State Library of Victoria exhibition
The full title for this exhibition is:
Searching for Sanctuary: A journey of survival by Barat Ali Batoor
Category Archives: photo-essay
plundering the west – in photographs
Nice online exhibition of photographs – from The Washington Post – click here.
Frank Hurley
photo-essay on Frank Hurley images
A selection of photographs taken from one of Frank Hurley’s books…
It must be Christmas
Travel around Canberra and/or many cities anywhere and there is now evidence that we all love to light up our days and nights to celebrate Christmas.
photo-essay
Camarade – The Earth
Louise Grayson, Queensland University of Technology (this essay was originally published in The Conversation)
John F Williams (1933 – 2016)
We recently heard of the death of a great Australian photographer. click on the image for more…
Auckland
Here’s a couple of photographs from my recent visit to Auckland for the 2016 Auckland festival of photography.
photography
photography
Wollongong
Clouds and wonder
A Photograph
Maybe it was left behind to collect any stray mail.
photography
Click on image for Jeffrey Milstein’s photo essay on inequity in LA neighbourhoods
Photography
Visiting and talking about photography exhibitions is very enjoyable. It is a fun thing to do. Occasionally when I have written about an exhibition that has even been a response.
AGNSW
Any time you are in Sydney, you should always find the time for a wander through the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
Public Transport
photo-essay: Chicago L
The ACT Government is to implement the city’s first light rail system. Particular lobby groups have been hounding the government about this decision.
drought
A Photograph
Michael Leunig’s Violet Town signs
The fun things you see as you drive through middle Victoria. A town sign designed by Michael Leunig. (click on image to enlarge)
Crace
A first visit to the suburb of Crace
Crace is a new suburb in Canberra. Click on the image for a short photo-essay.
Dickson photograph
A sign of activity by the revolutionary arm of the Dickson Residents Group
A photograph
Photography travels
Enjoying London
A Photo-Essay
my tourist photographs of London.
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Enjoying London
Photo-Essay
A few photos from a walk around London
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Enjoying Life in Vienna
Things that make you laugh
It was while roaming the gardens of a former Austrian Royal Palace, that I sat down for a rest and took a moment to take in the wide views in front of me.
Enjoying Life in Vienna
A Photo-Essay on enjoying Vienna
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Sydney heat island effect
Photo-Essay: Inner Sydney and the Heat Island Effect
I love wandering around city streets. In Sydney recently on a typical warm day, being about 28 degrees, it was very noticeable just how much of the city’s inner streets are devoid of trees and shade.
A Photograph
Photo-essay: Walking Manly in the evening
Not all walks around Manly (Sydney) involve wandering along the beaches. There are many streets and lanes to seek out to see how the urban environment settles into the evening.
Monument in the Landscape
Photography: a plinth to honour almost nothing
This is a photograph of the monument on the harbour side of Manly to honour the landing of Captain Arthur Phillip in Manly. One problem!
A Photograph
A photograph
A photograph
love in a public place. (click on image to enlarge)
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Paul Costigan, 13 August 2014
Chicago Millennium Park
Photo-Essay:
The park celebrated its tenth anniversary last June. This first image is from their own website.
Brisbane, photo-essay
Brisbane, photo-essay
Here are a few photographs taken near the Roma Street Parklands in mid winter 2014. This time of the year makes for wonderful light. Please click on any of the images to enlarge them. I enjoyed this image because of the shadows and the light, the plants were being highlighted, and of course the texture and mass of the rock wall.
Near Roma Street Parkland entrance, July 2014
Drought
Photo-essay
Canberra is a garden City. We love to surround ourselves with trees, shrubs and gardens. There are heaps of birds in our suburbs. Take a short drive into the country and things change. Here’s a few images from one such drive yesterday.
Botanic Gardens
Review: Australian National Botanic Gardens
On the western edge of Canberra’s CBD, next to the Australian National University, on the side of Black Mountain, sits one of the National Capital’s often overlooked treasures, the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Although it figures in tourist brochures, I am not aware of large numbers of visitors. I am also not convinced that local Canberrans visit this site very often or that they think to take their visitors there.
Christmas Stories
Photo-essay: Photographs of Christmas 2013
A collection of photographs gathered more or less locally.
there two more collections – here and here
We were traveling back from Sydney and made a stop over for dinner at Bowral. There’s a good take away noodle shop half way down the main street.
I took the time to observe the Christmas decoration in the local shops. (click on any image to enlarge them)
Here’s an image in the R M Williams window.
Food: in japan
Photo-essay
Japan and food – an image
A photograph taken in 2006 of lunch time on a busy back street in Tokyo.
The food was great. Ordering in such places is always interesting as no-one there spoke English (and this is the usual off the tourist areas) and we spoke absolutely no Japanese. We managed through hand gestures and pointing and thanks to the politeness and very friendly nature of the owners. This experience was repeated often whereby the locals were both helpful and courteous to these foreigners who did not speak their language.
The Bowal Yacht Squadron
Photo-Essay
The Search for Debt and Deficit Emergency: A Day with the Bowral Yacht Squadron
It’s early dawn and the famous Bowral Yacht Squadron sets out for a day’s adventure on the high seas. This is much anticipation about the task ahead!
