now surely this beats an iPhone hands down… This is one of our favourite images, captured by Nik Gregorkiewitz, on an island off the Pilbara coast in Western Australia. It’s one of a series taken on the island, check out this hilarious collection here.
We’ve been loving Sheridan Nilsson’s new images of Australian beach life. You’ll agree that this neat collection of images taken at the Bondi Icebergs Club won’t disappoint. Since 1929, winter swimming races have taken place at the Bondi Iceberg Club on the south end of famous Bondi Beach. The mateship, competition and spectacular setting make this an intrinsic part of our modern cultural fabric. There’ll be lots more vibrant collections from Sheridan uploaded in the coming days - subscribe to the LightVision blog to keep up-to-date.
With spring at the doorstep, most Aussies already have a weather eye on the beach. Sheridan Nilsson comes to the party with new collections of life defined by surf and sand. Tony Yeates gives us a curtain raiser to the Summer Olympic Games and more of Richard Woldendorp’s dazzling aerials of the Australian landscape are published in his new book, a copy of which can be yours if you win our whacky Wild about Wildlight testimonial competition:
Stronger, faster, higher and China—an Olympic story
Wildlight Photographer, Tony Yeates, keeps on moving on with his latest commission by VISA (Singapore) for their Visa Moving Images competition. Tony is one of five photographers in the Asia Pacific region to produce a series of images representing themes around the Beijing Olympic Games. The themes were stronger, faster, higher & China. The images were used as examples of subject matter to inspire the amateur photographers entering the competition Visa Moving Images. The commission also involved judging the final work from the entrants.
Aerial abstracts prize can well be yours
Last month we told you about Wildlight photographer Richard Woldendorp’s great new book of aerial images called Abstract Earth. Make a signed copy yours by entering our Wild about Wildlight attestation competition. Write a humorous testimonial of 50 words or less about Wildlight Photo Agency and the Australian way of life. The lucky winner will receive Richard’s book that retails for $50. Here are the submission guidelines: 1. you must be registered on the Wildlight website 2. stay cool with your language to make it fit for publication! Aussie slang is tops! 3. maximum two bravo testimonials per entrant with submission deadline of midnight 15 August 2008. The winner will be announced in our next LightVision during the first week of September and published simultaneously on our home page. Email your sidesplitting testimonials to wild@wildlight.net with your contact details.
Beach as life
Sheridan Nilsson conclusively proves that beach is life with her amazing new collections of all-Australian summer images just added to her portfolio at Wildlight. Coming out of winter, the reviving experience of seeing these pictures of invigorating surf and warm sands, almost leaves you with a residue of sea spray on your skin or sand between your toes! Click here to get a head start on the approaching season that transforms Australia.
Picture us there….
Wildlight will be an exhibitor at the Picturehouse Australia exhibition in Sydney, this year on Wednesday, 17 September. Come see us at b2 photographic studio. Unit B2, 46 - 62 Maddox Street, Alexandria, NSW
Picture buyers can register now for a free admission ticket here.
Picturehouse events offer a unique opportunity to discover new sources of imagery, meet the people you only contact by phone and email, and network with peers in the industry — all in one location, all in one day! Hope to see you there. We’ll try and sneak Ernst in!
Wildlight Photographer, Jeff Drewitz, has been submitting a flood of images to the library, so it’s no surprise to see one of Jeff’s beautiful landscapes on a book cover, Floodtide by Judy Nunn. Random House used a striking image of Cape Leveque on the Kimberley Coast. Jeff is a specialist landscape stock photographer, and a very successful one at that. He travfels extensively in Australia but also overseas. His recent images of Norway and New Zealand are quite breathtaking, check them out here.
Friday is Mufti Day at Wildlight. If this is dressing down imagine when Andrew and Jean-Marc dress-up! Thanks to Martin Wiseman, VFX Producer from Rising Sun Pictures for the great pictures.
…from the the Virgin Blue Lounge Sydney. Sitting here at Terminal 2, waiting for the 3pm to Melbourne, testing the concept of corporate nomadism. Baggage buzzing around like packets of information through the web. So far I’ve made calls, banged out a few emails, sent a couple of quotes - I could get used to hopping from hot spot to hotspot. Jean-Marc has just about finished virtualising our business, so the physical office is no longer so important. Being away from the office allows you to identify what it’s role really should be -a meeting place for people not paperwork! Now I’m watching the baggage handlers driving around like the grand prix! Better be off now…
It’s always nice to send a package overseas when you can use a stamp with a Wildlight image. This beautiful scenic of Rottnest Island is by Wildlight Photographer, David Bettini. David is a ’sandgroper’ based in Perth, who hails from a vast sheep station in the Gascoyne region of WA. Check out David’s website to buy prints and purchase his latest book on the Pilbara.
Two cheers for Wildlight Photographer, Andrew Rankin! Recently he’s won two AIPP (Australian Institute of Professional Photography) 2008 awards. Andrew was awarded a Silver Distinction for this
black and white image of school children. The picture was part of a massive documentary assignment for Catholic Education. He visited no less than 32 schools in Queensland to create stock images for an entire inhouse image library. Andrew also won a Silver award for this colour image of trucking in Queeensland. The image was commissioned by Maunsell Aecom (civil engineers) who required images of the roads and traffic near Ingham.
Andrew is a very successful commercial and wedding photographer based in Townsville in North Queensland. When he’s not blazing away behind the lens he’s sitting under a palm tree on Magnetic Island - nice! Find out more about Andrew’s photography here.
Wildlight Photographer, Tony Yeates, keeps on moving on with his latest commission by VISA (Singapore) for their Visa Moving Images competition. Tony is one of five photographers in the Asia Pacific region to produce a series of images representing themes around the Beijing Olympic Games. The themes were stronger, faster, higher & China. The images were used as examples of subject matter to inspire the amateur photographers entering the competition Visa Moving Images. The commission also involved judging the final work from the entrants.
Jean-Marc is flat chat implementing an ERP accounting package for our admin. Disturbingly though, he is listening to Mah Na Mah Na by The Muppet’s….I wonder how the chart of accounts will turn out! Also the shaggy haired Muppet looks like Australian fine art photographer, Wesley Stacey. He has an exhibition at the High Court of Australia in Canberra until July 24 as part of the VIVID National Photography Festival.
LightVision is an exciting news feed straight from the photo editor's desk of Wildlight Photo Agency. Wildlight is an independent, Australian owned picture library featuring premium rights-managed images of places, people and lifestyle in Australia, captured by award-winning photographers from all over OZ. The LightVision name builds upon the original printed Australian photography magazines of the same name, produced by Jean-Marc Le Péchoux in 1970's Melbourne.
[Masthead Credit: Image WL090028975, by Rennie Ellis. Jan 1987. Sandy bum, Trigg Beach, Western Australia, Australia]
