Black and white photographs hand crafted traditional silver gelatin prints

Turner Street Jetty Augusta Australia

I have been waiting for some time now to make this photograph at Turner Street Jetty at Seine Bay Augusta. However, every time I visited things were never quite in my favour.

Back Beach access off the WOW trail Denmark.

Wilderness Ocean Walk Trail Denmark

Wilderness Ocean Walk near Denmark offers some stunning coastal views.

Bull Creek tree ferns Cradle Mountain Valley

Bull Creek tree ferns is an image I am yet to print. It was made in 1988 on a friend’s property at Bull Creek, in the Cradle Mountain Valley, Tasmania. We had spent a wet day hiking through myrtle forest and tree ferns on the slopes above Lake Cethana locating the old survey pegs.

Bush – naming and possession

The bush is a commonly used name for that area of relatively nondescript land covered in shrubs and vegetation. You can find remnants within the suburbs or it can also be a remote place far from any settlement. Unlike its fancier sister, Nation Parks, with her well defined borders, the bush is invisible on maps.

Kent Street Weir Canning River

Printed this morning in my darkroom, I made this image last weekend just after some recent rain. It was rather impromptu in one sense. I had been out walking the dog and noticed the late afternoon light at the weir. When I returned home I grabbed by 2 1/4 square camera and went back to the river in the fading winter light.

Looking Glass Magazine Issue 8 Aug Sept 2015

I am delighted to have several images and a short essay published in this month’s Looking Glass Magazine. That two of those images were made literally down the street from where I live in suburban Perth is even more satisfying!

Laundry shed Margaret River

I didn’t set out to deliberately make this image. Call it exploration or perhaps just a happy accident. I had my medium format camera set up on a tripod outside my late grandparents’ farmhouse looking out across the paddock. For whatever reason, I abandoned my initial plan and turned the camera 180 degrees back onto the shed behind me. Laundry shed, Margaret River, 11×14 inches, hand printed by Alex Bond silver gelatin fibre based print, selenium toned 2015