their thirties. Doreen and Michael have spent […]
We travelled to meet Riki in a small town near Osaka in March 2009. Riki, a nephew of our good Japanese friend, turned 18 at the time and had just joined heya – a sumo stable. Heyas are normally not open to outside visitors so this visit became for us a rare opportunity to get […]
India. Travelling to India was on our minds for awhile. Perhaps since the time we became close, so somewhere during summer of 2002. I remember my surprise when I first learned that Les was born in Madras, his family having decided to relocate to Australia when he was five years old and that neither he […]
