LightVision

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.

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!

New light source

G’day lightseeker, it’s been a while and there’s plenty happening at Wildlight. I’m excited to say that this is the first edition of LightVision–a must see news feed from the editor’s desk at Wildlight. It’s a terrific news source to learn more about Wildlight’s great Australian content, find out more about the people at Wildlight, our talented photographers, read our opinions and find out where to see Australian visual art. We’ll also have discussions on copyright and licencing, and hilarious promotions, interviews and updates on the whereabouts of our photographers. Because its dynamic, you can keep coming back to LightVision by subscribing to an RSS feed. Just click here to stay focused.

Featured collection

We know you’re always looking for new stuff, so we’re giving you an instant replay of some of the most recent additions to our library. There’s a big mix because our photographers have been active around Australia, committed to providing up-to-date content of Australian people and places. Here’s a mid-year sample covering the Gold Coast, RF and RM images of Melbourne and a great spread from the still warm North Coast of NSW. And just in today, amazing shots of the Illawarra, including the spectacular cliff hugging bridge along the coastline above Woolongong. Click here to see the collection now

Meet the team

There are actually real people behind the brand, Andrew, Jean-Marc and Ernst, the pug. Yes we really are ‘two and a dog’. Young fathers, except Ernst, who’s had the chop! We work in Redfern - the Paris end of course. Jean-Marc, he’s the Frenchman writing lines of code to make the whole show work, he has been busy virtualising our business so we can spend more time on the road meeting you. Meet the team now.

Exhibitions and new books

Wildlight photographer, Richard Woldendorp, has just released another quality hardcover book, Abstract Earth: a view from above, coinciding with a new exhibition at the S.H Ervin Gallery at Observatory Hill, Sydney. I went to the opening and the images were breathtaking. The unique abstract perspective afforded from the air caused many observers to guess several times before understanding the subject of the images. The exhibition runs until 3 August. Next month you’ll find out how you can win a complimentary signed copy of Richard’s book, which sells for $49.95.

Burning question
Does licence duration really matter for brochures and annual reports? I received a call from a corporate graphic designer here in Sydney who had this burning question which has been unanswered for so long. The question came at a good time as we are soon to begin the process of simplifying our licence calculator; do I hear a collective sigh of relief? He felt that the total print run was more important, and that the duration was an unrealistic component in the licence. We had recently licenced a package of nine Richard Woldendorp aerials for a corporate brochure. He felt that after the initial mailout, the finished product sat in the client foyer for an indefinite time or in a box under Wendy’s desk, slowly collecting stiletto heel damage. I have to agree with him, it’s unrealistic and unenforceable to track the licence beyond a one or two-year period. Is the end-user going to pulp the brochures just because the magic time period has expired? Are we all that organised that we send a Google calendar reminder to ourselves? Then what happens when a person leaves the company? You can see, and most probably agree that having a fixed time period for brochures and DM in general is unrealistic and should be removed from the licence.
Have you got a questions about licencing which has been bugging you? Email me.

Get in step with our Walk on the Wildside promo.

To take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer, just purchase a licence worth more than $7 before the 17th of July and you could walk down Oxford Street–darlo or paddo end, no matter–with ERNST the Pug. As you’ve undoubtedly read in Our Team, he’s a ‘deal clincher’, but out of the office he’s a chick magnet and man puller. He’ll make sure you’re the center of attention, he pulls old and young, guys and girls. Act now and we’ll even wash him before the big day! You’ll be striking up a conversation with the person of your dreams before Ernst sniffs his first pole! He’s deaf as a post and completely motivated by food, so carry a dried pig’s ear in your pocket for his undivded attention.

Grenville Turner has just returned from an incredible adventure to Antarctica on a Aurora Expeditions voyage which follows in the footsteps of Ernest Shackleton. Grenville photographed some splendid landscapes and larger-than-life wildlife. Check out the feature page to see the whole feature collection.

Grenville has been shooting for 30 years and said it was one of the best trips he has ever done. Not hard to see why- the lucky devil !

To see more of Grenville’s amazing images then click here.