© Rob Walls 2011
Like a Japanese print
black currawong
stealing ripe persimmon
in my garden this morning…
For the bird watcher, these are Strepera fuliginosa. More can be read about these very clever birds here.
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Winter harvest…
Filed under art, Australia, Australian, Digital photography, Photographer, Photography, Stock photography, Tasmania
Still resonating forty eight years later…
Bronze sculpture by Ray Ewers in the Australian War Memorial Hall of Memory. Photo by Rob Walls 1963
I’m constantly surprised by what you can turn up with a little digging on the internet. A few days ago, I found this photo in the National Archive of Australia. I made this picture in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial forty-eight years ago, when I was working as a photographer’s assistant at the Australian News and Information Bureau in Canberra.
From memory, I shot this using available light with a Speed Graphic using a 65mm Ektar wide-angle lens on Tri-X 5×4 sheet film. The most vivid memory of the shoot was that if you rapped on the bronze camouflage net the figure is standing on, you would get a deep vibration that would resonate up the bronze and echo into the mosaic dome above the figure. The sculpture is no longer kept in the Hall of Memory but has been moved outside into a sculpture garden.
Filed under art, Australia, Australian, Biography, Photographer, Photography, Rob Walls
Photo education – a new level…
My good friend and colleague, Simon Cowling, has, I believe, taken photo education in Australia to a new level with the launching of Shoot , a new photo studies workshop in Perth. With the backing of Camera Electronic Pty Ltd, Simon, has created the ideal venue for photographers ambitious to master their cameras and acquire a high level of skill, to learn in a small, class environment.
Now, their promotional material claims that Shoot is “Perth’s premier photographic teaching workshop”. I’d not argue with this, except to say that this could be somewhat of an understatement. I’ve known and taught alongside Simon for 30 years or more. When it comes to photography and the teaching of the craft, Simon Cowling is someone who makes your average perfectionist look downright careless. When it comes to the creation of an environment in which to learn, Shoot is perfect.
Statement of vested interest: later this year, I’ ll be teaching a two day seminar on stock photography at Shoot. I’m really looking forward to it…
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A marvellous Melbourne Sunday…
Sunday, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy © Rob Walls 2011
Kat Macaulay, bartender at The Gypsy Bar, Fitzroy © Rob Walls 2011
His first protest; Climate Action rally, Melbourne June 5 2011 © Rob Walls 2011
Exuberance personified at the Climate Action rally in Melbourne © Rob Walls 2001
Brunswick Street, Fitzroy © Rob Walls 2011
Postcards – travelling West to East…Part two
Abandoned farm kitchen in the West Australian wheat belt © Rob Walls 2011
Salt mine at Lake Deborah, Western Australia © Rob Walls 2011
Truck driving sunrise, Nullarbor Roadhouse June 1, 2011 © Rob Walls 2011
Roadside shrine, Nullarbor Plain © Rob Walls 2011
My last campsite for this trip © Rob Walls 2011
Did it never occur to the signwriter, why "Shielas" required a grocer's apostrophe and "Blokes" not? Toilets at the Iron Knob Motel © Rob Walls 2011
Hitman? Probably a lucrative sideline for the butcher at Crystal Brook, SA © Rob Walls 2011
This puzzled me for nearly 1,000km. When I got to where I could get a broadband signal I looked it up. Means creeping over the speed limit © Rob Walls 2011
Racing my shadow home © Rob Walls 2011
PART ONE here
EAST TO WEST Part tw0
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