This photo festival runs from 29 April to 5 June 2010. It's at over 60 galleries, cafes and other venues 'showcasing a diverse range of photography and multimedia slide shows as well as seminars exploring contemporary issues.'
Australian Crawl: Macro portraits of insects, reptiles and amphibians.
My bro' had seen an exhibition of photos at Bondi Pavilion and suggested I go and have a look. The images were amazingly good - pin sharp, very clear colours and backgrounds. The photographer was Damon Wilder and I had a chat with him. I'd got my camera with me and showed him a pic of Shield Bugs that I'd taken with my Tamron 90mm macro at home when I should have been pruning roses. He'd been a researcher for TV series before setting up and was now photographing full time professionally, using his TV contacts for much of his work.
From him
"Always torn between pursuing a career in biology or following my passion for arts, I finally found photography to be the perfect marriage of both interests and have invested most of my spare time and energy into photographing nature. My love of macro photography began five years ago when I worked as a researcher on an Animal Planet documentary series about bugs, called "Buggin' With Ruud". I was so impressed by the images I encountered during my research that I immediately went out and bought a camera and macro lens with the determination that I would produce equally impressive images."
Whilst this is not my current topic it is yet another field of photography that really draws me.
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