Another blast from the past emerged.  While trawling through old stories and photographs I came across this shot of prospector, Cecil Mitchell, in his old humpy near Spargoville, south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia’s goldfields country. It’s a favourite taken back around 1988. Originally shot in colour using a Leica loaded with Kodachrome 25. I recently converted the image to black and white. A Leica and Kodachrome, especially K25, are recognised as one of the greatest combinations for reportage work. Bring back Kodachrome please.  This picture was published in 1992 in the book “Chook On Sundays”. The ABC have recently published … Continue reading Blast From The Past

I seem to spend a lot of time trawling through old files and the other day came across some magazine cuttings from a story my colleague Trish Ainslie and I shot in about 1998.  My family seem to have a background in fishing. That’s with the exception of me. I couldn’t catch a goldfish in a goldfish bowl! But back in the day I decided the salmon fishing at Easter on the south coast of Western Australia, close to Albany, was an annual event too interesting to ignore.  So I hopped in the old wagon and headed south. I’d come … Continue reading Blast From The Past