My whole life has been surrounded by nature. My parents were avid gardeners, bird watchers and fishermen. One of my favourite memories growing up was when we arrived at one of our favourite holiday spots on the NSW south coast. It’s a tiny village on a lake that few people (back then) knew about, but …
Anna Atkins is often considered the first photographer. While she was not the first to ever take a photograph, she was the first to publish a book with photographs as the primary means of conveying information. This makes her work some of the earliest examples of what we would now consider “art.” Here’s a look …
The first female photographer didn’t use a camera and was actually a botanist. Read More »
A handprinted cyanotype of the Wollemi Pine leaf. This leaf is taken from my own young Wollemi Pine I have growing in my home. One fateful day in 1994, a park ranger by the name of David Noble was hiking through a remote canyon in the Blue Mountains, Australia when he came across something that …
Let me start by clearing up a little fact that trips every beginner cyanotype experimenter. Cyanotype is not actually a physical thing. Many beginners including myself, fall into the assumption that each picture they make is ‘a cyanotype’. Well, apparently not. Cyanotype is the name of the process. It is a photographic process, in fact, …
