PHOTOGRAPHING
AUSTRALIA
Journal Archive
‘Photography is not about camera brands and models, it’s about capturing someone’s heart.’
Steve Parish
Featuring travel and photo-tips from across Australia
Photography: The Art of Seeing Art
The Art of Seeing ArtSteve Parish on the art of seeing in photographyA reflection drawn from Module 3 of the Photography: A Pathway to Purpose Masterclass “Mastering light is a skill; seeing perspective and design is vision.Photography thrives where the two converge.”...
Bird Photography: Tips and Techniques
Bird Photography: Tips & Techniques Birds, more than any group of wild creatures, offer the ultimate challenge to all who pursue the art of nature photography. I took my first fuzzy photographs of birds in flight in 1975 on a field trip to south-west Queensland...
Photographing Australia: Wildflowers
Photographing Australian WildflowersAustralian wildflowers have a strong appeal to the senses – some are voluptuous in shape and form, some fragile; some have a scent that is almost overpowering, but in others the perfume is delicate; some are bold and brightly...
Photographing Australian Frogs
Photographing Australia:The World of FrogsAn extract from Photography Australia: The Ultimate Travel GuideApproximately 240 frog species inhabit Australia and many are struggling as they are ultra-sensitive to pollution, habitat destruction, and predation from...
Photographing Australia: Landscape
Photographing LandscapeAn extract in pert from Volume 1 Photographing Australia:The Ultimate Travel GuideAustralia is a wondrous land of ever-changing landscapes. From vast, open, arid dunes and grasslands with dead-flat horizons to craggy alpine peaks. These extremes...
Photographing Australians Outback
Photographing Australians OutbackAn extract from Photography Australia: The Ultimate Travel GuideMy connection with photographing people in streets, towns, and rural settings goes back to my years spent wandering Asia in the early 1960s while serving in the Royal...
Photographing Australia: Trees
Photographing Australian TreesWhether painted with autumn colours, dusted with snow, shrouded in mist or backlit by a crimson sunset, trees are amongst the most photographed subjects in the natural world. Photographing them can be pure joy wherever you are working –...
Photographing Australia: The Top End
Photographing the Top EndThe Top End is the name used for the northernmost part of the Territory. It encompasses beaches, mangroves and tidal creeks that are great for photography – but take mosquito repellent – then coastal plains that, during the summer monsoon...
Photographing Australian Outback Horse Culture
Photographing Australians:Country & OutbackHorse CultureAn extract from Photography Australia: The Ultimate Travel GuideMany storytelling themes can be applied to photographing Australians, but perhaps none is more obvious or more visually appealing than that of...
Photographing Australia: Choosing a Camera
Photographing Australia:Choosing a Camera‘Remember, photography is not about camera brands and models, it’s about capturing someone’s heart.’ Steve ParishYou would be forgiven for going cross-eyed when you either Google 'buy a camera' - About 3,710,000,000 results...
Photography: The Art of Seizing the Moment
Photography:The Art of Seizing the MomentIntuition and spontaneity should be objectives for all creatives.- Steve ParishI am often asked, 'How many pictures did you take to get that one?' Iconic images are rare and, in my case, are rarely the primary objective during...
Gary Bell: Underwater Landscape Photography
Underwater Landscape PhotographyText & Photography Gary BellWhen I made my first underwater picture on the Mornington Peninsula in 1974, I had no idea where this would lead. My understanding of photography back then was very limited, but I knew I wanted to be an...
Photographing Australia: The Kimberley Division
The Kimberley Land DivisionThe Kimberley Land Division lies under the influence of the monsoons, which bring cyclonic rain during the hot summer wet season, then retreat, leaving the land pleasantly warm but dry. I suggest you time your visit for winter for best...
Photographing Australia: The Red Centre
Photographing Australia: The Red Centre For a travelling photographer, particularly one who has chosen to bring or hire his or her own vehicle, the biggest problem that you will confront in the Red Centre is time management. If you have plenty of time, you will be in...
Photographing Australia: Rainforest
Photographing AustralianRAINFORESTThe best conditions for photographing rainforest are either bright overcast or misty weather – days that start out with heavy mist that is then, around mid-morning, penetrated by the sun. The shafts of light that fill the forest...
