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 to Australia in part to avoid the European winters so I’ve no idea why I’d go south with the onset of our winter but I could see a story.

The trip resulted in a handful of decent pictures which published widely in various magazines in Europe as well as Australia. Those were the days when photo agencies worked alongside magazines and had a large (and lucrative) market for stories. 

Tech note: I generally worked with a Leica M camera, 35mm Summicron lens and T Max 400 film. If I was shooting colour I worked with Kodachrome. They were a common combination back in the ‘old’ days. I still work with an M and 35mm but with Fomapan 200 rated at 100asa and developed in D76.

© Roger Garwood 2026