Thoughts
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Ramadan Nights
April 18, 2024: At the Ramadan Night Markets in Lakemba, Sydney, Australia it’s all about the food. If you haven’t been to this market then I definitely recommend you take the plunge and broaden your cultural experience and your taste buds
I don’t profess to know anything of the detail…
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Central Australia
December 02, 2023: For many Australians, Central Australia is one of those LoveToBut locations. “I’d love to go but it’s too expensive, it’s too far, it’s too hot, it’s too spread out. The list goes on for reasonable excuses why people don’t go and frankly, I am no different, I…
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Alamy POTM again?
August 02, 2023: Every month Alamy.com asks its 95,000 contributors to submit images to their monthly Picture Of The Month (POTM) competition on Twitter (X). This month’s theme was Street Food so I sent them two shots from the Ramadan Nights Festival in Lakemba, Sydney. Both shots were selected which…
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What is the best way to learn photography?
July 21, 2023: Its a big question isnt it, What’s the best way to learn photography? Before we try and answer this question we need to clarify some assumptions; learning photography in this question assumes that you want to move up from snapping family shots on your phone or you…
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Is photography an antisocial pastime?
July 09, 2023: Is photography an antisocial pastime? There’s certainly plenty of reasons to think it is. Almost every photographer who drags themselves from under the covers at 4.00am to be somewhere spectacular for a sunrise, hopes they will be the only one to capture it. Anyone that has climbed…
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Bus Stops
June 01, 2023: Ok, confession time, every generalist stock photographer who has been capturing images for a while starts to find favourites. Sometimes it takes a while and they may not even realise it’s happening until someone mentions it to them. “Hey Dave, how come you have so many shots…
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Why not Black and White?
May 30, 2023: Why don’t we see more black and white images in the media? Well in simple terms, they just don’t sell. Sure they can be more moody and somber and they often provide clarity by removing distractions from the image target but media buyers rarely search for them…
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Alamy POTM
May 2nd, 2023: Really chuffed to have one of my photos featured in Alamy’s Pic of The Month group. Alamy.com has some 95,000 contributors and certainly not all of them engage with this little competition but all the same I’m pleased to score one with my 1981 shot of the…
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