Picture Paradise Asia-Pacfic photography 1840s--1940

This was a joy, honour. I could have spent hours looking at all the images. The greatest thing was the detail in the photos - it was superb. Amazing sharpness and qualitiy from the large plates used in this time (19th century; plate size 18" x 22"). Panoramic of Sydney was an eye stopper. Also to seeing Ansel Adams in the flesh - Wow - I want one. There was a lot to think of and to try and incorporate into my own work, but I was content with just enjoying the remarkable images. The Chinese or Japanese hand painted photo where just ... a pleasure to look at. 19th centuary Photo Shop at its best... PS eat your heart out.http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/PictureParadise/Default.cfm?MnuID=2&GalID=5

Symptom recital By Dorothy Parker

Photos by Nathan Lanham Symptom recital by Dorothy Parker


I do not like my state of mind; I'm bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do not yearn for lovelier lands, I dread the dawn's recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find no peace in paint or type. My world is but a lot of tripe, I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted, For what I think, I'd be arrested. I am not sick, I am not well, My quondam dreams are shot to hell, My soul is crushed, my spirit sore; I do not like me any more. I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse, I ponder on the narrow house, I shudder at the thought of men,,,. I'm due to fall in love again.

When i read this poem, it made me think of life's up's and down's. The roller coster ride of life. No roller coster in Canberra, so I thought that stair's would be the nexted best thing to show this analogy. With stairs there is a way up, a way down and even a middle, life never ending journey

Canberra Contemporary art space Gorman house.

Photo by Chris Fortescue

Experimental Landscape Photography & Sound.

What the?????????

Yes this was and experiment in deed, but I think that this experiment blew up in their face; so back to the drawing board guys. I'm trying to find something that I can use from this exhibition. The only thing that was good is the space that it was in (great space to use for an exhibition). Or maybe it is to make sure that I take good images, so you don't have to cover up a crap image with a crap square.

Iddid Djura

Photo by Sarah George

This was sad to see. Where a great idea of a documentary Photography is ruined by a pour effort that went into the framing. Silvia You are right "colour mount what a disaster" And she had all the colours of the rain bow and they are looked wrong. I also think that some of the image's would have be a stronger message in black and white "Old Bill". http://www.csiro.au/events/IddidDjura.html

Compressed & Interval @ Photo access.

Compressed This was a great idea and a well presented piece. I liked the shot of the street scenes with the star light Street lights looked very cool. The star trace was all as very good. Time lap Photo is something that i don't think i will use, but it is good to have options..

Interval On the other hand was in you face with great colour moody and theatrical image that where something that i could look at for a long time. The composition of the image combined with the movement and brilliant colour made this stand out. I like the idea of projecting image on to people and scenes to get a desired effect. Printing the image on the glossy and mounting on the alumion is a cool way to show this. I will be looking in to this type of mounting, for sure.

Photo by Bryan Dawe

In Search of th Hero JORGE DEUSTUA

I really enjoyed this. At first i didn't like the way he had done his printing ( the pixels). But then the work started to grow on me. The more i looked at it and the help of the photographer him self Jorge Deustua, telling us all about the work and why he shoot it in the way he did, made me look at the work, through new eyes. (So mental note to-self, that you can't all ways expect your viewers to no exactly what you are showing them. You can use this in many different way, to hide some thing and hope they find it or you can help them with a brief text about the image). I found it really help me understand his work, the more the spoke about the reason behind the image. Then i could enjoy it on a better level then, when my first thoughts. When i had finished talking to him i had forgot about the frame and was thinking about hoe i could use some ideas in my work, and that it was a great exhibition. Oh and that i need to get a 6x6 medium format. I really enjoy the format size of the 6x6. I think that it really added to the image and spoke boldly to you as the viewer. The idea of the two images together was a fun idea and got the view involved with the exhibition. This would be a great way for people to remember your exhibition. You are giving them a visual and active stimulants to remember you by. Over all i loved the social doc by Jorge and really enjoyed his talk.

Caged Bird By Maya Angelou

Photo's By NathanLanham








This is a cool poem. My first thoughts where to go out and photograph rich and poor. I was planing on doing this by useing real estate to show this. A poor run down house (which i found on the way out of Canberra near the airport)and a wealthy house on mugga way. Then i thought about the end part of the poem (if i can call it that for a poem) I got the feeling that see was writing about a song of hope. So how can we photograph hope?. What image's mean hope? How can we show hope in an image? So i decided to try and show it through hand gestures. Two hands together in prayar, the peace sign and closed raised fist.These are not all shot yet.