Some people really like licking stamps, I don’t. Thankfully most are self-adhesive. 
Most exciting though, is the 55c stamp featuring The Rocks Precinct by Wildlight photographer, Philip Quirk. Also in the Tourist precinct stamp issue by Australia Post is the Luna Park Maxi card by Wildlight photographer, Rennie Ellis. So stand in the queue at Aussie Post and peel back a layer of Australian society - social observation has never been so easy!
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.
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.
Wildlight photographer’s, Sheridan Nilsson, Greg Hard, Tom Keating and Bill Bachman, have been included in an online photo gallery as part of National Geographic Traveler’s, Places of a Lifetime series. The ten picture showcase exclusively used images from the Wildlight library. To see all of Wildlight’s Bondi Beach collection click here.
One of Hugh Brown’s images of the Melbourne skyline features as part of the set décor of the new ABC1 production, The Gruen Transfer. It’s a weekly show hosted by comedian, Will Anderson, about the ins and outs of the advertising industry. It’s a panel format show with four talking heads from different ad agencies. If you overlook some of the one-liners from Will, there’s actually some interesting, yet brief, analysis of the concepts and psychology behind TVC’s. The term, Gruen transfer refers to the effect on shoppers in a shopping mall environment, when rational and critical thinking makes way for a state of impulse buying. Read more about this psychological effect and how retailers use it to their advantage here.
Wildlight photographer, Hugh Brown, landed the section cover image for the Sydney Morning Herald Traveller section. Hugh’s spectacular aerial image, WL050001020, of the Ragged Ranges in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia is a great example of a solid cover image. Firstly, it’s vertical, yippee! How many photographers are stuck holding their cameras horizontally? Too many. I can’t wait to go the the Kimberley, look at the quality of light on the cliff faces. It would be great to have someone like Hugh take you around the region, that’s exactly what he’s done with other people -taken them trekking through the scrub in search of some rarley seen canyon or cave painting. Hugh is an adventure photographer and has been on some hair raising journeys in some extreme weather, check out Hugh Brown’s website here. Hugh’s latest book, The Pilbara – Australia’s Ancient Heartbeat, makes you want to book a ticket right away!
Another great scenic pic from Andrea Robinson has saved the day for the May cover of Royal Auto magazine, published by the RACV. Andrea shot this moody morning shot (WL580005251) of the Noosa hinterland, on her most successful Queensland trip. Photographed on a 6×7cm camera, it’s sharp from front to back! It’s been used a couple of times before, once as a double page spread in the German travel magazine, GEO Saison. We work alot with Royal Auto, it has a huge circulation of around 3 million, distributed to members of the RACV.
We scored a double here, with this great book cover by Pan Macmillan Australia for the upcoming Phillip Gwynne novel, The Build Up. The book designer used two images, the top half of the cover is WL350000879, by Grenville Turner, a threatening sky over the top end, captured on a 6×12 cm Linhoff Technorama, on of Grenville’s many journey’s into the red center. The lower half, WL630009792, is an arresting image of a working dog in a battered but bright ute, taken by Bill Bachman on a cattle station somewhere up north. We use this image all the time to promote the Wildlight library, the dog has an incredible deep stare with one white eye and one black.
I can give myself a pat on the back for this cover published by Penguin. The background image, WL330013342, for The Stockmen book cover, was taken on a sheep station near my property in Marulan. I was on my way to Berrima to shoot and write a story about the Southern Highlands. I saw the sheep in the fog, jumped out of the car, and thought ‘no one is ever going to buy these images’. Of course the unthinkable happened, the Southern Highlands story never got published but the sheep did…
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Andrea Robinson’s image, WL580013515, appears on the cover of Mary Durack novel, Kings in Grass Castles, published by Random House Australia. Well done Andrea! |
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 WL330024482, by Andrew Stephenson. St Peters lane way graffiti, inner city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia]
