Helen Garner ‘The Feel of Steel’ 2001: excerpts for ‘Antarctica’ – writings collected by Alasdair McGregor. Can the written word stand up to a flood of photographic record? “I determined on the spot that I would go to the icy continent in a state of heroic lenslessness; that I would equip myself with only a notebook […]
Category Archives: JOURNEYS
We met this old Berber man in the Middle Atlas Mountains in Morocco, off the beaten track. He and his family of seven take care of livestock and lead the nomadic life, migrating in pursuit of shelter, water and grazing land. Their whole household fits into a cave of two by two metres naturally shaped […]
We spent a weekend early this year at Mornington Peninsula. A friend was staying with us in Melbourne and we wanted to venture out beyond the city. We took many photos on that day, as usual. I had a look at them and chose four that I like, each one for a different reason. I […]
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 […]
A true travel photographer does not miss a single sunrise or sunset. Ouch! We have been engaged in classics at Melbourne CBD and here is one of each.
5 January 2011, 10am or perhaps a little later. Art Café in Katoomba, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. We had a lunch there the previous day and decided to come back for breakfast. This is how it happened: an unexpected encounter with John whose photographs hang on the walls of the café. We had a […]
What is it that makes a quintessential Australian landscape? Perhaps light. Our image was taken a few weeks ago in Gippsland. We drove past and decided to stop at the very last moment. There was something promising about the monotony of this view, the light and the dual colour palatte.
Being a Melburnian comes with certain privileges. One of them is sharing the living space with Lonely Planet’s travel photographer Richard I’Anson. Such proximity means that you can participate in one of his workshops. Richard established Lonely Planet Images in 1998 and has photographed people and places in over 85 countries on all continents. I’d […]
Earthwatch has posted on their page a link to our electronic, illustrated diary from an expedition to the Ecuadorian cloud forests in July this year. You can now read it on-line in a comfortable e-book format. Please click this link to start browsing our presentation: EARTHWATCH ECUADOR EXPEDITION Please click this link to learn more about the Earthwatch expedition in Ecuador: […]