Words and images by Matt Fleay-Daly, a Steve Parish Photo Workshop Student from Healesville Sanctuary 2011 My name is Matt and I am 13. I started photography in 2007. I was [...]

Photographing bush kids does not pose quite the same challenge as photographing children in urban built-up areas. The reason is that both adults and children in the bush are more trusting [...]

To capture portraits of people who are unaware of the camera can be powerful because their expressions are unguarded and their poses can be more interesting than those people camera aware. [...]

An American sailor in Hawaii first introduced me, in the late 60s, to the fascinating field of photographing people. I met him on the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga when I was [...]

An important area of photographic design is the effective creative management of the foreground, middle ground and background information within a picture. Collectively these are known as the image planes. Not [...]

Charles Lamb, an English essayist, humorously suggested in the early 1800s that the newly discovered kangaroo’s short forelimbs were useful for picking pockets. It was satire, of course, a comment on [...]

I have just returned to Brisbane from my annual Children’s Nature Connect Photo Workshops at Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria. Another very special week and a very special place. The first day [...]

Visited one of my favourite old growth temperate rainforest area today. The area is known as ‘The Rainforest Gallery’ at it is in the Yarra Ranges National Park near Warburton. This [...]

The tryptych has been around for a very long time.  In fact The triptych form arises from early Christian art, and was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the [...]