4/540 Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Olinda
photo: Leah Wheatley This is photographing the William Ricketts Sanctuary Let’s dive into photographing the William Ricketts Sanctuary, shall we? William Ricketts Sanctuary reopened on Monday 3 August, after a storm shut it down back in 2021 and a long, careful clean up brought it back. A few…
How do I take more interesting photos? It’s the question that shows up at 11pm after scrolling through someone else’s feed, wondering why your shots don’t feel the same. The trouble with that is: everyone else’s photos always look better than our own. Anyway, your life is probably…
Watch the video https://youtu.be/pG2ALMN_ImM Wondering where’s the best photo walk in the Dandenong Ranges? There’s a place in the Dandenong Ranges that doesn’t show up on any map. Locals barely talk about it. Nobody knows who built it. And every winter, right around the solstice, it goes quiet,…
There’s a filmmaker on YouTube named Brae Hunziker, and if you haven’t found him yet, ya gonna want to. What gets you isn’t the photography, though the photography is beautiful. It’s the voice. The narration. The way he moves through a story like he has all the time…
New gear every photographer needs. You’re in the camera store holding the latest camera gear every photographer needs. A lens clicks into place with the confidence of a vault door. “Oooh, the sharpness of that lens,” the salesperson says. Words like “megapickles” and “dynamic range,” are thrown around…
Walk with me as I make photos. Today I’m looking at how to make better exposures. Photography is often a solitary act. There’s a quiet joy in wandering alone, camera in hand, letting the world unfold without anyone altering your thought process or pausing your rhythm. But lately,…
Women in Photography at NGV I don’t even know how I heard about the NGV’s exhibition Women Photographers 1900–1975, but I did, and I knew I had to see it. The exhibition sprawls across the walls, a sprawling testament to women in photography who refused to be sidelined.…
https://youtu.be/bai3L9MnHkA?si=DOULum8igROkR65D The Mountain That Teaches You to Slow Down Fog arrives in Olinda the way an uninvited guest should: quietly, without theatrics, slipping between the gums as though it’s always belonged here. On Mt Dandenong, November fog doesn’t interrupt the day; it redefines it. The rest of Victoria…
My wife hates when I do this one thing. My wife hates when I do this one thing. And, bear with me, this will Loop back into to creative ways to photograph in Melbourne. Yeah, just one thing. Ha. See, I refuse to say words the way they’re…
photo: @bedfordtowers Photographing home is one of those deceptively simple ideas. Join us, through photos from @bedfordtowers, on a journey back to the Loop Zine #3 theme, Photographing Home. photo: @bedfordtowers Go back to your hometown for the weekend, camera slung over your shoulder, and suddenly the familiar…
