by Peter | 11 Jan 2021 | Uncategorized
The United States of America and all that stuff… I, like almost all of you, looked on at the last month in the United States of America with a mixture of apallment, bewilderment, amazement, amusement and what the fuck-ment. You can certainly never charge U.S.A....
by Peter | 8 May 2020 | Uncategorized
Hello and welcome to my first blog for some considerable period of time. To say we are living in Interesting Times is to elevate the old apocryphal Chinese curse to new levels of circumstantial irony. We will one day recount to our grand children about how we lived...
by Peter | 26 Sep 2018 | Uncategorized
Welcome dear reader to my China blog. Due to a combination of stubborn insistence that I shall go forth and photograph, a long-held passion to see the Yellow Mountains in China, and a total mix up between what I thought were the yellow mountains in the clouds beyond...
by Peter | 5 Aug 2018 | General Interest, Photography, purple, recipe lamb, Uncategorized
Your pretty pussycat is a killer. Everyone knows this of course, but the numbers are staggering. Feral cats in Australia are killing 377 million birds and 649 million lizards a year (see this article from ABC news). At this rate we will lose all reptiles and...
by Peter | 21 Jun 2018 | General Interest, Landscape, Photography, Uncategorized
PHOTOCLUBS For better or whatever I’ve hitched my wagon to the photoclub community. I’ve been a member of the Adelaide Camera Club (http://adelaidecameraclub.org.au) for the past 4 years. Recently I was also invited to join Printworks, a group of august photographers...
by Peter | 18 Mar 2018 | General Interest, Landscape, Photography
Wild Landscapes. At the opening of my Wild Landscapes exhibition in 2017 at the Heyson Academy in Hahndorf, I presented an emotive address on the importance of wild places and the images we capture in them. At least I think it was emotive; unfortunately my words are...
by Peter | 11 Feb 2018 | General Interest, Photography
Years ago I put together a couple of e-books, consisting of images I had taken and liked, accompanied by micro-stories. The images were captured with my first ever DSLR- a consumer Pentax, and with only rudimentary knowledge of technical stuff such as depth of field,...
by Peter | 12 Jan 2018 | General Interest, Photography
How interesting it is to be 62 and doing something for the first time. Yes, this my first blog. Welcome to it. There’s some possibility it may be my last. It’s an interesting milestone to have a website. Now can I call myself a photographer? After all, one...
