# Alex Bond Photography: Perth Landscape Photographer

> Alex Bond is a Western Australian landscape photographer making traditional black and white prints from large format negatives, Perth\.

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## Pages
- [Refund Policy and Returns](https://www.alexbond.com.au/refund-policy-and-returns/)
- [Contact Me](https://www.alexbond.com.au/contact-me/): Thank you for your interest\. Please fill out the form below and I will get back to you soon\. You can also follow me on Instagram \+ Facebook\.
- [Australian Landscape Photographer Alex Bond](https://www.alexbond.com.au/): Alex Bond is a film based landscape photographer\. He uses a wooden field camera, and personally develops and prints his black and white silver gelatin photographs in his traditional darkroom\.

In 1989, he founded Stormlight Publishing, promoting Western Australia's unique landscape through the publication of cards, posters, calendars, and contributing to magazines\.

He now pursues longer\-term photographic projects, directed towards exhibition and publication\. Each year Alex offers a select number of introductory large\-format photography workshops and is a contributor to View Camera Australia\.
- [Thank you](https://www.alexbond.com.au/thank-you/)
- [Biography](https://www.alexbond.com.au/stormlight-publishing/): I spent more than 25 years hiking and camping in southwest Western Australia\. I go for long walks into national parks, carrying my field camera, film, tripod, and sometimes a tent, food and water\.

## Media
- [Resources for Film Photographers 2026](https://www.alexbond.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Resources-for-Film-Photographers-2026.pdf)
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## Products
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This is a free, 26\-page reference for film photographers and darkroom printers regarding technical issues surrounding film development and darkroom printing\.

There are direct links to Australian film and paper suppliers, website articles, pdf downloads, and books which you may need to hunt down in your local library or second\-hand market\.

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- [Testing Film Speed PDF Booklet](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product/testing-film-speed/): \<p\>\<strong\>You need to know how to make a normal contrast negative for any film, developer, and procedure combination you choose in your practice\.\</strong\> This is a visual check using a graphic arts step\-wedge tablet and is best suited for darkroom printers using diffused light enlarging sources and sheet film cameras\. It can be completed with just 2 sheets of 4x5 film and no densitometers\.\</p\>
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How to evaluate Stand Development under your conditions\. This is a visual method using a graphic arts step\-wedge tablet and is best suited for darkroom printers using diffused light enlarging sources and 4x5 sheet film cameras\.
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For less than a cup of coffee, a downloadable 23\-page reference guide to Stand Development\. It can be kept on file or conveniently on your phone\.

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- [The Proper Proof PDF Booklet](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product/the-proper-proof/): \<p\>\<strong\>Proper Proof Contact Prints\. Possibly the most overlooked, yet simple and vital key to unlocking your film and darkroom practice\.\</strong\> Making contact proof prints using a standardised proper proof time, gives you a solid foundation from which you can make comparisons about films, papers, and developers\. Best of all these comparisons are based upon your conditions and techniques, not someone else’s\. Download this 13\-page reference guide on how to create The Proper Proof\. It can be kept on file or conveniently on your phone\.\</p\>
- [Large Format Camera Movements PDF Booklet](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product/large-format-camera-movements-explained/): \<p\>\<strong\>How to use large format camera movements, illustrated with actual photographic examples\.\</strong\> For less than a cup of coffee, a downloadable 29\-page reference guide to Large Format Camera Movements, keep it on file or conveniently on your phone\</p\>

## Portfolio
- [Colour Landscapes](https://www.alexbond.com.au/portfolio/colour-landscapes/): Colour landscapes photographic pigment prints on 100% cotton fine art paper, posted worldwide\.
- [Horizon Calendar Series](https://www.alexbond.com.au/portfolio/horizon-calendar-series/): Printing a folio from Horizon Calendar Images of Western Australia
- [The South West](https://www.alexbond.com.au/portfolio/the-south-west/): Silver gelatin black and white prints from south west Western Australia personally printed by Alex Bond
- [Canning River Collection](https://www.alexbond.com.au/portfolio/canning-river-collection/): Canning River Photographs documenting environmental and man\-made changes
- [Dissociation  \-  dis\*so\*ci\*a\*tion](https://www.alexbond.com.au/portfolio/dissociation-dissociation/): Dissociation Photographic Exhibition and Book, an exhibition of 28 silver gelatin photographs, hand printed in the darkroom\.

## Categories
- [Workshops](https://www.alexbond.com.au/category/photography-workshops/)

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- [Digital Downloads](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product-category/digital-download/)
- [Publications](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product-category/books-alex-bond/)
- [New Silver Gelatin Prints 10\-2026](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product-category/new-silver-gelatin-prints-10-2026/)
- [Workshops](https://www.alexbond.com.au/product-category/photography-workshops/)

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